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Newspaper Page Text6 “Outwitting The Hun” The War’s Greatest Story By Lieut. Pat O'Brien (Contisuad from Last Issue) TIAT r. ght Huy liger appeared as he had promised "Well. O’Brien.” he asked, as he entered the rooms where I was waiting him, "what do you say? Will you sign the order or not? ’ Decides to Fight It Out It had occurred to me during the day that the amount demanded was so fabu lous that I might have signed the or der without any danger of its ever be ing paid, but the idea of this man, who had claimed to be befriending me. en deavoring to make capital out of my plight galled me so that I was deter mined not to gite in to him whether I could do so in safety or not. “No. Huyiiger.” 1 replied. "I have de cided to get along as best I can without anv farther assistance from you sha! see that you are reasonably paid for what you have done, but I will not accept any further assistance from you at any price, and what is more. I want you to .eturn to me at once all the pho tographs and other papers and belong-■ Ings of min* which T turned over to you | a day or two ago." Sorry •"I’m sorry about that. O’Brien. he I retorted, with a show of apparent sin cerity. "but that is something I cannot do.” "If you don't give me back those pa pers at once.” I replied hotly. “I will take steps to get them, and damned quick, too!” “I don’t know just what you could, do. O’Brien.” he declared coldly, “but. as a matter of fact, the papers and pic tures you refer to are out of the coun try. T could not give them to you if I wanted to.” Something told me the man was lying. “See here, Huyiiger,” I threatened, ad vgnc.ng owards him. putting my hand on his eohulder and looking him straight in the eye. “I want those papers and I want them here before midnight to night. If I don’t get them I shall sleep in this p’ace just once more and then, st S o'clock tomorrow morning, I shall go to the German luthorities. give my self up. show them the passport that you fixed for me. tell them how I got It, and explain everything.” A Thea* For a Threat Huyiiger paled. We had no lights in the house, but we were standing near a landing at the time and the moonlight was streaming through a stained glass window. The Belgian turned on his heel and started to go down the stairs. “Mind you.” I called after him. "I shall wait' for you till the city clock strikes twelve, and if you don’t show up with those papers by that time, the next time you will see me is when you confront me before the German author ities* lam a desperate man. Huyiiger. and I mean every word I say.” He let himself out of the door and I sat on the top stair and wondered just what he would do. Would he try to steal a march on me and get In a first word to the authorities so that my story would be discredited when I put it to them? Only a Bluff Os course, —y threat to give myself up to the Huns was a pure bluff. While I had no desire to lose the papers which Huyiiger had and which included the map of the last resting-place of my poor chum Raney. I certainly had no intention of cutting off my nose to spite my chin by surrendering to the Germans. I would have been shot, as sure as fate, for after all I had been able to observe behind the German lines I would be regarded as a spy and treat ed as such. At the same time I thought I detect ed a yellow streak in Huyiiger. and I figured that he would not want to take the risk of my carrying out m ythreat AGENTS: S4O A WEEK New boiery proposition for men. women and children , , a k I All styles. colors and funcy stripes U-j J including the hnen line of silk hose. flFGwrated (foe Year: •ttSttSF S|R' A prospect In even home. 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There is just one thins io do—give nature a helping hand throughout the waiting period. No time should be lost in beginning the use of the penetrating exteral prep *. a rat ion. "Mother’s Friend”. By its use during the period the muscles of the abdomen are niade pliable and elastic; they can then expand with ease wnen baby is bom and pa'n at the crisis is j The Truth About Belgium . BY BRANDS WHITLOCK Z2Z i - (Continued from Last Issue) AUGUST, that terrible August, passed away in the floods of its beautiful sunshine and its ' days of blue and gold, gradually merged into the silvery light of Sep-. tember. It seemed like mockery to the heavy hearts in Belgium: the ; customary rains would have been more in harmony with the general I spirit. The Belgians, proud as they were of the resistance of their army, i which had fallen back within the ■ fortifications of Antwerp, were de- I pressed and humiliated by the daily i spectacle of German troops in their : cities; of German proclamations on their walls. The soldiers were every-; i where, trudging by in those uncouth heavy boots, into which their trousers j 'were so clumsily thrust. Huge mo- . tors would sweep by flying the im perial standard, followed by great j auto’-busses heavily loaded with bag ?;age —busses that but a month be ore had been bowling up and down ; Unter den Linden. The hotels were! ! turned over to German officers; in the dining room of the Palace hotel they were eating end drinking every, evening. The army was moving up j to the siege of Antwerp. We heard of a wonderful new can non. the “Gloriosoo.” the “Big Ber- Itha.” the famous Quarante Cinq. Some claimed to have seen them go ing down the