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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-05-10
Mrs. II. w. Middaugh is in charg,

Mrs. II. w. Middaugh is in charge
of the parade and prizes were pur-
chased from the treasury of the
clinic from funds subscribed by the
several women's organizations which
are joining in the work.
All children up to and including
those in the sixth grades of the pub
lie and parochial schools are eligi-
BILE to enter in any of the events.
Judges will be chosen from a
group of Bismarck ladies', local wo-
men desiring to avoid any vestige
of possibility of favoritism.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-05-10
HABIT.

Those IRON mail boxes the and have be
replaced ON an average of three years SO Uncle
experimenting with boxes brass metal that endurcs all
kinds Of weather for centuries
The brass boxes attractive in unfinished form that
postal officials decide not paint them They II
change their minds the public will be afraid use them
View been dropping letters in painted boxes long
that 1t S habit And people VIGOROUSLY suspicious
change If the brass ism painted will try to drop letters
in fire alarm boxes
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-05-10
PROSPERITY

~ We've reached point in this country are
longer safe claims Theodore H. Price able publisher of
merce and Finance magazine 'Inusry longer needs the
stimulus OF abnormay We avoid alternating depression
and initiation by refranng from becoming victims
enthusiasm
ri That easyif the nation really stabilize
always the direct hoggisfne.s-
national epidemic of trying get than we give in
return.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-05-10
Tom
Sims
SSay8

Nothing tckles a mosquito more
than a pair of silk stockings.
A picnic is no picnic when it r;Ens.
Soon after dandelions bloom, noses
| bloom.
Fly paper doesn't draw as many
flies as linn sines do friends.
Trouble with the world is not
enough trouble is being prevented.
When man isn't sure Of him
self, nobody else is.
Throwing cold water dampens the
enthusiasm.
A soft answer turneth away
wrath, but soft head draws it..
Men with lots of time on their
hands usually kill it all.
Mems suits haven't changed much
| since last year except that some OF
them look a year older.
You don't have to be liberal to
give yourself away.
A man can't get by railroad
crossing on his good looks.
You seldom see an eX-loafer.
Many people with nothing to\ do
make the mistake of doing it.
Every now and then bathing girl
gets wet and catches cold.
Drfters seldom land.
| The eagle is our national bird .sbut
if all reformers had our way it would
be the sad bird.
| No wonder girls learn to swim
| more easily than men. Who wants
| to teach a man to swim?
l
i
running amuck.
| We don't know what a bookworm
looks like, but it must be some kin
| to a hookworm.
| About the time Europe gets on
her feet she sits back down again.
Among the new inventions is Il
collapsible grip. 1t acts like man
asking the railroad fare.
| Wouldn't it be great if you could
send the dishes to the laundry and
the house to the cleaner?
If riches brought happiness all of
the bootleggers would laugh them
selves to death.
In these trying days, people will
try anything.
s. 4
Every man knows that some day
he will accidentally try to mail let
ter in a fire alarm box.
About the only difference betwfeh
the girl Of 1900 and the girl of 1873
is % years.
What is hurting our fair country
more than cucumbers?
| Nursing a crouch makes 1t grow.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-05-10

SO many visitors to greet each day
nd night?'
Miss Martus is not merely fair
weather friend. She and her broth
or have rendered aid to a number Of
vessels in distress near their home
in stormy weather.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-05-10
BUYING

81 We've overdone the art of craftsmanship It's cult
yate intelligence in buying, according Theodore H.
Price That's true Schools of craftsmanship every
hand. But you heard of school train buyers Until
have Them, business will be without balance Wheel no
scientific equilibrium.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-05-10
BABEL.

The world now has 1854 different languages and dialects
according to experts talking Is any countries
do not understand each other suspicious distrustfu
We should have international language Esperan
to- for the that have ntenaonl Morse
code Tor Biography 1t Ii figures
how make money by bringing it about Profit the gener-
Sator Of progress
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-05-10
POST1IEN

A No American fully realizes the activities Of the
Of which he member 1t is beyond human magna-
ton We get faint nkng Of the tremendous extent Of
machinery of civilization occasonaas for instance the
announcement that it. requires 333 900 posmen
our mails.
Evening star., 1923-09-01
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET.

