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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07
Trend of Prices Downward Ex-
cept in the Case Of Specia|ties.
STEEL TRUST SUCCEEDS
IN RESISTING ATTACKS
Eccentric Strength and Activity in
Spots in MISUNDERSTANDING
Have Hard Luck.
BY w. G.. NICHOLAS.

NEW YORK, September 6. : The stock
market features are unattractive, and ex-
cepting for a few specialties, the trend
of prices has latterly been mostly down.
ward. The industrial list has developed
eccentric strength and activity In spots,
copper and oil and allied stocks being no.
tably nervous on the bumps. The steel
trust was a stalwart leader and stood up
nobly In the face of continued attack A
powerful combination of multimillionaireS
is alleged back of and under steel, and
successfully resists assaults. The market
usually RECEIVERS sturdily after every re-
action, and the opinion is rock bottomed
that the great metal specially will stand
up to the end though the general list
break through the ice.
People mot in the know wonder how
the record of earnings can show a re-
duction of S. to 81 per ton in the selling
prices of finished product and yet figure
out gain at the rate of S30Oo0,OOO to
$40, 600 In the total of net earnings for
the calendar year. The explanation is
simple and to the point. The corpora
ton has stopped expanding until times
improve. The change of policy is result
ing in diversion of $2,5OO.OOO to $500. 900
month from savings, hitherto reinvested
in plant, and is crediting the amount to
treasury surplus. Officials make the bold
claim that under the new policy the com
mon dividend Is In not the slightest dam
ger of impairment.
Production Is close to the record limit,
and the order books have entries evenly
ahead for many months. The smaller
companies are following the leader, and
with similar results, although on dimin
ished scale. Some of the big specialists in
the manufacturing field are making fab
ulous profits. and the market action re-
fleets the brilliant truth. Public utilities
have also come in for a growing share of
expanding business and there seems to
be abundant capital for expanding trade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07
Railroads Share in Hard Luck.

1t would not do to say that railroads
have a monopoly on hard times and hard
luck but they have a full share. By vir-
ture of increased efficiency the railroads
are earning more gross money than ever
before, and in the legitimate order Of
events should be able to show a CORE
spending increase in net. 1t is there that
they fall down, however. dispropor-
tionate percentage Of the increased net
earnings goes back into the property
The plant eats it hot from the griddle"
in increased wages, increased taxes and
increases in every form of maintenance
and operation. The demand for $4,000
600 increase In freight earnings asked for
by the railroads of the eastern field will
be passed on by the interstate commerce
commission for a few weeks hence and
upon the findings hinge results of prime
Importance.
turn down" would be signal for poig-
nant lamentation and would probably be
followed by the general passing of divi-
dends AS matters already stand not
half Of the lines are earning the dividends
that are being paid. Inability to increase
net earnings would intensity hard times
and might precipitate a further market
avalanche. The prospect as described
fully explains the encouragement of the
bearish contingent at the present writing
and during the recent past
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07
Nearly TWo-Point Decline Fol-
lows Withdrawal of Nor
gan & Co.
MOST OF THE LIST DULL
AND TRADERS INACTIVE
Copper Shares and Reading Lead
Several Specialties to
Small Gains.

NEW YORK. September 6.-Sreculative
conditions today did not favor active
movements of stocks. and the market was
a dull affair The holiday on the London
exchange deprived this market Of stimu
Ius from that source.
Uncertainty regarding the weekly bank
statement and the forthcoming crop re-
port also tended to keep down speculative
commitments to a minimum. The I'M
dertone was distinctly strong. and
changes were generally toward a higher
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-07
Loss Piles on Loss.

