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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

ty of it is making men of affairs cau- tious and unwilling to embark in extensive enterprise or expansion. It is most un- considered with full gravity In trying to form judgment as to the future.
 Quite bit of money realized from the sale of stocks is going into bonds. Capi- tai finds 1t can get bargains these days and the buying Is done over the counter of the banks and bond houses. It is a quiet absorption and is exceedingly pleas ing to the underwriters who are loaded to the guards with line of merchandise for which they have not been able so far to obtain 0 profitable market. In course of time great quantities of these securl- ties will find their way into the strong boxes of investors and taken out of the street, where they are now lodged in bur densome bulk Readers not entirely in the know may have trouble reconciling the existence of mass of undigested bonds in dealers hands with previously widely advertised statements that an end less chain of bond issues were oversub- scribed before the ink was dry. The oversubscription consisted of allotmants of underwriting to their chains of clients by the great banking houses like ]. P. Morgan & Co.,, Kuhn, Loeb & Co.,, Blair
  most equal importance. The bond dealers | and banks thus honored from headquar- ters have to take these allotments good or bad, else they will be dropped from the list. They can better afford to stand an occasional loss than to get in bad with the magnates On this occasion the lead CTS of high finance misiudged the market and left their selling machinery overload ed with unstable merchandise.
 
 The street is full of weird stories of fric- ton among the financial elect. Some of them may have a shadow of foundation, but a majority will not hold water, One of the crazy stories in circulation which finds belief because a good many people want to believe. it is the reported es- arrangement between Jacob H. Schiff and his managing partner, Otto Kahn, of the international banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. There has been no es- arrangement or no misunderstanding. MT Schiff, senior member of the house. is an old man and very, very rich. He has gradually been shifting the responsibili- ty of management upon the shoulders of the younger partner who is both willing and able to discharge the duties imposed upon him. MT. Kahn enjoys the limelight and MT Schiff is quite willing he should have the opportunity. There is entire hdlihony III lilat Pattlcuidi pdiihiHs housc' no matter what may be going on else where In high financial circles.
 The street commends the wisdom ofWhe late John w. Gates in providing against the sale of any part of his $40, ,000,000 to | $50 O000G0 of securities before the expira- | ton of ten years. MT. Gates was firm | believer in the correctness of his own business judgment and felt certain that his investments would be worth a great deal more money as years rolled by. Now that he is dead, Wall street ac- | Snowledges that he was a tremendously strong and able man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
BULLS HAVE LOST
 NERVE IN MARKET Mass of Inside Stock Re
 mains Undigested STORIES ON STREET
Wierd Tales Are Heard of Friction Among the Financial Elect, Some of Which May Be
 Partially True
By W. G. NICHOLAS

New York, August 26.-(Special 1.-The bulls have lost their nerve and the stock market is in a state of nervous doldrums. The big bull pools are still alive. how ever, and whenever the short interest gets big enoGgh to make 1t worth while for the bull leaders to give 1t g trimming, prices are jumped and there occurs a lit tie bear panic. This performance has been gone through with two or three times since the decline started in about a month ago. From appearances liquidation has got yet run it's course and the common Npelief in Wall street is that the general level of qoutatons will go considerably lower Liquidation has been on a very much larger scale than most people in Wall street are willing to admit and it is still in progress. Where it will end and when nobody is prepared to say, and one guess is about as good as another.
 Market conditions are distinctly un- favorable. A mass of inside stock which has been coming out for several weeks remains in an undigested state. It is passing from one set of buyers to an- other and the tendency is unmistakably downward. The big people do not appear to be particularly interested in checking the decline except at periods when the market is threatened with dsnoralization Then they step In and protect the situa- ton as a matter of self preservation, and incidentally they levy an assessment on inprudent and reckless bears who gain Hoursge with every point additional de cline and pyramid their accounts This 6 one of the bear markets that Is likely to leave the short sellers with less money at the end of the slump than they had at the beginning. Knowing the strength and market skill of the great leaders. bear gamblers hesitate to commit them selves until they see break under ftJll headway Then 1t is either too late pr the chances to make killings has been re- duced to a minimum.
 The street is now engaged in an earnest effort to find out who started the heavy liquidation and who the heavy sellers of long stocks have been. It is known that a great many weakly margined accounts held by the general public have been wiped off the books, but that does not ex- plain the massed liquidation. Insiders
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
RUSSIA'S FAMOUS
 BUSINESS WOMAN

