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GET HIGHER PRICES
FOR CURB STOCKS
Leading Issues Break Records
on Renewal of Heavy
Trading.

On renewed heavy trading prices for
the leading curb shares continued yes
teriay their upward movements and
rose to new highs After the morning
trading, when most of the high prices
were reached, profit taking set In. Al
though large reactions In some issues
occurred. most of the early advances
were maintained. The strength in Cen
eral Asphalt in the morning was again
the main feature of the trading. Both
the common and preferred reached new
top prices with substantial advances.
In sympathy with the strength in
those shares International Petroleum
moved to new high ground with an ed-
vance of almost points. II reacted
somewhat before the close. but was well
above Wednesdays closing. Shell Trad
ing and Transport also was well bought,
although It moved over a narrow range.
Sinclair Gulf reacted after early
strength. Tropical Oil was in good de-
mand and gained more than points.
There was heavy trading in the Amer
lean Safety Razor Company stock,
which was put on the curb for the first
time yesterday morning and was the
most active stock on the list The stock
held steadily throughout the day at 1914
and closed strong at 2015. 1t opened at
21I5. There were 1875, 900 shares traded
during the day. The fact that a fairly
large part of the stock was subscribed
for by jobbers and retailers handling
the products of the three one dollar
safety razor companies in the corpor-
alton appears to give added strength
70 the investment character of the issue.
Interest in savold Tire was revived
and 1t moved several points up from its
opening level. British American Chem
zeal was "A fraction higher and a new
top record price was reached by United
Picture Production.
Strength in several low priced oil
shares was shown. Allied Oil went &c
new high ground and Home Oil dis
played a steady tone. Bonds were ac-
tive and steady. There was less activity
in the Russian Government obligations,
which showed a steadier tone.
Total sales and range of prices fol-
loW.
The sun., 1919-09-26

90as. Cerro de Pasco during the noon
hour advanced So to 57A, later reced-
ing to ~. while Anaconda rose to
6SA and American Smelling and Rein
ing to r.
American Sumatra Melted a gain OF
as to 97h, United Retail Stores OF 2B
TO ION, American Can OF 1H to 5SB
and Fisk Tire of 1% to AIN. Steel com
mon fell back is from its early high to
l02z. Bethlehem b 2& 10 S6M and
Baldwin Locomotive as to 129ss, while
Crucibls Steel advanced S& 10 1sS4.
Texas and Pacific was offered down 3
TO AN. ending at -. while St. Paul fell
The sun., 1919-09-26
CONSOLIDATED EXCHANGE.

Interest was directed yesterday chiefly
toward numerous specialties in Consol-
dated Stock Exchange trading. steels,
oils and equipments being under pres
sure almost TO the end. There was all
day demand Tor United States Rubber
common, which was bid up 5la to 116h.
Keystone rose to sou. Kelly Spring
field 10 i4oA, Goodrich TO SOS. Fhl
advances were Melted in foods on sus-
tanned inquiry. Corn Products being bid
up az 10 e0A, Cuba Cane Sugar So to
s7X and American Beet Sugar az 70
The sun., 1919-09-26
bank Of England statement.

LONDON, Sept. 25r-The weekly state
ment of the Bank of England shows the
following changes: Total reserve de-
creased f755, 1000; circulation increased
$1,000; bullion decreased f46.S16;
other securities decreased f1,016,000 |:
public deposits decreased E732.000 (;
other deposits increased f5,635,000 (;
notes reserve decreased f70S.00O; Cow
ernment securities increased f6,706,000.
The proportion OF the banks reserve to
liability this week is 21,42 per cent. last
week 1t was 23.03 per cent Rate Of
discount, per cent
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$3,3OO,OOO
A. O. Smith Corporation
Five-Year go Sinking Fund Gold Notes
Due October l. 1924
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wilr edeen Notes by purchase call
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First Wisconsin Trustee
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The sun., 1919-09-26
NEW YORK STATE BONDS.

