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Evening star., 1916-11-29
BALTIMORE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

speclaI Dispatch 10 The Star.
BALTIMORE Md, November 2s q
pm. quotations) s).-Wheat-Firmer Spot
No red. Ia: spot No. 2 red western,
l-s0; November No. red, la: Decem-
ber No. red. Ia; January No. 2 red
l74h. Steamer No. red. 1854; receipts,
103,654 bushels. exports, ~ 900 bushels
Corn-Firmer; November. ssA, re-
ceipts. I7.736 bushels.
Oats-Easier; No. 2 white, 81 stand
ard white. 6Ohas1 No. 3 white. 60a601y !;
receipts 96.s92 bushels; exports. 336,550
bushels.
Rye-Easier; No. 2 WESTERN export,
Sc: receipts. 23.Sl7 bushels.
Hay-Steady; No. timothy, un-
changed No. ! clover mixed unchanged
Grain freights-Steam to Liverpool,
per bushel no quotations Picked ports,
per quarter, no quotations.
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NEW ORLEANS,

NEW ORLEANS. November 2s-After
opening ] to points off on poor ca
bles the cotton market here firmed up
in the early trading today and ad
vancad Is to.1 points above yester-
days close.
Futures opened steady. Opening bid
December. 1925: January, 1884 asked;
March, 2O.16: May. 20.36: July. 2O.47; Oc-
tober, 1888.
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COTTON MARKETS.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK. November 29.-The cot
ton market had somewhat irregular
opening today. first prices being 3
points lower to . points niger, but the
tone was steadier after yesterdays
heavy liquidation. and prices soon ad-
yanced. January contracts sold up
from 29.32 to 20.55 before the end of
the first hour. while May advanced
from 20.74 to 2095. or about 23 to "A
points above last nights closing
figures.
Futures opened steady. December,
20.20: January. 20.35; March. 2O.53;
May, 20.75: July. 20.76; October. 1851
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NEW YORK.

NEW YORK. November 2s.-Butter-
Weak: receipts. 5.S24 packages: cream
cry. higher than extras. 42a42h cream
cry extras (92 score). AZ frsts, 38Ka
40k; seconds. 36ha3s.
Eggs - Unsettled: receipts, 4,05S
cases: fresh gathered. extra firsts. Ala
IS: hrsts. 44a46: refrigerator. special
marks. fancy. as; refrigerator. seconds
70 aSstA 33a3tx; nearby hsaneyy
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Trading on Bourse Quiet.

PARIS, November 29.--Trading was
quiet on the bourse today. Rentes. 81
francs 10 centimes. Exchange on Lon
don. u francs S1h centimes. Five per
cent loan, 81 francs 80 centimes
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DAIRY MARKETS..
CHICAGO.

CHICAGO. November 29-Butter-
Weak: creamery, 34a42.
Eggs-Weak; receipts. 2.707 cases:
firsts. 3s1aa391z: ordinary firsts. 37a38; at
mark. cases included. 33a3SA.
Potatoes-Receipts. 35 cars: unchanged
Poultry. alive-Lower; fowls, 12La15;
springs, 16lz: turkeys. %.
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| whites. fine TO fancy. soa62; nearby hen
merry browns, 56a55.
Cheese-Easier: receipts, 1851 pack
ages; state held. specials, 24& a25. do,
average fancy, 24a2412
Dressed poultry-Very quiet: chick
ems. 2Oa3l: fowls. 16a23: turkeys. 2OasO.
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Resemblance.

From the Boston Transcript.
You said once I was like a flower"
Quoth she. inclined to weep.
II say SO STILL" her hub replied,
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Trabue Acquitted of Murder

NASHVILLE, Tenn. November 29.-
Charles c. Trabue. forty-four years old.
was today acquitted of the charge of the
murder Of Harry 8. Stokes. The jury was
out ono hour and twenty-four minutes
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NEW YORK.

NEW YORK. November 2s.-Flour-
Easier. spring patents. S.20a9.40: win
ter patents. s.30ass0: winter straights
s.10aS.35: Kansas straights. 9.20a945
Pork-Steady. Beef-Quiet. Lard
Easy: middle west. 17.20aI7-30. Molas-
ses-Steady. Hay-Quiet. Hides--Firm
IIeatiltr-Eirm.
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WALL STREET MARKET
SLOW, PRICES STRONGER
Steel Common Leads Recovery In Ad.
vance to 1877 7-8-Copper and
Metal Shares Firm.
Rails Make Good Gains Early, But
the Recessions Wipe Out Many
Advances-Bonds Slow.

