The evening world. Newspaper, December 21, 1921, Page 25

! an Stock trading continued to be dull and uninteresting this morning. and it appeared that one reason for the marked apathy wes that the banking element directing \\ all Street's financial policies do not de- sire active speculation in stocks at this timy that the vate for money loaned fot the purpdse of stock market specu- ) lation was marked up to 6 per cent. aithough money brokers stated that the supply of funds was a large. as at any previous time re- cently, so large, in fact, that a per cent. or even a lower rate would be justified. Why the banking element in coatrol ef the money market should want to check speculative activity at this .time is difficult to satisfac- torily explain. The most plausit reason advanced was that with « number of important mergers now | rye being planned, notably those (n process of negotiation in the steel, copper and fertilizer industries, it is essential to keep the prices. of stocks concerned at or near their present level, otherwise the pro: | posed consolidations will be mncn more difficult to consummate. ————_—_— BANKING AND FINANCIAL. | “TRADERS | HANDBOOK” tells .| —The How and Why” | of many things you should know about stock market trans- actions, —Market Terms and their definitions, * * —Trading Fractions, —Cominission Rates, —Deposit Require- ments, etc. Copy given on request Mention stocks on which you want latest information f Jones & BAKER | "Members New York Curb Market Direct Private Wires New York Chicago Boston Piiade! Pittabargh De fk | Three New York Offices | 506 Fifth Ave. Tel. Mur. Hill 7120 225 Fifth Ave. Tel. Mad. Sq. 1377 Bo Broad St. Tel. Broad 7158 S. O. of New Jersey Imperial Oil, Ltd. Anglo-Amer. Oil Internat. Pet. ‘The steady activity and closely affiliated relationships of these companies and their bearing on correlative stock market move- ments is concretely set forth in just prepared. ia corenlyeons-sae Write for @-8S LL Winkelman & Co. dembers Cone, Peet eet uncnttiee Magkey monde, Mer, UBuonen Brosd T18D-7. Town 30 F. 42d St. Vanderbilt 6671. ———————— SAVINGS BANKS. SEAMEN’S BANK FOR SAVINGS 76 Wall Street. HE TRUSTEES HAVE ORDERED THAT INTERVET DIVIDEND paid to depositors entitied thereto tor fhe siz months ending bec. 31st, 1921, On accounts not excecding five thou- wand dollars at the rate of FOUR PER ONT. per annum. Payable on ani after Monday, Jan. 1 DANIBL B- 8, President, WILLISTON H. BENBDICT, Secretary, New York, Dex Sth, 1021. —SUTICE— Deposits to draw interest from Jan. ist or Apr. 1st or July lat or Oct, Lat quuse be mede on or befcre (lie last day of the previous month. Se Motropolitan Savings Bank SOGSSERUR? AY SSR ATEN, ¥ rork, Decombs ihe LY YEAR ENDING FOUR PER CENT. PER ANNUM the depositors entitled Gerdes’ vyinwe of the. Dank on PERO a 92 re Janvary Lath will mings rar hoa Chita a Club. in 1 ei ANDREWS, Pre FRANCIS H. MOFFET, Sec. “Lost and Found” articles’ | Vee ae ‘in The World or reported “Lost and Found Bureau.” Re 1 ‘World Building. will be for thirty days, These lists can be geen at any of Th: we “Lest and Foun ads ean be left at any of The W Aavertuing ,Auwncies, $5, “Wertd. rh rectly le Gail 4000 Beckman, New York. of, ya Office, 4100 Main, This was Made evident by the faci® 1 | Support of this assumption it was 4 vecalied that ‘the high prices at whic) steel stocks were selling two years ago precluded the possibility | (f effecting a big steel merger at! that time, and has greatly inte tered with other proposed mergars. At any rate, the share list, which was fairly active and irregular ti early trading, turned extremei dull as soon as the 3 per cent. re- wal rate for call money was named, and the tone of the market became more or less unsettled. It was, in many respects, a market in strange contrast to recent ses- | sions, There was the anomaly” of Allied Chemical, Pacific Oil and Amertean