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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-14
BROKERS' CONTINUE "WAITING
a FOR SOMETHING TO TURN UP"
Lack of Action on Important Matters of Pub
.f lie Interest Responsible for Dullness
sF Gossip of the Street

GENERAL prevailed the brokers'
Offices waiting for something to turn up
but obge them The universal
answer lack action in num-
ber important not affect the security e
MI depending how they will be decided
Tie most important the Japanese-ussian
issue and the posponemen Moscow till tomorrow
probability President Wilson's latest message to RUSSIA VIII
be considered and may complete change
In situation
effect again before days announcement
amount and the terms of the anxous awaited ~
Liberty
Taking all in all atmosphere financial district could
yesterday had been Friday the
thirteenth Wednesday the thirteenth
"Oher Sources of Income"
in the opinion basis which the Government
railroads df the threeear net
operating the original draft leaves merely
dividends railroad will be
almost the basis railroad
have been overlooked
annual statements of important rail-
especially roads which certain
of railroad stocks and that
usually classified Income from other sources
roads much of this income
profits owned by the roads while
derived from investments made from time to time
treasures of the roads
said enough income from such in
vsments cover its yearly charges income"
separate operating ncome on
which the Governments payments are to be based will become
investor railroad stocks future to
to he tenn Of income"
statements the other income
the Union Pacific
Pacific Pennsylvania Railroad
Central Central of Georgia.
Buffalo, Buffalo and Susquehnna and Atlantic
Coast
roads
watching effect which governmental
the coal properties In the case of the
Lhsh received large income from the
Company stock exchange firm that
stockholders of the
Igh be Issued the following
statement:
GOUernments Life Insurance Business
this Governments insurance of the enlisted
the matter of cost OF
Government
actual
unfair TO
should be informed they hold
the how much Of comes from
analysis much OF
phlanthropic through taxation
the the insurance
business or the
administration would be abnormal Just as they are
Nigh
basis whch TO
calculate thing the insurance men
MAdoo this and
business In European
countries mortality experiences since the
pnnnng publish them bu'
n hem in the total
aon been and still burdened
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-14
Business Career
of Peter Flint
A Story of Salesmanship
by Harold Whitehead

Mr. Whitehead 1UiH onS,Dcr vour business
employment. Ash uour questions clearly and
gtre az the facts. Your correct name and
thH address must be StDncd 10 all inquiries
inStrcrs TO technical questions tcnl BE- sent
by mail Others tCiN be dnSiCrrcd IN thts
column, The most Interesting problems Of
inquiries itH be tcorcn into the story Of
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-14
~ REFINED SUGARS

Supplies were small and the market ruWn xH
steady under a fairly active demand, We
quote on a basis OF I.45c for extra nhe
granulated,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-14
CLOSING LIVESTOCK PRICES

Chicago. March l4.--HoGS--Receipts. 40. -
900 head; tomorrow. $4,000 head. Active.
ayeEsss. Hulk, .sIs.SsooS ,,1SSo: ,lsht, ;iS,,?S
ql7.40; rough: si0.l0@1835; good to
. .CATTLE-Rec.lpts, $4,000 head. Strong,
sHEEP-Receip,s. 10. 900 head. Steady.
s16.75. Lambs, $3.50.
South Omaha. March 14.zHoGS-Re.
CATTLE-Receipts 5000 head Strong.
sHEsEP-Receipts. 1880 head. Steady.
l04l5c higher.
Kansas City. March I4.-CATTLE-Re-
ccipts. 1000 head. Market 100 20c higher
HOGS-Recelpts. 5000 head. Steady.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-14
TODAY's BUSINESS EPIGRAM
Money alone can't make you like
your job.
What does this mean to YOU:
Business Questions Answered

Is 4 a good idea for a salesman to carry
side lines? X. NJ
Generally speaking. no. II you have
one good line 1t should provide you with
enough to keep you busy all the time.
and II Is much better to make one big
success than two half successes. II
you have certain amount of time TO
spare In each town, isn't there something
you could do to advertise your line in
that town. Suppose you mad an hour
to spare and in that hour you made a
few sales OF your speciality for your Gus
toner. He would be inclined TO boost
your line and you would probably get
many increased sales as the result of
your little service to him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-14

