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( « -s 10 D TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA„ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1011. News and View Experts of Finance, Industry, Crops and Commerce Great Demand for Agricultural Brains; HARD TO TELL Many Openings at Attractive Salaries Advance Not Due to Any One Fac tor, and Certainly Not to Manipulation. Agricultural Education Pays on Farm; Farm Demonstration Agents, for Agricultural High Schools, for United States Bureau of Agri culture, for Agricultural Propaganda of Railroads. ~ By CHARLES A, WHITTLE. - Georgia State College of Agriculture. STORY OF SYNDICATE SILLY Long Period of Depression in the World's Markets Believed To Be Ended at Last. NF7\V YORK, Bept. 6.—“Why is the market advancing?” This Is a question that very natu rally Ih being ask*d on all sldea just now. All sorts of reasons are being given. No one can justly any that th- movement is the result of any one condition or development. Some skeptical observers, who are always endeavoring to attribute a market movement to some ulterior purpose or sinister motive, say that the increased activity is due chiefly to the operations of the syndicate which will underwrite the proposed sale of Southern Pacific stock held by the Union Pacific. No one takes this Idea seriously. Unquestionably, the better senti ment and the more general buying of securities which has brought about i sharp advance In the most active Is sues are perfectly natural and the re sult of a considerable number of con ditions and developments. Carried Heavy Load. In the first plar»*, the financial mar kets the world over have gone through a long period of depression They were weighted by situations that could not help but depress them. There has been general Improvement with respect to nearly all these mat ters The present reaction upward Is therefore perfectly logical. Perhaps during the period of de pression prices were carried down ward too far They generally arc. Then, too, while sentiment was de plorably depressed in financial cir- rles, a quiet absorption of all kinds Of securities was in progress. Tills was never fully realized in a general way until It had gone far enough to clear the market of the large vol ume of securities that were poured into It my frightened investment and speculative holders. The transfer books of all the largo railroad and Industrial corporations show that there was a steady Increase in the number of holders during all the months when calamity howlers and even substantial Interests were talking nbou general reductions lr; dividends and all sorts of other unfa vorable developments. Bond Dullness Natural. To be sure, there has not been for .1 long tlme^ "good Investment demand for lon^^erin bonds. Even yet it Is not tvhat might be desired by any moans. Improvement, however, is distinctly noticeable. As long as money rates keep up. Investors can not tie expected to buy on a large scale bonds yielding a comparatively low rate of Interest. After the crop- moving season Is over, the rates should be materially lower and the demand fort bonds correspondingly better. What Is most important Just now Is that a greater degree of confidence In the financial situation, partly In the money market. Is developing. If il continues to expand, the improvement is certain to be reflected in tha se curities market. Rack to the farm with your brains! Brains will pay well on the farm, especially if they have' been trained In things agricultural. At this season of the year the sons of the farm are preparing to fill the halls of learning and get brain power. Many of them have no definite idea of what they are going to do when thev have completed fheir courses. Others have a notion that if they get an edu cation they must forsooth turn to other occupations than /arming. Most of both classes may find that, after futile efforts to struggle up into place In the fiercely competitive commer cial world, their hearts pine for the farm land, and they would return to it for that longed for Independ ence, wholesomeness and Inbred In stinct for husbandry. But with .ill their getting they have failed to get agricultural knowledge, and to return to the farm Is to drop Into the ruts of time-worn and profitless ways. It’s a Liberal Education. The farm lad can find no education better suited to him than an agricul tural course Since an agricultural course also means a liberal educa tion In other courses, nothing 1s lost In culture, or whatever the uses of .1 general education, by specializing upon things agricultural. Nothing will ever siand him In better st*-ad, whatever life pursuit he may follow, whatever disaster may befall, than a knowledge of the principles of agri culture and how they can be b?st applied for the greatest success. The demand for trained agricul turists is great and growing, it wt»l he an immense task for the agricul tural colleges to furnish the men that are required for the new farm era. The* agricultural teachers are more In demand to-day than any other kind and at better salaries, because of their 1 growing scarcity in consequence ol ; the great demand. No institution Is 1 1 . . : . . . 