CHICAGO, September Omitted
States Department of Agriculture).-
Hogs-Receipts, 5000 head: mostly
to 10 cents higher; desirable kinds
show most advance, bulk. good and
choice, 160 to 230 pound averages.
9.4oa9.s5; top, go; desirable 240 to
500 pound butchers, S.90a9.35; packing
sows largely, 7.50a7.75; few strong
weight pigs around 800.
Cattle-Receipts, 1000 head. COM
pared with q week ago, beef steers
and yearlings Of value to sell at 11.50
and above; steady; others 25 to 40
cents lower, western grassers 10 to
lis cents lower; grain fed she stock,
Gamers and cutters. steady; In be-
tween grades, fat, she stock, rs cents
lower; spots, more: bulls. so cents
lower; vealers, LIS to 200 lower; ex-
treme top matured steers, 1910: best
Iyearlings, 1880: bulk prices follow,
bulk native steers and yearlfngs, S.25a
11.40: western grassers. 7.26aS.25;
butcher cows and heifers, 4.40a8.75;
Gamers and cutters. 2.75a3.25; vealers.
1 11.50a12.50; stockers and feeders, 5.50a
i7.25.
Sheep-Receipts, 1000 head: today's
receipts mostly direct, for the week
direct saround 5000, western run 245
doubles, compared week ago; killing
classes mostly so cents lower; spots
tmore on aged stock; feeding lambs.
SO to 75 cents lower: closing top.
1850; western fat lambs. top, 1880;
native. 1895: weeks bull prices fol-
low: Western fat lambs. 13.ooa1S so: |:
native. 12.50a1a.oo: yearlings, 10.5oa
FI1.5o; weathers. 7.75ae.25: ewes, 575a
7.75; feeding lambs. 1S.25al;.60.
Evening star., 1923-09-01
LOFT FORCED TO QUIT.
WALL STREET REPORT

NEW YORK. September 1.-The New
York Herald today says:
George L. Lofts decision to sell his
seat on the New York Stock Exchange
for $4,000, announced Thursday, was
prompted by action Of the governing
committee of the exchange, it became
known yesterday.
Loft, who was sometimes referred to
by other members of the xechange as
the candy kid is son Of George w.
Loft, candy manufacturer and sports
man. He became a member of the ex-
change on July !, 1920, and has figured
in various incidents from time to time
once he sold the suit of clothes he was
wearing to another member on the floor
The sale was made for immediate de-
livery and the buyer compelled Loft to
divest himself of the garments at once
lie was compelled to ride in the elevator
TO the members club on the seventh
floor OF the exchange building until an
other suit was procured for him.
Why pressure was brought to bear on
him to resign from the exchange was not
revealed There We're all sorts Of
rumors, including his reported proclivi-
ties for plunging on the one hand and
participation in the recent Piggy Wig
Ely pool on the other.
Evening star., 1923-09-01
NOW THE TOURIST TRAMP.
Impecunious Gasoline Beggars
Growing Problem of Cities.
Harrer In the Outlook.

