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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
STOCK LETTERS

NEW YORK, N. r., Dec. 12.-Profes- sional operators who sold stocks in past few sessions on belief that Federal Re- serve rate would be increased at yester- day afternoons meeting were forced to register their disappointment in today's market, after an unchanged rate had been announced late yesterday after noon. Their covering operations aug mented by buying as result Of other constructive factors, resulted in gener- ally higher prices in which some new high records were established. Strength of the railroad situation created by the commerce commission approval of Mis- souri Pacific plan impressed itself upon the trading in rails when 1t was re- called that 1t had been expected that similar steps in other fields would be taken as soon as Missouri Pacific plans had been passed upon. Industrial issues were generally influenced constructive ly by the announcement of constitutions aIity of the so-called dollar gas and the sharp advance of the "gas issues" and other companies likely to benefit on this decision. Professionals attacks upon market at intervals are to be ex- pected but until the general tenor of the bullish news upon which present market is founded undergoes decided change, they should prove only tenn porary. We would not be surprised to see some startling advances in some of the rail issues as promised develop ments in this group are expected to be very constructive. Jordan Motors Bosch Magneto, Brooklyn Union Gas are also expected to move upward John F. Clark & Co.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 12-The stock mar ket Friday continued it's upward move ment started in the last hour of Thurs day. Although the number of shares traded in, 1861 ,000, was not as great as some previous days, it was the most orderly market we have seen for some days past. The rail group behaved exceptionally well and was again the market leaders. Nickel Plate led the list with a high of 125, being points above the close last night. In addition two items of news came over the wires to further help in a new rail movement Dow, Jones and company news bureau announced, Senator Bruce of Mary land, (democrat), has introduced a bill to reimburse the railroads for service rendered the government during the wal and period of government control" The same financial news agency announced Judge Lovett of the Union Pacific issued statement today to effect that he can see nothing in the outlook for the railroads which does not warrant great optimism and that there is every indication that 1925 will be a record year for the railroads" We believe the market will continue with a buoyant tone. We are not worried about the small reactions, believing that a bull market which runs without reactions for a long period Is apt to be danger ous.-Steiner, Rouise and Stroock. -%>
 STEEL MARKET
 NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Steel prices unchanged.
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nrErAT. MARKET

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Copper firm, electrolytic, spot and nearby 14$, fu- lures 14B @14h.
 Tin firm spot and futures 5.37; iron steady prices unchanged; lead firm spot $9.0OQ$9.25.
 Zinc firm East St. Louis spot 7.30; futures $7.30@$7.32.
 AntimonY spot 14.S1.
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Market FLashes

NEW YORK, Dec. 12-Directors Of the Fisher Body corporation today rec. commended that the present 600,ooo shares of common stock, with no par valve. be split up on four to one basis by the issuance of 2,40O,0oo shares of common with a par value of $25. A special meeting of stockholders to vote on the plan was called for December 29 here,
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dustry is one of the most striking
 records now being written into the pages of business history. Seven years ago, the industry was but a frail infant, cradled in the understanding of only a few of the worlds scientifically inclined minds. Today the Industry is a lusty giant with an influence that reaches all stations of life and into the most remote regions of the national map. Beliefs that the industry was of the mushroom variety have given way to convictions that 1t Is destined to find rank with the telephone and the automobile.
 So rapid has been the growth of radio that entirely accurate statistics are not available. The most reliable estimates, however, agree that total sales of radio appartus at retail in 1920 were around $2, GOO OO0. The following year, they in-
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WINDS

East Gulf: Moderate west and south west, and weather fair Saturday.
 West Gulf: Moderate south and south west, and weather fair Saturday
 Caribbean Sea and Windward Passage Moderate northeast, and weather overcast possibly local rains Saturday.
 Sandy Hook to Hatteras: Increasing south and southwest becoming strong, ana weather overcast, probably local rains over north portion Saturday.
 Hatteras to Florida Straits: Moderate to fresh southwest, and weather fair Sat urday.
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MONEY MARKET