The dominant feature of the frequently
recurrent accidents on railroads is the
attention they call to the fact
that most of fatalities and losses are
due to the employment Of wooden cars.
Railroad officials agree that nearly every
line and system is lame in equipment and
that at the present rate of reconstruction
1t will be many years before the work
of replacement Of metal for wooden cars
is completed. Meantime loss piles on
loss. both IN life and propertE, try as
the companies do to modernize the plants
and minimize sacrifice. Very much
greater Roadway would be made In the
work OF reconstruction and safety II
larger percentage OF revenues couid 20
into equipment and the betterment OF
structure 1t is an open secret that
very considerable percentage OF earnings
could go into property with better re-
suits than in the enforced enlargement
of wages and other expenses or trans
portation.
That high wages are indispensable to
efficiency Of service is the gospel OF or
ganized labor and it is always the bed
rock of the argument for continuous
sweetening of the pay roll. The reply 70
the employing companies Is that WAGES
and many other items in the cost OF
transportation are directly at the risk
of safety of lives and property. and that
until accorded the right to charge hlgh-
er rates risks will diSproportionately IN
crease in every direction. The increas.
ing number Of destructive accidents ana
the swelling total of losses furnish I'M
conquerable evidence of the vital need Of
improved equipment and greater etfi-
cheney of operation. Only few rich and
powerful systems can maintain hlgn
standards Of excellence and at the same
time pay just and equitable returns to
shareholders on capital invested.
These are among the many phases that
will be urged upon the attention of the
interstate commerce commissioners at
their hearings in October on the petit
lions OF fifty-two railroads east of the
Mississippi for 5 per cent raise IN
freight rates AS the date for these
hearings approaches closer commission
action becomes more vital stock market
uncertainty
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STATE OF LOUISIANA.
23Pd judicial District Court-Par'
ish Of st. Mary.
H. s. Croxier ". MPe. Leila s.
Hickox. No. 1868.


BY virtue Of writ Of fieri facias
Issued out of the Honorable 2Srd
Judicial District Court in and for the
Pariah OF St. Mary. State Of Louisiana
and 10 me directed. in the above mum.
bered and entitled snit, have seized
and will Offer for sale. for cash,
70 the last and highest bidder. at the
front door Of the Court House in the
Town Of Franklin, Parish of St. Mary,
Louisiana. on
SATURDAY, THE 9Th DAY OF
DECEMBER, A. D., 1918,
between the hours of IL o'clock Q. M,
and 4 o'clock p. M, the following de-
scribed property, tO-wit:
Two hundred and twenty-five sacks
fertiliser. go lbs each; and ninety-two
sacks 1877 lbs each.
w. r. PETERMAN, Sheriff.
Sheriff. OGnce, Parish Of st. Nary,
La. Nov. Is, 1918.
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(. STATE OF LOUISIANA.
ard Judicial District Court-Par
ish Of st. Mary.
Ellerslie Planting Co., Ltd, VI
II. Duplantis & Son. No. 1908

EllersIie Planting Co.. Ltd, vs.
y. Duplantis 4 Son. No. 1908.
BY virtue OF writ Of fieri facias is
Sued out, of the Hon. 33rd judicial
District Court OF Louisiana, ia the
above numbered and entitled suit,
md 70 No directed. have seized, and
Will otter for sale, 10 the last and high.
~ bidder, for cash, ct the front
door Of The Court House. in the Town
q Franklin, Parish Of st. Mary,
LOuisians, on>
SATURDAY, THE 10Th DAY OF
& NOVEMBER, 1913,
bstveen The hours Of II O'Clock .. m,
81 Z solocA ?. NJ, the following de-
scslbod peupafty, t0.wit:
Eight mules, one three mule cart,
ono four WQleWAgOn.
W.T. PxTER,xAN, kberif.
6hesiRs OAoS, Parish Of 81. Mary, La. !,
Oceober mi, 1918.
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Ofay Hair Made Its Original Color
Clip This Nctice-It's Worth Csc

II your hair is gray, streaked with
gray, white. faded, brittle, falling out,
itching scalp or dandruff, apply q Ben
hair color restorer to gray hair and
scalp. Not . dye, but it brings to the
hair surface its original color nature
gave your hair. Makes gray hair
brown, black. auburn or its original
color Of II or Is years of age. Never
fails. Perfectly harmless, delightful
to use. Q-Ben makes hair soft. full
Of life. beautiful. Stops dsndruf,
itching scalp and falling hsir. Com
plete directions for home treatment of
thu, hair with each bottle. Soc By
parcel post, or return this notice and
u and We will deliver you three bot
ties. II not satisfied BY its use We
eise you hack 1ls6O. Address HessiR-
Ellis Drug Co. Memphis Tenn.
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e~ArE OF LOUISIANA.
-. ,,,dicias J tiatict Court-Par.
23fo iah O. s.. Mary.
..- Milling. Bria a & Sal vs.
Eliza Rjchardsoa, ard p'ui
sanders. No. 10 49i.

