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many became bankrupts. moiu: THAN an.ooo HVrmon HAVE BEEN FILED. *<■••■ of Liabilities In 10,540 rant** la Yulantarr Baakraptar \\ aa t204.1iT0.1A2. Wkllf the Atari* nrrr Oaly fl:i:*.nsH.77l—There Were l.niai Involuntary Frfltlona—tlank rnpfor 1.0 Haa Bran Takm .%d --raalatr t l> All C laaara. NVaabtnglon. Nov. IS.—E. C. BranJer bur*. In charge of bankruptcy matt era, haa made a report to the Attorney Gen eral or. the operation of the bankruptcy act of July 1. IBSoj Tne report aaya. wh reference to voluntary <w, that a-tvan la being taken of the law by men of ait claaaea and tn all watke of life, and in every aeotlon of the country. The atatea allowing the greatest num ber of petitions filed during the year are Jlnot. with 3.t0. New York, with 1.007; lowa. 902; Ohio. 867; Minnesota. Mi. and Pennsylvania, 9U9. The amatlesl number of voluntary petitions were filed In the following states: Nevada. *; Delaware and Wyoming, 13 eaeh, Idaho, 30; South Carolina. 37; Oklahoma, 39; Florida, *7. and Rhode Island. *. The grand total of patitlons filed in me Vnlted States for the period ending Sept, yi 19" la 20.1*8. exclusive of those for the IVteiern district of Lemtstan.i. the dis trict of Alaska and for half of the year for the Southern district of Georgia. New Jsrsev. Ihe Eastern district of North rarotuia. the Western district of Tennes see and the Eastern district of Virginia, iroro which semi-annual teporta were not received from the clerks' reports It appears that of the voluntary petitions all were adju dicated bankrupt except 237. In which the petitions were dismissed, and that dia mante* were refused Mi seventy-one case* Ccropoattlona were confirmed In 204 ca • The liabilities in 19,540 voluntary cases reported by the referees amounted to E'U.- Fe.l.'C. white the total amount of assets In these oases was 133.(8^.771. The nature of the business In which the petitioning bankrupts were engaged, os disclosed by the summary of the referees' reports, is proportioned as follows 2.(157 were farmers. 7.61 k wagt earners, 4MI merchants. 361 manufacturers. .SO* profes sional men. and 4.435 contractors, hotel keepers and others of a miscellaneous character. In Involuntary case* I*lo petitions were filed, of which adjudications were made tn all except 186 rases Of the Involun tary case* fifty compositions were enteied Into by the bankrupts and their creditors, which were confirmed. The llah.ittp-s Involved In 1 242 cases upon which reports were male were 127- 379(01. while the aaaeta scheduled was 213,- 433.30 in 209 cases no assets werer sched uled and In a number they were classed as unknown or nominal The petiti dts ehow that of those adjudicated Invol n tary bankrupts M were wage-earners. S9I merchants. 102 manufacturers. 9 profes sion-! men. 346 miscellaneous and 7 farm er*. who fotmerly had other occupations JOHN W. lIEYDRIB IS UK At). He IVa a rrnmlaful mtl Hcelibv C*tlren of ( nnnerllrnf. Sound Beech, Conn.. Nov. IS John W. Hendrl*. one of the moM prominent *nt wealthy men of (hie elate end distin guished by hi* philanthropic works and Sifts to educational Institutions In va rious parts of the country, died to-day from ireneral debility. He was born In V? 1 In Sound Bench and remained here until 12 year* of aire. when he secured s r- mi ion as a teacher. Afterward he en ured Yale College, graduating In 1851. In ISS4 he went Weal to seek his fortune and with n small capital entered Into bus iness In San Francisco, huvlng os a part ner K K. Lockwood of New York, with whom he continued to be associated In \artou* enterprises for half a century WORKIVfS FOR A rOSVENTKW. Mobile Has gent advance Delegation tn Yew Orleans. New Orleans. Nov. 25.—The Mobile dele ration 10 Ihe Southern Industrial Conven tion, which assemble* In this city on Tuesday, Dec. 4. sent their secretary to New Orleans to arrange for opening reu ular headquarter* for their delegation In anticipation of an energetic and determin ed effort to have XJoblle selected as the Ilaca for holding the next .-onventlon. This was done and ihe hcadqis-irt-.-rs of the Mobile delegation trill be ai T ilaiv Hall, where the convention henJquatto.a will be The places that have signified their In tention of making a contest for this hon or are Mobile. Memphis, Little Ho k. l.ouirvllle, Waco ami Jackson. Mi s. NIC W WAGE M ALE AGREED ON. Differences .About Settled on Lehigh Valley Itaiiroad. Wllkesbarre. Pa , Nov. 25 —The grlev ancee of the Brotherhood men employed on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, It Is be lieved. have been settled as the result of a conference between the officials of the road and a committee of twenty-eight employes representing the federated brotherhoods Anew wage edale was agreed upon. The brakemen employed on freight arid coal trains on branches of the road will receive an increase of from l ft to 25 per rent In wages