1,1. ♦«.. coming into existence with such tre mendous rapidity as the agricultural high school, and nothing hinders their increase so much as lack of trained teachers. Movement Sweeps U. S. A movement which is sweeping the country from fine end to the other is the farm demonstration agent move ment. The educated and trained ag riculturist can not complete his course without Innumerable demands upon his service at excellent salaries. The Ideal farm demonstration agent, of course, is the educated, college-trained agri culturist, whose scientific knowledge* and general information the farmers want. Here in the South the farm demonstration agent Is in great de mand. The great difficulty Is to g'*t men with agricultural training, anl those in authority have to be con tent to use such men as they can find among the farmers for inaugu rating the work. In other sections of the country the demonstrator is a superintendent, his services arc rendered to all farmers who join in his employment, by ren dering advice, assisting them to adopt new methods. In a sense he is the modern efficiency engineer for the farm. This movement of employing agri cultural specialists has only begun in this country It Is bound to assume great proportions, and as an inviting avenue of occupation for a young man on the farm, farm demonstra tion work or farm superintendency work, Is very promising. The trained and scientific agricul turist Is not only In demand for the schools and for demonstration work, but there is a great demand, hard to fill, created by the Bureau of Agri culture of the United States. The army of agricultural workers employ ed by Jthls bureau is large and con stantly growing. Legislation prom ises soon to be enacted that will greatly Increase the demand for this class of workers, not only for farm arid laboratory work in this country, but in the foreign dependencies. Colleges Are Increasing. The agricultural colleges with their experimental stations are increasing every year In their magnitude and in their scope of operation. These in stitutions present exceedingly attrac tive places. They are continually on the lookout for the most promising graduates of every agricultural in stitution in the country. The sala ries which they pay are higher than that paid in other lines of education. Railroads and large industrial con cerns have taken up the cause of ag riculture, and the demonstration farm and the trained agriculturists assist ing the farmer with advice is coming to be a work of large proportions, necessitating the employment of a large body of men. These industrial enterprises realize that it pays to invest in brains trained in agricul ture. But with all these incentives for agricultural courses, the young man on the farm will find that there 1r a very important one in addition, and that is the possibilities of the old farm itself, when they are opened up to his vision by agricultural informa tion and training. The story of suc cess of men who have received the highest agricultural training could be told over and over. The writer has one in mind, that of a horticul turist, a teacher in a State university, who, feeling the call back to the farm, forsook his salary and attrac tive surroundings and went into the trucking business. He never spent a year on the farm that he did not make several times more than his former college salary. But he was too valuable a teacher to be left at the farm, and the Insistent call came till he went back to the college and went to the the position of dean of the State College of Agriculture of Penn sylvania. Agriculture Diversified. The educated agriculturists of the Southern colleges are doing most In thejr farming operations In the South hv growing other things than cotton, bv applying their knowledge of live stock husbandry, of trucking, diver sified agriculture, their knowledge of crop rotation, their Information about noil fertility, how to supply the de ficiencies at least cost by miking their own fertilizers, by using advanced methods of marketing to get the best prices; by dairying, by raising pure bred stock, by raising rather than buying feedstuff and live stock for food and for work. Of course, there are many men who have not had the advantages of an agricultural education who have learned and are practicing with great success some lines of agriculture. These are exceptional men. They are men with progressive ideas, men who will tell you that one of the things they would appreciate most Is an ag ricultural education. None of these Mitccessful farmers stand In the way of agricultural education by their own volition. They are always its best friends. It Is always the un successful farmer who is attempting to discount agricultural education. But there is more than success in any kind of vocational training to be gained. Why should not the farmer have brains, culture, refinement as much as a man in any other call ing of life? Cultured Planter Passing. The day was when the Southern planter as p rule was as refined and cultured as anybody on earth. It is not so much so now following the devastation of the Civil War and with the departure of the slave system which made possible a life of greater luxury and refinement. Many who then received their collegiate educa tion found that they were not able to give It to their sons and too often the