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COTTON STEADY ON
LIGHT DELIVERIES
Notices on December Contracts
Are Placed at Only 700
Bales.
BIG STOCKS IN THE SOUTH

There was fair amount OF business In
cotton Yesterday with trading showing an
increase over business during the first
three days OF tho week. The undertone
was steady, due largely TO the sentimental
effect of the light deliveries on December
contracts amounting TO only 700 bales.
The local stock is now about $4,000 bales.
but there have been indications for some
days that very little of this cotton would
he sent out for tender. 1t is possible that
little later In the month there may be
some pressure from tenders. but nasmuch
as the holders OF this cotton have until
February IS TO get rid OF such bales as
fail To come up to the requirements Of the
Government contract there il no imme-
diate necessity to get rid OF it.
There has been tals for some time that
the Liverpool shorts n, the December po-
sition would have a hard time covering
their commitments and that II they stayed
too long there might be q chance for fire.
works. As opposed to this view comes the
suggestion that there ia still considerable
cotton to be hduidated for the account of
the syndcat" aud that any marked rise in
prices for December would attract cotton
hero from the South.
Nc~y little interest was taken in the
week end figures, although the statement
WAS considered favorable owing 10 the
fact that the movement OF cotton is be-
coming more free. The into sight OF the
week was placed at 5i3. 600 bales. against
s5I ooh bales last year. The total for
the season Is t.Gl2,000 bales against
1,630,uo0 bales last year.
ON" favorable feature yesterday was n
fair amount Of buying by the South he
leved 10 be covering Of hedges against
purchases Of spots 10y Southern shippers.
Futures closed steady.
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Financing In Wrr Time,

That there Is a demand FOR new secur.-
tie. even in these times is indicated by
the experience of two prominent concerns
in floating an issue OF bonds % 4 pack
ing house concern. The issue was
sl.OOo.0Oo first mortgage per cent.
thirty year sinking fund gold bonds OF
the North Packing and Provision Com
pany II was underwri;;en by lIorn-
blower Weeks and W. A. Read & Co
Offered last week the bonds we're all
sold the same day.
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COTTONSEED OIL.
Further sharp AdNnnc~s->o Actual
OH PrcssinH.

III" list moved MP substantially, aud
although offerings were frequently larger
on the bulges closing values sugGc sted
Inherent steadiness. Crude oil was again
strongly held at the South, Claims that
mills were selling at the advance lacked
confirmation, There were no tenders on
December contracts and. in consequence.
more was heard Of the liberal consuming
demand short covering ana speculative
demand was in larger volume
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THE SUGAR MARKET.

Tic raw sugar market wa. slightly
low yCS'' I'd y. A sale Of $1,000 bag.
or Porto Eicos took place al i.0l cents
y decline NJ three points The refined
market Was unchanged. with all refiners
quoting $40 cents, though this quotation
vas merely nominal
The deadlock In export trade continued
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CHICAGO. Nov. e7-The Modern NTi>r
says: DRY weather prevails throughout
tho greater part Of IN" winter whea,
belt. but only I'm western Kansas, Ne
hraska and Oklahoma have report. in
dicated probable damage In Kansas
weather conditions are not as favorable
as usual NJ this season. Northern Texas.
oklahoma and Pennsylvania have had
rains
"ln general. the crop wa. seeded under
favorable conditions and will stand much
fall drought There rs tendency in
some quarters to overestin,ate acreas e -
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a. IN" numbers OF tho 19i bonds i-'ueH u-o.r
tho trust deed of the Chicago & N,.,.-,
Indiana Railroad Company dated D.. bar
l-t iAs&. 20 be redeemed, by the orr-ttis1
or tho sinking Fund on Doc is' nos. At
~" oni"e Of Mcssrs. J. y. Morgan & r.'
N"w YORK. ~ iUj ana accruei in'cr.,t q,
that date Reg stered bonds should be- ,,.,u.
panied nv power % attorney tran-f r-i,s
'hc'u 90 bearer
CHARLES n. RUSSELL
HERBERT l. SATTERLEE If''''''
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DAILY TREASURY STATEMENT