and all extra time will be paid for. FOOD FOR REFLECTION. Hhsl F.nwllah Have Learned From American Jockeys. London, Nov. *4—The Sporting Life thinks thet the results of the season "will furnish fond for reflection to those Kng llah Jockeys w ho have been wlow to recog nise the merit# of the style of their ri val*." The Sporlrman says: "ft would be offectatlon to deny that our robust faith in the tnvlnelMilty of the English Jockeyw has received a rude ahaktng. hut whatever can he said against the Americans, the Inexorable logic of •vents hat Juatlfied thalr employment." GREW OCT OF AKRON RIOTS. Knpler Convicted of lalaafal Pas aeaelnn of Ittaaniltr, Akron, 0., Nov. ft—El ward Eppley was '■•day found guilty of the unlawful pos ••tnion of dynamite. This la one of the growing out of the riots here In August, last, when the city building was ’ own up and burned. This la the fifth ■ onvmtlon that has been secured, but Jury only returned a verdlet after the >dge hid eent them hack with a sharp reprimand Yew School at Woodbine, Jl. J. Woodhlna, N. J.. Nov. 25.—The new Huron de Hlrsch Agricultural and Indus trial School building located here waa •Vdlcated to-.lwy. The school, the object which la tha training of Jewish yo tint non and women to become practical and Intelligent fanners and assistant* In Jtlry. poultry. hortlcuKur.il and ether farming departments, is a part of tha ag •Cultural plant eatoMiaiicd kata aotne years ago* —. HIGH WATER IN KBNTI’CKY. Barlows Situation of AValrs for the Hallroada. Louisville. Nov. *5.—A traveling man. after a trip through Western Kentucky i and Tennessee, arrived In Louisville to ! night over the Illinois Central from Pa- I dueah The train was due at 5:45 o'clock, but did not arrive until midnight. He reports a bad state of affairs tn Western Kentucky on account of the htgn water. The moat disastrous flood In years ! seems imminent. He eatd that between Paducah and | Reeves Junction, a distance of about fifty miles, the water had encroached upon the lilinote Central tracks in many places i •''•"ar Boa*, in Graves county, for three | miles the train ran through waier up to : the first step of the coaches. At Me- Nalry. In Graves county, the water had encroached upon the Illinois Central tracks for the first lime in nine yeare. According to thla man no trans ran nr forty-eight hours over the Nashville, j Chattanooga A St. Louts Railway tracks between parts, Tenn . and Paducah. On ' Friday night the Nashville, Chattanooga ■ A St. Louis was checked by water two miles from Murray. Ky The water was so high that the conduc tor wa* afraid to proceed. No one could come out from Murray without help, so that for twenty-four hours the passen gers lived, wster-bound. on the coaches, without anything to eat. except a few crackere and the etuft the train boy sold. Saturday night a relieving force was gotten to Ihe train, and with men wading ahead through water want deep to show the way the train was going to Murray at the rate of half an hour At soma places sandbags had to be sunk on the < toss ties to hold the track. NcQl EBi Bl HM;t> TO DEATH. I amp Exploded In the Room Where Hr W a* Asleep. Columbia, 8 C., Nov. *6 —Mr Donald McQueen sueiatned Injuries from the ex plosion of a lamp which caueed his death this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mr. McQueen had been lying tn bed reading, a nightly custom, and had dropped aslaep Hla wife, coming Into the room, lowered the light and went out. A few minutes later : .in explosion was heard. The famtlj rushed Into the room and found Mr. Mc- Queen in flam*'. Hla 12-year-old non. In heroically fighting ihs flames, was pain fully burned Mr. McQueen s whole body was blister ed and In some places his flesh was ■ burned to a crisp In a very few seconds For twenty-five yeara he was agent of the South Caroline road, until It wax leased to the Southern His father receiv ed a medal for gallantry In the Mexican War. and hi* wife Is a descendant of one of Oeorgo Washington's cahlnet. TABLET FOR THE ST. PAUL. It la Hade of Rronae From Historical rsstot. St Paul. Nov 25 The memorial tablet to be presented bv the Commercial Club of thla city to the steamship Sf Paul, to commemorate her services during the Spatilah-Amertcan war, la three feet high by two feet wide, end weighs I*9 pounds The bronae from which It was cast *e historical, being taken from rannon from the Spanish cruiser Marta Teresa, the torpedo destroyer Terror and the collier Merrtmac, which LJrut. Hobson sank in the channel al Santiago. The picto rial design represents the battle between Ihe St. Paul and the destroyer Terror In the harbor of San Juan. The lettering gives the chronological story of Ihe ser vices of the steamehtp while acting xs a converted crulaer under Capt. Bigsbee from April 30 to Sept. 9>, 1*99. SKELETON OF YOI JMS GIRL. Was Found In the Bottom of a Well al Pana, 111. Pana. 111., Nov. 17 —Much excitement