St. Petersburg, August 26-(Speclal.)- Very few people even In Russia knew that among the Czars subjects was one of the worlds great business women.
 Perhaps aside from the Baroness Bur dett-Couts of England and Mrs. Hetty Green of the United States, history has no record Of a more successful business woman than Mime. Morozoff, who has just died at the age of s4, leaving a fortune conservatively estimated at 5000, 900 roubles, about s4O.Oo0.0oo
 She was the owner of the greatest cot ton mills In Russia. They were estab- lished by her husband, but for many years since his death Mime. Morozoff had con ducted the great mills and with success.
 Up to the time of her last illness she was the active head of the business, keep ing in close touch with every develop ment and exhibiting a business shrewd- ness which had added enormously 60 the value of the property under her manage ment.
 The real reason for the strong Russian opposition to MT. Schuster, the American financial expert, who has been placed in charge of the Persian treasury, is the ap- pointment of Major Stokes. an English officer, as head of the new treasury L. ns- d'armerie.
 Major Stokes is known to and disliled I by the Russians for having come into violent collision with Colonel Liakhoff, the Russian officer who was formerly in command of the Persian Cossacks This occurred on the race course at Te-
 heran several years ago. The Russian
 and foreign press have been inspired to
 put forth what they call a parallel case.
 in way that, it is hoped and expected,
 will be initiated by the British govern
 ment in the present juncture Major
 Stokes, it is said, should be at once ar
 rested by the Indian Military Guard of
 the British legation at Teheran, ana
 handed over to the safe custody of the
 British representative.
 | The case referred to was that of inc
 Persian prince, Dirab Mirza, who vas
 domiciled in Russia and a Russian off
 cer When the revolution broke out in
 Persia he deserted, to take I'D arms against the Persian government, sending
 in his resignation to the Russian head lquarters during his fight across the Ru,- | sian frontier. His resignation, however
 was not accepted until he was brough,
 back under arrest by troop of Russian | Cossacks sent into Persia to take him. | If, as l believe, Major Stolles's resig-
 nation was accepted long ago, the two cases are not the same. At all events lit is expected that the British govern ment will disavow him, The Novoye l Vremya declares that a single word from the British minister at Teherau would suffice to put an end to Major Stokes whose present condition is in contradic- tion with the letter and spirit of the An glo-Russian agreement.
 | The Novoye Vremya calls the Persians a decrepit and powerless people and predicts
 the certain <uccess of Mohammed Ali, and the possibility of Major Stokes being
 taken prisoner and ordered to be impaled
 by the returning Shah. The British gov
 ernment, it sarcastically remarks, will
 then remember that Major Stokes is d
 British subject. Would it not be better
 and safer to remember that now, it adds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

boycotted when possible. A diagonal scratch on the lower left hand corner Sig nifies "exacting and disagreeable.' A cross in the lower right hand corn sr means "exacting, but generous and a small vertical mark near the lock, every generous" A curved mark on the eft hand upper corner signifies '.inexpe- rienced, has not travelled much''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
PORTERS CAN KEEP
 TRACK OF VICTIMS

Paris, August 26.-(Special.)- )-The man. ner in which the traveller has hls charac- ter written on his luggage for the benefit of porters and hotel servants is described in the Matin. Little scratches on the bags are made after the traveller has given a tip" and these marks are understood b. all porters and other employees
 horizontal line on the right hand top corner of the bag means that the owner gives very small tips and should be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
India Suffers From Drouth

