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THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
CAUSES OF ECZEMA.
Data of th . First Agreement Am*fig
New York’s Broker».
They Are as Numerous ee the Varie-
tiee ef the Eruption.
In the early part of March, 1792,
the firat notice was printed of the
opening of a stock exchange office
at 22 Wall street by A. L. Bleecker
A Sons, J. Pin ter d, McEvers A Bar
clay, Cortland t A Terre re and Jay
A Button. These several firms held
auctions of stock each day at noon,
•ailing in rotation to insure equal
rtunities for each other,
as of the broker specialists re
sented such a restricted organisa
tion, and on March 21 a meeting
was called of the dissatisfied brokers
for purposes of protection, and a
committee was appointed to pro
vide a suitable room in which to
assemble and to suggest such rules
and regulations for conducting
their business as the committee
deemed necessary. The final result
of this meeting, says Moody’s Mag-
*
led agree
•aine, was the first
signe
ment among dealers in securities,
the oldest record now in the ar
chives of the New York Stock Ex
change. The agreement reads as
follows:
“ We, the Subscribers, Brokers
for the purchase and Sale of Public
Stock, ao hereby solemnly promise
and pledge ourselves to each other,
that we will not buy or sell from
this day, for any person whatsoever,
any kind of Public Stock at a less
rate than one-quarter per cent com
mission on the specie value, and
that we will give a preference to
each other in our negotiations. In
Testimony Whereof we have set our
hands this 17th day of May, at New
York, 1792.”
This organisation had no local
habitation for conducting exchange
business. Like the curb brokers to
day, transactions were carried on in
the open sir at a point between the
present numbers of 68 and 70 Wall
street, under a famous old button-
wood tree' that stood there with
widespreading branches, which pro
tected them from the sun’s rays and
ordinarily inclement weather.
Business in those days was not
rushing, and there was an air of
leisure and quiet about the gather
ing. Securities were not active
enough to employ all the time of
the brokers, so between times bet
ting on the results of domestic and
foreign political controversies and
dealing in merchandise were in
cluded.
The first inside quarters o f the
exchange were secured in 1793,
when tne Tontine coffee house, at
the northwest corner of Wall and
William streets, was completed.
The old buttonwood tree was aban
doned, and the dignity of the bro
kers’ organisation was elevated by
the change. The Tontine coffee
house was controlled by a chartered
company composed of 203 subscrib
ers at $200 each, organised as a
merchants’ exchange.
The dealers in securities and the
merchants were all jumbled up to
gether, and at times when trading
was brisk there was wild excitement
and shouts that would have done
credit to a band of Comanche In
dians. No constitution for a stock
exchange was adopted until 1817,
when the New York stock and ex
change board was formally organ
ized and a constitution, adopted.
Nathaniel Prime was appointed
»resident and John Burson secre-
Strictly speaking, eczema is not
a clearly marked disease with a defi
nite cause and course, but a gen
eral term applied to a great variety
o f inflammatory affections of the
skin, due to a great variety of causes.
The eruption may assume almost
any appearance. There may be
redness, roughness, thickening or
scaling of the skin, sometimes with
There
deep cracks. m
ere may be
oe little
utue
blisters, pimples or nustules which
break and form scabs, or the sur-
face of the skin may be raw, con
stantly exuding a thin, sticky fluid.
Whatever the form of the erup
tion, there are almost always in
tense itching and burning, and
sometimes pain not unlike that of
neuralgia is felt.
The causes of eczema are as nu
merous as the varieties of the erup
tion. There is not necessarily any
constitutional taint, although ec
zema is very common in gouty per
sons. It is not due to any septic in
fection of the blood, but it may be
a symptom of intestinal autotoxica-
tion. Indeed, in many cases thp
bowels are inactive, and one of the
first necessities in the treatment is
the removal of this condition.
External irritants, especially such
as act constantly, owing to the suf
ferer’s occupation, are common
causes— the soapsuds o f the washer
woman, for example, the flour of
the baker or the developing solution
of the photographer; heat, as from
an open fire in winter or the sun
in midsummer; exposure to intense
cold; scratching to relieve annoying
itching from any cause. In short,
whatever causes irritation of the
skin may provoke eczema in one
predisposed.