c. NJ. Harger IN the onttoos.
Along with the legitimate motorlst
| has arrived the tourist tramp. Provi-
dent associations. in the larger cities
frankly confess their inability to deal
with him.
TT seems" said the secretary of one
ieyerything they have and buy second
hand car, load in the family and start
out wandering over the country. de-
pending on the charity OF the people
| in the townS-with occasionally Work
| ing on the sympathies OF some farm
1--WE have many supplications for aid
| to buy gasoline to get to the next toWn
| and this after the parties have over.
stayed their welcome in the tourist
| camp. We contributed to get rid OF
| them. but the number is increasing.
| ",The men will not work and the
| families are dragged on an endless
/ tourney that s~tends from the Canadian
border in summer to the gulf In win
/ ter-always, like the Wandering Jew,
| pushing on without hope or perma-
/ nence.
| IN a country town camp ground this
| summer. 1t was near picnic ground.
and the children looked so wistfully at.
| the picnic suppers that tney Went pach
| to the dilapidated fiivver loaded with
| the remains of the meal. Finally, after
several warnings, the police escorted
! the car to the gate ana sent IL Fatthns
on its way.
Another car fitted up with a repair
kit stayed so long in camp, while its
| owner made money fixing up cars out
| of condition, that the garage owners of
town protested-and he moved on TO
| the next camp"
Why do families with none OF this
| worlds goods except what their rickety
car contains load up in Ohio and go
wandering off to Dakota or Texas. later
| to show up in California or Montana
| The scene of their wanderlust is not in
the east, where the free camp has not
become common and where cities do
not look with favor on their presence:
They seek the wide open spaces.
where friendliness> along the way. will
| not forsake them, and seem to know
| that they will be able to live and travel
| in some manner.
But the towns are becoming weary
Of the visitation, and are wondering
| how to prevent ahe growing numbers
of motor tramps who have become @
l real problem
Evening star., 1923-09-01
WEEK SEES STOCK
PRICES GO HIGHER
Pools Active-Public Does More
Buying-Situation Abroad
Causes Worry.
By the Associa ted Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, September stock
prices continued their rise to higher
ground in this weeks markets, de-
spite intermittent bear selling and
proht taking. Pools were again ac-
tive, and commission houses reported
an increasing public interest. In
many quarters, however, the threat
ened suspension of anthracite mining.
the unfayorable economic develop
ments in Germany and the serious
differences between Greece and Italy
were regarded as restraining infu-
ences on trading.
One of the most important construc-
tive developments during the week
was the formal announcement of re-
sumption of diplomatic relations with
Mexico. 1t was Immediately followed
by brisk advance in Mexican gov
ernment securities and in stocks and
bonds OF companies. having large
property interests in Mexico. Revival
of speculative interest In the railroad
shares was generally attributed to the
reports OF record August car loadings
and the July earnings reports.
Chemlcai stocks strengthened on
Sio,i VI me dHuudl report OF
the American Agricultural Chemical
company showing net profit of $5O1,-
4Sl, as against deficit of sl,124.O71
In the previous fiscal year.
Sugar shares were firmer on an
nouncements of higher commodity
prices and reports OF an early re-
sumption of dividends by two Of the
cuban companies. Copper shares were
depressed. following the drop in the
price of the red metal to i3S cents.
the lowest price this year
The feature Of the foreign exchange
market was the establishment of an
other new low price for the year by
sterling and the further collapse of
German marks TO Sls cents a million.
Evening star., 1923-09-01
ALEXANDRIA.

ALEXANDRIA. Va, September l
peciaD.-1Iundreds of persons left
today by train, boat and motor to
spend Labor day at the shore and
mountains. and many will spend the
three days at nearby country resorts
Hundreds are making the trip over
Labor day by motor. Labor day here
viii be marked by general suspen-
sion of business. Banks, city and
government offices will be closed all
day and practically all of the stores
also will be cosed all day Monday
The city post Office will be closed All
day, and there will be two collections
one in the forenoon and one in the
afternoon.
Pay City Taxes.
Many taxpayers this morning called
at the office of City Tax Collector p.
F. German and paid their city taxes.
payment OF the city taxes. During
the coming week it is expected there
will be a general rush. especially
among those desiring to pay in order
to get the necessary receipts for pres
entation in order to obtain permits
for their children to attend the pub
lie schools. Beginning October l, a
penalty of s per cent will be added
to the bills of all delinQuents.
Effective today. half license fee is
now operative on automobiles. and. as
a result, hundreds of persons, es-
pecially those from out Of the city,
are now obtaining the Virginia
license. The police department today
was kept busy issuing 1928 licenses
to those who had not heretofore had
these licenses.
James B. Deane has sold to Court
land H. Davis, trustee for Nellie v.
Mccoy. a house and lot on the west
side of Royal street. A deed Of con-
veyance today was placed on record in
the office OF the clerk Of the court.
Many at Band Concert.
More than 1000 persons last night
attended the band concert by the Fort
Myer Band at the corner of Washing
ton and Prince streets. The concert
was given for the public through the
efforts of the chamber of commerce.
The festival and homecoming cele-
bration last night on the lawn of
Trinity NJ. E. Church was well patron
ized.-
William P. Mcknight has been ap-
pointed a member of the Confederate
pension board for this city by Judge
Howard w. Smith in the corporation
court. The appointment was made to
fill the. vacnacy caused by the death
of Capt. Fountain Beattie. Other
members Of the board are Edgar War
field, sr., and John NJ. Johnson.
Evening star., 1923-09-01
J0NS0N ON MIssPENT LIVES.
Many Modern Writers Would Like
to Phrase the Thought So Happily
L. woolf, in the Nation and the Antheneun