Calcutta, August 28.--(Special. )-Practi cally half of India is suffering from drought. Crops are whitening in the United Provinces, Central Provinces, and the Punjab while rain is urgently want cd in Raiputana, Kathiawnr, Gujerat and Sind. The monsoon continues 10 te ntful and the government of India will take the ordinary famine measures if the sit ua- tion continues.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
Elevator Kills Man

Dayton, Ohio, August 26.-Ferdinand Gebhart was killed and three other per- sons seriously injured when an eleva- tor plunged six stories to the base ment of a warehouse late Friday. The main cable snapped and the cage plunged to the basement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

gown. The girl was to have been mar ried on the next day. and although not in the house when the fire broke out, rushed into the burning building to secure the bridal robe. She was maimed by some falling timber and died within a few hours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
In 1925
From Pllck.

F'rOm PUCK.
 Owner (when boat arrives at New York; Did you have good voyage?
 Captain--Pretty fair. You'd better send a man to Halifax at once by special train, though, to fix her stern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
Wedding Gown Costs Life

Budapest, August 6.-(Special.) fire at Beretto- Beda, Hungary, an 1S- year-old girl named NIirisza Turge lost fer life in trying to save her wedding
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27

were the large holders up to the last month or two and the inference is plain
 that the goods must have come from that
 source. The interests made a heroic effort to bull prices to higher level be- fore beginning liquidation, but finding it impossible to interest the public at the quotations established on the July bulge they began unloading anyway, satisfied to get the best they could and selling on a down scale instead of an up scale, as they hoped to be able to do.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-11-29
Methodist Episcopal Church Notes.

Methodist Episcopal Church Notes.
Junior League at p. m.
Thanksgiving services Wednesday
evening at 7 80. Subject, "Thanksglv-
ing in all Things"
Epworth League at 6 80 p. M. Sum
day evening. Topic. Reproducing
the Models.'' Leader, Miss Hazel
Smith.
Next Sunday morning the Rev.
w. B. Dukeshire of Barton will
preach. Mr.. Dukeshire is a strong
and popular preacher. Do not fail to
hear him. Subject. "Others.. The
pastor will preach in the evening on
the subject. How to Make Married
Life a Success. There will be spe-
cial music at this service.
There was large congregation
vresent on Sunday evening to ENJOY
the concert. The singers, ana IN I lac
all who took part. did spiennloly
Much credit is due the etflclen1 anu
popular leader of the choir. roster
J. Kinney. The following program
was rendered: Organ voluntary,
hymn, ''Softly Now the Light OF LAY,
prayer by pastor; anthem. 'on, S Sn
altering: duet, more Like Thee, "
Mrs. Morse and Mrs. Kinney: solo,
"Rest in the Lord - 1.-THE Day is
Past and Over" solo and quartette
violin solo, Philip Moulton; reading
Miss Hazel Twombly; ladies' quar-
tet. "Let Not Your Heart Be Troub-
~, col, Miss Winifred Dean
diet. song of praise; Mrs. Bartlett
and Mrs. Wiley; anthem, "ReJolce
and sing :" remarks by pastor; hymn,
"Now the Day Is Over.
Congregational Church Notes.
Morning service next Sunday a
1870.
Sunday school at IL o'clock.
Junior Endeavor at 8 p. m.
Chorus rehearsal at 4 p. m.
Regular prayer service Wednesda!
I evening at 7:3O. Subject, In
y Prayer Habit.
There will be a short Thanksglvln!
service in the vestry of the churcl
n Tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock. I
cordial invitation is extended to tn
- public.
3 The regular Christian Endeavo
meeting will be held IN the vestry c
~ the church next Monday evening
!. 7:3O. Subject: Lessons from Viz &c
lives. Paul" It will be the reguls
monthly conservation service Mahe
T strong effort to be there.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-11-29
No. 472