,
The cure demands a recognition
and removal of the real cause. But
even when that has been done .the
persistent inflammation requires
soothing, and sometimes antiseptic,
applications, and often internal
remedies and a change o f diet are
also necessary. Self treatment in
eczema is dangerous, for if you ap
ply any substance that is not pre
cisely what the eruption calls for
ou are likely to make it worse.—
routh’s Companion.
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T h e M a n a g er W a a Cute.
The crowd swayed toward the
manager of the open air show.
“ What did you mean by advertis
in’ thet tight rope walker?” cried
the spokesman.
“ Just what I said,” replied the
unabashed manager.
“ But the rope was laid on th’
ground,” cried the spokesman, “ an’
your fraud of a rope walker just
walked on it a step or two t Do you
call that tight rope walking?"
“ Certainly!” shouted the man
ager. “ The man was tight, wasn’t
he?” — Cleveland Plain Dealer.
It Was Wasted an Him.
He was a callow youth and Ss-
aumed many liberties.
“ Ah, Lucy,” he said to a young
woman with whom he was some
what acquainted, “ you look tired.
What have you been doing?”
“ Hunting a flat,” she answered.
“ And did you find one ?” he
asked.
Her eyes snapped.
“ I found one, ’ she replied, with
a meaning look.
But, of course, he didn’t see the
’point of i t — Cleveland Plain Deal
er.
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His Qrset Need.
The father received a note from
a young man who had been “ going
with” his daughter recently which
read as follows: “ Dear Sir— Wood
like Jessie’s lymd in marriage. She
and I are in luv, and I think I nede
a wife. Yures, Henry.”
The father repliea by letter, say
ing: “ Friend Henry— You don't
need a wife. You ne$d a spelling
book. Get one and study it a year.
Then write n e again.”
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Last Man In tha Steeka.
MARVEL OF THE PAMPAS.
ABSENTMINDED
GAUTIER/
A Tree That Crumblee Into Powder
When It Is Handled.
Eteriee e f an Author W ho Wae
ef Somnambulist.
Some of the curious trees that
grow on the pampas of Argentina
are interestingly described by M.
George» Clemenceau in his “ South
America Today.’ ’ One at least—
the ombu— is so queer as to be al
most uncanny.
“ The ombu is the msrvel of the
pampas, the only tree which tbs lo
cust refuses to touch. For this rea
son it has been allowed to grow
f r . tUh
h not eTen
foxmJ’
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to tttiliie wh. t the
ffl
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— the
voracious insects decline.
For
Theophile Qautier composed much
of his best work while riding on the
tops of buses, and so thoroi hiy
did his brain
1
do its work in
laces that on coming home
he would sit down and write as
steadily as if the words were being
dictated to him. His faculty of
concentration was so great that
while composing a novel on a bus
his subconscious self was set free
to listen to remarks made to him
and to answer them without dis
turbing tbe real current of his
thoughts.
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In his own house, too, he would
give even more remarkable demon
strations of this somnambulism. In
the middle of showing a guest the
ictures that lined his walls a
§ d: reaminess would come into his
voice and eyes, and his words would
come slower and slower. Then,
with the dull, heavy movement of a
somnambulist, he turned his back
on his guest and noiselessly, just
like a somnambulist again, went to
the door and opened and shut it
behind him so quietly that not evert
tbe cats asleep on the armchairs
were awakened.
IJp the little wooden staircase
went the dull, heavy clump, clump
of his slippers, vanishing up above.
Down below the visitor waited,
wondering what he should do. I f
he scented an adventure he “ stood
by,” as Captain Cuttle would say,
in the salon waiting for something
to turn up. Otherwise he would re
main gaping in astonishment.
After the lapse of some minutes,
sometimes a great many minutes,
the clump, clump, the dull, heavy
clump of the soles of his slippers
was heard at the top of the stair
case. It came nearer, until it min
ted with the sound of the opening
oor, and then Gautier walked in,
still a somnambulist, and stood in
front of his guest, whose astonish
ment was heightened when his host,
with the most natural tone in the
world, went on with the sentence
he had broken off short when be
went upstairs. He had not the least
notion of having left his guest. His
expedition had been made to a room
on the second floor, where be sat
down on the shelf of a large oak
cupboard. What did he do up there ?
Nothing whatever. He simply star
ed at the walls. He wasn’t con
scious o f being there! But when
an hour later he clambered on the
top o f a bus his brain already con
tained some bits o f a chef d’ouvre.
