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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-05
Fish and Sea Foods

Red snapper, SW91ac In Dbl. lots; gray
snappers or groupers, 31sQ4c; Spanish
mackerel, 10c; sun perch or Dream. Sc in
Dbl. lots; pompano, 20c mixed fish, 71zc
in bbl lots crockers, &c in Dbl. lots fresh
water perch, Sc; mullst, 61sc in bbls.;
small trout. 7c; fresh water cat, dressed,
1Oc; salt water cat, TIC.
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New York Money

New York. June 4.-Money on call
steady, 212@2% per cent; ruling rate pa !;
closing bid, 2h; offered at "a Time
loans firmer; 60 days, 4@4A per cent
90 days, "A per cent; six months, per
cent
Prime mercantile paper, 51s per cent;
sterling exchange steady, with actual
business in bankers bills at 4.S3.10 for TO-
day bills and at 4.S675 for deinand COM
mercial bills, 4.s212; bar silver, 6Olsc;
Mexican dollars 4sc; government bonds
steady; railroad bonds weak.
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Poultry and EgRs

Hens. 45G50c; live, per pound, 15016ct
fryers, 16l11a lbs average, a2S@30c; fryers
less than l lb. and over. 1h pounds aver
age, 25c; ducks. 14c pound; guineas,
30c; roosters, 3oc; geese, 40d50c;
live turkeys. 1s@2oc; fresh eggs. case can-
died. 1s120c; extra graded candled eggs
21c
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Kansas CITY Grain

Kansas City. June 4.-Cash wheat, No.
hard, SS@921ac; No. 2 red, 939971ac. Corn,
No. mixed. 5S1a@59c; No. white. 5S1ac.
Oats, No. white, 4Oc; No. 2 mixed, $50
3S1ec. Wheat closed: July, S41aQS45sc; Sep
tember, 84kc: December, SIC. Corn, July
577s@5Sc; September, 57slG57Nc; December,
547s@55c. Oats, July, 39@39lsc; September,
3S1ac.
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Engagement Announced

Russellville. June 4.-(Special. Mrs
Margaret Broadus announces the en-
gagement and approaching marriage of
her sister, Miss Susie Ragsdale Sar-
gent to Dennis Perry Wyatt. The we'd
dind Will take place In this city ut
the First Baptist church Wednesday
evening, June rs.
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St. Louis Grain

st. Louis, June 4-Cash wheat, No. 2
red, $1Q1 OF; No. hard, 93Q97c Corn, No.
2, 5Ss4c; No. white. 60laQG0a4c. Oats, No.
2, 4Oc; No 2 white, 401a@41c. Wheat closed :
July, S7Ac; September, S71adS75sc. Corn,
July and September, 5S5s@6S&c. Oats,
July, 37s4c; September, 3sAc
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Geo. B. Ward
STOCKS AND BONDS
Inquiries Solicited
Hubbard Bros. u Go.

Cation Merchants, Hanover Square, N.
change. New Orleans Cotton Exchange.
New York Producs E1ehenEs; Asso.
cats roidRfed fof 3he Asso
chase and sale Of Cotton and Cotton
Seed Oil for. future delivery. Special
attention and liberal terms given for
tonsignments Of spot cotton for a..
0very. Correspondence invited.
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New Orleans Rice Market

New Orleans, June 4.-Rce strong. Re-
ceipts: Rough, 352; millers, 1852; clean,
1o4S. Sales: Rough none; clean Hon.
duras, 1882 at 2aG3&c; Japan, III at 8 1-16@
3-16c Quotations: Rough Honduras, ESQ
as 25c; Japan, 2.75QS. 5Oc clean Honduras,
4A@5ssc; Japan, 3A@4c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-05
Creamery Products

Country butter, 200Dc; fresh creamery
butter, 3212c; cheese, Ice; imported Swiss
cheese, 31c; German brick cheese, zoe:
li;nburger cheese, lsc; imported roquefort.
87c; Neufchatel cheese. per dozen, 46o:
Pimento cheese. S5c; process butter, SOC;
daisy cheese. 1910 per pound.
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LOCAL QUOTATIONS
Pig Iron
Local Cotton
Meat

Lard 127sc; compound, 9ssc; dry sall
short ribs. 1S.57ikc; bellies, 14471ac: ham
butts, 15.5Oc; Boston butts. 16c; pork
oins, lie; spare ribs, 1Sc; breakfast
bacon, 26a27o; smoked bacon, Ice; reg-
lar ham, 19&c; skinned ham, 201ac.
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Coffee Market