Have just installed a new
National Cash Register.
! The primary object is to
insure accuracy. 1t indi-
Gates every transaction,
shows the amount and
whether it was "Paid
Out" "Rcceived on Ac-
count" Charged" or a
"Cash Sale" 1t issues a
check or ''Cash Receipt"
to be given with every
Cash Sale which is virtu-
ally a receipt for your
money. That receipt
shows the amount, date,
and who made the sale
Save those Cash Receipts
Return them in 500 lots
and get so cents in mer-
chandise FREE.
In other words, Pay Cash
and save 2 1-2 cents on
every dollar. If you wish
to return any goods and
get the cash, return the
Cash Receipt with the
goods.
All checks are numbered.
Charge checks, Received on
Account checks and Paid
Out checks are retained
to complete our records
A few Cash Receipts will
be lost or thrown away
but the great majority will
be Cash Receipts and will
be saved because they
have a positive value
Moral: Pay Cash. Get
Cash Receipt and saw
2 IL 20
Many people now read GU
weekly advertisements /
the MONITOR and SIGMA
More should read ther
and ponder and profit b
them.
Twill pay One Dollar each i
Cash for the return
Cash Receipts No. 4f
and 1879.
O. w. LOCKE
VERNON
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-11-29

The drawing of seats for the lecture
course will take place in the opera
house next Tuesday evening, Dec
5th. at Z: 80. Let all who can be presN
ent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hardy. who formerly
lived on the Wiley farm and later
moved to North Troy. have now
moved into the Rogers house on
Water street.
John Williams had the misfortune of
breaking one of his fingers last week.
Mr.. Williams is, however. at work
in the machine shop of the E. L..
Chandler company.
Z CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-11-29

After the Thanksgiving
feast of good things" is
over and you return to the
everyday bill of fare just
bear in mind that we are
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-11-29
Orleans News Page
News and Views from this
Hustling Village
G.. L. SHAEFFER, Local Editor

The regular service of song will be
held next Sunday evening at Z
O'Clock. In connection with this
service the Rev. Olin Sherburne OF
Burlington, representative of the
Vermont Bible society, will give an
address. Everybody most cordially
invited.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-09-01

these favors. I have been receiving
these volumes for many years and
have them arranged in my library so
that 1 can turn to them in trying to
answer the many questions that come
to my department in The Ranch.
Money would not buy these volumes if
| could not replace them.
1t has been a common thing to
laugh at "book farmers and there
has been some grounds for these jeers,
for mere book learning can not make
a farmer, for he must have practical
experience as we'll as book learning.
But it is valuable asset to know how
a thing is done as we'll as to know
how to do it. Books we'll studied will
furnish the one kind of knowledge
and experience the other.
1t is sometimes thought that our
agricultural colleges deal only in
theories, but that is far from being
true. There probably was a time
when this condition prevailed to
much greater extent than it does now.
But this state of things was remedied
by the establishment of Experiment
Stations in connection with all our
agricultural colleges.
Our agricultural colleges we're
established by an act of Congress
that went into effect in 1862. but the
establishment Of Experiment Stations
began in 1888 as the result OF the
Hatch Act, approved in 1887. Now
what is an Experiment Station? 1t
is place where theories and specula-
tions are tried out by actual expert
ments. But the student emerging
from an agricultural college with his
diploma is not done with either theo
retical knowledge or experiments. He
must 60 on studying books then put
ting this knowledge To test by trying
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-09-01
The Year Book.

Through the courtesy of Senator
Jones and j. D. Dean, the editor of
The Ranch, l have received the Year
book of the Department of Agricul-
ture for the year 1910. Like all these
books, this one has a great deal of
The men who prepare the articles in
these book are experts in their several
departments. All phases of farm work
are treated and it matters not what
mans special line of work may be he
will find something in these books
that will help him. Each volume can
not treat of all phases of the farm life,
but if a person gets these volumes
from year to year he will find some
thing in some of them that will be
helpful to him whatever may be his
speciality in farming. Every farmer
who wants to keep posted in his work
should secure these YearboOks.
These Yearbooks are furnished free
of charge of any kind to those who
apply in the right way. Most OF
these books are turned over to the
members of the United States Senate
and the House of Representatives for
free distribution. Editor Dean of the
Ranch has taken on himself the
burden of presenting the names of the
readers of the Ranch who ask for
these books and in this way has Sc
cured much valuable reading for the
patrons of the paper. Mr.. Dean
does this for the good of our readers
and it is to be hoped that the recipient
of these valuable books appreciate
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-09-01