M1illUk. Dr." u "
Fo; r,;,a RjchaIdeoa' and Psul
Sanders. No. 10 ,49i.
.:.,ce Of a writ of fieri facias
ny ont OF the Honorable 23rd
l9s1Su ";.i district Court of Louisiana.
, pg'c.. -. d;reeted 10 the above mum,
ssred and entitled suit ! nave .s ss'1s at
U Ued viii offer for sale. Tor casn .. o. ~
~ front door OF the court nous0 e.
49, Town of Franklin. PARISH u ~
Mary, Louisiana, on $50 !,
GATiIRnAY. THE 9TH DAY OF
- inECEMBER, A. D.. 1913,
,...,een the hours Of IL O'Clock =; :: ! M D.
ga / o'clock p. m: to the las. anG
highest bidder, the following u'''' wv
property. 70 wit: o.,,nd
All that certain lot or Parce. o. .ale
.tnssted in Louisiana, Parish OF 81
Nav. Town Of Berwick, known, aeslg
nsted and described as that portion o
vsndor's property fronting fifty tee
~ the West side of Sixth Street ane
sxtsndinp back West that equal widtt
Io0 feet scross the south end OF ven.
doris property ss per act OF sa''
nassed before W. B. Merchant on IN
f5th day of May, 1872. wherein ID. w
ma Cora Roberts sold to mortgaaor''
deceased husband. .
". T. PETERMAN. sheriff.
Sherif's Once. Parish st. Mary La.
Nov. Is. 1913.
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STATE OF LOUISIANA
23sd judicial District Cnurt-PaI
ish Of St. Mary,

$3.50 - 49,
In the Matter Of the Receivership
Of The Mrs. E y. Burguirres
Planting Co., Ltd.
No. l3. 1888.
Notice Is hereby given to the credit
ors OF the Receivership OF the Mrs. E.
D. BurRuieres Planting Company,
ltd, or 20 whom It may concern, that
Robert L. Brown, C0-Receiver with
Oscar Zenor, has filed an account
showing the receipts from the sale of
the third sugars and molasses from
the crop Of 1911 of the Mrs. e. D.
BarRuieres Planting Co., Ltd, and
the proposed distribution Of said
fund, and notice IL hereby given to
the creditors Of said Receivership. or
10 whom Il may concern, to show
ceaas within ten days from the date OF
this notification, why the said account
should not be- approved and hOmol0-
rated and the funds distributed Ia &C.
cordanco Herewith.
Ia evidence whereof, witness my
officisl signaeure and the impress OF
No seal Of my ONCE. this 2lst day of
November. a. D., 1918. A
Jos. ]. SCHWARTZ,
Deputy Clerk of Court.
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FOR SALE.

A second hand organ in good
condition. This organ was origi.
nally purchased from the Grune.
wald Co., New Orleans. For fur.
Their information apply to this
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1913-11-29
FOR SALE.

One two-story residence
on First street; four houses
and lots In Ibert Addition
and on Anderson street.
One fine Steinway piano, one
Victoria Graphophone and
records. Long terms. For
particulars apply to
LOUIS KRAMER,
Franklin, La.
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FOR SALE

WE SELL IT FOR LESS.
Sash, doors, blinds, man.
tells, columns, brackets. glass,
paints, galvanized iron roof
ing,' cypress cisterns, etc.
Send your inquiries to us.
BUILDERS SUPPLY Co.,
New Orleans, La.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1913-11-29
Wanted.

TO buy cows, calves and
hogs. Sell them to us in.
stead of tile butcher. Will
pay full market price. (
CoLUMBIA SUGAR COMPANY.
Franklin. La.
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No Hunting

Allowed on the property
Of the Columbia Sugar Com
pany, consisting of the places
of Katie, Harding, Anatasia,
Laggerman, Lacy and Barry
Row.
COLUMBIA SUGAR COMPANY.
Oct. 3rd, 1913.
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No Hunting
Allowed on properties Of
Oak Bluff Planting & Mfg.
Co., Ltd. and s. r. McCar-
dell, Sr. ALI violators will
be prosecuted to the full ex.
tent of the law.
s. T MoCARDELL, SR.,
President.
Oct. Is, 1918.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-09-25
THERE is NO ECONOMY.

