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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-18

Mother. to engaged daughter-I don't
care if he is millionaire It's per
fectly OUTRAGEOUS for you to think of
spending your young life with that
all think of spending, mother dear
Life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-18
Steel Orders at Low Ebb.

The steel trade was more conscious
Of depression this week than at any
time since the beginning of hostil-
tiles in Europe. Orders for rolled prod
ucts from domestic manufacturers ap-
parently were the smallest of weekly
record. and specifications against con-
tracts have fallen to point which will
permit scarcely more than 40 per cent
OF total ingot capacity to be operated.
AS orders decrease prices recede in
proportion to the anxiety of the mills
to make sales.
The railroads are scarcely worse off
than manufacturers, who are depend
ent upon banking accommodations for
extensions. and the prospect for the
near future is not encouraging. The
principal railroad orders last week in
cluded 1900 tons of rails and fifteen
st. Louis. and 1000 steel car under
frames for the Louisville and Nashville.
Steel building work was light
throughout the country. the fabricating
shops reporting orders for scarcely
5000 tons of steel, including 1000 tons
of railroad work. The principal build
ing order was 2,459 tons for a building
in Chicago. Export orders included
several thousand tons of billets and
5000 tons of barbed wire for England.
The blast furnace interests gave evil
dence of greater depression, WIN
heavy concessions made for even small
tonnages of foundry iron in the eastern
territory There was also a decline in
prices in the central west, with very
few transactions. Some small lots OF
foundry iron were sold for export, and
there was rumor of fair tonnage OF
low phosphorus iron sold to England.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-18

Other roads might be added, but the
list is a plea sufficient for action and
would only be accumulated by losses in
net earnings
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-18
Demand for oversupply.

First in order of useful action comes
the necessity of finding demand for
the present oversupply. Cannot cot
ton be converted into marketable lines
OF goods for which it has not been
formerly utilized? This is not a time
when cotton which is left in the mar
ket can be sold at or 10 cents a
pound. The cotton growers must be
satisfied with obtaining a price which
IS warranted by existing conditions.
Six cents pound is cents better
than nothing. and it is better to sell
at = cents for consumption than to
sell at or 10 cents a pound to buyers
who have no use for the staple
II the war in Europe should continue
until 1916. as some think it will, the
closing of the German market for cot
ton and the great reduction of the
British and French demand for the
staple will make the cotton demands
of 1918 the same as those of 1914 In
that event cotton growers must be
prepared to face these unusual con-
ditions and to find way of selling
their output to American manufacture
ers who will convert the new crop
into lines of goods heretofore not made
Of this material This is one of
the best solutions of the cotton prob
lem and is not a resource to paternal-
ism or gigantic schemes of misplaced
sentiment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-18
l WILL SELL:

WILL SELL:
$4,000 Wash. Rwy. L. Electric.
per cent bonds mt s0a4,
$1,000 Cap. Traction 80 Mt log.
90 Cap. TrsctiOn stock at rs.
90 Wash. Rwy. pfd. at .OL.,
10 Wash. Gas mt 721s, ex. div.
10 MerEenthaler at 2fOh,
20 LansaOn Mt ..h.
Z Greene Cananea mt "a.
10 Metro. Nat. Bank at 1871.
5 Riggs Nat. Bank at a3S.
70 Federal Nat Bank mt I35.
% Munsey Trust Mt %.
Union Trust mt LIS.
WILL BUY:
20 Wash. Gas stock Mt 20. ex. div.
20 Wash. Loan 4 Trust at :Is.
- Wash. hwy. prd. at az.
20 Merganthaler Mt 2O.k.
subject to previous acceptance or
cancellation. All executions for cash.
Buying and selling orders on ali
listed stocks and bonds solicited.
THOMAS L. HUME, Broker.
1410 G ST. Rooms oil. Tel. NJ. 1915.
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PLANNING TO COPE
W|THALONG WAR
Financial Position of the
United States Is Being
Steadily Strengthened.
BANKS NOW HAVE CASH
FOR COMMERCIAL PAPER
Steel Trade More Depressed Than
at ANY Time Since European
Conflict Began.