sons have not felt able or in clined to give a collegiate education to their sons in turn. Thus has the rural South fallen away to an ap preciable extent from Its former glory of culture and refinement. The former high status of the planter of the South in the social sys tem of the State can not now be re stored except by agricultural educa tion. The Southern States being agricul tural In resources and activities, is it not fair that Its leaders In legisla tion and civic promotion should be agriculturists? How far is it so? It can be almost literally asserted that farmers as a class are not repre sented In legislation. It Ms the lawyer, the doctor and the newspaper man who assume the political power. Why is it htat a measure affecting the welfare of the farmer is turned lightly aside in the legislature? Why, for instance, would a legislature turn down an appropriation for $2,600 in Georgia for farmers’ institutes at the very time the newspapers were re cording that as many as 41,000 farm ers had attended the institute during the summer, Instltes which had been held by the use of a similar amount asked for?W hy these and many other Inequalities failing upon the farming class at the hands of the legisla tures? The answer is that because the farmer is not represented in the legislative halls. The reason he Is not tehre is that he has not been edu cated and trained to meet other class es there represented and demand and contest for his rights. Legislation favorable to the farmer is. therefore, another reason for brains on the farm. South Is Reorganizing. The South Is undergoing a period of reorganization of Its rural life, into which enters a serious racial prob lem. The white man’s school and church In the country the involved. Men of trained minds and large and clear vision are needed to work out in every community its local prob lems. It is the call for brains. The agricultural South will come to be more and more co-operative in its growing, buying and marketing en terprises. To the extent the farmers are trained and are able to conduct their business in a highly business like way, without having to hire brains for the purpose on the out side. the more profit there will be to the farmer. A call for brains on the farm! The days for entering college have arrived. Which college? Will the farmer make n mistake at this im portant point? Will he spoil a splen did farmer? Will he have his sons educated away from the farm? $293,000 Steel Bonds QD] Withdrawnby Lot Clerk Takes 293 Numbers from Hogshead Containing 186,000 Disks—Winners Get Premium. NEW YORK. Sept. 6.—By drawing 293 numbers out of a large mahogany hogshead containing 186.000 enumer ated celluloid disks, employees of .!. p. Morgan & Co. have withdrawn by lot $293,000 United States Steel Cor poration 5 per cent sinking fund bonds for redemption November 1. There are $186,000,000 of these bonds in the hands of the public. Th« securities drawn will be redeemed at par and a 10 per cent premium, so that the owners of the securities will anxiously await announcement of the lucky numbers Redemption of the bonds Is being made out of the accumulated inter- * on $13,000,000 of the securities which were purchased from time to time in the open market. It Is estimated that the rapid in crease In the annual amount in the company’s sinking funds due to ac cumulation of Interest will enable the redemption of ill the bonds thirteen years before their maturity in 1963. STOCK EXCHANGE MEMBERS CHANGE WITH RAPIDITY NEW YORK. Sept 6.—The shifting character of the membership of the Stock Exchange is well illustrated by the fact that those who have Joined that body as recently as 1895 are numbered around 275. When a member Is admitted he takes the number at the foot of the list. 1,1"<‘ and moves up as members die or older memberships are sold. There fore but 275 of the 1.100 members In 1895 are members* to-day. and the memberships of the 275 date from November 20, 1857, to January 1. 1895. a period of 38 years. “Number One” js J. Id. Whitehouse, still an active "two-dollar broker,” who complete his forty-sixth year of mem bership November 20. PICTURES ON NECKTIES. In England the craze for novelty neckwear is bringing out wide four-in- hand scarfs, wi’h wnterplanes flying over battleships, dancing girls, and hunting scenes woven at intervals on the silk. GIVE PRICES FREE. Business men of Terrell, one of the earliest cotton counties of Texas, are operating a cotton exchange to fur nish current quotations free. Second Generation -Of Weevils Eating Mississippi Cotton Farmers Lose Optimistic Feeling of Two Weeks Ago—Fancy Wages Offered Pickers. JACKSON. MISS., Sept. 6.—Re ports from nearly all sections of the State infested by the boll weevil in dicate marked deterioration in cotton crop prospects, due to the industry of the second crop of weevils. The farmers who were talking with so much optimism two weeks ago concerning the tight with the weevil are looking a bit more serious, and frankly admit that the pest is playing havoc. The new generation of weevils has destroyed millions of blooms and squares during the past few days, and will destroy many more. Only in the northern section of the Delta are the planters confident that the staple is not going to be injured to any extent by the insects. In fields where early cotton was planted there Is already a good bot tom crop made, and it can not be damaged, but prospects for a top crop look rather slim. After destroying blooms and squares the insects next attack the bolls, but the early varieties are so far advanced toward maturity that they will not be able to do much harm. However, even with a full second crop of weevils actively at work. It is still practically certain that Mis- si.