boulevards, manned by • even though he believed there was but a small chance of my doing so. If I ' did, he would undoubtedly share my fate, and the pictures and papers he j had of mine were really of no use to him, and I have never been able to as- ’ certain why it was he wished to retain ■ them unless they contained something -—some information about me—which accounted for his complete change of attitude towards me in the first place and he wanted the papers as evidence to account to his superiors and asso- j ciates for his conduct toward me. A Strange Turn of Affair* When he first told me that the plan ; of placing me in a convent disguised : as a priest had been abandoned, he ex- : plained it by saying that the cardinal had issued orders to the priests to help no more fugitives, and I have since . wondered whether there was anything in my papers which had turned him against me and led him to forsake me ! after all he had promised to do for me. ’ For perhaps two hours I sat on that . staircase musing about the peculiar I turn in my affairs, when the front uoor opened and Huyiiger ascended the stairs “I have brought you such of your . belongings as 1 still had. O’Brien.” he ; said softly. “The rest, as I told you. • I cannot give you. They are no longer , ; in my possession.” | I looked through the little bunch he handed me. It included my identi fication disk, most of the papers I valued, and perhaps half of the photo graphs. “I don't know wnat your object is in retaining the rest of my pictures, Huy iiger,” I replied, "but, as a matter of fact, the ones that are missing were only of sentimental value to me and you are welcome to them if you want . them. We’ll call it a beat.” I don't know whether he understood the idiom, but he sat down on the stairs just below me and cogitated for a few moments. Professes His Eegrats "O’Brien,” he started finally. "I’m sorry things have gone the way they have. I feel sorry for you and I would really like to help you. I don’t sup pose you will believe me. but the mat ter of the order which I asked you to sign was not of my doing. However. «e won't go into that. The propo sition was made to you and you turned it down and that’s an end of it. “At the same time, I hate to leave , you to your own resources and I am going to make one more suggestion 1 to you for your own good. I have an i- other plan to get you into Holland and ’ if you will go with me to another house • I will introduce you to a man who I j think will be in a position to help e you.” ’ ’How many millions of pounds will s he want for his trouble?” I asked, sar- J ci.atically. "You can arrange that when you see • him. Will you go?” 1 (Continued Hext Issue) b naturally less. Ask for a bottle of "Mother's Friend" at the drug store today and do not go a single night with out applying it. Write The Bradfield Regulator Co.. Dept. D, 300 Lamar Build ing. Atlanta. Ga.. and they will send you a book of scientifically prepared, practi al information. without charge. "Mother’s Friend" is composed of such penetrating oils and other ingredients as to make it entirely indespensable to ex pectant mothers.—(Advt.) THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GA. TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1918 soldiers in strange uniforms and curious caps, but that may have been ; the guns borrowed from the Aus- ( trians. We were without news except the statements posted now and then on I the walls by the military authorities, and about these the Belgians would gather, and. after reading them, turn away with sneering Incredulity. We knew that the Germans were i marching on Paris and we expected each morning to hear that they had got there. There were reports that Charleroi had been passed on the way south; the guns could be heard no longer in the outskirts of the city. The Uhlans, a word that connoted all fearful, shuddering things, were said to be within forty kilometers of ; Paris. They were always rumors of jcoming relief: one evening came the ; I Countess S —, reporting a large 1 English army at Vilvorde, which, she said, would be in Brussels in the morning. Within three days the re- ( ■ ported English army had swelled to : 10,000 in number and had advanced , t to Laeken, in the northern suburbs of Brussels and battles were already ' in progress in the plains west of the city; thev could be seen from the Palais de Justice. A gentleman of my acquaintance came breathlessly to the legation to say that he had seen a cavalry charge himself from , the ramp of the great structure. He said if we hurried we might see it. Out then we rushed and gazed far over those plains toward the west, in the warm glittering September haze, but we saw no cavalry charge, no ' battle, nothing. I asked the agent ■ de police standing there gloomily in his kepi and cape; he bad seen noth ing. I asked him why the crowd as sembled there every day. “Il n’y absolument rien a voir, Monsieur le Ministre,” he said in re gret, "tousles Bruxellois restent , chez eux en temps de paix sans jamais regarder le beau panorama, mais depuis la guerre la rampe de la I terrace est toujours occupee d’une foule enorme.” (“There is absolute ly no hing to see. Monsieur Minister; all the people of Brussels stay at j home in times of peace without ever ! looking at the fine panorama, but since the war the stairway of the terrace is always filed with an enor mous crowd.’’) Hunger Comes to Belgium Then we