NEW YORK, November %. There
was less weakness today. but the
| market was very narrow, showing
perceptible slowing down. the efforts
of the commission houses and broker
age firms in this direction having been
effective.
tickers, 100 and 200 shares predom-
mating during the initial hour, with
Y to J. point recessions. which were
! very generally recovered later on.
Another feature was the shifting of
many traders of their interest from
the industrial list to the rails. as
movement in line with the dictates of
wisdom, notable in the increased move
ment in these shares, which for months
have languished as the specu1ator
played back and forth with the great
money makers. the industrials.
Money at per cent on call and IA
per cent for commercial paper told an
other story of the precautionary signals
which have been set very strongly in the
last few days. Higher money is one way
of quieting Wall street when bankers
desire to check the speed.
Steels and Coppers Improve.
Steels and coppers were materially
better. Steel common made an advance
of a point on good buying by traders
who want to get the dividend, the
stock will sell ex-dividend tomorrow.
and there is a feeling that a large part
of the dividend will be quickly recovered,
which is reasonably good logic, in which
the traders may be disappointed
Coppers were generally :. to a point
better: Central Leather likewise made
Z hA in "a
dustrial Alcohol. too, and Mercantile
Marine and Mexican Petroleum.
Baldwin Locomotive did not hold its
advance while American Locomotive
was but Is better.
Steel Common Features.
The strength and slowness continued
right through the first four hours of
the session, with indications against
any enlargement of operations The
first two hours business totaled 574,-
900 shares, indicating that. despite the
slowing down of pace. it might be
million shares day.
The feature of the industrials was the
continued advance in the common
shares of the Steel Corporation, which
sold to 1874, tx net advance.
Republic Steel made an advance of
IL; Mexican Petroleum, II; Maxwell
MotorS, point, central Leather rose
to 112 and American Locomotive to 80.
Selling Follows Rail Splurge.
Anaconda was off fractionally; Bald
win Locomotive lost Is; Crucible Steel.
as. whileSStudebaker was just steady.
The splurge in the rails was followed
by general selling later on and the wip-
ing out of many gains that had been
made earlier in the session.
Baltimore and Ohio held q gain, and
c. and o. like amount. Reading
jumped ! " points and dropped back
from 110ss, the high. to 10sA, net
loss for the session of a point
Union Pacific was firm. Northern Pa
cifc and Great Northern were slow and
soft.
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NEW YORK COTTON.

Quotations furnished by W. h. Hibbs 4 Co.
members New York stock Exchange. New York
Cotton Exchange and Chicago Board Of Trade.
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sugar cane in Cuba. set out in virgin
land. may Be cut for thirty years with.
cut yeplsnt1nE.
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Will Have No Effect.

Will Have No Effect.
board. deprecating the purchase of for
eign treasury bills. will have no effect
on the plans of the bankers in the
proposed issue of British treasury bills
and French government notes on De-
cember 1.
1t is conceded that the attitude of
the board will make the marketing of
these securities a little more difficult.
but bankers will make the effort
Mr.. Morgan, who has been absent
from New York for some time, will
return within the next ten days.
John B. Forgan. chairman of the
board of directors of the First National
Bank of Chicago and a member of the
advisory council of the federal reserve
board, has this to say of the warning
of the board:
= Il think the position of federal re-
serve board regarding foreign govern
ment treasury bills is entirely correct
Business interests of this country
should not expect the banks to assume
all the burden of financing. Our ex-
porters are making very large profits.
and if they wish to continue to supply
allied governments they should them
selves take these treasury bills and dis
tribute them. or at least enough of
them to represent their profits. among
their shareholders.
After the exporters have taken the
bills they could negotiate with the
banks and raise enough capital to
finance their trade. Exporters and
other business interests of the United
States may want help from banks later
on, and how can they get 1t if banks
are loaded up with these treasury bills.
which are in effect long-term paper?
The federal reserve boards action will
likely have large effect upon the con-
duct OF the banks in the United States.
which probably will be very careful
about accepting these treasury bills /
am not saying anything about the
credit of France or England l have
invested my own money in the credit
of both of these countries as an in,i-
-vidual. but / have not invested therein
as a banker"
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POWDER STOCKS.

Quotations furnished by W. b. Hibbs Co.
Bid. ASKED.
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Southern Railway Earnings.