Yield
Form, Rate and Maturity. Bid. Ask. About
Coupon avs, JAN, 1864. .. .109k 110h 400
Registered as Jan. I96i...lOsia ITO 400
Coupon AVS, Sept, 1868. =. 100 l10ls 400
Registered Ihs. Sept, 1868. 1Osh ITO 400
Coupon, AXIS, March. 1865. 100 Tag 40
Registered AIS, March, 1865. l01 1903 40
,nupOn AIS, Jan, 1865. ...lo2 4M
Coupon IS, le60-e2 Canal, 80 es& 4.e5
Registered Is, 1960-62 Canal 80 1891 4.05
Coupon As, 195S-62, Highway. 9Sh 99% 4.O5
Regis. As, 195S-62 Highway. ssh =. 4.O5
Coupon Is, Jan, 1916. esh =. 40
Registered As, jan. 1885,. 9S =. 4O
coupon IS, Jan, 1912. ....... ssh =. ale
Registered -. Jan, ltNf. - W
The sun., 1919-09-26
Paris Bourse Trading.

PARIS. Sept. 25.-Prices were heavy
on the Bourse to-day. Three per cent
rentes, so francs 65 confines for cash ;
exchange on London, 35 francs 40 GEN.
times; per gent. loan, 90 francs Al CEN
times.
The sun., 1919-09-26

TO THE HOLDERS or COLlAILnn1nS
TRUST FIRST MORIGAGL SIi,NSKING
CENT. TWENTY NEAE row.
FUND GOLD BONDS OF IhEI Of
PUTTING SCALE COhiANi
AMERICA. -.
The undersigned. suoceFsor 10 ~ i.S b.
booker Trust COMPANY Trustee Lnu, a..
Mortgage given TO secure tho ~, AZ.
sorfbsd issue OF bonds. EctrS -huss' Al.
thority OF said Mortgage. e"a. Trs
pend tho sum Of twenty ThoH Jvor,y.
Hundred Nirety-sAven Dollars anu SGT
eight Cents $50, e97.4O a. 'Aa 21s nsf.
OF bonds OF said issue, rTu'' ''- Ia Al.
chase can In It's opinion no" be NAV
vantageous!y. 81 ssnl
Sealed offers OF said bonds may un,,ar!.
to the once OF Columbia T-I ,"' ~
Trust Department, ~ BrohRNES lgla
York City, on or before October l''"'
at twelve o'clock Noon, ..-,s o.
Bonds accepted must be 3' - thEi
October 18th or security furnish, ,u n
day, II required. that delivery
made within ten days. under
Tine right 10 reserved h' mo
signed 10 reject any and all Une!s ~
COLUMBIA TRUST COMPEA.Hn.t,a
successgr- Tr1'''
ny GEORGE r. wARR On l3Ns.,,,ssn.
Dated. New York. September s'n@ -"
The sun., 1919-09-26
BONDS


Receipts for duties at the Custom
House yesterday were s6S9,415.29, of
which S196,S63.27 was for merchandise
withdrawn from bonded warehouses and
S492,552.02 for recent importations.
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Allied Oil
Corporation
Important Independent
Producer and Distrib-
utor of Oil and Gas

Company 0un, Entire 0utstandnl
Capital Stock Of;
Consumers Gas & Fuel Co., Tex.
Central Power & Light Co., Tex.
DaIsa Oil Co. Of Texas.
Allied Drilling Co. Of Texas.
SanJacinto Petroleum Corp, Del.
Alamo Petroleum Corp. Of DEL
Oil and gas leases tctsling
approximately $500 acres
owned through subsidiaries
Present daily production from
8 oil wells in Ranger and
Burkburnett $500 barrels
Open flow capacity Of 6 gas
wells in Mineral Wells field
! 100000 cubic 1T. csily.
Fourteen additional oil and
five gas wells now being
drilled.
Properties also Include %
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pcrtation of natural gas 10
market, gas distributing
plants, long term franchises,
and 7 complete drilling outfits
AMPLE FINANCIAL RE-
SOURCES FOR COMPLETION
OF DEVELOPMENT PRO
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RECENT ARRANGEMENT
MADE. WITH LEADING NEW
YORK BANKING INTERESIS
Send for special letter &C.
ing fullest Information
ORDERS EXECUTED
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IS Broad Street New YORK
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-05
"The Man in Grey"