The tax levies have been made.
The assessments have been made.
Any property owner can ascertain in
very few minutes the amount of
taxes he will have to pay this year.
We venture the assertion that all
property will pay as much as it did
last year. This is in spite of the fact
that we were promised the strictest
economy all along the line. Admit
ing that the strictest economy is
being practiced, we must admit that
there can be no immediate tax relief.
The burden must be borne for great
many years yet to come. Can the
people stand 1t much longer? That
Is q question that our people must
answer themselves. We do not be-
lieve that they can do 1t. 1t is being
demonstrated every day that we can
motor at least do not-reduce the
cost of government.
The people of Idaho own great nat
ural resources. They are saving,
conserving, those resources, while
they are being eaten out of house ant
home. Right at hand they have the
only available relief there Is. Econ
omy such as we need and expect
does not exist. Our establishment Is
too elaborate for our means. We can
not dismantle the establishment,
hence we will have to put to prac-
teal use. our resources. This Is the
only way by which the people Of Ida
no can escape ruin. The sooner we
undertake to utilize our natural re-
sources the better for everyone
Weiser Signal.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-09-25

life have been shown us clearly and
forcefully. There are about AZ diff
ferent ways of getting to hell and
Caldwell Is practicing them all. 1t Is
comforting to have the admission that
Caldwell is no worse than the other
towns in this and other states. The
people have reached such a stare Of
sin and degradation that 1t becomes
necessary to import and employ out
side assistance. Now the Governor
has taken a hand. On the invitation
of the International Purity Congress,
Governor Haines has designated Sun
day, November 8, as purity Sunday"
1t Is recommended that purity Sun
day. be observed with appropriate
services in all the churches. In this
way it is hoped to annihilate the
white slave traffic, suppress CONNER
cialized vice, enforce single high
standard of morality and secure Soc
ial, civic and moral betterment. This
is a large order to fill on one Sun
day. If the work is accomplished
however we will have a rest for a
while,
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-09-25

Barney O'Neil since his sentence
to the penitentiary for from two to
ten years has been confirmed by the
supreme court, is anxious to begin
his servitude. Barney is just as
game now as when he toured the
state in an auto in his campaign for
governor; and by the way, he is just
as good a man now as he was then,
but it is difficult to make those who
fawned upon him and took his money
freely, and saluted him as 1.-THE best
fellow on earth when he was a
top-notcher. to look at it in that light
now that he is OWN and out with a
sentence hanging over him. Oh, false
and tickle friends, what sad and
disgusting spectacle you cut-what a
commentary on political friendships.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-09-25

Senator Tillman, the fire-eating
southernor, has been charged with
saying and doing many things which
might be censurable, but he certain
ly did not jab his pitchfork in far
wrong when he gave utterance to the
following vehement outburst. IF
the California men had our customs,
Diggs and Caminetti would not be
alive today, because they would have
been shot like dogs and the fathers
of the girls they have ruined would
be acquitted almost without the jury
leaving the box. The unwritten law
is the best law to protect women's
virtue that | have heard of. The
more 1 think of the Diggs- Caminetti
case the more outraged l grow at the
state of morals and society which not
ony permits such crimes but encour-
ages them"
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-09-25
CASTOR SHOULD APPEAR.

Alphonse, the state board of equal
ization, says that at nc time did he
ignore CASTOR, the state tax commits
sion, or belittle him. There was a
mere difference of opinion, exploited
in the most friendly manner-mere-
ly little parlor bandinage, as 1t
were, after which each bowed and
gave assurances of undying devotion.
AS this does not harmonic with
utterances attributed to members of
the tax commission, we rise to in
quire Where's Gaston?" We ought
to hear from him, also officially.
Reverting to the statement of the
equalization board, careful reading
compels admiration for its author.
Anyone who can at once tell all abou'
how it happened and yet tell so lit
tie, who can assimilate the functions
of the information bureau and the
clam without destroying the visual
ization of either, is more than clev-
er.-Boise Statesman.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-09-25
~THE MORMON MENACE"

