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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-26

The reorganization plan Of the stock
holders OF the Fairmount Park Transporta-
tion Company. without foreclosure has
been put through successfully according
70 Samuel NJ Clement. Jr., one Of the re-
ceivers and steps will soon be taken to
have the receivership discharged. There
Is enough cash on hand 20 pay the Octo-
Der coupon interest Of two per cent and
II will be paid, and before the receivers
are discharged the $4,000 receivers GER
tlfcates will be llduldated.
The reorganization plans main features
were the acceptance OF n reduction In the
annual rate OF interest on the bonds from
Ave per cent to four per cent for hve years,
and the payment Of $4,000 cash by stock
holders. for which they received seven per
cent cumulative preferred stock. To AVOID
foreclosure. as has been done, II was neces-
sary to get the assent Of each bondholder
TO the plan.
Receivers figures show results OF the
Fairmount Park Transportation Company
and the woodslde Park Company for the
first six months OF the fiscal year as fol-
lows:
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WHEAT GETS WEAK
ON HEAVY PRESSURE
Sales by Longs Cause Reaction
After Fair Buying Brings
Steady Start

CHICAGO. Sept. 2e.---A steadier tone in
the wheat ma-tet as the result OF fair
buying was followed by the application Of
pressure today and prices were forced on.
ending below yesterdays close Consider
able long stun was disposed Of. ~
Export business was smaller than had
been expected. in view Of the current arri-
val at primary points. A dispatch from
Winnipeg said that threshng would be
stopped for the remainder of the week on
account of the excessive rains during the
last twenty-four hours.
The tone at Liverpool imp owed after an
easier start.
There was an advance OF los in Argen-
tine freight rates to SIS. The weather In
that country continued decidedly unfavor-
able, there being little rain.
Leading futures ranged as foliowss
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Hiqh Points n Todau.s Financial Nercs
NEW YORK. Sept. 2s.

o
in at
to
o about2 point
intervals
indications that speculative had been diverted and
Of a
q
a
Nipissng Mines Declares Extra Dividend of Per
2s-The
to ok Of RECORD
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COTTON BUSINESS SMALL
Selling Scattered, With Some Commits
sion Men Taking Profits

NEW YORK, Sept. 2e.-BusIness was
small on the cotton exchange at the open
ing this morning. room operators apparent
ly being cautious. and a waiting attitude
seemed to prevail. The early tone was
steady, with prices unchanged to three
points lower.
Spot houses and Liverpool were the best
buyers of the near months, but there was
a supply of July from abroad Selling
generally was scattered. with some COM
mission houses taking profits on cotton
purchased at lower levels. Some scat
tered hedge selling was again noted.
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CURB MARKET IRREGULAR
Zinz Concentrating Attracts Most At
tention-Demand Is Good

NEW YORK, Sept 2e.-There was a
show of strength In the trading on the
Broad street Curb for time after the
opening. when some issues made substan-
tial gains, but business was not we'll dis
tributed and both market tone and, price
movements were irregular during the great
er part of the day.
Most interest was attachedNto the heavy
trading In Zinc Concentrating, which
ranged above 5. and was in good demand
from strong sources
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LIVE STOCK QUOTATIONS

aIcHseo e SEPT ISSgso2ss9ssSs S1.s sns
y Ss .iS HoSiiiSG plss' asssA ,RSSS siSsS
= VcSATTLi1k-RsesiDts, e FILE $500 Market steady.
Bssyss se9Ii 2o cow. asd % !. hsisers M IS 70 D! 90:
ssGsses' se eaIS.i sPS Texans 'e7'
sHEpP -Receipts. 900 Merke! steady.
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NEW YORK BUTTER AND EGGS

NEW YORK. Sept, 2o.z-BUTTERZReceip
or and nrmor market for all grades Creamery
extras. sSci higher scoring. 1854 a acc; State
EG0s-Receipts. 20;ss0 eases Fancy fresh
nrm. otherwt.e quiet with liberal supply, except
In underpriced eggs. which are relatively sea roe
Extras. 3s@Ssc. Other grades unchanged
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Todsy's Yesterdays
cold From South Africa