WASHINGTON Nov o. IN. .,a,,,,,...
we rtrelws and pay warrants oi the Tr,a.
u. Nov q THIS month Fiscal ,ca,.
he'eipt. ........ Sl-l- 9Gs S9l 5nl - ~ ~ a.
ray warrants 49.s.r"i ap.>ilt,o MANN ~
Defct - g. -,-,lq ,i,.a,, ..,, ..-
hN'rinis from custom, Nuvrrl,.r q g.. ~.
,n.'I..1 IeSIu'. Ordinary t3N ,9'i. ,urpot,tt,u
''N 500 and mis'"llaueous. tsGi ~
5. ~; ,3it '' W. redemption.
~ lhc AN statement of the UmteJ S,u..
treasurer Tor November q shows
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Spot cotton At New York was quiet un-
changed middling. 715c. southern spot
markets were steady. with New Orleans.
: 7-l6; Galveston. 20, Savannah, - .
Houston. 7ai. and Augusta, $40.
The New orleans market was steady
nsIg.S tt.va
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DIVIDEND DECLARATIONS,

-, w ~ ~ ND
In leI'em OUTSTANDING certificate. g. Ga HlS s.o
'r"na total cash assets IN Treasury egt g. -.1
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$4,000 Cons Ca. conv IS. .lila. ui'. lil, ia,
$50 Cons Gas RI. ......- 1916 la.ie o., =.
'Sell cents per share
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The Liverpool market was easier. There
was moderate business in spot cotton,
with midding . points lower AZ 4t6d.
Sales. 5000 bales Receipts. 1870 bales.
including I6435 American.
Prices At liverpool were:
Omen HIGH Low Clo. Prev
ny cst est ING close
May.1une ........ as 80 Itis t-1t, 4is
july. turu., ..... go. 4-j i:r, ic7i, Icr,
OFT Nov ....... s2i 49, $50. sc .4
Jan Feb ....... sc 80 80. 40
II A. NJ bids To liverpool were: DE-
cenlber. %: March. 1.s4 May. rs
Iuly. al October. SIi Th. market
there is due to open today !. To point
lower
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REDEMPTION NOTICE
Chicago and Western Indiana R aiIro,d Co.
GENERAL MORTGAGE BO>D>
Trustees Office. Room ~ 18th loorI
Mills building.

NV ork, NV = IL
The Trustees have this day dcs.g ut..I b.,
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RAILWAY EQUIPMENT BONDS.

'sincc increase Of capitalization.
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TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE
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Am Tel Tel Con Nas 1879 aI'. e5'. pr. pj'.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-06
The Cadets of ChapuItepec.

THE defense of Chapultepec. during
the war between the United States
and Mexico in 1S4T. was almost as gal
liant as was the attack. In this attack
forty-eight Mexican cadets. among
others. lost their lives. The story is a
stirring one.
For many years the celebrated Cas-
tie of Chapultepec. where Montezuma
held his barbaric court in the sur
rounding groves of cypress, where,
during nearly three centuries. lived the
successive viceroys of Spain. and where
Macmillan made his imperial home.
has been the West Point OF Mexico.
When Gen. Scott had taken the place
by storm and Gen. Bravo had sur
rendered. Il Mexican cadet only fifteen
years old, seeing the flag of his coun-
try in peril, most of his comrades be-
ing already slain, climbed the fla gstaff,
tore the banner from its place, wound
it around his body and slid down. in
tending to plunge over the precipice. in
order to save the coiors from falling
into the hands of the enemy.
That act of heroism being frustrated.
the brave boy, with the banner still
wrapped about him, fought until he
was cut in pieces. Forty-eight of
these schoolboys. ranging in age from
fourteen to twenty years, lie buried in
one grave at the foot of the hill Year
after year the cadets of Chapultepec
strew flowers upon the grave. =
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many and France and England last
summer. Yet his observation was based
on knowledge of a profound change
that has been going on in the position
of women in the Ottoman empire since
the Young Turk revolt displaced the
Sultan A bdul Hamid and the old regime.
Following the success of the Young
Turks and their ideals. many of which
have since become SO Disappointing.
there was an Immediate movement for
the improvement of the status of the
women. 1t may have been because so
many of the leaders had lived in Chris
tan countries and had absorbed west
ern ideas
Or it may have been telepathic re-
Election of the new woman movement in
the countries where woman always was
in the habit of asserting herself.
Whatever the cause. the effects were
felt at once. The harem was to be dis
carded. Few of the people of the west
knew that the harem, if not disap-
pearing institution, was at least deca-
dent one. and that the privilege of
maintaining four wives as allowed by
the law of the =prophet was rarely
availed of by educated Turks, while
among the peasants it had no standing:
1 never heard of a Turkish peasant
who kept four wives, though possibly
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A WOMAN OF EGYPT.