NEW YORK, October 1.-THE war
news this week was regarded in many
quarters of the financial district as
making for a prolongation of the con-
hict and the consequent disturbance
of the worlds finances. Measures for
coping with the situation. however,
made steady progress.
The call on subscribers to the $780,
100000 gold pool for twenty-five per
cent payment increased the foreign ex-
change resources of the pool commit
Q tee, but the sustained strength of rates
revealed the extent of the require
ments to be met. Domestic money con-
ditions improved further, rates for
mercantile paper receding to per cent
and call loans in Wall street to
per cent and under. Promise OF the
early operation of the federal reserve
system had it's influence in this con-
nection.
Projects for the relief of cotton hold
erS. both among bankers and leg1sla-
tors, were watchfully scrutinized.
Unstable cash prices for cotton re-
stricted buying, but the census figures
of the September domestic consump-
ton gave satisfaction and cotton ex-
change bills against exports were in
larger supply at this center.
Heavy Export Of Foods.
Large food exports continued and
while export orders for steel showed
moderate expansion domestic buy
ing shrank. The Lac-lawanna Steel
Company's third quarter earnings were
an unpromisng harbinger of the forth
coming report of the United States
Steel Corporation. Reduction of out
put and further shading of copper
prices were reported and the drastic
reduction of the Amalgamated Copper
dividend was accepted as logical re-
suit of conditions in that industry.
Railroad gross earnings and traffic re-
turns showed sharp shrinkage.
The field of permitted dealings in
securities was slightly enlarged. but
under careful restrictions. Capital op-
erations are at present limited almost
entirely to the refunding of maturing
obligations at higher interest prices.
A further reduction in the cash re-
serve deficit was the notable fea ture
of the weekly bank statement. that item
now standing at less than $1,o0O.OO0.
against a depletion of $4S.000.0O0 re-
corded the middle of August The
weeks cash gain of little more than
$6.00O,00O was considerably under most
estimates. In it's main essentials, how
ever. the statement was the most ia
vorable reported by local clearing
house institutions since the issuance
of loan certificates and emergency cur
rency.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-04-02
HIS MIND ON HIGHER THINGS
Scholar Unable to Sit Down and Rea-
son Quietly on Matters Of
Everyday Life.