Caldwell Tribune: In a labored ed
itorial in reply to an article which
appeared in q recent issue of The
Tribune, the Paris Post denies that
there is such a thing as Church in
fluence" in the state of Idaho. This
denial comes regularly from all apoli-
gists of the Mormon church. The re-
markable feature of the Post editor
ial is an innocent admission of every
charge that has ever been made
against the Mormon church. In justi-
fication of the Mormon people the
Post says:
What Is the terrible menace any
way-about which we hear so much?
Who has defined 1t? Does it operate
the same way the Methodist, the Bap-
fist, the Presbyterian and other church
menaces did when Judge Bulge was
defeated two years ago? When all
the ministers and deacons in the var
ious churches were instructed by enc
mics of the church to vote for Mr..
Stewart. They all combined against
Judge Bulge for no other reason than
that he was a Mormon-and this has
not been denied. Attack these three
churches, as a chrch, as body of
believers in what constitutes the laws
of God, as you have and do the Nor
mon church upon every occasion that
suits your purpose, and see how man,
votes you will get from the members
of that church thus attacked"
The only attack that The Tribune
has ever made on the Mormon church
is that 1t exercises an influence in pod
/ tiles. If the word of the bishop in
politics Is what constitutes the law
of God" in the eyes of the Mormon
people there is no reason for seeking
other proof of the subserviency of the
! Mormon people.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-09-25
NORTH AND SOUTH TAXATION.
With Ada county short four mil
lions of last years assessment, with

With Ada county short four mil
lions Of last years assessment, with
progressive" Canyon county coming
under the wire three million shy over
last year and several of the other
southern counties showing decreases
in their valuation during the past
year, and the northern counties, not
withstanding the natural reduction of
their timber values from year to year
from consumption, indicating in their
valuation returns healthy growth
and some degree of prosperity, it
looks very much as the oft repeated
statement that the northern counties
pay the tax" has plenty of substan-
tation in fact.
The Review has been an ardent
champion of full valuation for taxa
ton purposes, basing it's contention
upon the two apparent results to be
obtained therefrom-the less it gives
tunity for concealing the tax burden
and the increased valuation it gives
the state as matter of advertise
ment abroad. But if full valuation is
not going to place the counties of the
state upon an equal footing and we
are to continue to be confronted with
dishonest assessors who, to reduce
the pro rata tax of their counties to
the state, make returns out of proper
ton to other counties, it makes no
difference what the rate oof valuation
is, the problem of equal distribution
is still before us and as hard to get
at apparently as it was under valua-
tons fixed upon the percentage of &C
tual cash value.
1t is hard to advise northern as
SCISSORS to act upon the same impul-
ses as evidently control some of their
southern brothers, but it does look as
If the northern counties had SINH
lar course as the only means at their
command to adjust the tax burden
between the north and south.-Sand-
point Review.
Not SO very long ago it was sugges'
ed that the state government collect
its revenue from corporations and
some other resources, such as licen-
ses, thereby abolishing the plan of
levying upon the counties.
The idea was evolved as a means
of meeting the objection raised by the
Review to a method that constitutes
an unquestioned means of injustice.
1t did not appear that the northern
counties were enthusiastic in favor of
the proposal. On the other hand
1t was opposed by many representa-
tives from that section as by others
from various parts Of the state.
However inequitable the present
system appeared to them, however it
tempted counties to cheat by forcing
their valuations down in order to es-
cape their just share of the state tax
payments, the old way was prefer
able to a ubtitute that would free
the counties from a state tax but
that would also disassociate them
from certain fruitful corporate sources
of assessment that could be used to
take up most any treasury slack and
form the basis of low taxation speech
es in the following campaign.
When taxation is taken out of poll
tics it will at the same time be trans
ferred from geography to arithmetic.
Boise Statesman.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-09-25

The Capital News has figured it
out that a slump of more than 50 per
C, ut in the progressive vote in the
re, ent Maine congres sional election
is L OF a slump at all, but a real show
ing II strength. The News is almost
as CD eerful IN It's political juggling
CT figu 'es as it was in "figgering out
how the state would be the gamer If
it made tie Barber Lumber company
present II the state timber in the
Boise Basin -Weiser Signal
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-09-25

Weiser Signal: The Boise States
man has figured it out that the re-
suit OF the election. in the third con-
gressional district in Maine shows the
heavy vote given Roosevelt there last
fall was not an anti-republican vote,
but an anti-Taft vote. Thank God
for little light in the Statesman Of
flee. According to that moral and
religious guide last year no man could
be anll-Taft without being anti-repub-
lican. So Taft was not the republi-
can party after all? What relief
to learn this after these many months
of doubt and fear.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-09-25

The split in the democratic party OF
Idaho is not entirely due to the adop-
ton of the "slit skirt"-there are
other "visible'' reasons.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-09-25

The Portland Journal and the Port
land Oregonian, one progressive
democrat, the other a standpat re-
publican, both draw deep satisfac-
ton from the results in Maine-ah
those colored glasses, what a comfort
in time of need.