out his acquired knowledge by actual
work on the farm. Thus we have
theories and experiments going hand
in hand through the farmers whole
life. To certain extent the wide
awake farmer fills up on book learn
ing about farming in the winter time
and puts his theories to the test in
summer time. No farmer should
ever feel that he is too old to learn
from books and papers, not too old
to test his learning by experiments.
The Yearbook OF 1910 has some
valuable papers for fruit growers. l
would call special attention to the fol-
lowing: Nitrogen gathering Plants. I"
page Dol; Cooperation in the Handl-
ing and Marketing of Fruit" page
391; promising New Fruits" page
425; "Precooling of Fruit, page
437; "The Agricultural Duty OF
Water" page 157.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-09-01
BLACK SPOT CANKER.

w. p. Caldwell, of San Jaun county,
WASH, sent me some leaves in July
taken from pear tree. Judging by
the leaves | thought the trouble might
be pear blight, SO l requested him to
send me some twigs from the same
tree. This he has done. From these
twigs | can see that the disease is not
pear blight. Pear blight, frequently
called "tire blight" is a bacterial
disease and works in the sap. If the
sap is diseased it will affect the wood
as we'll as the leaves. l find no injury
to the wood in the twigs sent me. so
conclude that the trouble with these
leaves must be some fungus attack.
To meet this difficulty, we must
spray with a fungicide. AS l have
frequently stated in these columns, a
fungus attack cannot be cured in the
proper sense of the word. But fungus
attacks run but one year. So If we
can kill all the spores we prevent new
attacks and the disease runs out. We
should spray with a strong solution
of Bordeaux mixture during the dor
mant season, or with the lime-sulphur
wash and then with a weaker solution
during the summer. My directions
in former issues of The Ranch have
been specific and need not be repeat
ed here.
In his second letter friend Caldwell
sends me some pieces of bark from
the body of one of his apple trees and
wants TO know what is the disease
and what is the remedy. | have no
hesitancy in pronouncing this disease
the "black spot canker.
This is fungus disease and is quite
frequent west of the Cascades. Moth
ing we can do will cure these spots
this summer and we must direct our
efforts to the prevention of new at
tacks next spring. These sore spots
give off spores and if we can kill them
there will be no attacks next year,
and while some scars will be left
where these spots now are they will
ultimately heal over If no further at
facts are allowed. Spray the trees in
November with a double strength
Bordeaux mixture and again in three
weeks give them another spraying
with the same strength. Rake up the
leaves toward spring and burn them
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-09-01

(All inquiries for information from this
Department should be addressed to
No. Howe Street, Seattle.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-30

buckets carefully down on the ground. that he might
concentrate his attention upon the matter in hand.
ut can't be Scratch Bohannon or Nina Smoot," he
soliliquized, half aloud. "She wouldn't dixie up so
for them; and the circuit-rider amt due for two
weeks yet. 1t must be fish Chapman from over t
the Court-House." fish Chapman was a first cousin
of his wife's, who had money in her own right. and
of whom Syram didn't approve because she was too
'drcssy" and wasted her money and put notions into
his wife's head.
Its dretful expensive havin' so much comply.
I wish folks would stay to home an do their work
an mind their own business" he added.
II never said nothin' bout comply" replied Mrs.
Mimms, with some spirit. She remembered with
indignation that it had been two months since there
had been any one in the house to a meal. The close
ways of the valley people often grated on her more
generous spirit.
"Then what are you a-talkin' about, woman? Who
are YOU a-lookin' for?" demanded Mr.. Mimms, in
evaporation.
"Never mind who. You'll know in good time"
retorted Mrs. Mimms. She was in hot pursuit of the
advice to "make little mysteries with ones husband"
and she was enjoying herself immensely.
Mr.. Mimms picked up the milk-buckets with a
violence that sloshed some of their contents over
the legs of his overalls and strobe away in a high