was occasioned to-day by tha finding of rhe aksleton of a young glrL presumably II or 13 years of sge. In a well on the Hru not farm. In April last the dead body of Jcne Brunot nasi found In this same well Mrs Brunot was murdered by two of her nephews, who are now serving life sen tn cea In the Chester penitentiary. To day the work of cleaning the well eut was commenced, and at the bottom wax found the almost perfect skeleton of a young girl. A bracelet badly water soak* I naa found, as was also a comb and a key. I.IMON LYNCHING CONDEMNED. %n Appeal Unde to the People rvf the lulled States. Colorado Springs. Col.. Nov. IS—A mass meeting was held In the chapel of Colo rado this afternoon to voice sentiments on the Llmon lynching. The building wss packed and resolution* denouncing mob law and a reversion to the days of bar barity were passed unanimously. The resolutions dosed with ths following ap |ieal to the people of ths United Steles "We protest to our countryman through out the land that as law-abiding people we share with them tha haiarda of tnob •bulltlon tn revolt at nameless horrors and claim with them tn be judgad not by fla grant exceptions, but by ihs steady peace and order of our dally Ilfs.” SECRETARY ROOT COMES HOME. Tried tn Laud at St. Aagnstlue, but Had to Go to Jacksonville. 8* Augustine, Nov. IS.—The steamer Kanawha, with Secretary of War Root and Gov. Gen. Wood of Cuba, lay oft this port ail day, expecting lo croes the bar thla evening, but had to giva up and sail for Jacksonvllia. where the Secretary taxes rati for Waantngton to-night. Gov. Gen Wood wIW Join Mrs Wood and children here and leave for Havana with them to morrow. There was much disappointment that the Secretary and party ooukl not land bets. Klasuru'a Roily Found, Philadelphia, Nov. 26 —The tnystory aur roundtng the disappearance of Henry Kiauasen. first officer of Ihe Dutch steam er Zehtirg. on Oct. 7, when that vassal was at this port was partly clsared up to-day when the body of tha first officer was found floating In the Delaware river near the pier, where the Zeburg had been docked Although It is believed that Klausaen was aectdantally dmtened the police are not satisfied with thle theory and are investigating the case. A New Line of Steamer#. Berlin. Nov. *&.—Slemssen A Co s, a well known shlpowlng firm In Hamburg, will cstabllth a .Ire of steamers*to Hong Kong and Bbanghal. ‘ ‘last as good as Eat-WeH” HEA NS THAT Bat-Well is the Best THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. NOVEMBER 20. lfiOO. Rico It is a good soap. It is kept by all the leading grocers. Florid* 3o*p Work*, JspVsonvilla. AFTER GREEN GOODS FAKIRS. AMENDMENT TO INTERSTATE COM MENCE LAW WANTED. Xaggraled by the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General—Muck other Leglslaflua la I raed—There Were 13.142 Appointments of Postmas ters During Last Fiscal Vest-Ef fort to Suppress Pus to HI res Con ducted (nr Private Henellt. Washington. Nov. S> —Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. John L. Bristow, tn his annual rtiwi recommends an amend ment to the Interstate commerce law pro hibiting telegraph and express companies or their employes from aiding or abet ting In the green goods or lottery swindles or any other scheme carried on partly by mall and partly by common carrier and in violation of the postal laws Other legis lation urged Is as follows Authorising postoffira inspectors to tike out search warrants whenever necessary, payment of Incidental expenses lncurrel by local officers or others In the arrest de tention, and keeping of prisoners violat ing pomal laws until transferred to tha United States marshal's custody, con struction of inspectors lookout towers In pen offices when-ver deemed necessary hy tha poet master goner* I and prohibition cf loose pouching of circulars, calendars, etc . oa-tng to small pieces of mall matter frequently slipping tn large unsealed en vnk-pex In tianxlt. There sraro 16,141 appointment* of posl maaters made during the past fiwwl yeai. 14.435 being of the fourth clast, and W 7 being prwakfenttal. an Increase of 63* In all over loot year There also has been n Increase In tha number of resignations, especially of fourth class postmaster* Fewer renxnuis for Irregularities were made than last year. A vigorous efTort has been made to sup press prat (offices conducted throughout ths country for the sole benefit of some corporation, fiuraery company, patent medicine firm or other private institution, who#* operations deprive the government of lta legit,mate revenues. The company or oorporatlon usually has come one con nected with it appointed postmaster, on.l tl.us gets the advantage of the ran,rails - t|one or the salary end allowances of the postmaster These inmittillons sometimes have derived thousands of dollars of rev enue from the government, which virtually amounted to a commission or discount on their postal business. A