L. woolf, in the Nation and the Antheneum
UIondon.) ~
What a deal of cold business doth
a man misspend the better part OF
life in! in scattering compliments,
rendering visits. gathering and vent
ing news, following feasts and plays,
making little winter love in a dark
corner"
This sentence from Ben Jonson's 8
Discoveries" contains a general re-
Election which every man who has
reached the age of thirty and has
lived in civilized society at any time
during the last 500, years has fre-
quently made to himself.
But the precise and personal shade
which Jonson gives 1t by the last
nine words of his sentence belong to
himself and to his time; the color
with which they paint commonplace
is not that of Milton or Dryden of
Congreve or Swift, Pope or Johnson.
wadsworth or Shelley Tennyson or
Browning, but it is very near the
shade of feeling which many a writer
today attempts, much less success
fully, to translate into sentences.
Evening star., 1923-09-01
BONDS SELL OFF
IN SHORT SESSION
Trading on Too Small Scale
to Have Any Great
Significance.
By GEORGE r. HUGHES.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, September Bond
prices were slightly reactionary dur
ing today's short session, but trad
ing was on too small a scale to be
have been expected it was the for
eign issues which showed the most
weakness and particularly the Jugo-
slav IS. The troubles between Italy
and Greece are OF immediate i'm
portance to Jugoslayia.
These bonds, however, are always
subject to more speculative buying
and selling than other foreign loans.
There was also some recession In oil
bonds. but nothing serious.
The week as a whole has been one
in which trading was very dull. This
is the rule at the end of the summer
and especially just prior to the last
important holiday of the season.
Weeks Prices Uneven.
Prices have '1uctuated very un-
evenly. Among the high-grade gilt
edge investment issues there has been
much irregularity. Whatever buying
goes on in this group seems to CEN
ter on two or three particular issues
until the price has made substantial
advance. and then to shift to some
other of equal grade. 1t Is a little
difficult to trace the source OF the
buying in these bonds. Probably some
of II has been for foreign account.
The greatest activity has been in
the speculative department. and here
the fertilizer bonds have divided at
tentfon with the rails Both the
American Agricultural Chemical and
the Virginia Carolina Chemical issues
are up substantially on the week. al
he haf rrfn
of course. reflects the belief that con-
ditions in this industry has taken a
permanent turn for the better.
Eries Feature OF Rails.
AS to the rails the advance in the
Erie obligations. which was the fea-
ture OF the market last week. has not
been maintained. Speculative favor
has been shifted to the st. Paul bonds,
which have made marked recovery
from their recent lows. The threat
ened strike in the anthracite coal re-
gions has not been market factor
80 far.
More important than any fuctua-
placing of large amount of new is
sues shortly TO be offered. This in
cludes the new Argentine 10000
coo loan among the foreign bonds
and the s20.000.000 of Union Pacific
refunding SIS among the high-grade e
rails. There is also in prospect
financing for the Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company to the amount of
$50. 100000. for which. however, no
date has been set.
Liberal New Onerinss.
Investment bankers are reasonably
confident Of favorable reception for
the new offerings. The demand just
now Is best for the high grade and
next for the more speculative de-
scriptions. The class Of bonds COM
paratively neglected is the middle
grade.
The present week has seen a re-
spectacle amount of new financing
offerings totaling $55,671.s00. This
amount, however. includes $4,000
900 of Associated Oil per cent notes.
The other large piece was 10000
600 in Milwaukee Electric Railway
and Light 6S.
Evening star., 1923-09-01
RATE CHANGES GRANTED.
I. G. c. to Readjust Charges in Rio
Grande Valley.

for readjustment of freight rates in
the Rio Grande valley in Texas was
granted, in part, today by the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
Revisions were ordered in the rates
on citrus fruits. broom corn, fire brick,
lime, cement and certain other COM
medities. but the commission held
that the present differentials on cot
ton and vegetables are reasonable.
The maintenance of Texas com
mon point" rates on vegetables and
cotton from Laredo, however, was
found to be unduly prejudicial to the
advantage Of Laredo against points in
the Rio Grande valley, inasmuch as
contemporaneously higher rates were
found to have been maintained from
the Rio Grande valley points.
Evening star., 1923-09-01
RAILROAD OUTLOOK.
Experts Announce Which Roads
Strike Would Benefit.

NEW YORK, September Stu
dents of the stock market who make
it practice to ascertain which
stocks will be most affected by pend
ing news developments yesterday
gave their attention to the railroad
stocks. Their deductions resulted in
the theory that Erie, Delaware and
Hudson and Lehigh Valley, as repre-
sentative of the hard coal roads.
would be most affected in the event of
cessation of hard coal mining, while
Chesapeake and Ohio, Western Mary
land, Norfolk and Western and Pitts
burgh and West Virginia. as .repre-
would benefit. :
Evening star., 1923-09-01
WHEAT P|L|NG Up;
PRICES DROP OFF
Shipment From Black Sea
Ports Causes Stir-High Hog
Prices Help Steady Grain.
BY the Associated Press.