OTTAWA. Sept. 26.--Gold. to the amount
OF s2,4sb.sS0. has been received by the
Bank OF Ottawa The soverelgns came via
Boston yesterday on the steamer Chepstow
Castle. from capetown, South Africa.
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PARK TRACTION REORGANIZATION
Steps Will Soon Be Taken Asking for Discharge Of Po
ceivership- October Coupon to Be Pad-Steel
Common Most Active Here

activity IN the home group was diva.
Battery and Philadelphia Rsn,s ss'orsfe
trust certificates, and the rnovsr....asl aIanslt
prices of the three issues were sIIsh, II" IN
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FAIRMouNr PARK TRANsroRrArIoN

While United States Steel common was
the most active issue In the trading on the
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, It was also
the weakest, falling more than points be-
fore midday, thereby following the trend in
New York. but in the afternoon It recov-
cred about 10000 shares changing hands.
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RATES FOR MONEY
BANK CLEARTNGS

Bank clearipEs today compared with eorre-
spending day last atSSo years;,, 49,
Philadelphia ,.s SsI ASS ,a1 iSia sia 500
Boston 34.B15. COS 20. 284 8O7 90 i6S Sog
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-26
Money and Discouut in I,ondon.

LONDON. Sept 2s.-De Beers IAN. Rand
S4. Money ~ discount rate short bills
6h @6% three months bills h@5ts. un-
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CANADIAN PACIFIC

CANADIAN PACIFIC
Third week September. {2.1Ip.O0D 1871 600
From July ........, az. S01. 900 10. S78. 900
Third week september s244.64f 1887 s2e
From July ......... 2,2S8,s08 143 $50
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO
Third week Reptember. sss5. .56i Sss. .O40
From July 1........... 1922, 400 01D. 164
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RAILROAD EARNINGS

'Ex dividend: Reading Company second pi
ferred. one-half of one per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-23
JAYMAWMER JOTS

1t takes sworn evidence to convict
a man in court, says the Leroy Re-
porter, but gossip can do it in public
opinion.
Subject for the girls debating So
ciety, suggested by the Peabody Ca
zette-Herald: Is it better to be in
style and freeze?
Young man, advises the Marysville
acknowledgements, don't get it into
your head that the school of expert
ence only holds night sessions.
A friend recently wrote how nice
that this is a free country, where each
and every person could think and
speak as he pleased, says the Logan
County News. but then, the News
paper.
serves to remind a man how poor he
felt when the assessor was around
last spring, says the Americas Greet
ing An invoice of stock also shows
that most men have more dogs than
they did the first of last March.
A new kind of sport has developed
with the automobile, reports the Sa-
betha Herald. While Ed Ernest and
George Kerr were returning by auto
mobile from Soldier on a recent night
they shot eight rabbits along the road
as the Dummies jumped up in the glare
OF the automobile light. The rabbits
have to be shot on the jump.
A Clay Center woman, tells the Clay
Center Times refused last week to vote
for either Hughes or Wilson, because,
she said, she had never met either of
the men and she did not wish to vote
for anybody whom she had not met
and knew personally. She only voted
for her personal friends on the ballot
and left the rest of it blank. For how
was she to know the others were all
right?
Entries in w. c. Markham's Bald
win Ledger: You can do your best
and then be bested. . Even a fig
ure of speech is sometimes padded
You may have a point of view
and yet not stand on very high
ground. It's all right to paddle
your own canoe but the scenery is
never inspiring going up Salt Creek
Some people act as if they
thought self-controlled and selfish
controlled were one and the same
| thing.
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on better farm practices. resulting in
the production of other grains.
Not only does the farmer producing
relatively dry grain lose now when
the moisture content is not considered,
but the producer of high-moisture
grain often suffers an even greater loss
by having his product spoil on the
farm, in transit, or in commercial stor-
age. If he ships for sale to a distant
market, he also suffers loss by hav-
ing to pay freight on valueless water.
If such a farmer ships five cars of
grain of 20 per cent moisture content,
he is in reality shipping four cars of
dry matter and one car of water If
he had by proper treatment brought
his product down to a IL per cent
moisture content. he would be saving;
freight on two-fifths of car Of water.
Both dealers and farmers may help
to improve conditions in the grain in
dustry, department specialists point
out. Dealers may adopt the dry-rnat-
ter basis in buying. Farmers who al
ready are growing grain low in mois-
ture content can insist on being paid
fair price for the portion of their
product which is really valuable. in
stead of having their superior grain
averaged with the moist grains of less
careful farmers. Growers who are
producing grains high in moisture con-
tent may plant earlier-maturing vari-
cites and may take greater care in
storing their crops so as TO protect
them from the weather and facilitate
natural drying. Farmers shipping
their grains to distant markets for
sale, and, therefore, paying freight,
may find it advantageous in some in
stances to have the moisture artificial
ly removed by local elevator concerns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-23
THE COMMON LAW.