Gross earnings of the Southern
Railway Company for the month of
October were s7,24s,069.S4, as COM
pared with $S.137.2S3.60 for the same
month of 1915. an increase of $1,110.-
S06.24. or 1910 per cent
A. Net earnings for October. over oper-
ating expenses and taxes. $2,433,2S6
an increase Of s553,59S.72. or 29.45 per
cent.
For the four months ended with
October the gross earnings, $25,754,-
1884. were $3.1Ss.021.65 in excess of
the same months of last year. an in
crease of 14.13 per cent, while the net
over operating expenses and taxes,
$7.575.S142s. was s1,160.232.9s in ex-
cess of the net for the same months
last year. gain of 1909 per cent
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Condition of the Treasury.

The condition of the United States
Treasury. at the close Of business yes
terday, was:
Net balance in general fund. $132,-
S3s.717.
Total ordinary receipts, $3.1s5,40O.
Total ordinary payments. s3.5e5,237.
The deficit this fiscal year Is $780,
032.531. against deficit of $44, .6l4
last year. exclusive of Panama canal
and public debt transactions.
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BONDS ARE WANTED;
!. SOME ISSUES EASIER
Capital Traction and Washington
Gas IS Are Firm, With Sales
Made at 107.
Southern Railroad Earnings Increase.
B. & O. Net Shows Decrease
Bankers Will Not Alter Plans.
BY I. A. FLEMING.

There was a fair business transacted
in bonds on the Washington Stock En-
change today, with strong prices for
Capital Traction and Washington Gas
5s, both these issues selling at 101. Po-
tomac Consolidated SIS were Is lower.
selling at 1929, while odd lots of
American Graphophone IS sold at 101 q,
a decline of Il point. Metropolitan 5s
were firm at 1854.
Business in shares was extremely
light, as usual. with Mergenthaler lead
ing on a declining scale of 11S1a to
177Iz. While the local market never
reflects in the slightest degree activ-
ity and great strength of the New York
or other stock markets. it frequently
eases off when there is reverse move
ment in the principal markets.
=. A little Capital Traction sold at sac
and few shares of Railway preferred
at 81.
Evening star., 1916-11-29

William ID. Hoover
George Howard
Reginald s. Huidekoper
Thomas II. Jones
Victor Kaufman
Edward Mclean
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-31
OUR UNPREPAREDNEss.

How convenient it would have been
for the American expedition into
Mexico had General Funston been
possessed of a reasonable number of
the motor trucks that are so neces-
sary to keep the expeditionary force
supplied with the rations for men and
horses that they were certain, of
course, to need. Such are the re-
sources of this country and its trans
portation facilities that the necessary
motor trucks have been gathered on
the Mexican border rather quickly.
But this is a particular in which the
troops on the border should have been
prepared" 1t isn't the fault of the
troops or their officers, either. The
''watchful walters at Washington
must be blamed. Evidently their last
thought was that it would ever be
necessary to send American soldiers
into Mexico.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-31
THE COST OF THE WAR.

In one of his recent weekly financial
reviews, Henry Clews, the New York
banker, discusses the cost of the Eu-
ropean war in a manner that really
gives something of an idea of its ire
mendous magnitude. AS he says, the
enormous wastage of wealth through
war expenses is imperfectly under
stood, and he adds: Accurate fig
ures are not available, and could not
include the destruction of property on
land and sea, nor the loss from divert
ing the. energies of millions of men
from constructive to destructive eff
forts. Germany's monthly war ex-
penses are estimated at about $780,
600, 900, and war credits to the amount
of $40, 1000, 900 had been voted up
to the end of 1915; since when addi-
tional loans aggregating about $2,-
500,000,000 have been announced.
Germany's debt at the end of this year
will be about ten times what it was
before the war, leaving an annual in
terest charge of approximately $780,
100000. Germany has also helped
finance Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria
Hungary; the latter spending shout
$30O.00O,000 monthly. War is costing
Great Britain nearly 25,0OO,O0O
daily. or over $500, 100000 monthly,
and credits amounting to $4,000, 000,-
600 had been voted up to the end of
1915, since when another S2,OOO,OOO,-
900 have been announced. Great
Britain has also aided in financing
France, Russia, Italy, Belgium, Ser
bia and Montenegro, and the chancel-
lor of the exchequer recently stated
| that Great sRritain will suhsfdize her
Allies to the extent of $4,000, 900, co
during the current financial year.
France borrowed about $4,000, 900, 900
during the first year of the war.
Italy is spending nearly 100000, 900
monthly on war, and Russia had spen.
a total of about $4,000. 100000 up to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-31
THE RIGHT NOT TO LAUGH.