that the rights of woman to the fran
chise have been recognized, somewhat
grudgingly and guardedly, yet with a
view to their influence in public af-
fairs. Austria, in pursuance of her an
nounced policy of conceding the people
of the annexed provinces political
rights in 1910, granted a new constitu-
ton.
rather than sex as the basis of the
franchise. 1t provided that widows and
spinsters who were landowners, and
who paid above a certain amount on
their estates-something like $50
should be entitled to vote
The restriction of the right to widows
and spinsters might be construed as a
concession to mans superiority, or to
his place as the head of the family,
but in this respect it did, not differ
fvom some of the municipal franchise
privileges given woman property-own-
ers In England.
The striking fact. was that in Fosnia.
where the Mohammedan women have
been kept by immemorial usage in
greater seclusion than in Turkey itself,
they were given the right to vote. 1t
was not given to them as Mohammedan
women, because spinsters and widows
who were Catholics or Protestants or
Jewesses had the same privilege; but
the Mohammedan population was so
largely preponderant that in effect the
franchise was a gift to Moslem women.
A concession was made to tradition
in that the women themselves did not
go to the polls, but cast their votes by
male proxies. That votes for women
were popular was shown. At one cleo
ton. the account of which reached the
outside world, seventy-eight women
were recorded as voting, and all of
these but two were Mohammedans.
Under martial law it may be that the
women of Bosnia are not now allowed
to exercise the franchise. but they are
in no different position than the men
in this respect. Having been given the
right to vote, and having once exer-
cised the privilege. it is a safe predic-
ton that when the war is over the
Mohammedan women of Bosnia will
yield none of that which was granted
them. Instead, they are more likely to
insist on a broader franchise and to
obtain it,
Egypt has had distinctive woman's
movement for years past, though 1t
has not yet been directed toward secur-
ing the ballot. Under English rule in
Egypt there is not much even for men
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in the way of political institutions
based on the ballot. That may come
some. day, but it is not SO near at hand
as in Turkey.
The educational movement among the
Egyptian women has been partly due
the nationalistic aspirations of the
group known as Young Egypt. The
khedivial family. in it's encourage, has
reflected the influence of education, and
this influence has spread among the
higher classes. There are high class
Egyptian ladies who speak English as
well as French, but not many of them.
The western superstition regarding
the harem has given false ideas of
Egyptian as well as of Turkish life.
Every Mohammedan household is not a
harem. There are some officials. and
some Egyptians who are not officials,
who maintain four wives and the con-
cubines permitted by the prophets law,
but these are not numerous.
Whether in the harem or in any
homogeneous household, the influence
of woman is recognized One day in
Cairo the dragoman who was showing
me about called my attention to the
residence of prominent Egyptian.
This man, who had plenty of courage,
ala not acQuleSCe ODSequlOuSly IN EHS-
lish rule. He was an open critic of it,
and generally he was looked upon as q
contentious, if not a seditious. Egyp-
tian. AT any rate, he was not meek.
To my astonishment. the dragoman,
in pointing out this mans residence,
casually remarked, He is a very meek
man." l expressed my doubts, but the
dragoman solved them by continuing.
He is very meek man-at home. He
has two wives"
The explanation was sufficient. When
1 related the incident to a British Off
cial he said there were a number of
other prominent Egyptians who were
monogamists, but who he thought
ought to be encouraged to practice
limited polygamy, or anything that
would encourage meekness.
Paris ia shions are said to have some
thing to do with the changing position
of the high-class Egyptian women.
They still wear the candlelike piece
attached to the nose. but in some cases
they are discarding even this. and may
be seen driving with their faces com
pletely exposed. 1t is doubtful whether
the charm of a high-class Egyptian
lady of Cairo requires the removal OF
the candle-piece from which the veil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-06
MRS. JOSEPH LETTER TELLS OF
OPPOSITE ooNsrANTINoPLE.