They had taken shape there while
his guest down below was wonder
ing what he was doing. -
Rarely if ever has a man had such
a gift for getting out of himself.
He would enlarge on his magnifi
cent golden tea and breakfast serv
ice, when the most humdrum china
lined his shelves. And though his
servants were all treated in tht
most fatherly way, Gautier would
tell you that he never permitted
them to utter a word in his pres
ence, that he only employed ne-
oes. “ 1 give my orders by signs.
they understand my signs, well
and good. If they don’t, I kick
them into the Bosporus.” And
there is no doubt that he actually
heard the waves closing over the
head of a black slave. He actually
meant what he said. The street
outside was actually for him the
Bosporus.— St. James’ Gazette.
ombu prides itself on being good for
nothing. It does not even lend it
self to making good firewood. It is
only to look at. But that is suffi
cient. Imagine an object resembling
the backs of antediluvian monsters,
mastodons or elephants, lying in the
shade of a great mass of sheltering
foliage. Heavy folds in the gray
rind denote a growing limb, a round
ed shoulder, a gigantic head half
concealed. These are the tremen
dous roots of the ombu, whose de
light is to issue forth from the soil
in the form of astonishing objects.
“ Then you turn your attention to
the trunk and find it hollow, with
a crumbling bark. The fingers sink
into the tree, meeting only the re
sistance that would be offered by a
thin sheet of paper. And now fine
powdery scales of a substance that
should be wood, but, in fact, is in
describable, fall into your hands.
They crumble away into an impalp
able dust, which is carried away by
the breeze before you have time to
examine it. Now you have the se
cret of the ombu. The wood evapo
rates in the open air. At the same
time there spring from its strange
roots young shoots of the parent
tree. Since it is impossible to burn
the nonexistent you cannot obvious
ly have recourse to the ombu to
cook your luncheon. Here is an ex
ample in the vegetable world o í a
paradox, a tree which is utterly
useless.
“ The palo borracho, on the other
hand, is extremely useful, although
not without a touch of capricious
ness. Its strange trunk, strangled
in a collar of roots and bulging in
the middle part, bristles with in
numerable points, short and sharp,
which prevept all undue familiarity.
“ The trunk, if tapped with a cane,
returns a hollow sound. The tree
is, in fact, empty, needing only to
be cut into lengths to give man all
he needs for a trough. Tha JbEdian
squaw uses it to wash her linen,
and the wood, exposed to the double
action of air and water, becomes as
hard as cement. The unripe fruit,
the size of a good apple, furnishes
a white cream, which supplies the
natives with a savory breakfast.
Later, when the fruit comes to ma
turity, it bursts under the sun’s
rays into a large tuft of silky cot
ton. The exceedingly fine thread
produced by this tree is too short
to be spun, but tbe Indians and
many of the Europeans turn it to
account in many ways.”
The punishment of the stocks
has been inflicted within the mem
ory of many living men. In the
Manchester Guardian of June 14,
1872, there is an account o f a man
enduring this form of legal torture
at Newbury. He was a rag and bone
dealer of intemperate habits and
was fixed in the stocks for drunk
and disorderly conduct at the par
ish church. “ Twenty-six years had
elapsed since the stocks were last
used,” runs the account, “ and their
reappearance created no little sen
sation and amusement, several hun
dreds of persons being attracted to
the spot where they were fixed.’ *
The “ amusement” does not appear
to have been shared by the prison
ed, who was released after four
hours and “ seemed anything but
W sslsy Didn’t Liks French.
pleased with the laughter and de
John Wesley had a very poor
rision of the crowd.” — London
opinion of the French language.
Chronicle.
He once wrote: “ I was more than
ever convinced that the French is
Juvsnils Prscocity.
Perhaps the most remarkable the poorest, meanest language in
case of juvenile precocity on rec Europe, that is it no more compar
ord is that of Christian Henry Hei- able to the German or Spanish than
necker, the “ learned boy of Lu- a bagpipe is to an organ and that,
beck,” born in 1721, who could read with regard to poetry in particular,
before he was one year old and considering the incorrigible un
could write before he was three. couthness of their measures and
Before completing his first twelve their always writing in rime (to say
months he could recite all the prin nothing o f their vile double rime*—
cipal events in Biblical history, nay, and frequent false rimes) it is
and before he was four he “ knew” as impossible to write a fine poem
the history of all the nations of an in French as to make fine music
tiquity, geography, anatomy, the upon a jewsharp.”
use of maps, ecclesiastical history
Mauds Waa Willing.
and the doctrines of divinity. He
A
strict
housewife said to a new
spoke German, Latin, French and
maid,
*T
forgot
to tell you, Maude,
Dutch. And at the age of four
that if you break anything I’ll have
years and four months he died.
to take it out of your wages.”