Sugar being the three most tive stocks on the list. In so far as the volume of business was concerned, such stocks as Mex- jean Petroleum, Baldwin Locomo- , live and United States Steel, which ordinarily are the favorite mediums of speculation, were relegated to a position of relative unimportance. commodity markets, including both cotton and grain, and the for- eign exchange markets were nearly ; as dull and featureless as the stock market. Changes were practically negligible. On the other hand, the hond market was aétive, but profit , In, ‘taking offset. new buying and | changes were irregular. “+ 1.76 12, e recessionary tendency. which de- veloped during the latter part of the second hour continued until noon. Recessions were the rule in every group of stocks, but they were mostly limited to joss than a point, te yesterday, when the news tick- announced that the Mexican jovernment had agreed to postpone the collection of exoort and pro- duction taxes on oil, due Dec. until February, the market for Mexican oil stocks refused to be stimulated. ‘This morning, how- ever,\ when Associated Pi | spatehes from Mexico stated that | | yesterday's report was unfounded. | floor traders immediately proceeded to sell the Mexican oils, and in the | leaders of this group net declines soon extended to more than a point Chemical shares maintained a firm tone, and department store stocks were generally higher, but other stocks which furnish a truer index of the market's trend were more or less heavy. At one time the tead ing cquipment stocks were off front 1 to 2 points, recessions in the lead- ing siecls ranged from good sized! fractions to more than a point and unable to hold their ground. Tt seemed at times, however, that tically fell of its own weight. It was announced that all of the leading refiners had further re- duced the price of refined sugar to 5 cents « pound, wholesale. ‘This is a new low record pric Inas- much as the raw product is selling at two cents a pound, ¢. i. f, and| As, apparently, there are few re-| finers who are willing to bid more than 1,80 or 1.85 cents for the raw product, sugar shares were heavy. American Sugar Refining again| | broke below 0, In connection with | | the sugar situation, however, it is | known that plans to form a sugar export association for the purposa of financing the purchase of 500,000 , tons to be held for export are) | the association is finally formed it will do much to relieve, the acute demoralization which now exists ‘in | The rate for cail money was reduced | | to 51-2 per cent., but there seemed to be comparatively few brokers willing to pay this rate for day to day accommodation, The re: stock market. Dulness increased | and the speculative leaders con- tinued to hover around the low marks of the day and at recessions compared with the closing figures} of yesterday . TT0?. During the fourth hour transactions totalled only a little more than 50,000 shares. There was a ran up in the equipment stocks, with the comotive and American Locomo- | tive, But the gains were not main- | tained and they soon reacted to| around the lows of the day. | Sugar shares develope good rallying | | power, and in the railroad list there was a continuation cf strong bu ing in Delaware, Lackawanna Western on expectations trat stoc holders will soon receive a stock dividend or the privilege-to sub- scribe to new stock ot a figure th: will carry valuable rights. Other | rails were mostly lower. Pennayl- vania sold at less tian a point of its record low figure, Considerable selling pressure de- | veloped in final trading and the market closed heavy. ‘g the railroad group St. Paul _pre- {Am foe... | Beth Steel Allis-Chalmers Am Agr” Chem Am Beet Sugar... Am Bons Magveto Am Brake Shoe... Am kn Am Can pf... Am Am Aim Cédtton On ‘Am Drug Synd Am Frprese Am Hide & Am los pt ., Am International. Am Lineed Oil Am Locomotive Nilied