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to continue his account, but the injuno-
ton had been denied by a New York
court on the ground that the regulation
OF the New York Stock Exchange was
reasonable and within the rights Of that
organization.
There are a great many securities Of
many interstate corporations Listed only
on the New York exchange" said Helm.
"a member Of the Consolidated Exchange
couldn't sell any securities in the New
York exchange except under cover"
Miguel Z. d'AgucrO. president OF the
Consolidated followed Mr.. Helm He
presented the Consoidateds portion Of
a correspondence with Judgr Z. H.
Gary, president Of the United States
Steel Corporation. relative to the refusal
Of the Steel Corporation to transfer
stock on its books for Consolidated
brokers. although the signature of tho
owner was guaranteed by the Console
dated EXChanEr. lie explained that this
refusal was also made by the PennsyI-
yauia Railroad Company. the Lehigh
Valley. the Atchison, Topeka and san
Ia Fe Railroad. the Bankers Trust
Company. the Manhattan Trust Com
pany. Harvey. Fisk d Sons, and tho
Guaranty Trust Company. The COM
plant OF Mr.. d'AgUeTO on behalf Of the
exchange was that there was discriml-
nation against honest stock holders and
the duly constituted agents Of stock
holders with regard to these transfers
He charged the United States Steel Cor
poratiOn with establishing d boycott
against their own shareholders
President d'AEUerO said the New York
Central. the Southern Pacific. the Ma
tiOnal City Bank. the Union Pacific tn
American Smelling and Refining Com
pany. the Central Leather Company. the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad the
Denver and Rio Graudc Railroad the
madam Pacific. and the Great Northern
Railway all accept transfers from Con
sOlidatrd members with such IndOrse-
ment. and that such concerns as the Rock
Island Company, the National Lead Com
pany. the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com
pany. the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Company, the Central Trust Company.
J. p Morgan x Co, the Peoples Gas
Company, of Chicago. and many others
accept the transfers without the indorse-
mcnt Of III" Consolidated Exchange, Int
with only the Certifcation OF the Con
solidatcd's own brokers.
The only alternative open 10 tho Cnu-
solldated Exchan=" Tor providing for the
vaIdatio Of transfers Of L. ) steel was
the formal acknowledgment before a
notardy public Of the transfers. T1iI
was complained II as subjectIng tue
stock transferred TO delay and the seue-
to expense. and practically making bust
ness on the Consolidated Exchange in
these issues prOhibiGye.
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said, were lenders when there was a
great need for money, but they were
not habitua figures in the money mar
ket. Speyer Brothers figure in the loan
group once in a while. but not TO the
extent OF Kuhn. Loeb x CO.
Il loan for the Chase National Bank
and the firm of Kukn. Loeb X Co" said
the witness The latter concern some
times surpasses and often parallels the
big banks in the amount OF money
loaned. Firms like Kuhn, LO"b & Co.
Agent for StiIIman.
Charles W. Turner. who said he had
been a member Of the stock exchange for
twenty-six years. followed He eX-
planned that through an arrangement
made with James StiIman he placed all
the loans Of the National City Bank. He
had always placed them for the bank
with the understanding that he would
represent no one else. The National City
never charged more than per cent for
call money. but il did not always have
money to lend at that figure
Mr.. UnteTmyer was anxious TO md out
IL Mr.. Turner thought an established
regulation prohibiting the loanlng Of call
money at rate higher than per cent
would preclude the undue shift Of money
from the Western banks to the financial
Centers
Mr. Turner did not know but said it
might prove partially eficacious. for
money always sought the market that
paid It the highest interest. and came
from Europe just as readily as from
other sections Of the United States.
Mr. Untermyer. reading from the regu-
latiOns OF the New York Stock Exchange.
furnished the committee with the phrase
ology OF the regulation adopted in 1913
which was SO comprehensive as to pro-
hibit even the most Indirect form of re-
lationship between a stock exchange
member and any one active n the bust
ness Of the Consolidated Exchange.
Marcus Helm related how lie had with
drawn from active membership in the
Consolidated in order to conduct his trans
actions with his brokers on the big "N-
change. His brokers We're Albert Loeb
& Company. 3 Broadway. Mr. Helm
had gone to the length Of suing for an
injunction TO compel Loeb Il Company
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AMERICAN AMBASSADOR,
UNABLE TO FIND BIG
HOUSE, LIVES IN HOTEL

Vienna, Dec. 12.-Cnable to find a house
capacious enough for his family and his
retinue of servants, Col Richard c.
Kerns. of st. Louis, American Ambas-
sador to Austria-Hungary, is staying
temporarily at the Bristol Hotel.
The American Embassy here Is main
tanned on a most luxurious scale.
The Ambassador, accompanied BY Mrs,
Kerns, their son-in-law, Capt. Hanna.
and their grandson, returned on Mon
day from a visit to America.
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STUDENTS VISIT CAPITAL.
Class Here aS Guests
of Mrs. Alfred ]. Du POnt.