NEW YORK, Dec 12.-Call money steady; high 3h; low 3h; ruling rate 5h; closing bid 31; offered at 3%; last loan 3h; call loans against acceptances 8. Time loans firm; mixed collateral .6O-90 3A%2h;4-6 months S%; prime commercial paper 31h hQsN.
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JAMES A. DUKE BEGAN CAREER
 IN LOG CABIN
Worked Early And Late To Amass Millions Now
 Given Away
By B. c. FORBES

 telephoned me very early in the war and said he had something on his mind. We had a
 long talk, and l came away feeling that Duke was one
 of the most selfish of men. Briefly. he wanted me to protest against pro- posals then being made to impose very heavy war taxes ' upon the rich. He had had
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MARKETS AT A GLANCE

NEW YORK: Stocks strong, Van Sweringen rails at new highs. Bonds firm; convertible rail liens in demand.
 Foreign exchanges reactionary; Dutch guilders drop 16 points.
 Cotton advanced; firmer spot markets. Sugar irregular.
 Coffee higher; trade buying. CHICAGO.-Wheat strong; increased foreign buying.
 Corn higher; bullish crop estimates. Hogs steady to higher.
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RICE MARKET

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 12.-Rough rice strong; no sales; millers receipts 3,375 sacks.
 Clean rice strong, sales 169 Caro- lima 6% 169 Screenings 3%; receipts 4611 pockets. Bran and polish un- chaRed,
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NAVAL STORES

SAVANNAH, Ga, Dec. 12.-Turpen. tine firm; IT; sales 353; receipts $50 shipments 1,108; stock 13,266. Rosir firm; sales 1,56S; receipts 1,472; ship. ments 1,766; stock s9,32s.
 Quote: B to H, $40; 1, $50; K, 6.so; M, 6.65; Wg, 765; Wv, $50; x, s.75.
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LONn0N MONEY

LONDON, Dec. 12.-Bar silver 33 1-16 pence per ounce; money 2A per cent.
 Discount rates short bills 3a @3 11-16 per cent; three months bills 11-160
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WEEKLY LIVERPOOL

LIVERPOOL, Dec 12.-Weekly cotton statistics: total forwarded to mills ST., 900 bales of which American 4S,000. Stock 572.0oo, American 430,00o. I'm ports 186,000 American 163,o00. Exports 900 American 1000.
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I.0CAL DATA

For the "A hours ending at p. m., Fri day, December 12, 1924:
 Highest temperature ...........'... % Lowest temperature ............... go Mean temperature ............... 50 Normal temperature ............... ~ Deficiency in temperature since Jan-
 uary l. .....'.....''. o4o Rainfall '''''' v Total rainfall since January 1...... 39.4l l Deficiency in rainfall since January 745 Relative humidity, a. m 62
 ( D. m. Dry thermometer, a. m. 40
 12 noon ...,............... 60
 n mn. ,.,.,.......... 55 Wet thermometer, a.. m. m............ o4
 12 noon ......s...."...s 4o
 D. m. .'ssssss'.ss r1
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CASH GRAIN

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 12.-Cash wheat No. red, $16o@1S5; No. 8, red, $1.76@1.sO. Corn No. 8 white $1.20; No. 2 yellow $1.24h.
 Oats No. white 62Ac%e3; No. 8 white 60cA61h.
 Close: Wheat December S1.61%; May $167A.
 Corn December $1.23h; May $1.30%. Oats December 59hc; May 65h.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 12-wheat No. hard $163A A1.64; No. 8 hard $1.61A o 1924.
 Corn No. 2 mixed $1.24N@1.25; No. 2 yellow $1.25h Q1.26.
 Oats No. white 6oc@61A; No. 8 white 5Thc@56A.
 Rye No. 3, $1.31k @1.32.
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BAR SEVER