Gf.YTLEg AY FROM JAPAN. He la In Desaferl to See About Bay. Ing Phosphate Rock. Beaufort. ft C. Nov ft-Mr, S Y Mori, of Tokto Japan, la a guest at Ihe Sea Island Hotel. He is president of a large phosphate Industry near Toklo. Mr Mori has been In America about ten days He came bore to negnstate the purchase of a large amount of plioaphat* rock He eays Japan Is becoming largely in terested In the manufacture nf fertiliser from American phosphate, and that the manufactured product Is consumed bv the farmers of hie country, and exported to lees enterprising section# of the Orient He la much pleased with America and will return home via San Pranclaeo He has visited the several plants In operation here and expressed a lively tntereet In tha Im proved methods employed in the handling and preparation of the product for the market. RROIOHT BACK TEN DEER. A Party of Soreessfal Hunters Just Returned From tliuhse. The second deer hunting party of the season returned late Saturday night from Oiaahgw Island, having kUisJ thlrtean deer, ten of wtilch they brought with them. The other three were eatfn while the hunt lasted. The party waa under the experienced guidance of Mr. Oeorgo M Willett of Isle of Hope. Itself a guar antee of a successful hunt, and consisted of Messrs. C. S Cary. R A. oreaves. J. F. Buckner and C 6 Cary. Jr.. Dr. C. S Jernlgan. Mrs C S. Cary and Mlsa Mary Cary, all of Sparta, and Messrs L. B Larlscy. Frank Armstrong. Henrjr Monaghan and W. S Winn of Ravanna t. The party went down Monday morning on Mr Monaghan’s launch, Hetty, and left the Island Saturday night, though not all of the crowd returned, the Sparta contingent having staid over for a few days to ahoot duck* and to fish. In the deer shooting Mr. Winn osrrted ofT the honors for the party by getting four Mr Buckner came next with three to his credit i RKIYYER'R MORIIIRLK CRIME). Forced Woman to Drink < arbollo Add and Drank It Himself. Easton. Pa., Nov 25 -Mrs. Trsncaa Milt ford, whom Nelson Skinner of Mid dletown. Md . attempted to murder In Easton Thursday morning by forcing car bolic acid down her throat, died to-day After forcing Mrs Mlltford to swallow carbollo acid. Skinner drank a quantity of the acid and died shortly afterward Skinner aa Mrs. Mlltford# stepbrother. Two Shot by a Burglar. Cleveland, O .Nov. ft—At an early hour this morning e burglar entered the house of Jacob Ooldman on WoodUwn avenue, aoldman a eon grappled with the robber and waa shot through tha law. Mr* Ooldman was also shot. In tha breast The former may die. Tha burglar es caped. Dernmpnerd llndlee Found. Peru. Ind . Nov ft-The decomposed bodies of Jerry and Patrick Holland, brothers, aged i end 54 year* respective |y. were found In their house to-day. No marka of violence were found, and as tha men. when last seen eight or ten days ago. were drinking. K la believed they were drugged. Combine of Cement Mill*. Louisville. Nov. ft—'The Courier-Journal to-morrow wilt say that the fourteen ce ment mills located tn the vicinity of this city end Jeffersonville. Ind.. which sup ply the greater part of tha United itlatee. have In contemplation tha formation of a combine. McKinley Rack In Waabtnwtisn. Washington, Nov. ft—President McKin ley. the member# of the cabinet ami Bc -retary nor tel you. who attended the Union League banquet In Philadelphia last nlgbt returned to Washington at 7JO o clock title morning - NEW YORK'* ODD RE3TAIRANTS. Beef Bleak Dungeon* the Newest Thing la Entlna Houses. From the New- York Sun. While New Yorkers are confirms,! diners out, and there ure more restaurant* In town in proportion to population than In Shy other city tn the world, there la a surprising lack of charm or novelty In the arrangements of the average dining place. Avery few are modeled on a naw plan or In Imitation of soma foreign res taurant, and these are tnvartably widely advertised and well patronised, but the usual type teems to be either the staid severity of the fashionable hotel dining from or celluloid palm garden or else the glittering mirror-lined walls of Ihe Broad way chop houses Few of ihs popular place* have specialties of any particular siri The one restaurateur who used t,. be famous for his servlet of fish ha* ceased to cater to public trade, and the sameness of the menu* at the hotels is marked So the average New Yorker goes proses lug about for something new, and when he find* a Hungarian dinner In a cellar or a beefsteak dinner on s roof he give* lit his generous favor and spreads It* fam far and wddc The French and Italian eat Ing placea scattered so plentifully throughout the city are filled each night not so much owing to the excellence of the vlsnds ax to the informality of ar rangement that gives a certain picture etqurneas to them all Despite tha American reputation for originality and clever butlneea instinct* Americans fell to hava any place that even compare* faintly with the English lr.ns that