New York, June 4-Coffee futures
opened barely steady at decline of q to
25 points under renewed selling for both
local and foreign account. Weak cables,
reports of a continued slack spot de-
mand, and the larger Brazilian receipts
contributed to the bearishness of sent-
ment, and while prices rallied 8 or
points from the lowest during the mid
die of the day on covering of shorts the
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French Exchange

Paris, June 4.-Three per cent rentes,
S5 francs, 52R centimes for the account
Exchange on London % francs, 22 CEN
times for checks. Private rate of dis
count 3% per cent
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st. Louis Produce

st. Louis, June 4.-Flour lower. Hay
steady; timothy, s12q17 prairie, S10413.
Receipts: Flour, n,0oo; wheat $1,000; corn,
$4,000; oats, 44.000. Shipments: Flour, 49,
900; wheat 1900; corn, 80 00O oats. $1,000.
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Liverpool, June 4.-Wheat: Spot steady
No. Manitoba, rs 6led; No. Manitoba.
Is 41ad; futures steady; July, is sgd; Oc-
tober, Is 3ssd; December, rs 37sd.
Corn: Spot firm; American mixed, new,
5s I'D; American mixed. new, kiln dried.
5s Sd; American mixed, old, IS. Futures
steady; July, La Plata, As 1O7sd; Septem-
ber, La Plata As 117sd.
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Poor Human Nature

From judge.
Madge-Why don't you go to your
doctor for advice?
Marjorie-What's the use? He alwaya
tells me to do a lot of things he knows
won't do.
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German Exchange

Berlin, June 4.-Exchange on London
20 marks 43 pigs. for checks. Money,
per cent. Private rate of discount
5is 05a per cent.
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Very Deliberate

From Judge.
Benham-What's your hurry?
Mrs. Benham-If Adam were as slow
as you he wouldn't have finished nam
ing the animals yet
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Out of the Running

From Judge
First Child--We have a new baby at
our house.
Second Child--That's nothing. We
have a new pepper at oursi
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Naval Stores

Savannah, June 4.-Turpentine firm, 36c:
sales, 1925: receipts, 1888; shipments. 94l
stocks, 24,355. Rosin firm sales, none; re-
ceipts, 57O2; shipments. ,2679; stocks. 81, ,9S1.
Quote: A. B. s4.55; c. ID. s4.60; E. $4.s5;
F, $4.7o; G. s4.75; H, $780, I, $3.50; X. IS 20;
NJ, $5.65; N, s6.S5; WIG, $3.50; WV, $e.S5.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-05
Bullion Sent to Germany

London, June 4.-Gold coin amount
ing to f316,600 was withdrawn from
the Bank of England today for ship
ment to Germany.
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Dry Goods

New York, June 4.-The dry goods
market Is characterized by steady.
hand-to- mouth buying. Production is
being restricted steadily while stocks
are generally light in first and second
hands
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Grain Receipts and Shipments

Kansas City, June 4.-Receipts: Wheat
93 900; corn, 32,000 oats, 1000. Shipments
Wheat, 26O0; corn, 1900; oats, 5000.
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ROUND TRIP FARES
NEW YORK, S41.35
BOSTON, S44.@
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
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ocu States Fire -,
Traders Nat Bank . Is6 1s0
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LOCAL SECURITIES

Total sales for the day, 10000 shares
The Washington times., 1913-04-28
Have You Figure Like the Venus
OF Milo? Try These Measurements

ranging downward from the line OF the
hair to the end Of the chin, must be
one-tenth the length Of the whole
stature
The hand must measure from the
wrist to the end Of the middle finger
the same-one-tenth of the whole.
From the top of the chest to the
highest point of the forehead Is a sew
enth. and II we divide the length of the
face from the hairline to the chin into
three equal parts In the perfect figure
II will be seen that the first division
determines the point between the eye
brows. and the second the place where
the nostrils are situated.
And lastly the height from the feet to
the top Of the head Is the same dis
tance as is the stretch of the arms fully
extended
These are the measurements of the
perfect human body. which women the
world over and through the centuries
have WED with each other to obtain
and of which poets and bards from time
immemorial have sung.
Though whether the path OF the girl
with a perfect figure is always made as
pleasant for her as that OF the girl
whose face Is perfect Is a different
matter and sometimes might be open to
question. Generally speaking. however,
the girl with perfect nhysique is COM
panionable and lively and full Of fun,
for she 10 ideally healthy. 4
The Washington times., 1913-04-28
Other Women's Husbands
AS Rule They Are No Better Than Yours
BY Sophie Irene Loeb.