BAR SEVER NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Bar silver 6SM; Mexican dollars 53.
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Four hundred fourteen thousand tons of rubber is the estimated world produc- tion for 1924. Of this amount the Unit ed States will probably require 315.000 tons. This Is about seven times the amount we consumed in 1913 We may soon literally be riding on rubber"
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Why not give the railroads a legislative holiday? Why not close the book on lawmaking un- til there is a well-demonstrated need for new or different regula- tory measures; and permit the carriers to operate efficiently and satisfactorily; continuing to af. ford to the people of the United
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The United States national debt has been reduced at the rate of $SOO,OO0,OOo a year during the past five and one half years. Government securities in the hands of the public June 30, 1919 were $25, ASA, ,506, ,160, as against $21,241,- 535, ,13S on December 1, 1924. This is a most remarkable achievement. In the meantime, however, our state and mu- nicipal debts are leaping upward. Here is where we need the firm financial hand.
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STEEL MARKET NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Steel prices unchanged.
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States the best transportation facilities on the face of the globe, at the lowest cost to the people?
 Just at this time it is interest ing to know that the actual Governmental expenditures on account of railroad regulation during the year of 1923, totaled $5,293, ,444.00.
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The government will withdraw $S,300,- 900 from Federal Reserve banks in this district, December IS.
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"At the end of the Civil war little James B., with his father and two brothers-his mother was dead-lived throughout the winter in log cabin on the farm. All four slept on straw tick in a corner of the cabin.
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LISTENING IN ON EYE

him to be too good looking. Rugged-- that's what the girls like. Sturdy oak rock of Gibraltar--you know what l mean, The contrast makes her seem so much more feminine and appealing.
 "A girl may, fall for handsome man, but she usually ditches him, just as Catalpa has ditched this Ringmy Upp. Her>frst enthusiasp wears off if the en- gagement is long enough to last be- yong the triunfphal period of parading him before her enyious friends and makes them suffer from hopeless jeal- |ousy.
 "There isn't much of anything else she can do with him, you see. He's got to have ari audience or he gets restless and peeyish and in her meditative mo- ments she realizes that there will be times when she'll want to sort of sit around home and read the latest fashion papers and have him complete the sketch by sitting on, his spine in an easy chair in slippers and smoking jacket sperusing detective story. And she doesn't want to be obliged to run down and stoke any furnace because darling is hot-toweling his face or mas saginge his scalp or manieuring his hands and prefers not to be interrupted. So she gives him the air and takes mo- tice of the fellow in the next block. one who looks something like a highbinder, but is good to his folks. ;.
 He probably resented the fact that Catalpa. is some locker herself and be-
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fhn t0.feef that she was tAkinG au u due share of the limelisht and staft<x |edeing her offstage or something l51 Ethat. Being q girl of spirit, she tuQk matters into her own. hands and canne1 him.
 aI admire her Independence. 8 never would have done in the warl&
 Rinsmy Upp is to matrimony wh@ alligator pears, Egyptian melons and Roquefort cheese dressing are to- n ordinary humdrum family dinnerstD be viewed with alarm if not suspioio5k Those culinary items are. perfectly III
 right with shaded candles and loW- necked dresses when nobody dares eat all he wants anyhow, but when it is 2 case of sitting down just as you cana home from the office and using t6 same napkin for two days to save laui5
 dry they are not 50 good. I shouldlsaS 1t is no wonder the poor girl broke hEf engagement, and no doubt she is wofk dering how on earth she was ever so foolish as to get into the mess, am how !v Il don't believe it was that at aiIfs
 declared the girl who thought she kiieW
 everything. s.You're just jealous nf Ripgmy because he is better looking than you are! He has the most won derful eyes!"
 q am not. in the least jealous !'' pryt tested the man who had brains but wID
 short on looks. T am merely gratE fled that Catalpa has come to her sens7 and realized that true worth counts. q
 think I'll go around and see her tt9 evening and intimate as much to her q
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 Coon as he looked down.
 time had rough Brother North Wind used all his strength against that big chestnut tree. Sometimes he had made it tremble ever 80 little, but that was all, and Bobby curled up in his snug bed and laughed at rough Brother North Wind. He just couldn't imagine any thing really happening to his tree.
 But something was happe.--: now {! There wasn't the smallest doubt about it. The great old tree shivered and shook with erery blow. At last Bobby could stand it no longer. He just had to know what was happening. and what it all meant. With his teeth chatter ing with fright he crawled up to his doorway and looked down. Badly frightened as he was, what he saw frightened him still more. It frighten- ed him so that he let go his hold and tumbled down to his bed. Of course that didn't hurt him, because it was soft, and in a minute he was scrambling up to his doorway again.
 "What shall I do? What can I do?" whimpered Bobby Coon as he looked down with frightened eyes. "I can't run, and can't stay. What can do? What can I do?"
 Bobby Coon was horribly frightened. There was no doubt about it, he was horribly frightened. Have you guessed what it was that he saw? We'll it was Farmer Brown and Farmer Browns Boy chopping down the big chestnut tree which had been Bobby's home for so long. And looking on was Bowser the Hound.
 Next Story: Bowser Discovers Someone At Home.
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Home Nursing
Eatins-Not Wisely, But Too