have been immortalised In books and play*, nor have they anything like th* latter-day Richmond dinner*, whir!: are still such a feature of holiday life with Londoners, where fashion eongre rstaa Informally, and wrier* ths fare and company continue to uv-re*** in quality ill le true that attempts are made now end then toward establishing place* of the sort, but thsy dateilorat# to the common place vary soon or ar* abandoned Several years ago one restaurant deco rated Its room* with college colors and with the emblem* of tha different sport* and this feature made the place Immense-, ly popular for a time, especially with the college contingent Now there are so many of these decorations In restaurants that ihey have grown tiresome to look upon Another down town place adopted the fig ure of a cat as a symbol, using It on dishes and bills of fare and on the walla of th# dining-room In Imitation of e fa moil* Perl* eating place, and this grew to be a popular resort with th* Bohemian element The music of gypsy band* ha* made several Hungarian reeorts well known to those who are not particular *s lo what they eat so long as they hear good music during the repast With the growth of ♦ho new gttody chophouse the old fash ioned chophouwe has almost completely disappeared and In place of the solid woods and good paintings that used to be the pride of the proprietor of the oM-tlme place*, there 1* to-,lay cheap effort at dlxplay. One of the newest departures In the way of restaurants Is the beefsteak dun geon. which I* a |>art of several of the up-to-date eating places. The Idea orgl ntted a few year* ago with a restau rateur. who opened on* of these place* with rickety boxes and kegs as table*, few dishes and a general absence of or. namentatton. Absolute simplicity wss the rule, and Ihe servant was summoned by in old rusty row hell suspended from the celling Reeftteak. bread and butter and sic and beer were the on!y (s-e *ervd They were all of excellent quality and the place became a great resort tot sight seers and was engaged for many supp-w parties. A Fifth avenue restaurant keeper In troduced a decided novelty In the person of an Indian cook, who preparew and serves curried dishes In a chafing-dish Th* man wears hts native turban of silk and a suit of spotless linen and hi* cook ing Is aa faultless ss his manner of serv ing. ll* was employed In th* same ca pacity In a London hotel before coming to New York and served all the foreign notabilities. There probably he acquired hla manner of walling, which la the very Ideal of correct service. Another novelty In the was of restau rants Is found In Ihe basement of an up town residence, which has been turned Into an old-fashioned living-room with broad settee* covered with flowered cro ton The tables and seats. Including two roomy old rockers, ore placed Irregular ly, ar.d there are u*o enormous fireplaces where log* are kept burning, filling the room with the peculiar fragrance of burn ing pin*. The cook is a Southern mammy. lypiAil In appearance and In cooking, and Johnny cake and corn fritter* are fea tures of th* Southern dinner, which i served here with home-made preserves and othsr good things Rorodom of Couibuilla and Hl* Wove. From the New York World Tho unhapplest king In Ihe world Is King Norodom of Cambodia Cambodia, of course, sounds Ilka a comic opera country. Nevertheless It exists, ond If you look at your maps of the East you will find It It Is at tree sent a colony of Ft a nee, and. a* may be seen from the frequent report* (rom th* Congo region. Intareatlng things sometimes happen In ; the French colonies. I Norodom la. therefore, no longer a king \ at all. but. unfortunately, cannot get used to being treated as If he were hla own most criminal subject There ware certain differences of opin ion lately between the King and M de I Vernevll)*, chief of the French adminis tration. M. D. Vernevllle, by virtue of hie more recently conferred authority, eaw lit to enforo* Ms views and subordinate those of th* King. Accordingly this poor old ex-sovereign, who Is 7 year* old. feeble, amiable and harmless, wa* subjected to the. following incredibly brutal treatment: The native premier. Oum. wet directed to supervise th* King's punishment aa th* ft ret step toward Norodom* humiliation. This unrrateful brute directed (hat hla old master be put In Irons Thla would stem to be sufficient Indignity for a man who had ones *at on a throne, but Oum. who had. It appears, a score or two of hla own to settle, thought differently. He next had Hi* King chglne.l to the wall* of the palace and had the torture kept up aa long gs suited his pleasure When the old King wee released, he wa* In a fainting condition nod was re vived with grass dtfflcuMy. Meanwhile hla son and heir, Inkanthor. la In vain axpoetuletlng with Ihe French authorttle* while he himself remain* p*n nlieae In Brussels. He will be obliged. It 4s ft Id. to pawn