The senior class in civiCs, of the Will
mington, Del, High School. came to
Washington yesterday for a three days
inspection of the various government de-
partments and public buildings OF in
terest to them in their studies. There
are twenty-five young men and women
in the class.
The visitors are the guests of Mrs.
Alfred I. Du Pont. They are staying at
the Hotel Gordon. Mr.. and Mrs. Du
Point have placed at the disposal of the
Wilmington High School a fund which
will provide annual visits to Washing
ton by the senior civics class at the
school.
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STATESMEN-REAL AND NEAl
By FRED C. KELLY

Senator-elect Norris. the Nebraska in
surger, sat down in the House smoking
room, took wee bit OF a souvenir out OF
his vest pocket, and unraveled this large
story from It. Just like magician taking
rosebush from a 81 derby.
Norris attended college years ago al
Baldwin University, in Beres- Ohio. One
night he and a little crowd of bedivuleist
students conceived merry prank. On
the college campus was a tower-like
building on which some repairs were be-
ing made. A large quantity Of old lum-
Der was piled up on the top OF the tower.
The student comedians thought 1t would
be pretty rich to shove this lumber right
over the edge and hear II hit the ground
below with crash like lightning hitting
cottonwood tree in front Of ladies'
seminary.
They crawled into the building through
a window. Two or three Of the students
wore cutaway coats, which were consid-
cred the snappy thing for varsity men in
those days, but they got through the
window all right. and with their com.
bined strength were able to heave over
board the pile OF old lumber. The lum-
Der was to be taken down, anyhow, SO
why not do 1t all at once and have a lit
tie noise and excitement? That reason
ing might have been all right, except
that the students neglected to take into
account that the tower was wider at the
bottom than at the top. The lumber
scraped along the side as # fell, and
smashed every window in its path.
That being the case the students beat
II home without needless delay.
The next morning the prankish lads
filed into chapel each looking as innocent
as a bunch of underfed cherubs. Seem
ingly. there was no possible way they
could be found out and they walked about
with light hearts.
But when they were going out from
the chapel exercises. the president Of the
college motioned to young Norris. and
bade him come TO his office.
Now, Norris" said the president, in
an annoying. ACKNOWLEDGMENT tone.
who all were with you in this escapade
last night? Tell me the whole truth.
and youn all get on easily; otherwise
well, you'd better tell me the truth"
So Norris did.
1t wasn't till the end of the year that
he knew how the president sleuthed him
out so readily. On the closing day Of col
lege. the president handed him a little
cloth-cOvered button.
Il think" says he. this will 1T the
back of your cutaway coat. Next time
be more careful about going through
windows when you have on coat trim
med with buttons.
And do you know said Norris. telling
the story, as he returned the souvenir
button to his vest pocket, L have hated
coats with buttons over the tails ever
since"
That is why he will refuse 10 wear a
long coat when he moves over TO the SEN
ate next March.
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A LITTLE NONSENSE
TIT SUCKER LIST.

II you get booklets by the bale
And endless offers In the mail.
With schemes that have funny twist,
Your name is on a sucker list.
II you get words about queer bonds
In asphalt wells OF naphtha ponds,
You're due to grind some fellows grist
Who has you on a sucker list.
II strange stocks daily come your way
Along with promises to pay
That soon dissolve to merest mist,
Your name is on a sucker list.
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PURE SHOE" BILL.
Measure Introduced in House by
Representative OIdheId.