Chmicas Am Safety Raxi Am Ship & Com Am Smelt & Aja sm & Ret pf Ati Steel Foundry Am Sugar... Am Sugar pf Am Sim Too Aw Tel & Tel Am Teaco An Too pf ne: An Tob ets 2 La France Am Am one E a VENING wo RLD, WEDNESDAY, DEOEK=: CLOSING STOCK QUOTATIONS High Low, Laat Sahel 1% cd 1% 144s 113% Re ‘Aso Div Goods. Neeoniated Oil Aterison Ry Av Coast Line At Gall & WI AN Gol & W Auto Sales Corp Baldwin Loco. Rwidyin Lace pt Balt & Ohio Balt & Ohio Beth Stet B Booth Fisheries .. Hidyn Rapid Trans Bilyn Rap Tran BHiyn Cnion Krown Shoo Burns Brow Putte Con & ute & Suver, Butterick Co Hamslale B Wado Cent Ol... Calif’ Pagking .... Colt, Petrol Calif Petrol Calumet & Al Canadian Pact tral Leatalr Ohic Bt Wert ———— |Obi & North Ry... 12 T0 1. Chile Copper —a Chino Copper ccc & aL Coca-Cola Col Fuel & Iren.. Gol & Southern . Col Gas & Elec . ol Grapho & Comp Tad & Rec Consol Cigar Cont Can. Cosden Oi! Com Products. | Corn Prooucte Coucitvie Steel, | Cructile Steet ne | Cubs Cave Sugar. Cuba Cane Siar pf. making excellent progress, and if |Gousol Distributors, he industry, | Del tack & W.. Elkhorn Coal ,.. Fandicott-Johnson . . Brie... re Tat. Erie 2d rf... duction failed to stimulate the| Famous Plasers .. Famous Players cf Fisk Rubber Freeport ‘Texas... Gen Asphalt of fractions to more than a point! Genera) Electric General Motor (ire. Nor Ore Greene Cananee Grulf States Steel bulk of the trading in Baldwin Lo- | Haskell & Barker , 30 Houston Oi! Buy Mote Hinoiew Cantral mo De Vase.. Obandler Motors the motor and tobacco stocks were Chm & Ohio... CM &€ 3 P RR... CM & 8 PRR pt Neaviness was due not so much to,Chic RI & Pac. the pressure of offerings as to the CRI& P6o0 © lack of demand. The market prac-;CR 1 & P 7 pe pf Chic Bt Wen.... Fpl 23% 6 Zine if rig.. 36s ic ot. 46% 78'6 11% 9615 109 3B Net: ona'ge. | = 1% ¢ Indiahome Rat te 11% + “ef Todian Ret ., =a: — 4) Pacific Of .... = 1% + 1100 Cities Service “Beats 10 Beta Steet Fe a5. | "They had to cut it through with a TiN [Pecan pee Be ate = 245 | 100 tonien a co ot at Be Be oMButwhot™ the banker asked. Pea RR co oie aaa cele janeen, assisted by thie young Venn Seaboard Steel = il iapkenie Bal Oriental here,” the detective replied, % | Peate’s Gas... 158 [12000 “Bstncore Petroicum pointing to the Jap upon the floor. Pero Marquette = libs FeuAL OL. 1 Cons Textile Be... “Or possibly the Jap alone. He tig 4 ig] Ue Retail Stores... 54 Shares, High, Low, Last, j Shares, High, Low, Laat. INDUSTRIALS. C0 Cresson Gold. + Mb X. Low, Last, Obs 1 1% 14] 900 Dolaree Beperaar 4 3% 8 | 700 Acme Coal Mm Mm 1m 1 nak seve * + 3% Pic on ee fon . ult we Ny bf n uponll . tne : SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. = Inepiretion Capper, . § — Mt wy Alex rts, mame 4 |. tae banker, banded to Goidaborough 9 recely une %| Inter Geos Corr...) 1% 4300 Brit-Am, Tob re 126 LIN 12% 29000 Rureka Croesus 00.) 28 which the was ‘his Seopings a Mtust af wind ‘whtanee Iter Cons Com of. 3M {1400 Rett Aim Tob coup. 12% 12% 1244 | 1000 First N Cop cece... Be " f dmen, "portal kona gg ad F . { 8900 Geld Dew voces t : cower? * Tater Az Cor) of... ak 1% 900 Burns Bros i ard Hames, the bank messenger Inter Harvester... 80 1 ‘any | 1000 Goldfield Florence 0... 8 ae iscovered tha: an Imitation Inter Motor , pore deni | 1000 Gold fone ., rer i“ pie Bat Inter Pape 100 Green Monster... 10 w ‘there Ramsey hid ‘he Jewel Int Mer Marine i 6000 Hard shell 290 Athton “and Wall traced Iie tracks Untl, they turmed into the toad (0 a 200 Cleveland Auto ped mp 1 SRT. Asnton’s rooms on Washington Square, they found 8 (Int Mer Mar pr Noo <Goleibta Seaebald a ' would meet Hameey the § oclock. The. intervh oh 54 Inter Nickel 300 Contes. ‘Tin’ Felt ae ‘% 7 ay % [tovineibte O41 0 Cou Motors ses. c+s dana rte we Mi oa\e and searched femored the beck 1% taent ON ae ese oe ee i In dean which Mites Clotdabarctigh tid set the Jewel ‘the ‘pur oa her wraps. 