the cabin to our knees. And. mind
you. in spite of an iron shutter barred
across it.
Another time a heavy spar broke
ing down everything in its way and
putting US in very real danger From
below it sounded for all the world like
the cannon in Victor Hugos Ninety
tn. ee, which burst its lashings and
swept the deck like supernatural
beast. bearing destruction in it's wake.
1t might, too, have had much the same
effect had not a sailor, by combined
luck and skill, managed to cast a rope
about 1t and hurl it overheard before
much damage was done. short stay
in the Azores for repairs and we were
on our way, and finally reached Eng
land but slightly overdue.
There Mrs. Letters mother and sis
tiers joined them, and the marriage OF
her sister, Miss Dorothy Williams. to
Mr. William F. McCombs was cele-
brated.
Mr. Letter. meanwhile. had rejoined
u.s." continued Mrs Letter, and we
spent a very pleasant several weeks
visiting his sisters. the Countess Of
Suffolk and Lady Colin Campbell. at
their charming English country homes
now turned over to the Brltlsn req
Cross | believe, to be used as conva-
descent homes for wounded English
soldiers. Later we slipped over to the
Riviera and Italy. spending Christmas
in Rome, visited Egypt. passed through
the Suez canal and the famous water
ways that bid fair to be the battle
ground of the trouble between Russia
and Turkey, crossed the Gulf OF
Arabia and reached India.
MY sister. Miss Francise Williams.
was with us, Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Gearry
of Philadelphia were our guests Tor
long time, Col. Cotgrave of the British
army Joined US for our trip through
the orient and home across the Pacific.
as did also Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine Elkins;
and at sundry times We had other
guests"
In India Mr.. Letter and his party were
royalty received. brother-in-law OF
Lord Curzon and brother of the late
Lady Curzon. the charming Mary Lei
ter. whose beauty and graciousness
made her universally popular and
whose memory is green in India. all
doors were open to him. They visited
MONDAY. Calcutta, the holy city," Ben
ares and dozen other interesting
places, where a round of entertainments
were given in their honor by the Eng
1ish officials and where they enjoyed
the hospitality of many of the native
princes.
In Bombay there was splendid ball
at government house, which the party
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LlnfIattering Resemblance.

THE Russian army of 100000 men Ia
prohibition one. Russia. in fact,
is now a prohibition country. the car
having closed all the governmental
vodka shops, which yielded d revenue
of $t50.0oo,0oO a year.
prohibition" said Representative
Hobson. rs advancing everywhere.
Take politics; the politician, even the
statesman. was heavy drinker i'm the
past. How different now.
"A political failure during his first,
last and only term in the House. went
into the House barber snop to be
shaved one day
Congressman. sah." said the bar
Der. do you know. sab, you remind
me mighty strons. sab. of Daniel Web
Ster.'
THE brow. eh? chuckled the con-
gresham. Is il the brow, George?'
mo, sah,' the barber answered. IL
amt de brow. It's de braff.
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ter. waxing animated as she harked
back to these pleasant days. stopping
at Shanghai and many another fascinat-
ing spot. All was quiet then and there
was no sign of the war spirit which is
now disrupting the east as well as the
continent of Europe. Next came Japan.
land of cherry blossoms and houses
built of paper and matchsticks. side
by side with quantity successful imita :
tons of European civilization"
When they came to the Philippines
and they spent some little time in Ma
nila-Mrs. Letter took command Of the
party, for she passed some years there
in her early fsirlhood and knew the
ground thoroughly.
II had such a good time she said.
when my father was stationed In the
Philippines. Just out of school. every
thing was new and fresh to me and
there is no place where girl is such
a belle.
MY sister Francise, too, enjoyed Ma
Mia tremendously, renewing acquaint-
ance with places she had haunted as a
child and youngster and finding new
charm in everything.
The trip back across the Pacific was
uneventful and broken only by a stay
of few days at Hon olulu and stop
on the Mexican coast for coal We
amused ourselves with bridge. books,
much conversation and tennis, modified
to suit our circumscribed quarters. We
had planned from the very first to
come home through the Panama canal,
and luck and little management en-
abled US to be one OF the first ships
to make the passage. 1t was deeply
stirring, the first sight of so tremen-
dous a project just completed. and 1
felt little thrill of pride to think that
it was an army engineer who had ac-
complished it,
Just before entering the canal, Mr..
and Mrs. Letter were joined by Col.
Williams and Mrs. William F. Nc
Combs. who came with them through
the great new waterway and up the
Atlantic coast home.
I'VE came right back to where we
started" said Mrs. Letter. ito our own
front door, and it was good to be home,
even after the pleasantest of trips.
And just think" she continued, how
lucky we were. Here Is half the world
in the grip of a terrible conflict and
we just escaped the trouble every
where.
when we left the far east the war
cloud had not yet risen, and as We
neared Mexico, where we stopped for
necessary coal, the excitement there
was settling-if it may be said to have
settled at all. At least, it was growing
less acute, and the western port where
we touched was not stirred at all
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some travellers have encountered this
social condition.