But Maude, whom two days
Ths Msls Has Eyes.
hád
heartily sickened of her berth,
The majority of people believe
replied,
with a merry laugh: “ Do it,
that the mole is even “ blinder” than
the proverbial bat, but the natural ma’am; do it. I’ve just broke the
ists know that such is not the case. hundred dollar vase in the parlor,
Sir John Lubbock and Carl Hess, and if-you can take that out of $4—
the latter a noted German natural for I’m leavin’ at the end of the
ist, by careful investigation proved week— why, you’ll be mighty clev
that the mole has eyes which are as er.” — Argonaut.
perfect as those of a horse or an
Ha Callad tha Turn.
elephant. They are very small op
“
I
came,”
announced the inti
tics, to be sure (only doe millimeter
mate
friend
of
the family, “ to make
in diameter), but in the matter of
my
dinner
call.”
reflection and refraction do not dif
“ But,” they protested, “ you
fer from the normal eyes in larger
haven’t
been here to dinner lately.”
animals.
“ I know that,” he replied, “ and I
thought if l called that defect
Making It Claar.
“ Dear me,” said the kind hearted might be remedied.”
An invitation was promptly forth
pedestrian, pausing and putting on
coming.-—
New York Press.
nis pince nez, “ have you fallen
through that coalhole ?”
W holly Unnaoasaary.
“ Not at all!” replied the man.
“ You don’t even know how to
| who was still endeavoring to extri
make a lemon tart,” remarked the
cate a leg from the. hole, smiling
cooking school girl, with fine scorn.
winningly. “ As you seem interested
“ Tt isn’t necessary to make a lem
in the matter I will tell you what
on tart,” replied the other. “ All the
happened. I chanced to be in here,
lemons I've ever asen were pretty
ana they built ths pavement round tart already.”
me.” — Tx>nd»n Answers.
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Thankfulness.
I am no friend to the people who
receive the bounties of Providence
without visible gratitude. When
the sixpence falls into your hat you
may laugh. When the messenger
of an unexpected blessing takes you
by the hand and lifts you up and
bids you walk you may leap and run
and sing for joy, even as the lame
man whom St. Peter healed skipped
piously and rejoiced aloud as he
passed through the beautiful gate
of the temple. There is no virtue
in solemn indifference. Joy is as
much a duty as beneficence is.
Thankfulness is the other side of
mercy.— Henry Van Dyke.
Eh* Did Not Know.
A local justice of the peace was
HISTORY MAKERS.
Fifteen of thy Most Dooisivo
of tho World.
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Dr. C, A . Eldriedge
DENTIST
Tbe fifteen decisive battles of the
world from the fifth century before
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Christ to the beginning of the nine
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teenth century of the present era,
as given by the historian, Creasy,
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are as follows:
The battle of Marathon, in which
the Persian hosts were defeated by
¿• U S ttlM E feE ttS M t«E W E «««*«»’.
the Greeks under Miltiades, B. C.
490.
DR. A . M . D A V IS
The defeat of the Athenians at
Syracuse, B. C. 418.
The battle of Arbela, in which
the Persians under Darius were de
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feated by the invading Greeks un
der Alexander the Great, B. C. 331.
The battle o f Metaurus, in which
the Carthaginian forces under Has-
drubal were overthrown by the Ro
mans, B. C. 207.
Victory of the German tribes un
der Arminius over the Roman le-
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'ons under Varus, A. D. 9. (The
PHYSICIANS
SURGEONS
ittle was fought in what is now
the province of Lippe, Germany,
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near the source of the river Erne.)
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Battle of Chalens, where Attila
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the Terrible, king of the Huns, was
repulsed by the Romans under Ac-
tius, A. D. 451.
Battle of Tours, in which the
Saracen Turks invading western
I LITTLE FIE LD & ROM IG
Europe were utterly overthrown by
the Franks under Charles Mortel,
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Battle of Hastings, by which Wil
liam the Conqueror became the ruler
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o f England, Oct. 14, 1066.