Why is Il consldered unethlcal for doctors
TO ndvertise? Business men do II. P.
II doctor advertised. he would be
advertising his own personal skill. where
as II he sold an article which he made
ne would be advertising the article. The
same applies to lawyers, accountants
and other professional men. It's like
saying, See how clever am l." II Is
acceptable for professional men to ad-
vertise by cards. BY that mean a plain
announcement In the paper that John
Jones is a doctor and that his office
hours are thus and so.
Why do they have men clerks at the silk
counters of department stores? Wouldn I
women be better for the work? l.. L..
Frankly, ! believe women would be
better. but that's only an opinion. Men
have been put there because they are
supposed to be stronger and more able
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-14

National Paper and Type Company,
regular quarterly OF per cent on conn
nc n and OF Ia per cent on preferred,
payable April is to stock Of record
March 81.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-14

CONTINUED TOMORROW
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1918-02-07
Would Look Lazy.

A travelling man was eating IN 4
stuffy little restaurant one very hot
summer day. There were no screens
at the windows or the door. The
proprietress herself waited on her
customers and shooed flies from the
table at the same time. Her ener-
getic but vain efforts attracted the
attention and reused the sympathy
of the travelling man, who said:
"Would it not be better to have
your windows and doors screened %
''Well, yes, I s'pose that would help
some," replied the woman, after
thinking a moment, "but 'twould
look mighty lazy like. ."LChicago
Herald.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1918-02-07
GREAT OCEAN BlLLOWS.
Atksntie Storm Waves Are Less Thar
Fifty Feet In Height.

Twenty feet in height, from crest
to bottom, is a big sea-even for
sailors. Captain Scoresby's observa-
tions on the height Of waves long
ago proved that in the heaviest At
lantic storms the waves very rarely
exceed forty-three feet from hollow
to crest, the distance between cresta
being 500 feet and their speed thir-
ty-three miles an hour. More re-
cent observations have shown that
Atlantic waves may reach forty
eight feet.
At Kurrachee, in India, waves
we're measured on the breakwater
which were about forty feet above
the sea level.
In Wick bay, in Scotland, cele-
brated for heavy seas, some have
been observed of forty feet in
height, but this is uncommon. 1t
was estimated that one of the great
rollers, which came about every ten
minutes, poured over the breakwa-
ter at Wick with a mass Of 10000
tons of water. Blocks of concrete
weighing more than two tons were
carried completely away.
Great waves have often carried
auav the most solidly built light
house, and there is, perhaps, no
more triumphant work of engineer
ing than when a lighthouse is made
to stand in a particularly difficult
and dangerous place against the In
cessant efforts of the sea reused to
all its fury.
As to the depth to which wave
action extends the knowledge is un-
certain. Shell fish, which are known
to live at depths of so or 60 to $50
feet, are thrown upon the shore by
heavy storms, and the bottom is
often much disturbed at the depth
of fifty feet. But concrete and
granite blocks, used in the construc-
ton of breakwaters and immensely
heavy, are seldom disturbed at a
depth of twenty feet.
To 'rhave the decks swept" by a
great wave is common at sea, even
when the vessel is in good hands.
Often this accident has proved fatal
to vessel and crew, but generally re-
suits in the loss Of boats, galleys and
too often of some of the men.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1918-02-07
Strange Ways Of Salmon.

The Chinook salmon as they as
cend the streams to the spawning
grounds fight and starve themselves,
not eating from the time they leave
the salt water, so that only the
hardest survive, and these, when
the spawning season is over, die.
The young swim to the salt water.
where they live four years. when
they in turn destroy themselves to
preserve the species.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1918-02-07
Highly 1empsramsntal.

'1t makes me uneasy for Mrs.
Dubwaite to 60 to town." said Mr..
Dubwaite.
care you afraid she'll get run
over by a motorcar"
'No. She either sees so many
things in department stores she
can't afford to buy she comes home
quite upset or she attends thea
ter and gets so wrought up over
the trials and tribulations of a
movie heroine she can't enjoy her
dinner" "-Birmingham Age-Herald.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1918-02-07
Bright Scholars.

Examination "howlers" are by no
means confined to schoolboys, as an
Information test" Of freshmen at
New York university showed. The
definitions Of "hypothecate" as "a
druggist" and 'esophagus" as "a
tomb in which dead kings were
placed" were worthy Of lineal de-
scendants of Mrs. Malaprop, while
the statement that "Beowulf was
q character in Shakespeare's Ivan
hoe" rivals the classic account OF
Aesop as "a man who wrote fables
and traded the copyright for a bot
tie of potash" New York Trib-
une.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1918-02-07
An INDISPENSABLE.