some travellers have encountered this
social condition.
The high cost of living was some
what irreverently said to be the cause
of the decadence of the harem among
the higher classes. The real cause was
that Turkey was feeling the impact OF
western civilization.
The first development of the new
spirit among the Mohammedan women
of Constantinople was the demand for
education. 1t was met with the estab-
lishment of seminaries somewhat like
the young ladies' seminaries rather
than the young women's colleges In the
United States. This was genuine prog
ress.
The aspirations of the Moslem women
went beyond schooling. Their yearning
apparently was for clubs and societies,
and for knowledge of the world around
them. A genuine new woman propa..
ganda was organized by a gifted
Turkish lady. 1t was radical in its
aims-that is, radical from the stand
point of immemorial customs.
The agitation was said to be making
very marked progress in the screened
households of the Turkish governing
classes. and it was partly this move,
when he said that a few years more
and Turkey would not have been al
lowed by the women to take part In the
war.
When the curtain that has been drawn
over events in Constantinople is raised
it may develop that the new woman's
movement has been one factor in pre-
venting unanimity In support OF EnVer
Pasha in his war policy. If there pc
no Turkey in Europe when the war Is
over. the new woman movement may
have all the freedom of militancy IN
England If Turkey remains it may be
smothered for time, but not sup
pressed.
1t is one of the anomalies of the
causes which led up to the present war
that the first step in the emancipation
of Mohammedan women should be TAX
en- by Christian power.
When Austria foreshadowed the
struggle between Slav and Teuton by
tearing up the Berlin treaty and chang
ing its protectorate over Bosnia and
HERZEGOVINA into territorial annexation
she made Austrian subjects of popu-
lation the greater. part of which was
Mohammedan. Whatever criticism
may be directed against Austria's poll
icy it has been the testimony of impair
tial travellers that conditions In the
improved.
1t also has been noted that the an
cient customs were slowly yielding to
industrial needs, and that the Moham-
medan women, as well as those of 9TH
er faiths, who had been trained In cot
tage Industries, were entering the fac
tories and seeing a little more OF real
life in their remote communities.
The significant development under
Austria's iron rule in Bosnia has been
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A Piece of Ill Luck at Bermuda Early Plans for
the Tnp-Bad Weather Experienced Cross
ing the Yellow Sea and Sl<irting the China
Coast-The Stop at Shanghai in the
Land of Cherry Blossoms and Paper Houses.

When 1 think of the many fol kwhose
plans were knocked into cooked hat
by the war. or, worse still. OF those
who were marooned and suffered no
end of inconvenience, l feel that we
must have borrowed some OF the ira
ditional luck of the British army
Mrs. Letter. before her marriage, was
Miss Juliette Williams, daughter of
Col. John r. Williams, T. S. A, now re-
tired, and Mrs. Williams. She was edu-
Gated at Georgetown Visitation Con-
vent, had the benefit of extensive trav-
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Failures as Stepping Stones.

TOHN wANAMAKER, in a recent adj
} dress in Philadelphia, urged his
audience to persevere-
Every successful man." he said. has
probably had more failures. far more
failures, than the nonentity has had.
Success. after all. is nothing more
than failure with a new coat of paint.
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WAR CAUSES SORROW AND SUFFERING AMONG WOMEN OF

DonaDmd Women
Who Ballots BonaFedom the High Glass
in MeSian Palestine
Women Are PogveWmn Would
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to perform all domestic and mental Of
fees for him. much the English
woman. until recently. considered it
the greatest privilege of domestic life
to remove her husbands boots and pro-
vide him with his toddy.
The Jewish women of the Holy Land
appear more responsive to the new
influences than do the Christian wom-
en-. This may be noted at Beyrouth
or even in Jerusalem itself Their in
tellectual grasp of the significance of
what is going on seems to be keener.
Their aspirations are also clearly de-
fined.
1t will perhaps be making unpopular