A monument was recently unveiled
to the memory of Henri Poincaire, the
famous mathematician and physicist,
who was cousin of the president of
France. The occasion recalls a story
or two of his remarkable absent-mind-
edness.
Almost every day Poincaire left his
money lying about somewhere. Final
ly his mother sewed his purse into the
pocket of his coat. But one day,
when he had dressed in a hotel, he
put on his overcoat without the coat,
and left that lying on chair. Need
less to say, he never saw the purse
again.
One evening he was looking in a
closed bookcase for manuscript.
During the search he set the lamp on
a shelf in the case, and in a moment
of abstraction closed the door of the
cabinet, and sat down in darkness.
After he had pondered for a time on
the disappearance of the light, he
came to the conclusion that he had
suddenly become blind. That seemed
to him quite possible, since his eyes
were weak, anyway, and he groaned
at the thought of his deplorable con-
dition. Suddenly, to his surprise. a
stream of light appeared coming from
the adjoining room and he remarked,
with much satisfaction: MY sight
seems to have come back again" Not
even then did he think of the lamp in
the ookcase!-Youth's Companion.
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kiss three-times, first on one cheek then on the
other, and the last time on the other cheek again.
This represents the JOY they feel on account OF
the Savior's resurrection. The custom is some
times continued for several days, and the peas,
ants often kiss hose whom they have just met.
Following the halfhour church service there Is
a night mass held, the only one during the year.
This is not usually ended until o'clock in the
morning. From the church the people return
home and have what is really an early breakfast,
but which is more like feast. They eat hard.
boiled eggs "pascha" and "coolitch," which form
the features of the repast.
The custom of kissing is also observed In the
court Easter day the emperor receives the men,
bers of his household, his bodyguard and repre-
sentatives from the officers and soldiers of the
regiments stationed in and near st. Petersburg.
Easter is joyful occasion for the children. For
two three days previous their elders dye eggs
for them, much as is done In this country. Easter
the children roll them and play with them. 1t is
also the custom to exchange eggs, and many peo.
pie carry few with them to present to their
friends after the church service. The children
play with their eggs for week after Easter and
sometimes longer, The "pascha" and "cooltch"
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decorated with flowers. A wire is stretched from
the car to the altar in the cathedral At the con-
cius1on OF the service wooden device known
as q dove" travelling the wire on a wheel
and bearing a small fuse, is lighted from the
sacred fire on the alter 1t rushes down the wire
to the car filled with combustbles The explo.
sion that follows is q wonderful pyrotechnic dis
play. The peasants in and near Florence at
tach considerable Importance to the explosion of
the car" and especially to the uninterrupted de-
scent of the dove" down the wire; If everything
transpires without hitch, they consider it an
omen of plentiful crops the rest of the year.
Astounding in quaint customs and strange cere
monies Mexico upholds her reputation in her
Easter celebration. The day is day of ven
geance-not upon the living but upon the num-
beress images of Judas Iscariot the betrayer Of
Christ. All over the country countless images Of
Judas are made, generally in peasant clothes,
with ropes fastened around their necks Amid
the boots and jeers of the crowd the images are
swung aloft and hung. AS they swing to and fro
stones and knives hurled at them; out in the
provinces the figures are riddled with bullets
til they are literally cut to ribbons. Sometimes
an image is stuffed with cigarettes, CONNECTIONS
and trinkets, strung aloft and exploded from
fuse running to the ground The contents
scattered in the explosion, of course, and the
grown-ups as we'll as the children scramble for
the flying gifts.
The ceremonies really begin with Thursday eve
ming of Holy week. when the vista de la siete
casas," or the calling of the seven houses or
churches, is held The populace on this occa-
sion visit seven or more churches-there must be
seven at the lowest-and pray. All the churches
are decorated, and there is considerable rivalry
as to which has the most gorgeous altar. On the
afternoon of Gnod Friday there is service called
ia siete palabras," or the seven words referring
to the seven words of Christ on the cross. All
women attending this service are dressed either
in mourning or in somber colors In the evening,
attred in the same manner, they attend service
called 'pesame," a service of coincidence and
mourning.
On Saturday morning the gloria" service is
held, after which comes the hanging of the eff
gies of Judas In the afternoon the people attend
the theaters or bull fight if the weather is not
too warm for the latter. On Easter day proper
the celebration is almost entirely religious one
Easter is the holiday of holidays in Russia
This is partly due to the fact that Easter is the
first celebration of the spring season. and the
warm weather naturally draws people to the out
ofdoors.
On Easter eve in Russia there is church serv.
ice held which begins before midnight and con.
tinues for half an hour. In the country, even
among the peasants where the customs are more
strictly followed. the people weaS their best and
ightest clothes
After the service comes the Easter kiss Friends
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are also eaten during the week after Easter, and
always served to visitors who may call. 1t Is
also custom to greet friends Easter day with
Christ is risen from the dead" To that the
friend replies in the same way exClaims: Yea
verify, he Is risen!"
Another phase of the Russian celebration of
Easter is to be found not in Russia but in Pales-
tine. Thousands upon thousands of pilgrims
from Russia, but also from other parts of the
world as WE'LL assemble on the banks of the river
Jordan on Easter morning to bathe in the same
waters in which Christ was baptized. AS the rays
of the rising sun gd the tops Of the mountains of
Moab shout of "Hosanna" bursts forth with one
accord from every throat, followed by song. Bap
tsmal robes are donred and the people rush into
the stream. The Russian government has erected
hospices for the pilgrims all along their line of
march.
Easter in Jerusalem is a great occasion At the
Church of the Holy Sepuchre the ceremony of the
descent of the holy fire is celebrated on Saturday
All lights in the church are extingulshed at a
certain hour and the worshipers stand praying
that the holy fire be sent down from heaven. Two
high priests go down into the sacred sepulchre;
suddenly lights appear in the tomb, and other
priests hand down candles, which are returned to
them lighted. These candles are then carried to
the various churches in the city to light their al
tar candles, and, in fact, there have been in
stances wherein they have been carried all the
a great service is held in the church, at the con-
clusion Of which the worshipers stream forth
shouting "Hosanna!" and waving their palm
branches
The most remarkable feature Of the Easter cele
bration in Jerusalem however, is the march Of the
pilgrims through the Via Dolorosa. Many thou
sands of persons from all over the world partic
pate In this march, following the course taken by
Christ In his journey to the cross Calvary.
Good Friday in Spain, especially in Seville, Is
the day on which the various guilds and societies
and the monks array themselves In fantastic
garb and parade the streets as mummers They
bear before them huge standards crosses images
Of the Virgin Mary and queer symbolic devices
In other sections of the country the parade takes
the form of carnival Of flowers queens Of the
carnival are chosen and they feted with all
the homage usually shown real sovereign. Vast
sums, secured by popular subscription are ex-
pended upon the parades. The images of the vir-
gin are garbed in robes and jewels that cos.
thousands of dollars.
The beautiful service In St. Marks cathedral
is by far the chief feature of the Easter celebra-
tion in Venice. The worshipers come to the
church in gondolas literally covered with flowers.
The entire scene is riot of color and blooms In
the afternoon every one bears supply of food to
the square in front Of the cathedral and scatters
broadcast to the countless focks of pigeons that
fly about the stately edifice.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-04-02
DRY SCALE COVERED HEAD