4 s clever sleuth as Sherlock Holmes
"A was the mysterious little man that
the Baroness Orczy has exhumed from the
annals of the history of the First Empire
of France and made the central figure i'll
her new book, The Nan IN Grey.
The setting for the nine episodes or
separate studies in criminolOgv that COM
pose the volume is those provinces of the
empire that were still overIun by Chouans,
or robber gangs, remnants of the Revolu-
ton. They received the name of ChOuan
from their first leader. Jean Cotterau.
The brigandage practised by the gang be-
gar Ia 1893 and was revived from time 10
time until 1914. Then the righteousness
of the plunderers reached a point where
it was brought to the attention of Ma
polcon I. To combat the thieves and TO
bring the leaders To justice he despatched
the mysterious little man in grey 10 the
scene of their depredations.
Against this background, historically
accurate, the Baroness Orczy has woven
her tales. The first concerns the death
and exposure of Silver leg, a supposedly
one legged individual, who proves to be
intact in both pedal extremities, and to
be high official in the bargain. A stage
coach is robbed and the man in gray,
who is passenger, trails the highway
men through the forest TO their lair. He
hears Hair-Lip, Red-Poll, MoI-Skin and
the others quarrel over division Of
the spoils. Silver-Leg, the leader, is firm
and bears them away intact. The name
of woman prominent in the neighbor-
hood is overheard.
The local police simply cannot bring
themselves around to the point of even
being gracious TO the little man sent by
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-05
The Man Who Won"

THE NAN VINO TTON, by Leon d.
Il Iiirsch, is a story of love and poll
ties. The uncritical reader may find an
evenings entertainment in It's perusal, but
there is nothing in it that Will be Of per
manent value or interest. The style is
slipshod and anlateurish and the Incl
dents are hastily put together, though the
story is readable and has no objectionable
features. The characters are not well i'll
vidualized but speak and act more like
manikins than like human beings; at
times they have rerisimllitude.
The material for the most part is stock
ideas OF the political novel. We find the
boss who controls the destincs Of the whole
city, the corrupt officials, the graftcrs, the
young newspaper man who is honest and
earnest and very much in love with the
daughter of man politically opposed TO
him-an unscrupulous father, of course
and so forth. The love story has va
rious complications but ends pleasantly.
and the young journalist succeeds in
cleaning up politics 4 bit before the end
of the story.
The novel has moderate amount of
dramatic interest, and several scenes stand
out The conditions respecting the sher-
ifs office are shown by the description of
the prisoners he has taken up purely for
the sake of the fees:
"The tread of heavy feet over the gravel
path came to Harrison's ears. Out of the
darkness appeared a line of men chained
by twos, dust laden, foot weary-fifteen
birds of passage bagged for the pot.
Other adopts in starvation were bearing
their chains with sturdicr step, while one
wayfarer from the orange groves was
staggering along. his strength almost gone.
The sheriff gloated. His was the felicity
of the fisherman gazing at his boatload de-
liycred at the wharf. \ settled incoI:a
for weeks. They had been tried and SEN
fenced as a mere incident Of the walk
from the railroad tracks. The magis-
trates Of Mahoos county likewise derived
fees per head for the days haul"
The young journalist and the sheriffs
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daughter are having a sorrowful CONVEX
sation in the Jail, where she lives, of
course:
she raised.her head and stared at him
with !rars in her eyes. Watching her
face, he noticed her eyes shift and sud
denly dilate; she half rose from her chair
and shrieked.
standing i'll the room beyond, with the
door leading to the cells wide open, were
scores of prisoners. II was a dirty, bag
gard crew with hunger marks upon them.
For a moment they stood there blinking
at the lights; then they came forward,
crowding into the parlOr. They were
moving softly; not one of them had spo-
ken. Only half way to liberty-they were
acting with preconeeived caution against
alarm.
"A thick set, bull necked, somewhat
dwarfisll fellow stepped from the ranks of
the motely group.
".Harrison, GIT US the key 10 this side
door. We're going ont"
THE MAN WHO WON. BY LEON n.
HIRscH. The Page Company. $50.
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the Emperor. NJ. le Procureur Is beside
himself because the affairs of his depart
ment are interfered with. Scotland Yard
was never more incredulous of Holiness
theories than are the local police of the
man in the gray hat and cloak. But by
clever deduction he has sensed the situa-
ton and remains in his apartment read
ing while events shape their course. AT
the right moment he pulls the trigger
twice-the mystery is revealed and the
Emperor served.
The first is typical of the other stories.
There is no thread of romance 10 string
them together, but the justification of
the reader until the end of each episode
gives them an intensely interesting and
readable quality. And then, the highly
entertaining way in which the authoress,
who simply dotes on mysterious men, as
her other stories, notably The Scarlet
PimperHSl, indicate, can tell story adds
TO their interest.
The reader who wants something d.
verting in short snaeks will find it in
The Nan in GREY
THE MAN IN GREY. BY BARONESS
ORGY. George ii. Doran Company. $40
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-05
Elsie Marley, Honey