Some years ago, in a certain flag.
ship, the commander had occasion
to find fault with the admiral'i
cook, and awarded him three days
close confinement. The admiral
heard of the affair and sent for the
commander on the quarter deck
"What do you mean by it?" storm,
ed the incensed admiral. 'Please
to understand that l can get a
hundred commanders like you, but
only one cook like himw-London
Globe.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1918-02-07
Flags In England.

The early inhabitants of England,
like those of other countries, used
emblematic devices of one kind OF
another. That of the Saxons was
a white horse. The introduction OF
flags into England is ascribed to ST.
Augustine, the missionary, and his
followers, who, after the convention
of King Ethelbert, entered Canter.
bury in procession, chanting and
bearing small banners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-08
AUTOMOBILES

WE have the following splendid bargains in de- pendable used cars; each will be sold with a positive guarantee: 1915 model. 5-passenger Ford, s45O. 1s1e model. 7-passenger Buick. s1es5. 1914 model. 5-passenger Buick. $500 1916 model 7-passenger Reo, $500 1s1s model. 7-passenger National s17Oo 1917 model passenger Hup sedan, s135o ] 1917 model. 4-passenger Elcar, $S5o 1917 model 4-passenger Elcar, 5000 1917 model. 5-passenger Kissell. SS50 1916 model, 5-passenger Maxwell, $500 1916 model, 5-passenger Chevrolet. s300.
 Terms to Responsible
 People l.. J. LIVELY MOTOR
 SALES co.
 2300 First Avenue
 Main 8217
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-08
FARM AND TIMBER LANDS

FAhM AND I'M DEN LANDo COOSA FARMS. S MILES FROM BIRMINGHAM, INCLUDING JUNCTION OF
 A. B. & A. RY.
 AND
 CENTRAL OF GA. RY STATIONS ON THE PROPERTY
 IDEAL FACTORY SITES,
 TOWN LOTS,
 ONE MILE TOsCOOSA RIVER,
 PRICE S17,5eO TERMS $5oo0 CASH, BALANCE PER
 CENT MORTGAGE.
 REDUCED FROM $25,0o0
 FOR SALE IN ONE WEEK. OWNER LEAVING IMMEDIATELY
 FOR NORTH. Includes ? large brick store buildings with plate glass fronts; modern S-room residence; all newly painted inside and out with beautiful brass electric fix lures and Deleo light plant; fine tiled fireplaces, with patent ash dumps and mirrored cabinet mantels; barn cleo trfc lighted and equipped with steel COW stalls. stanchions and concrete floor; brick on ground to build other buildings; land is best welldrained corn and cotton soil; no time to write letters or to entertain pikers and lockers If you have the cash and want the best located farm in Alabama, wire me for immediate appointment to inspect the place. Claude Brown, Coosa farms, Arkwright, Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-08
R. McWILLIAMS

FOR SALE-PlantatIon on Black river, La, 40 miles from Natchez, Miss; TOO acres with 525 in cultivation; suitable for cotton, corn, hay and cane; also oats and potatoes; fertilizer not used in any part of this locality; there is not a poor acre on this 700-acre tract Or even in this locality; extra fine hog and cattle range; any land in this local- ity produces F to IA Abaless cotton, all white, per acre; IS to 40 bu. corn; IF to tons hay or 400 gallons ribbon cane moiasses per acre; also 10 good mules with harness and blow tools and wag- ons; Cleveland tractor; double cutting disk clod crusher; all for $30,000; Is cash, balance to suit at per cent. J. A. Or win, Jonesyille, Ia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-08

Zoo ACRES black belt land; well-in-
 proved, high state of cultivation;
 sold on account of death of owner; 75 acres bottom, balance level, prairie plenty of lime; will grow practically anything you may want to plant;
 good dwelling; large barn and ten ant houses; well watered; located
 miles from Marion; l mile from good town on Southern railway; churches. telephones and schools; this is a first-class small farm for ffrst-grade farmer; price, $S500. [ also have for sale, a 9o0-acre tract of very fine red land; situated mile i from Marion, on good road; beauti- fui 2-story home. located in oak grove; ample tenant houses, barns and other buildings that are needed !, on & large. well-equipped farm; plenty of labor already on the place.
 value of this years crop between $21.o0o and 30.000 within 20 minutes drive of Marion schools and churches; probably we have the best facilities along this /line of any town in Ala 1 bama. If interested in place of this ' size come and let me show it to you; seeing is believing. A. P. Wilbournc, Marion. Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-08
BLACK BELT FARM
LAND FOR SALE