hi* Cambodian crown jewel* in order to pay hi* board bill. Ail, Europe la dlscuaetnsr and oomnmulng on, (I'ranct'a raapotialbtllty. J THE NATIONAL BANKS. (Continual from Flril I’M* ) a* a cash resource a depewtt tn another national honk, called it* reserve agent. • ‘>n* of Unai imponanoa anti Involve* tha niom fundaments! principle* of *f hank ing Thn extent to which th# reserve of onr hank can nafrly be represented hy wh.n It practically a loan to another hank. Instead of hy cash n Its vault* la u proper subject for consideration m this ilnv tn view of tha financial experiences through which thla country haa partied during the pant few year*. In lime* of financial cri*ia. such aa UCtt. a hrn there are wt lete-presd withdrawal* In currency, not only In reserve nttes. hut throughout ihe country, the reserve cities are subjected too strain which eivlsngers th* stability of the entire hanking system. The reserve hank*, as a rule, recognta Ing: the Instability of l.nk twalance*. must lean .1 11rge proportion of their money on cal! To reoure sufficient cgll losns thr> must go to the ppt'oulalive exchanges a.ml the Injuilotm results of that practice are easily understood. It Is only hv loaning money on eoeeu lgtlve securities that the banks are en abled to pay the high rates of interest on hank deiMtrlt lalanres which form the attration to the country tvinke for the d*>os!t of eo much larger a portion *f tiielr fund** In New' York than is needed (or the cienranee of exchani** 1 tut tug the summer of there occurred a mark ed demonstration of the evil affords of this practice upon the legitimate hutNne*# of the country At that ttme there wms a marked in the ilemand for mney in the Interior of the country, and 1 lie hanks of that section found It difficult to safely loan tiieir fundi* Asa result the interest p*ld hy Fasten) reserve •\gents upon deposit haUnreß attracted an immense surplus to New York ami other Eastern cltl* a This redundancy of money in New* Yo-k •ml the Bast and the en*e with whl< h loans upon speculative collaterals sera there obtained Immediately rrestel a speculative movement in stocks, which was carried on with a mnstantlv rtdng range of prices until the fall of last year. At that time the crop movement in the West and the rising rate of interest the s leil the hanks of the Interior to draw upon their balancr* in New York end to order the shipment of large amount* of cur rency as against these balance* It la to le noted that at the time thew* de* nvtnds took place the hutne* of *ho country was in a prstpcrsuß condition with a tendency toward an lnc.reg*e *n general prices snd In the of labor There was no lack of confidence In ih*‘ country ami nothing Which indrtfel panic conditions, and yet this demand hv the hanks of the We.t for tht shipment of currency on with reserve agents resulted in a panic tiron the (Nock K*- rhange of New Yoik which Instantly bw i*arne a grave menaoo to the entire busi ness of Ihe country In the panic of !• the New York honks refused to ship currency In response to demand fr*m Iwnks In the interior for a on elder aMe time ehowrtng !n the extreme test nf panic that the reserve which had s een counted as cash by the hanke of the ountry wo* not, in fact, at oil times tivaliable to enable them to meet the demands of their depositors While re strictions placed up*** the power of banks to count a* hanking reserve so large a portion of money on deposit In reserve ■ltles will not have the effrr*! of prevent ing speculative transactions in money cen ters. It will not have a tendency to en courage them to so great an extent xs doe* the present law. at a risk tit time* ;o the best Interests of legitimate busi ness and at the co* of weakening the tanking system ae • bole by creating oo great a dispr on between the •ggregato cash resources ond aggregate deposit llahllttlew It Is to he remembered that so far xs the .thility of the banks to serve ths pub lic ip concerned it will not be materially impaired by smaller balances in reserve citiep The hanks, of necessity, must furnish exchange, and will accordingly keep rhe balance with correspondents nec essary for such purpose The permission given by the law to the hank to count as a part of their cash reserve n balance with thetr reserve agent is primarily for the purpose of convenience nd profit f*w the bunks, and not for the convenience of the public In -my of its relations to the blink The controller believes that under the present law regarding reserve cities too great ImMude 1* now riven the banks In connection with the use of the reserve, the primary object of which Is the protec tion of the deposltor* of Ihe hanks, and he recommend* that amendments to the laws he parsed requiring lhat a larr*r proportion of the reserve should be kept in casein the vaults of the hank Fees for flunk l.tnmtniuinni, The controller repeat* the recommenda tion made hv his prortn emors that the