what men find to talk about 80 late at
clubs. The baronet smiled his incest,
Certainly not about our wives. madam
he retorted.
Just so! The point 10 well taken, ana
II We would but own the truth we must
realize that man sooner forgets small
Ills. fancied sights or grievances than
woman As q general thing he Is able
to hide a great deal Of domestic unhap-
pfness without the slightest information
even to his best friend in the club or
anywhere as to his disappointments.
But IL seems some women positively
MUST blurr out things. not only to
their intimate friends, but ordinary
gatherings OF course, as a usual thing.
ter. Yet in the telling these criticisms
get magnified in their brains until they
feel they are very wronged creatures
Woman is prone to pirate of the
husbands. II she would but stop to
realize that most husbands are not
what they seem to be- and that there
Is no judge really capable Of CRITICS.
ing except the WIFE Of him; perhaps
band was such a miscreant
And no doubt If this sort of woman
was married to the other woman's
husband her fault-finding In another
direction would be just as evident.
of husbands has ANOTHER side II the
unthoughtful wife would but look at
the other side.
For instance, she might make the
discovery that some OF her own de-
fects really balance those she deplored
In him. And about these defects OF
hers he very often keeps mum" and
goes on in the hope of better thingA
In the summing up. to deplore the
husbands feelings to others does not
Y IT u ~Ixr lfrT q "a
them. 1t is only a fair assumption that
she Is the stronger woman who KEEPS,
HER OWN COUNSEL, who seeks to
remedy her own mistakes. and thus.
times without number. inspires the
reformation of the man she has mar
rted.
The Washington times., 1913-04-28

that the German and French war maneuvers make
possible.
If the new chief will take the advice of his
staff, he will insist more maneuvers of this kind
and fewer army posts.
But can he win? 1t is political question. What
Senator or Congressman is going to give up his"
army post in order that the general good may be
served? Senator Warren, as chairman of the upper
house Committee on Military Affairs, mad millions
after millions poured into the development of Fort
D. A. RUSSELL Wyo. for which there was no other
excuse so good as that it would nelp the Senator po
tically Congressman Hull, as chairman of the House
committee, had an army post established in Des
Moines which was about as necessary an irrigat-
ing plant in. the middle of Lake Superior. But it
appealed to local PRIDE and helped keep Hull in
Congress
Secretary Garrison mas need to be scrapper if
he is going to reform the military establishment in
these regards. If he succeeds, he will have buided
monument of splendid achievement to his memory.
The Washington times., 1913-04-28
THE CIRCUS.

The circus is the most American of American
sms. There is nothing like it anywhere else in the
world. Building Colosseum in Rome was the affair
Of decades and dynasties. Bringing the circus into
town, setting it up, putting on vastly bigger and
more wonderful show than the Colosseum ever saw,
is an incident of few million dollars, few hours,
a couple thousand people, and an American genius
for doing the big and spectacular thing in strictly
business way.
If you're too old to want to see the circus as a
circus-whch you aren't-then its worth seeing just
as the best demonstration of that curious sort OF
genius that makes Americans different from every
body else Don't pretend that you're going because
you want to let the children see the animals. They
don't Neither do you. They want to see the circus
animals trapeze, clowns. and all the superativey
scintillatng spectacle ofyou know, read the bill
boards.
The Washington times., 1913-04-28
LADYs NEWBORN. an English
writer, deplores the common
habit of wives to hold up the

LADYS NEWBORN. an English
4 writer, deplores the common
habit Of wives to hold up the
virtues of other women's hus-
bands and to deplore the shortcomings
Of their own. She says:
"One really gets weary Of hearing
about the small and great deficiencies
of the husbands Of ones friends. Even
II my husband were less my ideal than
he ought to be l certainly would not
give him away to other women. Never
tell your friends what you would not
like your enemy to know would be a
very good guide In life for them as for
many others. To admit that ones .hus-
band does things that one does not like
him to do or wish him to do: to say
to other women, oh, my husband Is not
bit like that is simply to shout
from the housetops that ones life has
gone rather hardly.
THE other day one of these give
away wives who had been complaining
about her husband before a little group
turned to a baronet, I was just saying.
Sir -. that / really do not know
The Washington times., 1913-04-28
NATIoNALIZING MOUNT VERNON.