30 acres good farm land, on Lookout mountain, three miles southeast of Val ley Head Ala, three miles south of Mentone, on the bank of Little river; nice place for summer resort, just one mile south of Little river falls; will sell in body or cut up in lots. For particu- lars write or see Leonard H. Reece, Valley Head, Ala.
 FOR SALE,-Good dairy farm in black belt of> Alabama; two and one-half miles from railroad station; 40 miles to creamery; ne~ dwellMg, barn and other outhouses; farm is fenced, plenty of sood water and fine pas ture; also herd of Jersey cattle and other stock will be withdrawn from market December ] 5 unless sold prior to that date. Address P. o. Anderson, Newborn, Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-08
FOR SALE

How would you like oceans and oranges around your house? A beautiful sea outlook; fishing. boating, sea bathing, good auto roads, telephone, schools, churches. stores and railroad station within five minutes of your home, with refined. cultivated neighbors; wouldn't that suit you, winter and summer, all the year round? The family that owns Edgewater can have all of these and more Eight acres, lawn, oceans, oranges, woodland. 7-room house, run ming water, on East Beach, Ocean Springs; must be sold s4500; ask me for full description and terms. Many gulf coast homes and farms
 Southern Lands.
 BIO Common St, N. O., La.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-26
MAID OF ORLEANS HEADS BIG
 PARADE

Seattle. April 2G. - Following a monster parade, gotten Up as demonstration for the Third Liberty Loan drive, a vast throng beSieged the banks in the down town dis t~ict and clamored for bonds, and more bonds.
 The parade was led by Miss Cecil Baron, a French lass who imperson- ated the character of Joan d'Arc, and when the five hundred select service men arrived in this city from Camp Lewis and marched up from the depot, headed by the Maid of Orleans, the throngs which gathered about the Union sta ton, fell into line behind the sol diers. and marched with them all through the downtown business dis tricts. The desired result was at taiued, as 8 vast amount of bonds wera sold.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-26

Paris. Friday. - The French War Office announced this morn in that all through the night heavy artillery fighting con tinued without cessation, the French guns responding to the Germans with great force.
 Iu the sector of Lassigny between NIiette and the Aisne, near Beson- yauX and in the region of Epar- ge5, in the Lorraine battle fields, we carried out raids against the en- cmy and took a great number of prisoners.
 In the Vosges sector, raids We e also made and were successful, as many prisoners were taken.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-26
Il FISHING FLEET WANTED FOR
 ALASKA

Seattle, April 26. - The Am erican- Canadian Fisheries conference terminated in this city last night and the members of the commis- sion, together with Secretary of Commerce Redfie!d left here this mornir~ for Victoria, B. C., where hearings will be held.
 At the final session held in this city yesterday afternoon, it wss urged that steps be immedi,tely taA' en tending towards legislation that would provide that the United St es government lend its aid towsrds the establishment of a biz American fishing fleet fer Alas kan waters, in order to supply train ed seamen for the powerful mer- chant marine which will be re quired by the United States in or der to take care of its immense ocean traffic which is growing go rapidly at the present time, and will increase in growth as the months go by.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-26
DREDGE COMING NORTH

Road Supervisor Ed. C. Hurlbut yesterday received a wire from Se- a tie to the effect that the Marion dredge which he purchased recently for use on the Channel Bare above Jua eau, will be shipped from Seat tie today on the steamer Laatouche says the Juneau Empire. The dredge will probably be in opera ton on the bar by May l, and with in a few weeks will have the chan nel dredged across the bar to al low small boats to travel that way at any stage of the tide,
The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-26

London, Friday. - The British War Office made the following statement this afternoon.
 The great double battle which developed two days ago on the Pjcardy and Flanders fields, is still raging with varying success.
 The Germans have obtained a footing on Mont Kemmel, that is tn, ride to the west and lower than the British positions.
 The enemy has also gained a slight advantage on Messines ridge.
 Gen. Von Armiens army is fight ing to desperation for the posses sion of the village Kemmel on the crest of the ridge.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-26
ARNIY OFFICER SHOWS
 HE Is ADVOCATE OF
 WAR SAVINGS STAMPS