By tne hssoclkteu fress-
CHICAGO. September 1.--Continued
accommodations in the visible supply,
which passed the $4,000, ,000- -bushel
mark, was the chief depressing influ-
ence in the wheat market during the
week. The worlds supply. as given
BY Bradstreet's. is 900 bushels.
or 100000 more than for the corre-
spending week last year. Export de-
mand has been light and the move
ment from the country fair. Compared
with q week ago. wheat was of q al
to 2k; corn 1 Y higher to SaX lower;
oats were down III to IN and pro-
visions 40 to 65 higher.
Heavy selling OF wheat, especially
by houses with eastern connections,
sent the market down grade, the Sep
tember delivery going below the dol
lar mark for the first time this sea-
son. Profit-taking orders, however,
resulted in partial recovery from
the low point. Large deliveries on
September contracts are expected to-
day. The Greco-Italian situation and
the late strength in bog values.
the season, were stimulating factors,
but these were offset partly by re-
ports of large shipment of wheat
from Black sea ports and crop ad-
vices from Canada, which maintained
previous estimates of probable yields.
The tight situation in the cash mar
ket was chiefly responsible for the
f1rmness in corn, especially in Sep
tember which advanced more than 1
cent, while deferred futures showed
fractional losses. The visible supply
registered a further decrease, and
Chicago stocks were reported down
to 100000 bushels, the lowest at this
time in years.
Excepting on the firm spots, oats
received little support, prices going
down grade, with December OFF most.
Strength In hogs and buying of
September lard by brokers. presum-
ably due to a better foreign outlook,
gave firmness to provisions.
Evening star., 1923-09-01
UNITED DRUGS PROFITS.

NEW YORK, September THE
United Drug Company for the six
months ended June 20 earned net
profits Of $2,512,78O, after depreci-
alton and reserve for doubtful ac-
counts. After preferred dividends
and interest charges there was q
surplus Of $1,2s5.6s7, equivalent to
$3.62 a share on the $35,459.o0o COM
mon stock. In the first half Of 1922
the company earned the equivalent
of s1.1s a share on s34.525,60O COM
mon stock outstanding. ~
Evening star., 1923-09-01
Pound Marches On.
From the Scientific American.

The advocates of the metric system.
having failed SO far to introduce the
system into the English ma
tions. have turned their guns In an
other direction and are trying to
bring about change in the value of
the pound weight, in order to give it
simpler relations with the metric sys-
tenn. This would be accomplished by
assuming that q pound has q weight
Of 500 grams, instead OF 454 II this
could be accomplished without upset
ting civilization, the result would be
Of great value. But the 454-gram
pound goes marching on.
Evening star., 1923-09-01
WOOL TRADING DEAD,
Dealers, However, See Little Cause
for Worry at Present.
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

BOSTON, September with re-
during 1923 at only 105,030, 500 pounds.
compared with 155.346.055 for the
same time in 1922. 1t is easy to see
that the statistical situation is not
one to cause any worry to dealers
The weak lots, It is felt. have heen
we'll eliminated In recent weeks The
trade now ie disposed to wait until
manufacturers really want or need
to buy wool. as otherwise good prices
are not possible. All elements in the
basis established, something which
has not existed for a week. Natural
", this cannot be realized without a
fair buying movement, and nothing
Of this nature was evidenced on sum-
mer street today.
Evening star., 1923-09-01
PRICES co LOWER
! IN STOCK MARKET
Dawson Chemicals Break
and Unsettled News Are
BeariSh Factors.
.Rr the Associated Press.

Ky fhe Associate ted Press.
NEW YORK, September 1.-Cn-
favorable foreign and domestic news
developments. coupled with pre-
cipitated drop of 154 points to 81 by
Dawson Chemical, caused n reac-
tionary tendency to values in todays
brief and quiet session of the stock
market. Some of the other chemical
issues and certain of the independ-
ent steels. railroads, equipments. oils.
motor accessories and various spe-
cialties declined l to points.
4 few shares moved counter to the
general trend. notably Dupont, Kay
ser, Austin Nichols and General Elec-
trio. Prices recovered slightly to-
ward noon on covering operations
over the week end and Dawson
chemical rose from its early low to
around 30.
The closing was heavy. Sales ap-
proXimated ga. 900 shares.