II is quite unnecessary to assume that demand
for national ownership of Mount Vernon involves
criticism of the organization of patriotic women that
saved the noble Washington estate and made it a
national shrine. At the time, more than half GEN.
fury ago. when popular subscription raised the fund
that effected this good work, there was no other
way to do it.
In no proper sense, however, does the organiza-
ton the historic estate. 1t holds the property
under trusteeship for the public 1t has admin
stered the trust the whole very creditably far
as is known But Mount Vernon ought to be a
national possession; first, because it is the home
where Washington lived; second, because it is so
closely associated with the National Capital; and
third, because it is such splendid example of the
colonial fashion in architecture and arrangement
If the National Government is ready to take over
Mount Vernon as national trust and to care for it
it cares for the historic battleelds then the trus-
tees who now hold the property ought to realize taat
their work is done and willingly turn it over to that
control which is its plain and proper destiny.
Whether the steamboat or the railroad fare to
Mount Vernon is too high or too low is not very
material Whether the estate ought to be open on
Sunday is an incident But it is all wrong tat there
should be charges and counter-charges, suggestions
of individual profit corporation DEALS in connection
with the management of the home Of Washington.
The Washington times., 1913-04-28
A FULL TARIFF TRY.oUT.

This paper is glad to iterate and reterate that il
has no sympathy with the efforts in Congress to
thwart modify the tariff program as put forth by
the Democratic party organization but really laid
down by President Wilson. There ought to BE no
sympathy with such embarrassment and obstruction
whether by high tariff Democrats, Republicans, or
Progressives.
This is not our opinion as sharing the economic
views Of the Wilson Administration and his party
organization. We don't share them. But the Demo-
cratic party is in control of the Government under
special commission to reduce the tariff on Free Trade
principles or as near Free Trade principles as could
be followed without causing utter disaster to the
industry, the business and the wage earnings of this
country.
Pledged to do that thing elected to do it, whether
by division of the opposing forces not the thing
for the Democrats to do is to do it. And the thing
for nigh tariff Democrats, Republicans and Progress
sives is not to fight them when they are doing it.
Indeed if, as against the tariff for revenue only
of the Democrats those parties that believe in
able protective duties right then the very bes,
thing for them and for the country is to let the Dem
ocratic Government 60, unopposed and undiscour.
aged, to the full length of its tether.
1t is now in tine political stars, since the election
of 1872 that the United States must have this expert
HlcIt Will HCN pidCuSc ii II proves tne DeSt
thing for the country-f proves the least bit better
than the old system-then we all ought to be glad
to have it. If is isn't better-f it is worse if it is
positive injury to the country-then the sooner we
try it out and prove it, the better for everybody con-
cened.
1t is for those reasons that high tariff Democrats
Republicans, and Progressves ought, if the Demo-
cratic Government wants to 60 the limit, to let it
60 the limit Even if they had the power to stop the
Democratic Government from going that limit they
ought not to stop it.
1t might very easily be- if the Democratic theories
are dead wrong, that merely holding them back from
going the limit without at the same time keeping
them entirely off the rocks, would leave the country in
partly disabled condition for years perhaps whereas
big smash-up would bring its own correction and
repairs in very short time.
Better two years Of souphouses-if Democratic
tariff revision should mean this, God forbid with
quick relief than twenty years of uncertain drifting,
with no clear course anywhere ahead.
The Washington times., 1913-04-28
OUR SCATTERED ARMY.

Secretary of War Garrison has early discovered
the big problem of our military organization. He
hopes he can solve it, and so does everybody else
except the political interests that want political army
posts scattered about the country for the sake of local
appropriations
The Secretary would have the army so handled
tat at least periodically, it may be trained in
yers of large units He doesn't say yet that he is
ready to fight for the abolition of large number
of these local establishments but his plan of getting
big bodies of troops together for training in grand
maneuvers points unerringly to that conclusion.
With small army, it is necessary that training
be the more effective and practical. Going through
the manual of arms is not campaigning; it is not
even training for campaigning Tramping in battalion
or regimental formation up and down tRrade ground
is not war or anything like it.
Both commanders and men need training on some
thing nearly as possible like the magnificent scale
tkt1 : L.
The Washington times., 1913-04-28
THE BOMB INDUSTRY.

There are too many people who know too much
about making bombs, and they find it all too easy
to get hold of the high explosives necessary in that
manufacture.
Chicago and New York in the last two or three
years have been terrorzed by the activities of bomb
throwing gangs of desperadoes, and the utmost efforts
of the police have been pitifuly futile of results
1t if rigorous measures to prevent the illicit
manufacture sale and possession of dangerous explo
sives would come nearest to providing proper
remedy.
In Washington man who buys a razor or gun
is required to sign register and otherwise variously
identify himself as proper person to have such a
dangerous instrument in his possession. Why not have
hign explosives sold only by licensed Dealers under
strict regulation, with police supervision. Is it more
impractical than the strict and expensive espionage
that is maintained over the manufacture and sale of
intoxicating liquors, the excellent work of the
Secret Service in suppressing counterfeiting?
The man who wants dynamite to blow out tree
stumps or quarry rock could easily enough convince
the authorities that he has the stumps or the rock
ledge; but the man with nothing more than section
of gaspipe as evidence of good faith might have
difficulty. The synthesis of gaspipe and guncotton
is getting common and dangerous enough to warrant
extreme measures for its discouragement.
The Washington times., 1913-04-28
OVERWORKED STATESMEN.