The judicial committee of the PRIV
council of Great Britain, to which ap-
peals lie from the judgments of the
courts of the colonies and depend
encies of the empire, now administers
in such cases not the common law of
England, not English rules of equity
but the local law applicable to the par
Ocular controversy. Canadian cases.
observes Hon. Stephen H. Allen of To-
peka, in the November Case and Conc
ment. are decided in accordance with
the law of Canada. Australian cases
according to Australian law. South
AFRICAN cases according to South At
rican law. The laws of these coloni IS
are based on and similar to the laws
of England. But in administering the
law in India. Burmah and the Nc
- ----A7an dependencies. rights must
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-23
RAG-TIME AND THE SONGS OF Lor.G
AL

RAG-TIME AND THE SONGS OF LOf.G
You may sing the praise of rag-time
And laud it to the skies,
But the good. old Songs of Long Ago
Bring a mist before your eyes,
An sinks down soft an low
As you join in the chorus
OF "Old, Black joe
Oh, the good old Songs of Long Ago
That never can grow old; :.
"In the Cleaning" AUD Lang Syne,''
An "Silver Threads Among the Gold,''
" 'Tis the Last, Sweet Rose of Summer
Annie Laurie @Swanee River"
An THE Wearin' of the Green
How these melodies have cheered you
On the path from youth to age,
How they've soothed the woes of childhood
How your sorrows they'd assuage;
An when you're in 1ife's eventide
An long the shadows grow,
1t is Just a Song at Twilight
When the Lights are Low"
But when your life is over
An your work on earths all done
An your home of rest you've entered
Far beyond the setting sun.
1t wouldn't seem just right, somehow,
Within that sacred hall
If the choir should strike up "Gaby Glide
Or AT the Devils Ball.
An those who've gone before,
The many friends that you have known
In the happy days of yOre;
Yes. when you're safe among them
Never more to toll or roam,
You'd sure enjoy it if the choir
Would just sing Home Sweet Home"
Howard f. Johnson
Topeka, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-23
GLOBE SIGHTS


LFrom the Atchison G1obe.l
The average man doesn't feel well
fed unless he eats too much.
When a man attends a dance, it
isn't because he feels he needs the
exercise
The gossips peddle a good deal that
isn't true. but overlook a number of
interesting facts.
What has become of the old-fash-
Toned boy whose ambition was to whip
his teacher?
The prosecution can always be re-
lied upon to produce a fair amount of
damaging testimony.
When a politician retires from the
game. the voters are apt to have
something to do with it.
OF course we should all be as happy
as kings, and, considering what kings
are up against. perhaps we are.
While the fact that women are
sympathetic explains why many
agents are able to make living that
way.
The man who writes love letters is
in no mood to consider the possibility
that they may some day be used
against him.
Judge johnson: II began to drink
early in life, as 1 felt sure that after
got married I'd have a son who
would drive me to drink anyway"
| 1t often happens that the athletic
young man isn't much help at firing
the furnace or other light exercise
| which may develop around the house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-23