If one were to accuse you of poison
ing your Grandmother you would pre-
sumably smile in unruffled fashion
and go about your affairs without
feeling any burden of accusation,
writes Burgess Johnson in Harper's
Magazine for April. But if one &C
cused you of lacking a sense of humor,
you would first of all resent it in
dignantly; and Furthermore, for an
indefinite time to come you would be
conscious of a desire to disprove the
charge, scrutinizing anxiously every
phrase that might conceal some subtle
hidden test, emitting now and then
forced laughs on suspicion. Perhaps
you boast your emancipation in many
fields where public opinion customar-
lily rules. You wear a straw hat when
you please; you object to the insignia
of mourning; you flaunt your
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-31
MAN OR MACHINE?
which Failed Is Main Issue in
Wreck Probe.
Towerman Temporarily Alb
solved; % in List of Dead.

Cleveland, March s1--With inc
main issue before them whether man
failure or machine failure caused the
wreck of three New York Centrai
trains near Amherst, Ohio, carry
wednesday, federal and state invesu-
gators planned today to go to the DOT,
tom in an inquiry that was eXpecte9
to last throughout the day 1t was s'ilu
that A H. Ernst, the signal tower
man, had been tentatively apsoNsu
from blame for the wreck, the DEAN
list from which remains at ~ Inc
inquiry is expected to simmer down 10
these two questions:
Did Hermann Hess. OF Toledo,
engineer of the second section OF
the New York Central train No
Sc run by two signals, one order
ing him to proc ed with caution
and the other ordering him 10
stop his train?
Or did the costly signal meehan-
ism, designed to prevent such dis
asters, fail in the final test?
Ernst and Hess are to appear as
principal witnesses today
A. H. Hancock, chief night dls-
patcher of the New York Central, was
the first witness.
W. H. Belnap, chief of the Interstate
commerce commissions division II
! 50 fetV. presided.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-31
PANIC In TAMPIC0
Americans Warned to Leave
the Panuco Oil Fields.
IT Is Feared villa Forces VIII
Capture the District.

Galveston, Tex, March 3l.7-tlam-
ing placards warning all Americans 10
leave the famous Panuco oil nelds az
once have been posted on the derrlcks
within the past few days, according TO
reliable information reaching here,
and as a result the foreign colony IN
the oil fields and the city of Tampico
are again panic stricken.
1t is said that for the last few days
there have been no signs of bandits
about the oil fields and the posting of
the placards warning all Americans
to leave the country must have been
done during the night by parties who
are in sympathy with Villa
1t was learned today that a large
force of Villistas had been seen 40
miles west of the oil fields and for
eigners believe the section is about to
be taken. Women and children are
leaving on every boat and the oil
workers themselves have decided to
leave the country.
At present Ca--anza troops control
the situation.
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January 16. But these terrific out
lays are merely a part of the penal
ties of war. The cost of living has
advanced seriously in all of these
countries. Food has risen over 40
per cent in Great Britain, over SO per
cent in Germany and probably still
more in other belligerent countries.
All the beIligerents are facing initiation
in varying degrees. and they are han
dicapped in international trade to the
extent of from Z to S3 per cent, ac-
cording to their relative credit, which
is eventually reflected in high priced
commodities. OF the untold human
misery no measure can be taken IN
the fearful war bill which Europe
must pay for in this and many cue
ceeding gene lions.
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he added: '-Old boy, you're a lucky
man to possess such a jewel of a wife
in these days when a truly balanced
woman is a distinct rarity. There's
more than one woman in this very
crowd whose husband neither knows
nor cares where she is, and it's fake
marriages like theirs that seriously
undermine society. You stay here and
I'll get our wives and Wen make a
quick getaway"
were on their way to the hotel alone in
the Marlows' limousine. Amy held
her head high and her lips shut tight,
and John stared grirnly ahead for
some minutes before he spoke.
Amy" his voice was hoarse. his
sentences abbreviated, 'of course de-
serve to be thrown off forever, but
don't do it without hearing me. I've
learned tonight what real values are.
Most of all I've learned the value of a
woman like you. That woman is the
wife of a railroad official who is much
with my admiration until she caught
that poets eye. While NARROW was
looking for you she passed out and
babe me good night, saying that
friends who live in the same apart
ment she does had just room enough
in their car for her and would not let
her say no to their invitation. When
saw that the poet was also of the
party, ] understood, but didn't care.
She had passed out of my life before
that, for as 1 sat there and faced that
crowd and thought OF you left alone at
that hotel, 1 was ready to fight my
way out of that room.'
II was watching you, John" said
the now relenting Amy, land half way
hoping that your discontinue was not
jealousy over her forgetfulness of you.
was hoping, too, that 1 might grow
until 1 could fill your heart, for I've
found today what a sorry, stupid COM
panion I've become"
Not a word like that" said John.
Nobody, not even you, can malign the
dearest woman on earth in my pres
ence. Copyright, 1916, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-31
TRAIN WRECKS.