At one time last week, when the House was
theoretically in the throes of discussing the tremen.
dous reorganization of the Governments fiscal sys-
TEN tnat is represented by the tariff BILL there were
by actual count thirty-eight members on the floor.
No, it is not true that they had hurried out to
their offices to write to their constituents for advice
about their votes on data concerning tariff needs
There was a quorum present, all right-at the
baseball game.
1t may seem like desertion of duty by Congress
men, at such time; yet it is the inevitable result
of caucus control in such matter. 1t is utterly i'm
material what any member may say during this dis
cussion. The House of Representatives isn't legis-
lating on the tariff. True, the Constitution makes
that chamber the source of legislation; but
the House has long ago abdicated its powers, and
under the present Democratic regime quite as much
as under the late Republican the inside group of po-
iitical leaders make the tariff bill, and then put it
through under the spur of party discipline.
If there is any real consideration of the tariff
it will be in the Senate 1t was there four years ago.
At that time the Senate substituted its own bill for
that of the House, and did all the damage it could
think UP. This time, on the contrary, the Senate
seems likely in the end, to accept the House measure
and pass it, though only after long and very earnest
discussion. The Senate hasn't been deprived of its
privilege of unlimited debate, but it cngs to the old
caucus system of control in fashion that largely
negatives the privilege of real discussion.
The Washington times., 1913-04-28
|, 8 your figure like the Venus of Milo's
except for the arms?

your ngure ike the V enuS OF MILO
except for the arms?
You'll remember. perhaps. that
the Venus of Milo is a famous
statue that has lost both arms and a
toe, is shy on drapery for the northern
half of her anatomy, and has wavy hair
parted in the middle.
Well. she is also a perfect model for
the feminine figure and people are talk
ing a lot about her measurements now
adays. And women are wondering how
near they come to living up to those
measurements.
Here. says the Chicago Tribune. Is
the way to find out how nearly YOU
resemble the Venus de Milo. The fig
ures are supplied by DR.. jacques. a
French scientist. Get out your measur-
ing tape and see how nearly You con-
form to Dr. jacques specifications:
The proportions of perfect figure are
absolutely mathematical. he says. and
he further contends that the whole fig
ure should be six times the length of
the foot. Whether the form is slender
Or plump this rule holds good.
Ehe Greeks made their statues ac-
cording to this standard: That the face
from the highest point Of the forehead
The Washington times., 1913-04-28
Cost of Finding America.

The English newspapers print report from Madrid to
that ledgers discovered Paos Span
interesting information the discovery Of
America by Columbus The total for which America
discovered amounted $1,000 5000 pesetas This
distributed follows: 1900 pesetas armament
1000 pesetas for personal of Columbus his
officers and 1000 for general
months for which the lasted. The $1,000
1892 represented $4,000 In 192-Nashvlle Tepnescan.
The Washington times., 1913-04-28

THE ENGLISH SPARROW.
By WILLIAM H. sEvERsoN.
We have not much advodspois brown or
brain,
But like you Americans. we are awfully
game .:
We were brought here against our will,
Our mission is to eat, fight and kill.
For upon all cites and villages,
We have a corner to kill all the small
birds,
And the man behind the gun will kill
the rest.
And all the fauna.
We fear not the owl or hawk,
For to them we have said like Japan to
China,
We are brothers and are right, cut of
your cues.
Put shoes on your feet. Stralghten
your beats,
And we will learn you how to fight.
There's more.)
On 18th street building: This floor
will be coupled on or before May l as
the future home of
The Washington times., 1913-04-28
/ can't confripe to dope so
Tangled an imbrogiio;
But, holy smoke! HOPE so!

King Albert of Belgium touched the
customary button the other day and
opened the gates to the international
exposition at Client. Which shows that
1t isn't confined to this country. One
Of our latent ambitions is to break into
that charmed circle some day and Start
Something by touching button. The
only thing we have a chance to start
In that fashion is an occasional electric
light. And often THEY won't work.