The man looked at his wife over the evening paper, blinked a few times yawned, stretched out his arms and said, ,l.I think I'll turn in..'
 My dear, it's only eight-thirty! r remonstrated his wife, She glanced wistfully toward the cribbage board that she had just placed in the circle of lamp light. {,
 T know---busy day--lots of work to do tomorrow--couldn't sit through a game of crib tonight without falling asleep" And he kissed his wife cas- ually and went off to bed. b
 The same thing happened almost every night unless visitors dropped in, Then Tom Hornby yawned, looked weary and was so uninterested in the conversation that his wife was always half ashamed.
 .:Goodness only knows, I don't see why men should be so stupid when they come home at night" she scolded to herself as she put away the cribbage board. She settled down to long lonely evening by the fire with book that was. not exciting enough to pre- vent her hearing her husbands meas ured breathing drifting downstairs through the, quiet house. '
 T run around all day, upstairs and down. answering the front door bell and the telephone and standing on my feet baking. and ironing or wheeling the baby's carriage for blocks when my feet ache until l can hardly bear it. Btt baby has to have the fresh air-and I'm sure l don't go to sleep night after night just as soon as have my din- ner. Life is so drab when one only eats and sleeps and works and sleeps again. .
 As she sat musing by the fire the woman wrinkled her brow in sudden understanding. Why haven't Il thought of that before?' she asked her- self. Of course food has great tsS l t5 do with ones habits, Tom dasles out of the office at noon and eats something he can swallow in hurry baked beans or macaroni and cheese and pie and coffee or perhaps glass or milk and doughnuts. Then he spends the rest of the day in an office that is probably too warm. When he comes home he has heavy dinner and eats far too much. Later he sits by the fire and relaxes and I blame him fo: wanting to go to sleep, when ! have been waiting all day to talk to him.
 Poor dear! This is the time to serve salads and fruit desserts. instead Of pies and pudding-and they're much less trouble too !-and eggs and meat, less dinners at least twice week, and the other evenings nourishing soups and easily digested food like fish and chicken instead of chops and steaks and roast meats"
 So Mary Hornby, a college bred woman who knew food values, revised her grocery list for the following day. checking off meats and ingredients for the buildings that Tom liked so we'll.
 Gradually she substituted lighter meals for the, heavy dinners sine had been serving. There was less bulk. es- pecially in fats. sugar and starchy
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liceman again, if you are not satisfied. ;
 So the nice.; fat policeman. finally said, "All right! Go ahead, Raggedy Ann v and stood up while Raggedy Ann read the magic words from the book Every one was so surprised when the nice, fat policeman slowly changed as they watched from fat policeman into very happy looking young man
 There! You see!' Raggedy Ann laughed. Granma Gazook gave a glad cry and threw her arms around the young man.
 "It's Granpa Gazook, only he is as young as when he disappeared years ago.'
 So in order to make everything jus, right, Raggedy Ann soon changed Granma Gazook into a very pretty young lady and every one caught their hands and danced around the Gazook's 's living room. And the old Magician was as happy as1the others. -t =
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DIRT in home may be woman's problem, butit's aman' 'sresponsi6;lity. For it will cease to be there when he supplies her with efficient means to remove it. Regularly, she sweeps and dusts; she spares no effort. But most of the dirt is beyond her reach with broom. It is embedded deep in the nap of the rugs. It is the dirt that Only beGting wiX dislodge. And without
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But wait.' the nice. fat policeman suddenly cried, Suppose the Magician changed me from fat pig into fat policeman! I would not care to be changed back into a fat pig!'
 That is truer' Harry Hoolygooly said. No one cares to be Q, pig, even if they do sometimes make pigs out of themselves! Do not change the nice, fat policeman back into a piet"
 Raggedy Ann laughed a soft cottony laugh, Don't you believe it v she said. ''The Magician always made things worse with his magic when he was a mean old Magician, so l am sure that the nice, fat policeman must have been something even nicer than he is now Y
 The nice, fat policeman was doubt full, but Raggedy Andy said, Even if you are changed, Raggedy Ann can change you back into the nice, fat po-
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LITTLE BEDTIME STORY
Bobby Coon Has a Horrible Fright
ey TMoRMroM W. BURGESS