1% "Fewel ‘Teas ‘400 Durant Mot ind. Tina touuieeaaees: i , ‘ ns ‘ P 600 Independence s 5 CHAPTER VIL. have much trowble with him.” © staan bc ER, i. Getta: tne age | 200 Rete: Lake My (Continued. A few moments later the banker's Seeaneoite Covpes % dome uue 190 Kerr Verde Div 1% car had driven off, and Ashton’ was a Me 14%) 1000 Knox Divide . Keystone Tire 18% 500 Gibson Howell w ‘ OME with me and I'll show : 168 1000 MteNemara 1" you," Ashton replied, and, | Eel — M500 Glen Alden Coal... 2 000 Magma Cop . a ate running swiftly into the : + O's 100 Goodvear ‘Tite nf 300 Maxon Valley... MIN ‘ jlaciaranoe Steel iM) Gay eerceay teak wines wow rear room, he crossed Laivigh Valley 600 Inter Rubber 8000 National 1a. ue into the other apartment and went up 300 Libby MeNeu 00 Lincoln Motors A. 100 Meroer Motors 7000 Nevada Ophir 64000 Mohican 500 Nipiading «“ “ «7 to the division wall, “ “ bd Here there was no wainscoting, but | “* a handsome tapestry paper covered | Lima Loco... Manhattan Shirt... 0 100 Perfection ‘Tire new 2500 Pittaburg Mount ” Martin Pars... +") 4700 Philip Morris 5000 Ray Heroules . rey (he walls. -At a point opposite the | Sas Dan etree Y 290 ftaddo com ws aAL AE vom ‘place in the other room at which the See Sueblnom 12 1085 = 100 Radio pe assess ee A +, deak was located there stood a ma- Miami Copper . yous Cea the 110 Tees DIMMS <u ck oo yo! hogany chiffonier, Ashton swung it cone a ‘90 Standare Gee & Rise or 800 Tonopom Min 1% 1% “aside, made a hasty examination of Midvale Stee) x ‘ 200 Tuolumne 1400 United Kestern 110 United Verdi 100 West | 1200 sweets Co | 190 Swift Loternational | 100 Tobacco Products OU RL & H. 1) 900 She Ho 3000S Steam, : |10800 United Profit Sharing Mim & St Louie Mo Kan & Tex Mo Kan & Tex pf Mo Vacitie ...ee+e Mo Pacitic pf Mont Wan! ... Montana Power . "6 {he wall paper, ripped off @ cleverly von st, @Ppliea patch and thrust his hand o 8 into the aperture thereby disclosed, | “Now go into the other room," he | wm Wr ‘heal ie “ah | aald to Mall, "and place an object—a 218 Avgenth 10 Berti Z ; 10 Gem ‘ 4. Coin, for instance—on the front of the MS, Pk SBM OO 900 United Ret Candy iT i ae On “ soy oy | Writing a | NM 11 00 West’ Mand Chem, 1 1 15 Russ Oe ef. : ia 1% 11 | Hall did as his companion requested WOO Willys Corp Ast pte. TM, FT. 4 stuns Ome Sk 11) 1, 8d saw the tips of Ashton’s tin- STANDARD O87 6 Swiss 148 954 6% use | KerS Come through the square open~ SEIU bet pearing, bee Ld 1 Vienna 4s % «2 «Ing of one of the pigeonholes and Now York Centra 1 Ede nda nei Med ;pck up the coin. An instant later NY NH&H ye ehotalnlacti fol cs aH 12 Allied Paoker soy the hand was withdrawn and Ashton iN XY Om & Went. dire pin. 100% 1 Allied Packer 4s appeared in the room. 1 | Nowiotk & Wentern ell pect ay gegen eres 1 Aluminum te 33.. wis | “With my fingers blackened, and i Noten Tucks « “1 soos On of Ind 9 i | Mo gne looking in the direction of the UNova, Scotia Steel" = 10 Vacuum. of a0 desk at the moment, the substitution of the false diamond for the real one would present no difficulties at all,” the detective satd, wiping a scratch | wpon the back of his hand. A stain lof blood showed upon his handker- chief. “There's a sharp place in the tilework of the partition,” he laughed. INDEPENDENT OILS. HO “Allen OW cereercereee BS 1000 *Allled O11 ot 100 Arkansas Na 800 "Am Fuel 1000 *Hoone Oil (100 100 Carib Syndica: | Nat RR Mex 11 pf 1, Oka P & BR t4!Ongreum Ciroui 14 | Otin Elevator % | Orin Steel s 144 Facitic Der Corp. . a] Pacific Gas .. 13 Anaconda Copper 2 Anacgnde is 20. 