HAVING dlnap'r, IN ether side %.
L the mouth 81 large AZ 10 amonH,
almost to i deforuity J., trying III the cx-
IRENE Having iimpic< l. always irving.
h.c.u~,. r.cut,. ,riT me-; keep still about
tEcn. hat t.e Nv" particular dImp'cS
which .IOriyn GRAY has gwen ono of the
Ei>ics IN Ey,is HGrltY Hopcg Worried
her almost 10 death They came direct
from her mother. who had died in the san
Fg~TcI-cn cJr;hGiakr three years before
tie story npe's. md under ordinary cir
cun.stanre- woui& have been matter Tor
pride on that ace mt. hut as things were
she had to deny this dearly loved mother
constantly to keep from letting the eat
ont OF tie bag,
Else Mare and Elsie Moss met on
the tram is they iourrcved East To live
with relatives whom they had never seen,
ard as they talked It over it seemed that
their paths would be improved by being
crossed. 20 Elsi., Moss. fired with ambl-
ton for the stage. went 10 the relative
in New York and Este Marley. whose
tastes were quletar. went to the parsonage
al Endcrby. Mass Girls of sixteen are
not apt TO weigh the moral ISSUES of such
a step. and it was some time before they
graSpcd the full significance of what they
had dOnp The number OF times that
Elsie Moss, now Elsie Marley. had 10 lie
about the dimples began 70 tell on her
and both girls as time passed rehshed
their Joke less and less Their consciences
pricked them all the harder for the ideal
happiness of their stolen positions.
There is all sorts of material for psy-
biologists in Miss trays little story;
how much environment has to do with
shaping character. what the blood tie
amounts to, and 50 on. For the moral
lists there are the Questions as To- whether
a lie is ever unsuitable, and granting tins,
whether a person can get happiness from
the results The moralists may complain
that the story ends too happily in Wv
of the methods employed, and 50 sets =
bad example
ELSIE MARLEY. HONEY. By JosLYS
GRAY. Charles Scribner s Sons. sl.3J.
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"The Three Strings"
\1ATALIE SUMNER LINCOLNS