Representative Oldheld.
A pure shoe" bill was introduced in
the House yesterday by Representative
Oldfield of Arkansas, whose measure pro-
vides that If any substitute for leather
be used in the manufacture of boots aud
shoes, this fact must be stamped on the
article.
The bill stipulates that it shall be I'M
lawful to manufacture any boot or shoe
with an insole. outsole. footsole, or any
other part made in whole or in part OF
leather board. straw board, fiber board,
or other substitutes for leather unless the
name of such substitute is indelibly
stamped upon the boot or shoe at the
time of manufacture.
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The LATEST man that ever lived, in
the opinion of Representative Frank
Mondell of Wyoming, was fellow by
| the name of Hawkins who was asso-
ciated with Mondell when the latter
was building towns and things IN the
Tar West.
You understand" says Mondell.
that the fellow didn't shun or avoid
work. To the contrary. he seemed fas-
| cinated by it, and loved to be where he
could sit and watch work going on. He
would sit for hours In an ecstasy Of con-
/ temptation and inactivity. No one seem
ed to know in just what capacity Haw-
kins was attached to our engineering
party. During the day he hung around
the cooks tent. and in the evening ne
played cards or snapped stories with the
surveyors.
One rainy day We all knocked off work
and went fishing. At lunch time ] hand
ed Hawkins a bucket and asked him to
go 10 spring about two hundred yards
away in the woods.
An hour later Hawkins had not ap-
peared. Another hour and he was still
absent So. fearing that something had
happened to him. I sent a young civil
engineer out to find him. lie located
Hawkins asleep under a tree beside the
spring. Hawkins got up, filled his buck
ct, and started back. Ambllng up to
me. he set his. bucket down and in
quired:
"Ts there anything else you want me
to hy atT
Fly at That made a hit with me
So I got Hawkins a job as crossing flag
man on d little Southern railroad with
only two trains a day. guess he's there
yet. He sleeps in his shanty mostly, but
one of the neighbors always awakens
him at train time so he can yell hello to
the train crews"
Old John Sharp Williams nearly always
rides in street cars, because he says
he likes the democracy OF having people
about him. rather than go about aline in
a carriage or automobile. The other day
he sat in a car with a book on his lap
that must have weighed at least nine
pounds Whatever IL was all about the
subject seemed to be of great interest
to John Sharp. In order to get II read
through within the next couple OF years
II will be necessary for him to take It
on the street cars and utilize every odd
moment ne has. But here was the funny
thing: EngrOssed though he was in the
book. and with every excuse not to notice
who was getting on the car from time
to time. he managed to keep a Chivalrous
eye alert. and every time there was a
woman standing. he offered his seat. He
is that polite.
Senator Chiffon defended his first client
as a young lawyer. while crowd Of
masked men waited outside the court
room for the defendant in case Chiffon
succeeded in getting him acquitted That
being the case, Chiffon let the man he
convicted and sentenced to eleven years,
to give the mob plenty Of time to dis
perse.
tCuryrlght 1872, ny FTel q. Kelly. All nights
reseTTed.l
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Lecture at Y. NJ. c, A.

The second lecture in the free popular
course given by the Y. NJ c. A. School
Of Accountancy will be delivered this
evening, when Charles Ashford Pace, a
member OF the New York bar. will speak
on The Value OF Legal Training in
Business
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To Opportunity

don't want Opportunity to knock at
my door and perhaps disturb me as !
peacefully snore with the Counterpane
drawn up to my neck. No; let him mail
me a certified check.
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AVIATORS
By GEORGE FITCH.
Author of "At Good old sIwash."

Of Us in getting their thrills. They got
their gladiators by chasing them up
tree and capturing them while wee have
TO hire our aviators.
II we were TO confne the science Of
aviation to condemn criminals great good
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One Way.

Il had fifty people on my Christmas
list when 1 started, but I've reduced II
by half"
Bought that many presents already?
NO; scratched that many of.
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What day does Christmas come on
this year?''
"Wednesday"
That's good. remember one year
when Christmas came on Monday, and
all the stockings were in the wash"
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What did you discuss at the literary
club to-day
Shakespeare and the difficulty of
keeping servants. Browning and the diff
Guilty of finding q good dressmaker. and
Emerson and tie difficulty of getting
fresh eggs
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December n In History.

December 10, Observation-Disclosures sack
ed by suffragettes.
December 10, 1554-Henry VIII has a
tough time trying to pull off a porous
plaster.
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would be done In the first place We
would get some pleasure out Of thu
criminals while getting rid Of them and
in the second place aviation would not
ruin large number OF brave young men
who would be extremely useful rescuinE
seamen or fighting highwaymen.
Copyright, lslc. by George Mathew AdszaA1
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Wickersham to he Toastmaster.
Attorney General Wickersham has ac-
cepted an invitation to act as toastmast-
er at the banquet Of the Pennsylvania
Society, TO be held in New York City to-
morrow night.
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She Usually Does.
Literary Topics.

why is il the Iandlady always mar
ries a boarder who has no regular job?
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Appropriate Names.