- ippi’s cotton yield for 1913 will be larger than that of last year if the weather continues ordinarily favor able. Gin plants have started operations in many counties during the week, and picking is general in many sec tions. Fancy wages are offered negro cotton pickers. GLOVES FANCY STITCHED. Wide stitching on fall and winter gloves, in contrast to the glove color, is in demand. Although prices of raw materials are advancing, a manufactur er said that retail glove prices would probably not change. Roth long and short varieties are selling readily. SHOES IN COLORS. The demand for color combinations in shoes is increasing. One of the latest examples is a gaiter boot. This shoe has a tan calf vamp, a champagne tol- ored .sneoe quarter and a Spanish-Cu ban heel, covered with tan calf like the vamp. Window Trimming A11 Art Not Confined An order for 720 freight cars has been placed by the Southern Kail way. In the past thirteen years the Penn sylvania Railroad has retired 7,478 men under pay. St. IjOuIs is to have through passen ger service to the Pacific coast over the Missouri Pweiflc. Denver and Kio Grande and Western Pacific. New equipment for this service has been ordered. A French statistician estimates that during the holiday season tourists In Europe spend $30,000 per hour, or $160.- 000.000 a year Riviera, Spain and Italy receive $60 OOP.Puff In all, and Switzer land. $32.00«rnTTO Statistics gathered by the Bureau of Labor show that machinery turns out a product ten times greater than possi ble by band, and that the United States turns out twice a* much machine prod uct per laborer as Europe. Total of foreign securities listed on the Paris Bourse ten years ago was $14,000,000,000: now it is $16,140,000,000. Russian securities alone, which footed up *2 200,000,000 In 1902, were $2,720,000.- 000 at the end of 1912. American investments in Mexico ag gregate $1,057,770,000 More than 50,000 persons in the United States are share holders in these enterprises. As against American investments the English have Interests aggregating $321,202,800. the French, $143,415,000: and other foreign countries, $118,535,380. To United States HOG BRAINS PURCHASED TO MAKE INTO MEDICINE According to an article in a Danish newspaper, a stock Sompahy has been formed at the city of Holding, Den mark, which will buy from the Dan ish hog abattoirs nil the brains from hogs they can produce. From these brains the cornmny will manufacture “lecithin” and “collestrln" for ex port to Germany and Switzerland, where they are used In the manufac ture of certain medical preparations. The brains aje paid for at about three cents per pound (persumably Dutch cents, making the three cents equal 1 2-5 cents T\ S. currency) and on an average it takes four brains to make one pound of the above-mentioned products. Lecithin is a fatty sub stance. while collestrln is a dry powder something like napthaline. BROADCLOTH IN DEMAND. There are rumors of an increasing demand for broadcloths. The luster that is produced in the new lines arid the popularity with which it has al ready been received, tend to convince dealers that it will be a big seller before the end of the year. Accord ing to a local wholesaler, the lateness of the season will work especially in favor of the fabric. Atlantan Gives His Views on the Best Modes of Displaying Mer chandise Effectively. At the window' dressers’ conven tion it was said the stores of France and ’ England presented few attrac tive window displays because of the tax formerly levied In England, and still levied in France, on the window space in all buildings. This state ment is not entirely true. Many of the Paris and London stores can boast of more window space than those in this country. One London store has 87 windows. An expert Atlanta window trimmer says, “1 agree with the idea that the use of mirrors behind displays is det rimental to the merchandise shown. “I think well also of the suggestion that dark windows should have light displays ami light windows dark dis*« plays. Novelty, not freakis!