2760 Tamm Ave-, st. Louis Mo-
MY little daughters head began with
dry harsh scale covering it. First it
got white scale over the top and
then it got dirty brown scab with
pus under 1t. Her hair came out in
less than a week and her head itched
and bled. She had no rest. l had her
wear scarf all the time, it looked so
badly. She was so sore and had such
big brown scabs on her head that the
teacher would not let her attend
school.
I'VE took and had her treated for
three months with no relief. She kept
getting worse until I tried Cuticura
Soap and Ointment. I used the Cuti-
cura Soap every third day and the
Cuticura Ointment at night. In three
weeks her head was we'll of sores. Two
cakes of Cuticura Soap and one box
of Cuticura Ointment completely cured
her." (Signed) Mrs. Walter Rogers,
Nov. 2S, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston" ADV.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-04-02

On the day preceding this luncheon the food Is
blessed by the priest AS the castle is usually the
center Of the community, the peasants or farmers
bring their food there. When the priest blesses
the castle luncheon he also bestows a blessing
upon the food of the servants and peasants in the
lower hall. During the entire week following
Easter Sunday visitors invited to partake of the
cold dishes on the Easter luncheon table, which is
repenished as necessity arises
Landowners receive gifts from the peasants on
their estates at Eastertide. One may bring his
best calf another his fattest pig, and woman
her largest chicken or duck In turn the peasants
receive presents of money and other valuables.
The children play with eggs on Easter Sunday
In much the same manner they do on the White
House lawn in Washington. In AustriaH Hungary
the same ceremony is observed, with the exception
of the great luncheon. Always on Good Friday
the emperor and his court attend divine service
for an hour.
Easter in France is primarily floral celebra.
ton. The flower market along the Seine is re-
dolent with the perfume of lilies and other as
fragrant, though less stately blooms. Every one
wears flower at Eastertide, and poor indeed is
the household that does not display floral sym.
boi Of the resurrection and the life"
1t is not of the great celebrations OF
France but is decidedly childrens day OF
course, 1t is legal holiday and the banks, gov
ernment buildings and schools are closed. There
are the usual religious services to be found in a
Catholic country. The Partisan child makes mer.
ry with Easter eggs, which generally painted
In vivid colors For the children of the weather.
class eggs of chocolate and sugar, either solid
candy or followed out as to conceal pretty
favors in the form of small toys.
In Italy, Easter is quite the most important re-
ligious festival of the year and time of public
and private rejoicing In Rome on Easter Sunday
and for several days afterward religious process
sions are to be seen on the streets. Dignitaries
Of the church, clad in gorgeous raiment, march
from church to church, blessing the baptsnal
fonts and rekindling the altar fires that were
tinguished on Good Friday in memory of the death
Of Christ
unique ceremony marks the observance OF
Holy week in Florence, Italy 1t is probable this
ceremony will be discontinued before many years
because of the fatalities and serious accidents
which have occurred in recent years.
At noon on Saturday of Holy week a ceremony
called the "scoppio del caro- (the explosion of
the carr takes place in the Piazzo del Duomo just
In front of the Battstero. 1t is in fulflIment of
provision in the will Of the de Pazzi family an
ancient Florentine household certain members
of which brought fints from the holy land with
which to kindle the fires on the affairs at Easter.
The "car," which resembles an altar and is
nearly as large small frame house, is drawn
to the square before the cathedral by team of
white oxen, where it is filled with fireworks and
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-04-02
Uric Acid is Slow Poison