ting next him when the crash came.
When the pain stirred him from his
semi-stupor, he murmured broken
words and phrases and before he
opened his eyes in consciousness, the
entire family was in possession of his
heart secret. During the long night
he struggled to keep me near him.
Ceaselessly he cried out against let
ting Sylvia run the car. She con-
fessed shamefacedly that she had
teased him into permitting her to tane
the wheel, just before they turned.
When Robert awakened he made
an effort to lift himself.
mo one else was hurt, really?"
he questioned. Thank God for that"
he said as he sank back on the pill
lows.
Then I heard his voice. a mere
whisper. as his eyes sought mine,
will you ever forgive me- he said,
for running away from you yester-
day?"
Don't talk I begged.
you did not seem anxious to go J"
he explained st must have seemed a
brute" His hand closed over mine.
Waveringly I forced my eyes to
meet his. And then we knew
Copyright, 1916, by the Mcclure
NewSpaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-23

be determined by very different laws.
Turnout those parts of India in which
the Brahman laws are still taught AMI
observed by the people. the laws con-
tanned in the ancient Code of Manu- are
applied. In Burmah and other places
where this code has been modified by
the influences of Buddhism, the law
administered is modified accordingly
In the Mohammedan provinces the
Koran supplemented by local customs
is resorted to. Probably less than
one-fourth the people of the British
empire observe or know anything
about the common law of England.
The courts of the United States apply
it's principles to the affairs of mora
people than do the courts of Great
Britain and all its colonies and de-
Tendencies. The courts of this great
country habitually look Tor light on
questions of law to the semi-savsge
laws of the little European island, and
the Celebrations of and additions to
them made by courts and legislative
bodies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-23

Judge Hooks decision declaring the
Adanson law to be unconstitutiona'
must be looked upon only in the hight
of a formal or rather an informal
Judgment in this important case and
merely for the purpose of expediting
a final judicial determination and in
terpretaiton of this statute. But per-
haps it may not be well to rush this
ease too quickly thru the courts. The
results may not be any more satisfac-
tory than was the original congress
sfonal enactment in the promises
Presumably there is no one who will
urge that this law was given anything
like the consideration it deserved by
congress. And that probably is the
sole reason for its indefiniteness.
The more haste, the less speed, seems
to be one of the old rules that has few
exceptions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-23

If little slippy white-mouse had
only used her own little head' sne
would have had no trouble at all For
she was as wise and clever as the mex
fellow-no doubt about that. But sne
didn't. She got panicky, very mere IeA
7 am. high up in a tree where I've
never heen beforei" she thought TO
herself. land, oh, whatever, ever, ever
sha1I 7 do?" And the more she
Thought. the worst frightened she
became please. please somebody
tell me what to do"
didn't guess that Slippy was on the
beech tree, he'd never have tnought
of such a thing; but he happened
along just then hunting for insects IN
the bark. And he heard Slippy peg
zinc for advice Redhead, like every
6ody else loved to give advice, so he
came right round to where Slippy was
and investigated.
"Weu. we'll, well!' he exclaimed
when Slippy had explained to MN an
get down and all that. getting down
10 the earth from tree is the easiest
thing ] know of. 1 fly
YES hut I can't fly. silly." said
sIippy. .I'm not a bat, nor a bird
I'm mouse
reniied Il didn't mean you should
fly. l meant 1 should fly and that Ia
.Oh no. no, NOT cried slippy.
..I'ye had quite enough of being car
ried by birds to last me one day NO,
no. 1 thank you just the same. but l
don't want to get down that way-fd
rather stay up here all the time.
which wasn't quite true, of course, but
Slippy was too excited to be accurate.
'.Then don't ask me for advice an
swered Redhead, and he flew off in
huff.
Left by herself, Slippy looked timid-
Nv around for a while and then she
thought, why do / wait for somebody
to tell me what do do2 Why don't l
lust use my own head?" And as she
could think of nothing to hinder, she
began looking around and planning.
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low That wasn't half bad" she
thought. when she stopped for breath.
II guess l can dig my claws into the
bark and go down a little farther, even
if it is rather steep" So she went
down little farther.
And would you believe it? The first
thing she knew. she was on the lowest
branch of that beech tree and only a
very few feet above the safe, familiar
ground. Made brave by hsr success,
she carefully climbed the rest of the
way down.
There. / did it, she cried. when
she found herself safe at the bottom,
land I've learned something too
When l have bad job to do. I'll start
right at it. the best l know how, and
do a little at a time till 1T is donet"
And off she ran to her home.-(Copy-
right-Clara Ingram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-23