}, displays also help, provided that they can be made attractive, entertaining and convincing. These three qualities are essential to all good window dis plays.” CHEAP PLAIDS SCARCE. Cheaper grade silk plaids are now scarce, and orders are taken only In proportion to the mill’s production. Dealers expect a price advanoe. APPLE GROWERS' IMPOSE TAX. To make apples more popular with the average consumer through an extensive publicity campaign, is the aim of the Northwestern Fruit Exchange. It has adopted resolutions calling on its affiliated organizations, which repre sent an annual production of more than 1.000,000 bores of this fruit, to supply funds through a plan requiring the ship pers to r*ut a stamp on every box shipped. These stamps will be sold to the shippers at 1 cent each, and the proceeds will be turned over to the In ternational Apple Shippers* Association. It is expected that c’ose to $250,000 will be raised in this way among the vari ous fruit organizations, and it is planned to make the campaign world wide For the grower it is expected that the results of the campaign will he evident from an increased demand and better prices. For the consumer it is said to mean better and less expensive apples. The Texas Company purchased the oil tanks and pipe lines of the Louis- t $100,000. according to in official of the company. The Louisiana Com pany still retains al oil and gas priv ileges and other right and assets. Early Fall Openings Pay T Profit, Merchants Agree Women Often Tempted by This Method to Pur chase Two Outfits. Ten Per Cent Increase in Amount of Issue Due to Louisville and Nashville Financing, NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—A feature of Atlantic Coast Line’s earnings for 12 months ended June 30 is the much greater increase in revenue from freight traffic than from passenger business. In two previous years the movement was in inverse rela tion; 1§13 % 1912 % Frght. rev $2,016,328 8.96 $893,834 4.13 Pass rev . 519,527 6.16 689,456 8.90 Cross for the last year aggregated $36,123,071 against $33,498,356, an in crease of 7.83 per cent. The gain in the previous year was slightly less than 6 per cent. But with expenses consuming 68.1 per cent of gross In 1913 as compared with 67.3 per cent In 1912, only $501,142 of the gross in crease was added to net, bringing the latter to $10,036,062, or 5.25 per cent above the year preceding. In the year ended June 30, 1912, At lantic Coast Line earned 11.91 per cent on $58,745,200 common stock. The balance available for common dividends In the succeeding year will show a smaller percentage t n account of the 10 per cent increase during the 12 months in the amount of that issue following the financing by the Louis ville and Nashville and also through conversion of convertible debentures. Taking up $6,120,000 of the former is sue moans an addition to Coast Line’s other incomp of approximately $430.- 000 a year, but this is virtually off set by the additional disbursement en tailed by the similar increase in the controlling company’s common stock. Fixed charges are also added to by the issuance of $3,500,000 additional unified 4s in the latter part of the last fiscal year. When complete accounts are issued it is likely that a balance available for common dividends will be shown to be approximately $7,500,000, equal to about 11 per cent on the $68,557,^00 common. The early showings of fall garments for women by many of the big retail stores has raised the question in com mercial circles as to whether ad vance displays are really profitable. Inquiry along this line developed some difference of opinion, but the majority of the views expressed were in favor of early openings. It had been contended that early openings were dangerous because of the rapidity with which merchandise became old. By some defenders of the early opening idea, this was given as one of the chief reasons why lines should be shown as soon as pos sible. Women of the middle class, It was pointed out, supplied a large part of the business of the average store, and these, if in a financial position to buy more than one new suit or dress sl season, were more apt to do so if they were given time to get tired of the first garment before the season came to end. In many cases, it was said, a woman of average means would be tempted into buying a fall dress that she really didn’t need, if she were given an opportunity to wear it long enough before weather conditions compelled her to resort to a suit. In case she was inclined to favor a coat and a dress to a suit when cooler weather came, it was said that an early opening of fall lines would doubtless result in her buying more In the course of the season than she would if these gowns were held un der cover until close to the time when a change in temperature made neces sary a change in garments. Strength is apparently given to this belief by the fact that the live manufacturers are continually bringing out new things as a season advances with which to tempt dollars from the feminine pocketbook. A question regarding the effect of early openings on the sale of the slow-moving or held-over stock from the season Just ending brought a re ply that this could be regulated by the buyer for the department and the merchandise man. It was admitted that some styles were sure to be “stickers” every season, but it was held that these could be moved through proper pricing and judicious salesmanship. Early openings were favored also from the viewpoint that they resulted in business from late summer visitors to the city that would be lost If the garments were kept from display un til after they had returned to their homes. They were favored also In that, if they did not tempt a woman to buy early, they gave her an oppor tunity to compare styles and values and to decide w r here she would fill her needs. This, it was claimed, re sulted in more buying and less “shop ping" at the time when the store forces were busiest and the business needed most. The customers were said