Unseen In its approach, hard TO de-
tect in its early stages, and cruelty
painful in its later forms, uT3C acid
poisoning is disease too often fatal.
Bright's disease is one of the final
stages Of uric acid poisoning. 1t kills
In our country every year more men
and women than any other ailment
except two-consumption and pneu-
monia. Bright's disease and uric acid
poisoning usually start in some kidney
weakness that would not be hard to
cure, If discovered early so it is well
to know the early signs of kidney dis
ease and uric poisoning.
When uric acid is formed too fast
and the kidneys are weakened by a
cold, or fever, by overwork, or by over
lndulgences, the acid collects, the blood
gets impure and heavy, there is head
ache, dizziness, heart palpitation, and
dull, heavy-headed, drowsy feeling
with disturbances of the urine.
Real torture begins when the uric
acid forms into gravel or stone in the
kidney, or crystallizes into jagged bits
In the muscles, joints or on the nerve
tubings. Then follow the awful pains
of neuralgia, rheumatism, gout, sciat-
lea, neuritis, lumbago or kidney collie.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-04-02
CONFINED TO BED
A Stou Of Terrible Suffering From
Kidney Disease

Mrs. Eliza Kirk. Main St. Spencer. IND,
says: when my back began to get lame, I
didn't pay much attention to the trouble
and as the result got worse. II made .
sudden move, the pain in my back was like
knife thrust The next symptoms were
dizziness. languor and q Worn-out feeling. I
went to the doctor. but his medicine didn't
help me. began to have terrible nervous
spells and In three months. / was a physical
wreck. Ny limbs and hands became use
less from rheumatic pains and I had to be
fed, dressed and helped at every turn. Ny limbs
that suffering again. All that time, In bed and
opiAtes were my only relief. The Kidney secretio1s
were in awful shape. When had almost given up
hope, began using Doans Kidney Pills and 1yS
boxes put me my feet. Eight boz cured me. FoY
over Sepen years hdps FemdiEed cured"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-04-02

occurs in that part of Ontario border
ing Lake Erie, and in the northern
part of the southern peninsula of
Michigan, to mention only sections
near by where it is known.
But over all that sweep of country
which stretches from eastern New
York to southern Minnesota, including
northwestern Pennsylvania, the whole
OF Ohio, wild deer have nos been seen
for many years. Agriculture, the
hunters, the lumbermen and the fire
that follows the lumbermen have
closed the region to the white tailed.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-04-02

now roaming at will almost co the
banks of Thoreau's beloved Concord.
Strict game laws and humane inter.
est In these former inhabitants have
served to bring this about. 1t will be
interesting to people who care for
such things to watch If deer. recover
ing their boldness and widening their
present narrowed range, venture again
to seek living within the horders of
Ohio.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-04-02
Water for ST. Petersburg.

The city council of st. Petersburg is
considering measure appropriating
$25, 100000 for a supply Of pure water,
to be drawn from Lake Ladoga, Az
misNs away. On reaching the Ladoga
pumping station the water will be
driven into reservoirs and filters,
whence it will flow through the pipes
unaided to the capital and there dis
tributed. The capacity of the works,
which will be ready in 1920, is calcu-
lated for population of 100000.
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as they have closed all the United
States east Of Minnesota to the Areri-
can elk, whose former range was as
far south and east as South Carolina
and northern Georgia and Alabama.
Deer have been coming back to
their old feeding grounds in New Eng
land-in such numbers, indeed, as to
cause complaint among farmers whose
clover fields are ravished. 1t was the
custom of Thoreau to talk with old
timers who had beheld the animals in
the country Of which he made such
an ultimate study There are deer