3 Angio-am Oi 7 3 Armour & Co i 3 Bearer Board $0 10 Beth Stoel 78 23 leaned over, and examined the buck of the servant's right hand. — It | showed a red scratch in almost the identical location wa that upon his own, “This is the fellow who per- Fensland 3 Copper Kap 8s 92 Giuiiand Oi Glenrock Oil "Groat West “Hudson Gil th! Pierce Arrow “{ Piewe Aton Me 1 1 Nero OF 2% | pi 5 arr? formed the actual theft—of that Tite & Wen Va. ee 1 Pmpire G & F 6s. feel sure.” He put in place the sec- % [eond Crome Coal... aaa 1 Goodriea Tire. 7 tion of molding and then replaced the Pressed Steel Car = tiyjun Fae 1 Grand ‘Trunk 0%. back of the little desk. It rematned Pullman Company. . dtagns. On 1 Gulf ott only to replace the patch of paper 2 [Punta Aleg Suga: 1% Pure Gil ..... i 1a | Rail Steel Springs, 01% 91 a1 Rand Mines 20% WH wy 10 Humble 01 and move the chiffonier in the ad- 3 Inte ROT joining room back, to its former posi- Simer RT &. . 5 lion and all evidefices of their inves- 3 Kennecott © 7 ‘ tigations were obliterated. | 5 Laclede Gas, | “What do you propose to do with 2 Libby MeN & I Ta... the fellow?” Hall asked. 4 Nat Acme Tips. ‘ “We'll have to take him along with 2 Leather us, of course,” Ashton said. He YNHe turned to the Jap. “I’m a detective 105 Oregon Short Line be, my friend,” he said. "I have discov- 8 Otis Steel ered how you atole the Peacock's Bye 19 Phila and I'm going to take you along with | 25 Pale Eleo 6s me. If you want to go quietly, well | 1 Phillips Pete Tle, and good. If not, I'll get @ policeman 500 Maracaibo O11 2000 Marine... 3000 “Meridian Peye 44 | 200 Merritt On. % | 500 Mexico On... % | 400 ‘Noble On. 200 North Am Of) ‘| 2000 Normest 2300 *Omar O11 200 Pennok Oil 150 Pee Ol pf 500 Sapulpa Ref 3700 Simms Pee 1290 Skelly O11 14+ ME | Rosat Dutch NY. oO ; ce OU pf...... 7 100 Gouthern PR 52 Public Service NJ 1 and have you taken in the patrol Mel ot L & San Pro 21% 25 Hinclair pt 1 Robert Gale hap Pe Scvln suulenly. in Bt L & Routaw pf 32% 324 24% — 4 | 15508 “Teron O & L 7 Sears Roebuck The Jap looked at him sullenly. 1 Bhawsbeen 1: 4 Southern Ry 34 Southwest Bell Ts 15 ON ¥ 6% 10 Sun Oil 70 . 6 Swit & Co fe 25. 20 Swift & Co Ts a1 Santa Coc Gugar.. Saxon Motors... * ' Seaboard Air Line. *% | Sound Air Line of “TN go, quictly,” he said. “Good.", Ashton searched the man, and having satisfied himself that he was unarmed, drew an automatic pis- tol from his pocket and exhibited It to the Jap. ‘See this, my friend,” he remarked. “If you give us any | 100 Tidal Osage 2000 *Vacuum G 2600 *Western States | 800 White Eagle | 1700 Witeor Oi a | 9500 *¥, on | 1% | Seneca Copper . “one MINT 25 Texas Co trouble, you know what you will get.” Salah artone ag | 203 Atte ain | 1 Tobacco He thrast his hand, still grasping the iN focal Rae : 7000 Big Ledge 7 Toledo Edisun 7 automatic, into the pocket of his over- 22 Sioclair_ on - 3 16500 Hom & Mont. 5 United Olt Prod coat. ‘“Untie this fellow, Hall," he Tp]S0 torte Rio» Sug. 38 —1 4 Calumet Hecla | 4 Um ny Har 1 said, “and. we'll start.” ‘ Southera oa Ie. 2 1 499 Cons Cow o | ‘The Jap, released trom his bonds, a ) Couper Tange a paaen hy us 1) Renee ase 9 Warner Sugar made no attempt to escape, and a few 2 Westera Klee moments later he was safely landed . Hall's car alongside the chauf: | INDICTED FOR FRAUD st Ashton handed the latter the * INVOLVING MILLIONS Pitust keep an eye on this fellow, will you?” he said. “I'll be back in a Hollister, White & € 4, | Stand Oil of NJ. 164% 28 | Stand OU N J pf. 178% Sterart-Warne a Stromberg . 86% 12 | Studebaicer 81% 1" |Surmanne Boat .. 4's {Superior 0:1 i 1, | Superior Ste ‘|tex Gut sul moment." \ . Chargea| The chauffeur nodded, and witout a word of explanation the detective walked back to the front of the stuaio Dec, 21.—A scheme to) puilding and, stepping to the curb, LIBERTY BONDS AT 2.50 P.M wien joy, tau defraud in stock and bond transac-| began to examine the snow-covered tions by misuse of the United States| Strect by the light of his electric | i pocket lamp. mails, said to involve millions of do!