NATALIE SUMNER LINC0LNS
~ The Three Strings is perfect ex-
ample of the manufactured criminal story.
1t has all the attributes of thriller"
from the finding of a dead body in an
empty Washington residence in the open
ing chapter 10 the cleverly worked out
solution of the crime. And Vet it rings
false from beginning TO end simply be
cause it transcends all reason, because
aimles goings and comings take the place
of real action, because the police officials
are as mysterious and rs purposeless as
the characters who used to appear from
trapdoors in the pantomimes.
Even the three pieces of string on
which the title is hung are quite lost sight
of in the end BY the authors indulging in
the expedient of dragging in some chess
puzzles that provide the only real ele-
ment of mystery III the tale.
The heroine, Evelyn Preston, who finds
the dead body in her mothers home in
the opening chapter, is surrounded by
innumerable lay figures and objects-a
French Captain on duty in Washington.
society folk, taxicabs. German spies and
a British secret service volunteer; all these
paraded against u background of war
time Washington. Yet the effect is one
of pure artificc: and no detective story
can ever be acclaimed as the real thing
that does not rise superior to such an
atmosphere. Lovers Of criminal tales
must have their crime convincing.
THE THREE STRINGS. By NATALIE
SUMNER LINCOLN. ID. Appleton & Co
$50
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1.-The New Warden"
MRS. DAVID RlTCHIES latest

Mrs. DAVID RlTCHlE'N latest
lNl novel, The Nf,r Warden, IS ex-
actIy what one las come to cxpec, from Il
certain type Of English novelist. These
women have style and originality; they
have humor and a good sense of the dr;-
matte, but everything Is subsidiary to the
act Of ea'Eig "a prac,i>ed in English
homes. This is the breath OF their nostrils.
Day by day We must watch the special
group u"dcr consideration Is they cat
their breakfast: we must be with them al
the inevitable tea scene. and even after
We have seen them through dinner there
remains the evening tray to be consumed
in the library, not one day, be 1t under
stood. but every one. Verify, it Is 10
wonder The plot becomes heavy when We
stop 10 consider the number Of meals that
mus; be devoured along with it,
And yet there is in the very nature Of
s,sch story degree of charm. The fine
flow Of food is hcartening and small
events stand ont III splendid contrast to
the inhcxible regularity of the material
household.
Mrs Richie has interrpcrscd her meals
with an unusual variety Of happenings
She has made the warden Of an Oxford
college her hero and the events Of week
in his home make up the story The house
guests are young and dcpraved girl,
Gwendo!en Scott tleft by more de.
PRAYED mother for the purpose Of ensnar-
ing the warden, Lady Eastwood, his de-
voted sister, her niece, Mrs. Jack Dash
wood, young AMI WAR widowed, and a
ghost. But there Is certain umbrella
which plays "A part secondary TO none
After an undue amount Of quIbbling about
honor on the part of the warden, undue,
that is, in the eyes Of this particular dis
honorable reviewer, lac decides to sacrifice
himself, but is saved by n mirarle Chapter
twenty-five opens III the following de
lightful manner:
"What stung Gwcndolcn, what made her
smart beyond endurance, was that she had
exchanged the Warden for an umbrella.
The transaction had been simple, and sud
den, and inevitable. The Warden was in
London, q free man. and there was the
umbrella in the corner of the room, hers.
1t was looking at her
Gwendolen, as you see, got nothing but
pain for her deprayity, and She retrcs
from sight in acute distress, but 50 in
sidious is the FORE of evil that hers is the
personality which We have found most
engaging.
THE NEW WARDEN. BY Mrs. DAVID q.
Richie. T.. 7. button d TO. $40.
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"On Our Hill"