Railroad wrecks are deplorable, but
they are occasionally inevitable as
long as there is a human element in
the operation of trains, which must
always be the case. They are not as
numerous as they used to be, thanks
to the safety devices for the operation
of trains with which the railroad COM
panies have equipped their lines, and
to the safety first propaganda that
the companies are so successfully in
culcating among their employees. But
the railroad employees that are ac-
lively concerned in the operation of
trains are no more nor less than hu-
man and are therefore certain to make
mistakes. The real wonder is, in view
of the many fast trains that all the
railroads operate, and, through neces-
sity, on such narrow margins of time,
that the engineers, the conductors or
the dispatchers do not make more
mistakes and that disastrous wrecks
are not more frequent.
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/ SCREW LOOSE SOMEWHERE

Considerable is heard now and then
about the resources and facilities of
this country being so enormous and
diversified that in the event of a war
between the United States and foreign
powers that might shut US off from
the rest of the world, the nation would
be self-sustaining for an indefinite
period. Yet the prices of nearly
everything are increasing so in this
country that they will soon be on a
par with the real war prices that pre-
vail in the lands of the European bel
ligerents. And now not only all of
our own resources are at our COM
mand but we also have many product
i've regions of the world to draw on as
extensively as we desire
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Big ship AGROUND
Two Hundred Ninety-Nin Passengers
Rescued by British Warship.

Shanghai, March 31.-The big
trans-Pacific steamship Chiyo Maru
grounded in a fog at 4:35 this morn
ing on one of the LENA Islands south
of Hong Kong. Nine boats and
launches from a British torpedo de-
stroyer have gone to her assistance
and are taking off her 299 passengers
from San -ancisco and Manila
The Chiyo Maru, owned by the Togo
Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha of Yokohama.
is a vessel Of 13,431 tons gross. 55S
feet long, 81 feet beam and was con-
structed in 1908 at Nagasaki. She left
San Francisco on March 2 for Yoko-
hama, arrived at Manila on March IS
andl left that port for Hong Hong
of the Togo Kisen Kaisha Steamship
company received a cablegram from
Hong Kong stating that all of the
Chyok's passengers will be brought
into Hong Kong today. 1t was indi-
Gated that all had been taken off.
The scene of the accident is %
miles from Hong Kong
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AS the buck" has been passed in
the plan of Uncle Sam to capture Villa.
President Wilson started it going with
his pronouncement to the war depart
ment to go after villa and get him
"dead or alive" The war department
relayed the order to Major General
Funston in command of the United
states forces along the Mexican Dor
der. Major General Funston placed
Brigadier General Pershing in charge
of the expedition that was sent into
Mexico. General Pershing has now
sent a couple of cavalry regiments
under Colonel Do6d with instructions
to get Villa and don't come back
without him" And some trooper. a
private in the ranks, will probably fire
the shot that will result in getting
VilIa-dead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-31
ITS DAYS NUMBERED
Bids for WrecI<ing Masonic Library
To Be Opened Tomorrow.

Bids will be opened tomorrow by
the council of administration of TIN,
Grand Lodge of Kansas. for tearing
down the old Masonic library ar
Eighth avenue and Harrison street in
anticipation of the erection of a $780,
900 library. Members of the council
are: Giles II. Lamb. grand master,
Yates Center: Charles f. Lobdell.
Great Bend: William I. Stuart, Hia-
watha: Owen j. Wood, Topeka.
Should any of the bids be accepted
work of tearing down the library will
begin at once and temporary quarters
for the secretary. Albert X
Wilson. will be provided in the north
basement of the New England build
ing. A New York architect is drawing
plans for the new library and they will
be received here in very short time.
Possibly work on the new library will
start on May 1.
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Journal Entries

Women are apt to deny their pasts
to the extent of several years, at
least.
Not a few fellows do not realize just
how crazy they were to get married
until after the event.
+ ~ =
Neither are there so many women
who are likely to lower themselves
even to the extent of discarding
French heels.
Most every wife is not only the
Judge and jury of the household; she
also is diligent in serving as prosecut-
ing attorney.