present mw should be to amended • to provide fixed salaries for honk examiners, to he paid from a fund collected from the banks, to take the place of the fee sys tem now In force. The amount allowed an examiner for ths examination of small er banka la not sufficient to compensate him for the time necessary in many cases for an extended examination The pres eni system encourages, to too great an extent, superficiality tn examlnat|s>ns, and Interfere* graatly with lha proper and wise apportionment of tlmo of examiners among the different banks. Among other recommend*tlons the con troller strongly urges laws regulating In ternational and Intercolonial hanking as distinguished from domestic banking end prints In an appendix the result of inves tigations into banking conditions In Porto Rico. Hawaii and ihe Philippines THE%I*I HER OF THUIPV I**lo*. Chicago Judge Interferes Hllli Ills Third Tour of the \%orld. From ha New York Tlmea Chicago. Nov 72 —A tired-looking man told Juatica Callahan In tha South Chica go Police Court ihia morning that ha an- Joyod ths honor of botng treasurer of the Tramps' T*n!on of America. He was found snugly curled up in a corner of a freight car attached to a train about to <k part for tha East. When taken to the police station ho gave his name as Na thaniel Goodwin. "I hava been around lha world twlcs. and was about to leave for New York to begin my third globe trot when mv plans were interfered with." he explained. "Judge. X am treasurer of tha Tramps* Pnton of America, and I acted as sacra tarv of the Ho ho Convention, held at Hrltt. low 4. last August After the meet ing hrMce up I "trolled eoutnward and | visited my old frlands in Texas. Then I steered for New orlagn* and Florida, hut It was too hot down theta, so I cams North. I arrived in Chicago several days ago. and decided to take another Journey •round the world." *'Po you ever work*" "Not that 1 remember. It ain't neces sary to work Of course, tf a fellow pre fers It. if ha gets the habit and can t break off. than I suppose he simply has to give way to his inclinations." 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These are the bakings you can now buy in the “In-er-seal Patent Package:** Soda Biscuit, Milk Biscuit, Butter Crackers, Saltincs, Banquet Wafers, i L Sultana Fruit, Graham Biscuit, m m Sea Foam, Oatmeal Biscuit, # % Ginger Snaps, Handmade K % Pretzelettes, Vanilla Wafers. J Always examine the ends of the K % package before you pay for it—see m % that this seal is on each end. m % NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY # <r V > A *• aV- r W * ™“• /H\"er\ m A Vseal J THE WEATHER. Forecast foe Monday and Tuesday— Oeorgla: Oenerally fair weather Mon day, probably preceded by rain In Ihe morning In the extreme eoxirrit port ton; much colder In eastern portion; froata Monday night, probably heavy, except in extreme southern portion. Tuesday fair; high west to northwest winds Monday. Eastern Florida Kaln Monday, ex* ept In extreme •* inh*rn t in i , frosts Mom’sy night In northern and central portion*. Tuesday fair; frewh to brisk west to northwest winds. Western Florida; Fair and cool Mon day and Tueuday; fresh northerly winds fiotiih Carolina Kaln. in *hj h ,<,!,i. i Monday; heavy rroels Monday night In the Interior with temperature close to freeslng. Tuesday fair and cold: south erly winds shifting to northwesterly and continuing high Yesterday’s Weather at Bvvannah— Maximum temperature 1 *> pm .75degrees Minimum temperature *p. m Mdegrees Mean temperature S8 degrees Normal temperaSur* M degree* Excess of temperature 14 degrees Accumulated excess since Nov. 7 ■ ••• Wdegrees Accumulated excess since Jan 1 291 degrees Rainfall f inch Normal .(* inch Excess etnea Nov. 1 I.W inch Deficiency since Jan. 1 g.7g inch River Report—The hlght of the Savan nah river at Augusta at 9 a m (75th me ridian time) yesterday waa 7.2 feet, no change during tha preceding twenty-four hours. Observation taken at the same moment of time at all etatlons. Nov. ft i*>. g p, m . 75th meridian time: Name of - Malian. | T ~v~" Rain Boston, reining T.",T.| 'a* lii so New York clly. raining... 44 an | .42 Philadelphia, raining ....! 49 14 | 12 Washington city, cloudy 54 I, 1 04 Norfolk, cloudy 68 Zi x Wilmington, reining 72 14 f .01 Chariot ta. raining 80 in j t Raleigh, cloudy M u < .01 Charleston, raining | 72 24 21 Atlanta, cloudy 39 j 2) j.*| Augusta, cloudy 51 24 |t Savannah, cloudy ........ *1 jt i ,qg Jacksonville, cloudy *4 | lj .04 Jupiter, ptly cldy | 74 ' 9 j .0) Key West, clear ' 74 L j .05 Tampa, raining 94 [ If j .14 Mobile, cloudy 46 j is j .<0 Montgomery, cloudy 44 14 T Vicksburg, Cloudy 42 1 Jl New Orleans cloudy ....: 44 J ft j ~ Galveston, clear 54 j 19 j (*) Corpus Chrlatl. clear 99 i 8 | .0) Palestine, clear 48 1 g ,01 Memphis, cloudy 42 19 { ,rg Cincinnati, raining S>, i :t j ft Pltt*burg. raining 49 : L |ft Buffalo, snowing 12 24 , .jj Detroit, cloudy *4 23 j ,<t| Chicaao. ptly eioy t ; y> .01 Marquette, clear j 3D I T St. I*aul. cloudy ; 22 8 ; .00 Davenport, clear ; 32 | L .