Z" 'Tis 1, my lord The village cock
hath thrice proclaimed the hour of
morn" But Kean's facial contortions
threw the sentinel into such a fit of
stage fright that he forgot most of his
words, stammering, "'Tis 1, my lord,
it's 1, my lord, the-village cock!'
He repeated this three or four times,
so that when Kean said, Then why
on earth don't you crown" the audi
ence was convulsed with laughter.
A man of so who had been grum-
bier all his life and had long made
a practice of changing doctors on the
slightest provocation, not long ago
called in a young physician who had
gained a considerable reputation. He
was telling the doctor what he
thought was the trouble with him.
when the doctor ventured to disagree
with the diagnosis.
81 beg your pardon said the pa
tient in naughty way, at isn't for a
young doctor like you to disagree with
an experienced invalid like me-"
And he sought another physician.
Doctor Alternately once visited
crusty old laird who was laid up with
govt. He wanted to get out with his
gun, and was in a temper, and while
the doctor was looking at his foot
swore roundly at him for tinkering
at his toes, and asked him: why
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-23
SIDE TALK S
They Didn't Speak.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

An acquaintance of mine has just
lost an excellent position in an office
because she refused to make her peace
with one of the other workers.
They quarreled a few weeks ago
and after the quarrel they didn't
speak,. Their employer stood this un-
comfortable state of affairs for a
while, but finally the disagreeable at
mosphere got on his nerves, and he
told the two women they must be
pleasant to each other or leave. My
acquaintance left.
She told me about it afterwards.
when I get good and mad at any
one," she said, 81 don't ever get over
it,
Didn't you hate to 1eave?" said L.
"Oh, yes" she said, sit was a good
place, but 1 said I'd never speak to
Emma again and 1 wasn't going to
for anybody.
She tossed her head 1t was evident
that she was very proud of her vindic-
tive spirit. L don't believe the original
offense that caused the quarrel still
bothers her. 1 think she sticks it out
because she visualizes herself as she
appears to others.
She fancies people saying when
she get mad she stays mad"
And with queer, perverted pride
she enjoys the picture.
That is her ideal of herself. She
would sacrifice much q happen to
know, that in leaving this position.
she sacrificed more than she knew %
live up to it
What a good friend and what bad
enemy pride is!
1t is a back stiffener. 1t helps you
be faithful to. your ideal of yourself.
But you must be careful what that
ideal is.
People often hold that ideal of vim
| dictiveness. 1 have heard several peo-
pie speak with pride of quarreling
with quondam friends and never hav-
| ing anything to do with them again.
They seem to think there is something
| fine about that.
/ Again, a man told me once that he
went downstairs and shot an old pet
| dog of his who barked and disturbed
him and his guests during a card
| game. He sat down to his cards with
out saying a word and his guests
| would scarcely believe him when h
told them later what he had done
He was in the main a kind-heartco
man, exquisitely tender to mis- invalid
wife and very fond of animals. But
he evidently held some distorted ideal
of himself as a steely nerved, flint
hearted sort of man.
You can do few better things for
| your children than to teach them tc
be proud of the right things--(Copy-
right by George Matthew Adams-)
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MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Circulation.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

Attorney General Brewster is urg-
ing that inquisitorial rights be con-
ferred on county attorneys in other
than liquor cases. And if this will
stimulate the activities of the county
prosecuting officers in the cases out
side those that come under the ban
OF the prohibitory law, the proposed
reform might be worth while. 1t is
well to remember, tho, that county
attorneys are given special fees fo-
convictions in liquor cases. and this
may explain why they apparently de-
vote so much more attention t. them
than they do other cases requiring
their attention.