house begin to sway; that IS, move a little from side to side. A new fear drove everything else out of his head the fear that his house might be going to fall! He couldn't believe that this could be 80. and yet he had the feeling that it was so, and he couldn't get rid of it. He had lived in that house a long, long time, and never in all that long, long time had he once had such Ia feeling as now possessed him. Many stay. Now, can you think of anything worse than that?
 The tree trembled more and more, and by and by it began to do more than tremble. With dreadful. q very dread full sinking of his heart Bobby felt his
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policeman That's what!'' At this, the old Magician stood up with a look of surprise on his face.
 "Oh! I had forgotten" he cried as he held to his chair, T changed the nice, fat man into policeman long, long time ago! Don't you remember?' he asked the policeman.
 Not even speck!' the nice, fat policeman replied. Are you sure?"
 II cannot remember what you were before I changed you into a nice, fat policeman, but you were something, that is certainr
 Then let's change him back!" Rag gedy Andy said, "Fsasgedy Ann can. do it with the large red book of magic, l am sure" So Raggedy Ann put the large red book of magic on the table and read how to work the magic, to fit the fat policeman's case.
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Considering Causes

ssTHERE goes Cataipha Brittle! v
 T observed the woman who was continually looking out the front window to see what she could see. "Td i've good deal to know why she broke .... her engagement with Rinemy Upp He is such handsome young man and i,as such prospects!"
 That's probably the reason" as. serted the man who had brains but no beauty. A woman gets awfully tired of handsome man, because he is so deeply interested in being handsome that he has no time at all to notice her good looks, let alone talk about them
 If it is profile that he is strong on she never can work the lookdeepin- tomyeyes stunt because he is eternally sitting sideways to display the line of his nose and forehead. Whenever he appears he expects the feminine popu- lace to gasp, with it's hand on it's heart; because it is SO thrilled and bubbling over with emotional ecstasy
 "He never feels that it might be a good thing to do a little of the admiring himself and no girl need expect that he is going to say. Heavens, Mabel, how beautiful you are tonight! never dreamed that womnn could be so beau tifulv
 And that is such. a tonic to girl, especially if deep down in her heart she knows that her eyes are too small, her chin too large and her complexion not what it might be just after she has washed her face in soap and water. She likes to think that here is one man with sense enough to appreciate her elusive type,
 No girl likes to marry a maa 50 homely that the dogs bark at him and children scream and run when he ap- pears, but nevertheless she doesn't want foods. Her husband scarcely noticed when she began carrying coffee into the living room after dinner instead of serving it at the table. He said the coffee seemed to wake him up and he began suggesting game of cribbage. Mary wisely allowed the coffee to re- ceive the credit for the. fact that her husband, having eaten less heavy food, was wide awake and cheerful after din ner, instead of dozins by the fire, be- cause he had eaten unwisely.
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ROSE LACOMBE

Rose Lacombe was born in 1I6S, and became an actress. When the French revolution broke out she be- came leader of that crowd of ferocious women who devoted them selves to the relentless pursuit of the French aristocracy. Her bravery was such that the city of Marseilles decreed to her a civic crown.
 She entered with her whole soul into all the scenes of savage cruelty which disgraced those times. After having been the recognized leader of the re- publican women, she suddenly lost near ly all of her infleunce when she at- tempted to save a young nobleman with whom she had fallen in love.
 The latter part of her life was passed in a small shop, where she lived by selling trinkets.
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When ironing round centerpieces, doil- ies or lunchcloths lay the linen so the threads run in the same direction as the ironing board. The iron will then. naturally. move parallel withthe warp ot the fabric. If the linen is ironed dlagonally it will wear out more quick ly. Place a heavy bath towel or thick flannel sunder the linen piece before ironing.