Victory of the French under Joan
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o f Arc over the English at Orleans,
April 29, 1429.
Defeat of the Spanish armada by
the English naval force, July 29
D R . TH O S. W . HESTER
and 30, 1588.
Battle of Blenheim, in which the
Physician and Surgeon
French and Bavarians were defeat
ed by the allied armies of Great
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Britain and Holland under the Duke
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o f Marlborough, Aug. 2, 1701.
Battle of Pultowa, the Swedish
army under Charles X II. defeated
the Russians under Peter the Great, Dr. altea O. Bowen
Dr. H. D. 1
July 8,1709.
Drs. Bowers & Bowers
Victory of the American army
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS
under General Gates over the Brit
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ish under General Burgoyne, at
A y ea r’ s post-graduate work in Cali
Saratoga, Oct. 17, 1777.
fornia fust completed. W omen’s
Battle of Valmy, where the allied
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armies of Prussia and Austria were
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defeated by the French under Mar Phones: Office, W hite 75; Rea.-
shal Kellerman, Sept. 20, 1792.
Battle of Waterloo, the allied
forces of the British and Prussians
defeated the French under Napo
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leon, the final overthrow of the
great commander, June 18, 1815.
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W onderful Monastery.
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Df. E, P. Dixon
At Solovetak, in the Russian gov
ernment of Archangel, is the most
A . E W IL S O N
remarkable monastery in the world.
O p ticia n
The monastery of Solovetsk is in
closed on Every side by a wall of Eyes exam ined and glasses made
granite bowlders which measures
to f it
nearly a mile in circumference.
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The monastery itself is very strong
ly fortified, being supported by
round and square towers about
thirty feet in height, with walls
twenty feet in thickness. The mon
astery consists in reality of six
churches, which are completely
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filled with statues of all kinds and
precious stones. Upon the walls
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and the towers surrounding these
churches are mounted huge guns,
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war were directed against the Brit Funeral Directors & Embalmers
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Etiquette.
“ Etiquette” is a
which originally meant a label in
dicating the price or quality, the
English “ ticket,” and in old French
was usually specialized to mean a
soldier’s billet. The phrase “ that’s
the ticket” shows the change to the
present meaning of manners accord
ing to code. Burke solemnly ex
plained that “ etiquette had its orig
inal application to those ceremonies
and formal observances practiced at
courts. The term came afterward
to signify certain formal methods
used in the transactions between
sovereign states.”
THs Turks and tha Crascant.
N e w b erg ,
O re.
^ TTORNEY - AT-LA W
CLARENCE BUTT
W ill practice in all the courts o f the
state. Special attention given to pro
bate work, the writing o f deeds, mort
gages, contracts and the drafting o f all
legal papera.
Newberg, Oregon.
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Bank o f Newberg Building.
W ILLIAM M. RAMSEY
Attorney-at-Law
When Philip of Macedon ap
M c M i n n v i l l e ,
O r e g o n
proached by night with his troops
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right
Building
to scale the walls of Byzantium the
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moon, then new or in crescent,
shone out and discovered his design
to the besieged, who repulsed him.
G . O . IC1SUJS1SY
The crescent was after that adopted
as the favorite badge of the city.
• t H odson B ro a . S to re
When the Turks took Byzantium
they found the crescent in every Cleaning, Pressing and Praticai
public place and, believing it to
Tailoring
possess some magical power, adopt
ed it themselves.
about to perform the marriage cere
mony for a colored couple who call
ed at his office for the purpose.
Previous to the performance of the
“ official act” the justice proceeded
to ask the usual questions of the
prospective groom as to his father’s
Christian name and his mother’s
maiden name, whereupon the future
bride chimed in with this remark:
“ You all better not ask me what
W h ip p ed C ream .
my father’s maiden name is, ’cause 1
“ Look here,” shouted the irati1
don’t know!” — National Monthly.
neighbor over the fence, “ your-
youngest son has been stoning my
Se ©ifferent.
cats and pilfering my apples! He
“ Women all have the same fault is a scamp!”
They can’t pass a shop that has
“ Don’t talk that way about my
bonnets in the window without look •on,” blurted the <fond parent.
ing in.”
“ Why, he ia considered the cream
“ So different from men! They of our family.”
can’t pass a shop that has bottles
“ The cream, eh?
Well, I’d like
in the window without going in.” — to see him whipped.” — Chicago
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