to be found in sympathy with early open ings, and it was said that if the stores found them losing ventures they would soon be abandoned. ATLANTA SEES American Underwear Beyond Competition Development of Central America Sets Local Merchants Study ing Other Weak Points. Comfort, Style and Workmanship Excel Anything Foreign Makers Can Accomplish. American underwear is sold In nearly every civilized country on the globe. The comfort of short-sleeve and short - leg garments, as well as the union suit and athletic garments all of which originated here, is given as the reason for the world-wide popularity of these goods. Nearly all foreign-made sus penders are more clumsy than the American and none can compare with the attractiveness of styles and pat terns and he fineness of workmanship displayed i?i the American products. The san e may he said of foreign-made Pelts. Tl.ey are too bulky and few are less than two inches wide Our nar rower belts are in heavy fi.maml in the hot countries, and have little competi tion. There is also little foreign com petition in garters, and practically a.! o. Europe anl Central an1 South America are supplied by American mak ers. In addition, the duties in those countries make it difficult for foreign dealers to compete. Our exports of umbrellas and canes have been comparatively small. and mostly to Canada and South America. The German and English makers bend wood better than we can, but on the other hand tbere are American houses that produce mountings that can not be duplicated. Woolworth Sales Show Big Increase Gain for July Alone $424,484, and 37 New Stores Have Been Opened This Year. NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—F. W. Wool- worth Company sales for the first seven months of 1913 increased $3,- 225,782 over the same period eff 1912. Gain in July alone was $424,484. These figures do not include sales by F. W. Woolworth & Co., Ltd., of England, from which the American company obtains a percentage of earnings annually. While this com pany has been located in England only three or four years, it has made ex cellent progress, and to-day Its stores number 25, with four or five more to be opened before the end of the year. At present rate of business the American company ought to receive about $1 on,000 from the English busi ness in 1913. During the current year expansion by the American company has been even larger than during 1912, when 40 stores were opened. To date 37 new stores have been opened and 17 contracted for to be opened before the close of 1913. This places the total in operation at 668. and the 17 to be opened will bring the total to 685. FIRST FLORIDA ORANGES BRINGING FANCY PRICES LEESBURG, FLA.. Sept. 6.—The first shipment of oranges to leave the State this season was made one day last week by Coleman & Cline, of Yalaha. It con sisted of 40 boxes of well-colored oranges which were gathered from the M. U. Wilcox grove. The shipment was made to M P. Wilcox, of Montgomery, Ala. Coleman & Cline gave several of the merchants a sample of the fruit, and they pronounced it as being fully ma tured and as delicious as any orange picked In January. From what can be learned, it went through on schedule time, and sold for $7 a box. DOLLAR STOCKS BARRED. A decision by Attorney General Martin, of Nebraska, holding that the blue sky law means that each share of stock offered for sale shall not be less than $100 par value has been filed with the railway commission. The decision will have the effect of keeping out many companies which have agents employed to sell shares of stock each of which has a par val ue of only $1. With the opening of the Panama Canal and the development of the markets in Central and South Amer ica, Atlanta merchants and manufac turers are casting their eyes to the new field, and studying the points which may enable them to distance competitors, who at present ignore many things they might heed with profit. A subject of complaint among merchants and importers in Central America is the failure of some busi ness houses in the United States to make prompt shipments and to exer cise care in getting off consular in voices so that they will arrive simul taneously with the goods or before them. With boats arriving once a week where the service is of the best at a Central American port, and two or more weeks apart at the smaller ports, to miss a steamer with a ship ment when the goods are confidently expected by the importer is a serious matter. If the buyer is a merchant In the interior he has probably sent a pack train or has engaged a force of Indian cargadores to be at the port, relying upon the assurance that the goods will be shipped on a certain vessel. Delays Are Serious. Failure to ship according to instruc tions means a delay of at least a week, and in all probability two or three weeks. The houses that hold the Central American trade are the ones that are most careful about get ting their shipments off on time. Intimately connected with prompt shipments. Commercial Agent Ger- rard Harris points out in a recent re port. is the matter of having consular invoices available when the shipments arrive at their destined port. If merchandise has been sent ac cording to schedule and the consular invoice comes along a week