Instead of numbers. the English
houses have names. l like the system.
For instance, instead Of 81 Park Lane,
they will call the abode Sunset Cottage,
and so on"
u get you. I think I'll name my little
domicile Easy Payment Villa"
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Extensive deposits Of copper and bituminOuS coal
have been discovered IN Balm Land b. . sold
sGekinG exposition
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SAYS STOCKS ARE
MANIPULATED TO
ENLIVEN MARKET

Continued from Page One.
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.N0TICEE

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now.
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Count Them-IO-Count Then

You have just ten days for biz,
Worthy friend,
Ere the shopping season is
At an end.
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FRASER. The Magazine Man,

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We give HeraId $4,000 eontsst vsfeA
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WOMEN AS PEAcEMAKERs.

In our civil war the death roll
In the Union army alone reached
the appalling aggregate Of $685.
600. But the suffering and per
lis of the men In the field, dis
tressing as they are to contem-
plate, are slight In comparison
with the woes and anguish OF
the women who are left behind
The hope that husband. brother,
father, son, may be spared the
tragic end which all soldiers
risk when they respond to their
country's call buoys them up in
their privations and heartbreak-
ing loneliness. But theirs Is the
deepest pain, for the most poign-
ant suffering is mental rather
than physical No pension COM
pensates for the loss Of husband.
son or father. The glory Of
death in battle does not feed the
orphaned children. nor does the
pomp and circumstance of war
clothe them. The voice of the
women of America should speak
for peace.-President William n
Taft
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wealth and position, but let worth, if it
isn't dressed in fine raiment, go by.
Women con never measure up to
the great opportunities now opening to
them while their spirit is so small with
in them. And while fortunately, all
women are not such as these, there
should be none Of this kind. They
should become as extinct as the dodo,
for they only hinder progress. They
are drag upon those who want to go
forward to finer and better things; for
the world points to these and says,
There is your true woman. She new
er will be capable Of handling affairs in
a big way" And when there is such
a woman, or such group Of women in
a community, the predetermined
women should rally, not only to count
eract their influence, but really to help
them acquite a bigger and broader out
look on life. Barbara Boyd.
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This Kind of Woman Needs to Develop

To a town Of the West that has some
prestige as a resort, came some years
ago, young woman. She came pri-
marily for her health, which from close
application to business in an Eastern
city had become impaired. She was
working girl; that is, she had to earn
her living as some hundreds OF thous-
ands of the rest Of US have to do. She
had but little money, and not being
able to find the sort Of work she wanted,
she had good sense and pluck enough
to take what she could get, which was
the work of parlor maid in one OF the
fashionable hotels of the resort.
She was a girl Of brains and person
atty. She not only made good in the
work she took up, but in little while,
she secured position more to her Xix
ing. And in the course Of a few years
she won the affections of one of the
leading lawyers Of the town and was
married to him.
In the town is large woman's club,
and she became a member of it; and
so capable and popular was she, that in
few years she was put up for the
presidency Of it.
All this is as it should be and we re-
joice in the true American spirit and
pluck Of the girl. But at this point
another type Of women stepped in, and
it is this woman who needs to grow,
and this woman whom other women
should either shame out Of her narrow
ness or refuse to be influenced by it.
For when this girl, now happy wife
and woman of influence in her town,
was nominated for the club presidency,
the other woman arose, raked up the
fact that the nominee had once been
parlor maid in hotel, and said she
thought it would reflect on the clubs
prestige to have such a woman as
president.
The sad part of the story is that this
woman won. Instead of admiring the
the girl for her pluck in doing what
ever work she could find to do and do
ing it we'll, and recognizing her ability
in forging ahead to the place she now
occupied, these club women were snob-
Dish enough to vote her down. She
was not without her champions but the
majority didn't want one who had been
a maid as president over them.
Since this was the only real objec-
ton that could be brought, it was a
small nature that took this view. Wom-
en- need to rise above such superficial
ideas Of life, if they really are to progress
to big things. The soul of the servant,
as Shaw calls it, was really in the wom-
en- who voted her down; for they were
the kind that will kowtow servilly to
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He won,t Limp Now

No more limping for Tom Moore oil
Cochran, Ga. I had a bad sore on
my instep that nothing seemed to help
till used Bucklen's Arnica Salve." he
writes, but this wonderful healer soon
cured me-" Heals old running sores,
ulcers, boils, burns, cuts, bruises, ecze-
ma or piles. Try it. Only Csc at all
druggists. +
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The Toledo Blade
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To fulfill this purpose it is kept clean and wholesome
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