<*) Bt. Units, clear 39 | 11 .10 Kanes* City, clear m ) L 1 0. Oklahoma, ptly cldy | 40 Ca tn <0 Dodge City, ptly eldy,...i 42 | 8 .0. North Platte, clear | 34 | L .00 IlTT~Boyer. Local Forecast off! tal —lt has been decided by the United States Court of Appeals that the ordi nary predictions of the Weather Bureau era not trustworthy and that men are not bound to consider them. The master of a ship unloaded hi* cargo of rice at Charleston, putting It on an uncovered wharf, where M wo* spoiled by rain, which had been predicted by the Weath er Bureau Litigation followed aa to payment and a lower court found against tha son captain. Hs appealed, with the result bated above. WORLD’* GREAT FIRES. Disasters Mncr laindon’e reagaara* tlitiß—t r.lfed Slades Record. From Ihe New York Pant I! C. Crosby, lete president of tho Na -1 tlonal Fire Protection Association, has 1 umpired a very Inlet eat Ing Hat of the world’s goat (lies In deacrlbtng soma of the most Important disasters, he says: london mo* nearly destroyed by firs In 79*; ax <ln In 9'2 1212 and 19*6 Tha loiter fire I* known lit history aa tho "Great Klrr." It tainted over a territory of 4M urr< Ineludlng SKI streets. 19,100 buildings, .md property value upward of l6.titoo.flßD was destroyed. Edinburgh was nearly de atroyeil by firo In 1790 Lisbon waa burned .vac dsalroyed by Are tn lift and again tn 1577 Berlin was de stroy,'! In !<• Hern* In 1431. and again In ltPv. Hamburg wa* nearly destroyed by fire In 1542 , 4.21!) buildings were burned, and 100 people lost their live*, property value destroyed, 1K.000,000 Copenhagen Man hunted In 1729. I.imO houses destroyed: ■gain In lift and 1.M3 houses burned. Stockholm In 1751. with I.UOO houses de stroyed. Moscow In 1752. visited by a large fire; H.uui houses dsiroysd. Again In 1112. this time the firs set by Russians In order In prevent the French occupation of the city, 39110 U baines were destroyed, and ovr llau.otu of value. conatut.tlnop.s has been the wsm of nu. mcroua and costly fires. In 172* a greet fire destroyed 12,090 buildings and nearly <l*lo peupla. In I<s> another great fire last ed live duvs; again In January. 1750, 10.09* building* destroyed In April, tn* asms year, another firs, with 115.000.000 of prop er I v destroyed Aga.n. later In tha year, a fire (lcs!toyed pi.un houses. In 171f. 15.- ■ftO houses Men- deatroved and 100 lives lost In 1752. lai*o houses were burned; tn 1791. between March and July, serious Are* destroyed 3..nt0 houses, and noarly tho earn# number wore destroyed again tn 1799. In 181* house* and 2.000 shops wars destroyed In 1970 Psra. a suburb of Con slanUnopL-. was nearly destroyed. 7.000 buildings and over Ift.'Jtyi.flOO property i V ~ncl , Wr, st firs* In 1793 snl 1941, destroying from 2.(0) to U.COO build ings at each firs. Orest Area have oc curred in India. China, and Japan; In many cases large cities wsra entirely de stroyed. Qua bar in 1945; 1.950 building were destroyed and theeamc number InMay and June following; and In 19S* 3 500 buildings and 17 churches were destroyed, fit. John. N 1!. 1837; nearly all the business portion was destroyed. In 1977 tha ' greai fire.” over 2U) acres burned, and ten mil** of street, about $13.*.000 of property value fit. John* Newfoundland, in I*4o. waa nearly destroyed, and iso.onn.ono of prop < rty value burned, again a big firs In 1834 Montreal. In 1950. had a grawr fire; building* destroyed. In 1152 about 1.390 buildings were destroyed., Various cltla* In South America and West Ind.as hgvo been destroyed by fire; In mm rasaa property value* of 530,000.000 and upward were destroyed; a large loss of Ufa re sulted also The United Htate* has a record of de stru tlon of property by fire not equalled by any other country Charlestown, Mss*.. In 17*,. ii*. In 1535. 1.158 building. Sa vannah. tie.. In 18ft 4>3 building* and ll.onriioo value. New York. In ISIS. 50) building*. 52 acres burned over and ItV (*■1.000 of two perl) destroyed; in 1045 0)9 acre* burned ovar. *7 SUD.OW) value, ft Uvo* lust Pittsburg Pa .tn 1545. 100 buildings; jjnmnut property value fit. Louie Me In 1819 1.7 building*; 22 000.009 value; In 1871 * asm building destroyed. Phlla4H. phi*. Pa., tn 153n I0 an tiding*. Ban Fran cieco. tn 1991 2.8C0 building* and a num ber of live* lost, property vatu*. tl&Mß one Portland. Me. In 188*. ovar one-half the city; vw acres burned over and 1.141 building* destroyed. Chicago, la lift, known a* th* "Oreat Fire.” 2.124 acre*, nearly covered by buildings, entirely burn ed over, Including 17.430 b illdlnt*; many live* were bt and property valua of up ward of *1(10.000.(09 wa* destroyed. Bea ton. Ma* . In 1970. ft acre* of mercantM* section burned Including 779 building*! nearly all of brick a rut -ton# ertnelrowitOßl property value. 275.009.000, , 5