later, the goods can not be cleared from the customs house until the invoice Is at hand. The general Idea Is that the people of Central America are easy going, but it is an error to assume that business men there do not care for the observation of strict business methods in dealing with their ship ments. Not Considerate. A third cause of complaint against American business houses is that they are not inclined to be considerate and accommodating in small matters. As an example is cited the experience of a business man in the interior, who gave an order of considerable size to a house soliciting the business. In addition to the goods handled by the firm to which the order was given, a request was made that there be in cluded in the shipment an article that the Central American did not know* where to purchase. The firm that received the order could have bought the article and Included It without any trouble, but instead of so doing the United States firm listed the article on the invoice and after it merely wrote, “Don’t handle.” There was no explanation. Some three months afterward the traveling representative of that firm was astonished when the Centra; American informd him that he did not care to have any further business relations with it. SEEN IN THE SHOPS. Separate coats for women’s fall wear show’ yoke effects at the shoul ders. have straight plaits and are belted at th e waist. They are fas tened at one side or in front. Venise edgings of the more spidery sort are to be employed in various ways in the fall toilets. Beaded trimmings, combining also silk and metallic effects on black net, are among the strongest items in the accessory field for the coming sea son. Evening wraps in silhouette effects have all the fullness between the shoulders and knees. The featured materials for them are of the soft- finished variety. Imperial Valley Man Stumbles Onto New Food Product Which Makes Big Hit. Atlantans next season may have the opportunity of sampling the latest thing in the way of food products— dried cantaloupe. Dried cantaloupe is a brand-new th-ing. Out in California, where they raise Dig crops of cantaloupes, many of the melons are a little too small for the trade. Thad D. McCall, of Im perial, Cal., conceived the idea of* - dry ing these melons. The result was a dried fruit of exceptionally* fine fla vor. Now he is thinking of going into the business on a large scale. H. H. Whitcomb fr Burke Co., At lanta’s foremost grocery brokers, saw in the newspapers brief reports of McCall’s experiments. Believing the Atlanta trade would take kindly to the innovation, McCall was asked for samples and for information. His letter Is interesting. "Relative to your inquiry about dried cantaloupes," he writes, “the supply was very limited, and local demand has been far greater than the supply. Hope to come nearer supply ing the demand next season. As to the success of dried cantaloupes, they are fine eating, and the Interest shown by letters fre .1 every part of the United States and some from over the borders would indicate that the market is ready for lots of this fruit. It much resembles evaporated apples. May U«t Cartons. “I may pack in cartons, if I get or ders enough. “The shrinkage is materially more than other fruits and the weather a shade hotter than the hot place ought to be when the cantaloupe season U on here, so prices will be good If I pioneer the game.” He concludes by asking how At lanta wants the goods packed and what the trade here will pay for the product. In reply, Whitcomb, Burke Co. express themselves as anxious to in troduce the product in the South, and say that if the fruit is up to its ad vance notices it ought to bring good prices. It seems to be like the dehydrated berries, rhubarb and vegetables, which have proved so great a success, and which, by the addition of cold water, return to their original plumpness and flavor. McCall Is Enterprising. McCall seems to be a most enter prising ranchman. He Is one of the pioneer cotton growers in the Impe rial Valley, where a very fine long staple has been raised for the past few years. “Dried cantaloupe may be as fa miliar in a few years as is canned asparagus.” says W. M. Burke. “Sev en or eight years ago everyone thought it impossible to can aspara gus. R. Hickmott, of California, de clared he could do it and turn out an edible superior to the vegetable as it comes fresh from the garden. How well he and the host of canners who have followed in his footsteps have succeeded is a matter of common knowledge to-day.’’ COPPER SHARES ADVANCE AS METAL GOES UP BOSTON. Sept. 6.