II / Is a SAD ana dreadful truth lllt JO-
i sephine Daskam Bacon has become
sentimentalist. There will not he more
than one dry eye among her old lovers
when they read On Our HH, her new
book of child sketches, and the tears will
not be caused by her children's piercing
sweetness, as are those which she sheds SD
generously throughout its pages, but by
sorrow for the loss of something precious.
The excess of sentimentality has not
prevented the books proving very read
able and charming in large part, and even
while We regret the change which has come
about, We cannot help finding it of tie
mendOus interest as strengthening the al
ready partially proven truth that it is al
most impossible for Il woman To write of
her own children successfully, although
she may be utterly charming. both as
mother an dauthor. so long as she keeps
the two things apart When Mrs. Bacon
was Josephine Dodge Daskam she wrote
irresistible stories of children. witness
The Memoirs Of Baby, and it is certain
that if Prima, Secundus and Tertius be-
longed to somebody else she would have
done them better justice.
AS it is, the sentiment overrides all
else, and there is a decided and rather
cruel favoritism shown Tertius, which is
all the more cruel in comparison with poor
Prima's lot One almost hopes, if she
cares for her mother as deeply as is in
dicated, that she will never read the book.
1t is evident from frequent ehokings of
the governess into her glass and the I'M
eontrollable laughter of neighbors at the
theatre that "Our Mother" suffers no de
lusions as TO her own undeniable clever
ness. which is not lacking in these pages.
The sketches are more or less familiar
through having appeared in one of the
magazines recently. With delightful Illus
trations by T. NJ. and NJ. +. Bevans. the
book is one of the prettiest, perhaps the
prettiest of all the fall offerings. Mrs
Bacon has prefaced each sketch with
poem, and it is from Et Ego IN Arcadia
that the following lines arr taken:
"Oh, Children that I loved,
Remember gently all those gentle years.
For You were happy in them, Stretch
Your hands
At whites across the gulf of nowadays.
And clasp the hands that held your hands
before.
When hands were small and hearts were
young together"
ON OUR HILL. BY JosEPHlSE DAsKAh
BACON. Charles Scribney's Sons. s..
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SUMNER LINCOLN. ID. Appleton & Co
$50.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-30
BIG CALBRE
GERMAN GUNS
ARE JUNKED
BECAUSE THEY DID NOT COME
UP TO CERTAIN MODERN
STANDARD9 60 ARE ARE SOLE
TO FOUNDRY.

Coblenz, March 2s.-Eighty big
calibre German gums refused by the
United States receiving commission
because they did not meet certain
modern standards have been sold to
q Coblenz foundry and are soon to be
made into farm implements and other
peace time machinery.
While some of those cannon were
cast as long ago as 1870. all had been
used at some time or another in the
recent war. several OF them having
done duty against the Americans In
the Argonne drive In November. After
the guns had been refused by the
Americans, members OF the German
delivering commission requested that
they be permitted to dispose OF the
war material to q foundry. The re-
quest was granted with the UNDER
standing that the cannon would
quickly be welted into pig iron and
that none OF this In any way would
be used for the manufacture OF any
kind OF fire arms.
Virtually all the material which the
Germans were to turn over to the
Americans. according to the terms OF
the 'armistice has been delivered.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-30
HIGH COST LIVING
IN GREAT BRITAIN

London, March 20. - The cost Of
living for a workingman's family
in England was nearly doubled dur
ing the war. according to a statement
issued by the Ministry of Food. The
ministry bases fits estimate upon that
OF a committee headed by Lord Dunn
ner which reported that in 1914 the
average weekly expenditure for food
for a working ciaas family Of, six per-
sons was the equivalent OF $6.12. The
ministry estimates that the cost has
now advanced to @11.s1 a week.
The ministry echoes the statement
OF Premier Lloyd George. forecastfng
that the w0rkineman's cost of living
would be reduced about 81 a week
this summer.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-30
pleasant word is in love with you.
PLEASANT, NOT PERSONAL.

The business office should not be
the setting for love affair. After
business hours If you want to be
friendly with the men and women In
the office, well and good, but it IL
best to go slow. 1t is well to know
something more than that the man
who works at the next desk to yours
is good-looking or that the girl who
came in yesterday wears becoming
clothes.
DO not be supercilious, do not be
|toploftical. do not be distant in your
attitude. But. on the other hand. do
not rush into friendships with the
people With whom you work. You
will find them out, if they are worth
while, as they will find you.