- 2” the banker ‘What are you doi }|lars, is alleged in indictments made | asked, joining him. don't wish to * youn 8880 | public to-day in the Federal Court | urge you, Ashton, but it seems to mo 4m ane | imta'4 a2 | Mietory Union Bag & Paper 71 Victory oy ieeces| f we ought to be doing something to Union OF sce, 10s = ner Se oes setae ieee | Aaalnat Holiiater, (White & Co, Ino, | Te OUST iter. Union Pacific. 128) 1% ro. CHANG investment underwriters of this city.) ""A MY Utit ent his companion's arm United Alloy . Ble | Exchanges were irregular in late The pla is alleged to have involvet! with a low whiatle. athe Cg 1 Jafternoon, demand sterling selling at the issuance of false financial state-| “Look at that, Hall," he exclaimed Inited Pruit z 1 2205-8; cables, 4.211 off 3-8,/ments to promote the sale of stocks | in bay sxcltoment Sinecting he rays United Food Prod. 10% 4. |Freneh irancs, demand, .0798; cables, and notes. Of the at the banker did not reslise Un Ry Inv Co... Mtg 0 off 0011 1-2. Live demand, Other companies named in the in-| the importance of what he saw. Un By Inv Co pf... 22% ables, 0451; off 0008. Belgian -| wh you mean?" he asked nes, demand, O76: cubien oes, dictment are the Hartford Automo at do you f 9009. ks, demand and cables, | tive Parts Company, Hartford, Conn,; ‘An automobile has been standing | US CT Pie... a 3-4, up 1-4, Rockwood & Go., Brooklyn, N. ¥., | here," the detective exclaimed. "Very ferred sold at a new figure, Many of the higher priced dividend payers sold down a Selling was quite evenly distributed The leading | Venscham Steel... throughow oils deci points, and and motor shares declines ran|\i"¥00 off .0012, Denmark kronen, demand. | Amesbury; Mount Holly Paper Com. | made by the left-hand tire—-a pebble from substantial fractions to about | Ws 2020; cables, 2RORE STE 0888) ‘pany, Mount Holly Springs, Pa.; treed aoe are ie she en inene two points, ie market seemed to eee if \American Textile Soap Compan: oe ' have ietle support either in the suid Pio ay DOCTOR SAVES FAMILY Springfield. lin which your MAmay AR aired aceumu- wD wey lation by” the so-called inside in-| W Marvund a4 wt 18 IMPERILLED BY FIRE on the two rear wheels’ — terests, Wese Pac Corp... — ASKS SON TO BEG SANTA In contrast with the eha’ rose more than two cents a bushel and cotton was firm, Foreign ex- change rates were practically un- changed. t the list. ined approximately in steels, tow record equipments list wheat | Westin og U B fad Alcoto, res : can't . recently, at that. You remember, do ee Shc CERCL INR: SADONG, 0415; a | Middlebury Marble Company, Bran-| Yon noi, that when we asked for 1% | mand, 57) cable 687, up 0012, |40M Vt; Coe-Stapley Company, West | Jansen on our way in, (he hall boy 1°] Pesetas, demand, 1488; cables, .1490,| Haven, Conn.; A. L. Sayles Sons Co, | intormed ue thet he had ju it fete .|Pascoag, R. 1; Herachel-Spillman | 9courred Yi ame tit itomobile tires | Motor Company, North Tonawand; might still remain in thi ow, L wan N. Y.; Merrimac Hat Company,| right. Look—here is the impression int. at {ofr .0002, Sweden kronen, deman/ 2495; cables, .2500, up 0010. Norway kronen, demand, .1573; cables, 1578 two | 2 Caro Coem By Va Caro Chem. of. “Then it was Jansen who kidnapped et Dr.| TO OBTAIN HIS RELEASE | her!” the banker almost shouted. rly Bare jaze im He! Wheeling & LB BANKING AND FINANCIAL. I I L A te Tana tb, it status market, onion ‘aed "future possiblities of the Middle States Oil favorable developments in dustry and how ¢ fitted this compan earnings ip relation BANKING AND FINANCIAL. How the Oil Boom Has Ben MIDDLE: STATES 0 I efitted IL Pappenbeimer, “Lat me get my hands on that scoun- White Motor 5; | drel, and I'll Wute Ol... | Fire did about $15,000 damage early |rrisoner Returns to Sine Sine | “i "may or may not have been Wictewire Stool ! |lto-day in the home of Dr. A. M Atter Wife Gets Diverce. Jansen,” the detective interrupted. cera ta | ee | Pappenheimer at No, 38 Walworth! Manacied to a Sing Sing keeper,| “But whoever it was used Jansen’s WiliseOverland 5 M | machine. Wileon & Co % Avenue, in the Gren Acres section | James Turner lifted in his arms as|Synat can we do now?" Hail was Wool mort Hisoodie dia ; of scars La Dr. * ppenheimer is 2 | well ay he could his five-year-old son, | greatly excited. “She may be in great Aw professor of pathology in the New a | oer, | Totmt mater, York Medical School | ‘mour, in the Bronx Supreme Court | mer Pane find | that autamebiie, ——_ Ricardo Pietro liscovered the five | thir afternoon and with tears stream- n in all probability is when he entered the banement to at- | ing down his face said to the young- find him, as well.” DEALERS INA PIE WAR fena'in th furnace, He'aroused, br {ine Pappenheimer, who was asleep with nie \ 1 can see but one way—to watch | * BUT DO NO THROWING iis wits on the seconl floor, Dr.| “When you write to Santa Claus tne studio until he returns. You drive ' ppenheimer got out his wife and|ask him to send your daddy home| back to my apartment with the Jap. ent Pies. heimer’s valuable medical brary wa Then Turner put the boy down | the apartment, adjoining the bath- | WILMINGTON, Dec. 21.—War is on DOT much damaged and started back for Sing Sing with zoom. Ane thet Twsule saving 708 j between pie dealers of Wilmington, and yiatom woun AT 140 A quant. |" * keeper. ; fo He down and try to gat a lit | ruta are being made in prices nx well as “twenty-pve” caacae of, 100, proot|, Just ® few minutes before a divorce | "Tai; demurred at thin, but Ashton the pies themselves. Bourbon whiskey bottied in bend, had been granted to Mrs. Mamio| overcame his objections During the war local pie dealars and, 8a" sold at auction to-day by | Turner of No. 618 Dawaon Mirent; |, “Lompas fale fallow taken care of a t pies United States Marshal James xf, |aleo the custody of @eymour and $19) dooe'Goubt that Jansen wil! return in restaurants boosted prices of uncut ples bover in Brooklyn, by order of the Fed- a week alimony, Mrs. Fannie Colien| the course of the next hour or two, to 10 cents, now the uncut pastry eral Court. The whiskey was bought | oaigon 7: of No, 77 Kelly |and I will confront bim in his studio ing down to 60 centa and one desler | 0Y the LAitle Sisters of the Poor tor | Mi m Tureer z y | Bod wee the truth out of him some- selling their Home for the Aged in De Kalb |Street ald she also was married to| And get the truth out of Bim sor has slashed the price to 45 cents, Cut) Avenue, and by the St. Maladhi’s Home |, whe (@ serving two and a| ROW: e yearns ave pies still sell at seven slives per pie, 19| in Bast New York The bidding startea | TUPROT: discovered the way in which th cents a alice, is #1 2 bottle and was closed at fac. ball years for bigamy. jewel wes etolen I don't think we'll left standing in front of the studia building. He took up his solitm CHAPTER IX. 7 T was just beginning to grow light when Josephine Halt fitally awoke. The poor girl had slept very little during the long,’ tere vifying night. After the torture to which she ha@ been subjected she had known noth+ ing for a long time. When she af last roused herself, the room was im darkness, except for the faint tight from the street lamps that Altered, trough the dusty window panes She took out her watch and saw that st was 1,30, She became aware of a frightful, stinging pain in herteft shoulder and 1emembered the brutal burn which the masked man had inflicted upom her with his cigar. She felt that she — must do something to relieve it, and, getting up, began to grope about the room in the hope of finding some matches. Her efforts, however, were unsue- cessful, but as her eyes became more accustomed to the darkness she man~ aged to disover a washstand in the r of the room, upon which were & pitcher of water and some towels: Soaking one of the latter in the cool water she applieg@ it in the form of 4 compress to her burning arm, and again threw herself upon the bed. From then until