Fl Paso, April 26. - Colonel Has ry o. Willard, United States cav ally stationed here, has started a movement among his friends in the service to buy war stamps. Every time Colonel Willard attends a nov ing picture theatre or takes a party O. friends to the theatre he buys war stamps equal in value to the amount he spends for the en- tertainment of himself and his friends. The movement has caught on" and several other officers have adopted the patriotic plan.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-26
TANKS BET
 MARY PLANES

Washington, Friday.-FrcOm ad- vice given out by the War Depart mant this afternoon, reports receiV- ed from France upon which the iiS- ures are based, show that American ayiators have brought down 3S9 enemy planes from the time that the United Staes entered the war a little over a year ago up to Mar. s, 1918. .. .HthszA
The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-26
NEW POSITIONS COST ENEMY
 HEAVY

Paris. Friday. - From Batlleul tC wytschaete there has been very heavy fighting all day, the German infantry being supported by a s.rong artillery fire, which while returred by the Allise has not been sufficieLuy effective to check the slow advance of the enemy. The Allied troops have been obliged to withdraw from their forward posi- tions to new ones, the commanders not deen:ing the positions given up of sufficient importance as against the enormous looss of life that the successful defense would entail, Dreterripg to inflict severe punish ment on the enemy in exchange for the positions.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-26
BRITISH LOSSES MORE THAN
 STAND0FF

London, Friday.-In summing up the British losses since the present German offensive on the Western battle line, Lord Churchill, minister of munitions, told the British House of Commons that the Germans had captured from the British one thous and guns, five thousand machine guns and a large amount of manu-' factured ammunition.
 All these losses have been made good by guns and ammunition which have been taken from the enemy.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-26
RETAKE
 BRETONNEAUX

London, April 26. - Australian troops, backed by a strong force Of British, made smash in retalIIa- tion on the Germans holding the re- gently captured rosiion at NillerS Bretonneaux, and driving the en- emy out regained possession of the place. Together with the re-
 aking of the position, the Allied forces captured six hundred Hun prisoners. This positions is only about eight miles almostt due east from Amiens.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-26
FRENCH TROOPS MAKE GOOD
 RAIDS

Paris, Friday.-Violent artillery fighti.. continued up until a late hour or both banks of the Ayre river.
 The French forces made several successful raids on the enemy 8 lines especially in the locality west Of Lassisry. and south of Coucy.
 In LeChateaU and in the Lorraine sectCr artillery fighting was Very intense, and also in the Woeyre in the region of Flirey and Regneyille
The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-26
AMERICANS LOSE 34 KILLED 24O
 WOUNDED

Washington, Friday.-In a re- port received from overseas yester- dsT by the Navy Department, she total casualties sustained by Ameri- can marines now lightning in France annotated to 274, of which 34 are re. or ed killed.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-26
S.FED FlR SAND CAUSE OF HUN
 HOSTILITY

The Hague, Friday.-Foreign MirS ister Louden, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday af- tcrnoon admitted that the dispue with Germany over the use of Dutch sand and gravel was the most seri- ous question at the present time.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-26
CITY OF SEATTLE
 NOW SAILING NORTH

Seattle, April 26. - The Pacific Steamship company City of Seattle sailed from this port at ten o'clock this morning for Skagway and way ports. Passengers booked thru alV E. Stevenson, w. Hankus and Francis Wright
The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-26

Witt British Army. Friday. - In the Bailleul sector the battle con tfIuCd late yesterday over a wide front. 'E
 The German attack against the FreDch and British lines on the northern front in the Dranoutre and Kemmel hill district continued in tor2a.
 r. is believed that the Teuton as saul wGs intended to pave the was for the capture of the strategic poil on kemmel hill.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-26
SAUNDERS NAMED
 FOR FEDERAL ATTORNEY

Washington, April 26.-President Wilson late yesterday afternoon placed the name of Robert G. Saun- ders before the Senate for federal attorney for the western district of tie State of Washington.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-26
CONTINUATION
 NOT WANTED

San Francisco, April 26.-Yester- day afternoon Mooney, now under death sentence for conspiracy, made a statement under oath that he would prefer the death sentence to a communication of that sentence to one of imprisonment for life.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-26
HOLLAND STOPS
 TN EXPORTS

Washington, April 26.-Holland has served notice on the United States that she has placed an em- bargo On tin from the Dutch East Indies for exportation to America.