—In a period of a little over two months there ha-* been .an appreciation of over $102 - 900,000 in the market value of 32 representative Boston copper shares Low prices for the year were made about the middle of June, when cop per the metal was to be had at 14 7-8 cents. Since the upward movement in copper shares started, the meta! has advanced. The shares of the Lake Superior companies have advanced despite the closing down of all the mines in that district. TRAFFIC FALLS OFF. Railways of the LTnited Kingdom carried 31,980.000 fewer passengers in 1912 than in 1911. Gross Earnings Make Gain Which Is Eaten Up by the Heavy Upkeep Charges. NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—It is neces sary to go back to the fiscal year 190S ! to find smaller net, earnings for Louts, ville and Nashville than the $12,913,- 620 reported for twelve months ended June 30. In the intervening period, 1910, net after taxes reached as hi%h as $15,966,402, when gross earnings were some $7,000,000 below those of the past fiscal year. The increase in gross for the year just ended amounted to $2,323,665, or 5,72 per cent. Net showed a decrease of $1,808,977, or 12.24 per cent, as com pared with previous year, the reason for which is not hard to And. Ex penditures for maintenance of way In creased $2,204,380, or 24.96 per cent over the previous year. At the same time there was expended on mainte nance of equipment $1,145,585, or 11.36 per cent more than In 1912. For the last four years maintenance expenditures have exceeded those for conducting transportation, but it re mained for the 1913 year to show charges for maintenance practically 4 per cent of gross above transporta tion costs. This followed a jump of two points in 1911 over 1910. Not many roads put as much back into property as they spend in moving traffic. In ten months to April 10 last Louis ville and Nashville reported surplus after all charges and sinking funds of $7,701,398, equal to 10.69 per cent on $72,000,000 stock outstanding. On $60,- 000,000 stock this would have been equal to 12.83 per cent. As the $12,- 000,000 new stock was not fully paid until February, when the final instal ment of 80 per cent was due, the com pany to date has received little re turn from its additional money. If to estimated surplus for dividends is added the $3 350,000 increase in maintenance charges shown for the year, the former figure would be brought up to $11,850,000, or equiva lent to 16 1-2 per cent on the stock. Umbrella Business Above Last Year’s Handles With Animal Heads, Jew- eled Designs and Change Purses Are New Styles. Fall business with umbrella manufac turers is more active than last year Prices are advancing because of the in creased cost of materials, but whole salers are having little diffcultv in get ting their advances Among novelties offered are umbrella handles the metal tops of which form vanity cases and change purses. An importer ilne of handles is topped with sterling silver animal heads, including dogs, horses and monkeys. A strong fall line is one of slim rosewood, ebony, snakewood and ivory handles with small gold caps. Jeweled handles are shown by a leading house. These are closely studded, for about eight Inches at the top, with rhinestones, garnets tur quoises and topazes in pleasing combi nations. A line of children's umbrellas is topped with colored fruits, nuts and animal heads. A novelty in tassels is a square-shaped one which forms a crocheted silk pocket containing a small mirror. Another forms a crocheted change purse and has a metel cover held shut by a snap clasp. The fall color trend Is toward blue! green, taupe and black In regular shapes. A manufacturer said yester day that freak shapes featured last year did not sell satisfactorily, and that they are taboo this season. France Takes Heavy Lots of Jap Silk Allotment for American Consumption Likely To Be No Larger Than Last Year's. The Lyons, France, manufacturers have been buying heavily of Japanese raw silks this year. This is taken to Indicate that the allotment of Japanese silks for American consumption will be no larger this year than last. Prices are still tending upward. The rising exchange is making business more difficult at’ Shanghai. Exorbitant prices are being asked at Canton for the few lots of silk that are being offered there. Buying at New' York continues active, and while a slight reaction In prices is expected in certain quarters, there is little indication of it yet. “ALC0” CORPORATION MAY CLOSE PROVIDENCE PLANT One of the interesting phases of American Locomotive’s decision to liquidate its automobile business is the disposition which will be made of the Providence, R. I„ works. This property is said to represent a cash Investment of substantially more than $2,000,000. American Locomotive di rectors did, however, vote to charge $2,300,000 against surplus as a re- serve for liquidation of the automo bile business. Some of this reservo will undoubtedly be needed in dispo sition of cars, taxis and motor trucks on hand. In fact, it is stated that the company has over 500 vehicles of va rious kinds in Providence or in its salesrooms waiting to be sold. _ Th f. nf U , of a 'ocomotlve works at Providence is not apparent, and the locomotive company will probablv continue its policy of concentrating Schenect°a n d y at ^ Unlts llke PITTSBURG BOND PLAN FAILS PITTSBURG Sept. 6.—City Comp.’ troller Morrow has admitted his plan lV e .? ty 7 )nds t0 the pe °p le hiis fallen through, the issue of $150 000 for street improvement going in’all probability in a lump sum to the Un ion Trust Company. Offers from the people amounted to only $35,000 COST OF LIVING RISES A Government report on the cost of living among British working class shows there has been an average ad vance in seven years of in per cent in fuel, food and clothing taken togeth er. \\ ages have increased not near ly enough to balance the increase in the cost of living.