the first light of dawn she tossed restlessly about, get= ting a few moments’ sleep, from time to time and renewing the compreas on hee arm as the fever of the wound dried up the cooling water in which the towel was souked. When at last she staggered to her — fiet and gazea about, the room hail become fairly light. Her wateh or the tuble beside the ved marked a litte before 7. A sense of desperation swept owt her, If she could only send a messaxe to Ashton. She knew that, she was not far from Washington Square, and Ashton lived on Washington Squ There were no pictures on the wal’s, no books or magazines from which she might have torn a leaf of paper, Standing on tiptoe, she peered into the recesses of the upper shelf of the closet and savy in one corner a durk, square object. Standing on a chew she mbnaged to reach it. Irony of frontes! It was a leather-covered copy of the Bible. She sat quickiy down at the table and placed tiv Book before her. With a quick jerk she tore the flys leaf lose, and placed it on the tabla beside her; but she had nothing wita which to write. Josephine Hall, however, was not easily daunted. She rose, and again ‘began to search the room. The only thing that rewarded her search was a number of burned matches, thrown carelessly upon the top of the marbie mantel. With these she returned once more to the table. A single attempt, how~ ever, showed her the impossibility of writing a message with the means at her command. Even could she write a message, she would be unable to say in it where she was, Ashtoi should be chance to receive It, would have not the least idea where tho house in which she was confined was located. Overcome by the helplessness of her situation, she begun to sob, very quietly, her bead bent upon the marble top of the table. The pain in her arm bad increased. Presently she raised her head, and observed that the tears which had trickled through her fingers had moistened the little pile of burned match-sticks beneath. Once more sho tried to mark upon the paper—and the wet matches made a clearer and more distinct mark than they hard when dry. With intinite care she slowly trace’ a few words, not on the torn fly- leaf, but un the title page of the book itself. Then she began to mark, witli a tiny black cross, letter after letter on the first and second pages of the book. ‘The few matches barely sufficed to complete the task. When she had finished, she rose and looked out of the window, It was still very early and few per- sons were about, Presently, however she saw a man making his way slowly up the street, toward the house in which she stood. She waited until he was directly beneath the window, ~ then crashed the book through one of the glass panes and saw it fall almost at his feet. ‘The man, half asleep, was* roused from his slouching attitude by the falling book and the tinkling of glass about his ears. He glanced dully up, but apparently did not see Josephine as she stood at the window waying her hand to attract his attention, The man voped, picked up the book, and shambled quickly dowm the street in the direction of Sixth Ave- nue. Josephine gave a despairing cry, hoping to attract his attention, but {f he heard her, he paid no atten- tion, and hurried At the same m who had brought supper She dragged Josephine away .from the window. ‘Here—-none of that’ claimed, “You keep away from that window.” The tramp, meanwhile had reagiied Sixth Avenue and began to inapect the book. Fut one desire filled dim, on this cold winter morning. He mi have a drink. He turned to the frat person he saw—a newaboy. “Hey—sonny.” he caled. me old family give me when I was a kid. Leathe~ cover—gold pages—worth a coups of bones if it’s worth a cent. But f gotta have a drink, Take it for 4 dinte, and you'll be making bic mone: Do Not Mise To-Morrow’s | * Inataiment, lees ae eer | cath aeteek eet sae enilniplen AS Eien Cat Cente