began to note a new phe nomenon, new at least in Brussels — women begging in the street. Hun ger, another of war’s companions, had come to town. I had the visit of a group of citizens asking me to . have food imported from England. I But how was I or any one to import it? Bourgomaster Max asked Villa lobar and me to come to see him, and we went. He wished us to be patrons of a relief committee that was being organized to provide food for the poor of the city; the situation was desperate. We agreed to act as patrons of the committee of distin guished Belgian citizens, at the head of which was Mr. Ernest Solvay, the kindly old Belgian millionaire, who has made an immense fortune by the “Solvay Process,” which he invent ed. I have but the haziest notion of what the “Solvay Process” is. for sci entific processes are but mysteries to me, but I did know that he had de voted his fortune in great measure to the poor; had endowed institu tions; the popular school in the Parc Leopold bore his name. He was a modest little man of simple manner and attire, with a kindly gray-beard ed face, and blue eyes that were filled with sympathy and pity. He was at the head of the committee that met that first morning in Sep tember there in the Burgomaster’s cabinet at the Hotel de Ville; he and other wealthy men had given liberal ly and were to provide food for the poor of the city. Villalobar and 1 were there in our capacity as patrons and another notice was soon posted on the walls of Brussels announcing this new charity, or this new justice, or attempt at justice. i We did not know then, Villalobar and I, just what it was all so soon to lead to; we gave our names, little dreaming what tremendous draughts it was to make on our sympathies ; and on all that we had of tact and diplomacy, nor how it was to weld onr friendship. General von Luttwitz had told us one afternoon. Villalobar and me. that a new governor general was coming, some famous victorious Pacha from Turkey; he would install a civil government and show Bel gians how to govern. A civil govern ment! The Germans were to have passed through Brussels in three days; and they had been there for three weeks, gradually spreading out over all the ministries and very much at home. And now they were going to install a civil administration. It had a somewhat too permanent, if not ominous, sound! Brussels was perturbed for his : coming and the manner of it might I have its effect on the fate of Belgium. There was a word on everybody’s lips i that no one dared to pronounce: did i it mean —did it mean —annexation? The Arrival of Von Der Goltz The victorious Pacha duly arrived, to be followed later by whole regi ments of functionaries. It was the old Field Marshal Baron von der [ Goltz. I had word that the field •' marshal would call on me formally i! on Thursday, the 3d, in the after noon. So then on that day. prompt i ly at 4, His Excellency Field Marshal ■! von der Goltz Pacha, in blue Bis ' marckian uniform and decorations, a little squat black helmet, wearing an enormous sword, arrived with his staff in two big grey automobiles •with great excitement in the Rue de Treves. The Pacha, a big man and old. had a heavy, mettled, much ’ ! scarred face and wore large round spectacles', he expressed himself in excellent French, and thanked me for my work in charge of the German legation. He said something of his experiences in Turkey, remained but ' ia few minutes, smiled, bowed and was ■ I gone. I j It was on that occasion that I mot a man with whom I was to have ! much to do for the next two and a half years, a tall, exceedingly hand- I some man in smart uniform with j white trimmings, with a smiling, in ' ! telligent face, blue eyes, and the ! ' manner of a man of the world, Baron j von de Lanckcn-Wakenitz. He could j speak I know not how many lan- guages beside his own, though he did not like to sj*:ak English, and he al ways con rsed in that French he had so perfectly mastered during his ten years’ service as counsellor in the German embassy at Paris. He had come to Brussels to occupy an im portant post in the government of oc ■ cupation that was about to be estab lished. We exchanged but few words that day, for the call was brief, but we Mere destined during the suc ceeding two and a half years to be come better acquainted and to ex change many words, the occasional asperity of which not all the delicate nuances -of the French language could soften or shade away. The bulletin next morning bore the proclamation in which the field marshal proclaimed his accession to the seat of power in the little king dom. The people gathered about in sad, silent groups, reading the an nouncement of their fate. Many of them with scraps of paper and bits of lead pencils almost surreptiously copied it down. The proclamation stated that the German armies were advancing victoriously in France, and ,then proceeded to threaten the popu lation with dire consequences if any act inimical to the German cause were committed. And then there was the declaration of a new and amazing doctrine, new in our times at least and in the western world, namely, that the innocent should be punished as well as the guilty. “C’est la dure necessite de la guerre que les punitions d'actes hos . tiles frappent en dehors des coupables aussi des innocents.” (It is the stern necessity of war that the punishment for hostile acts fall not only on the guilty, but on the innocent as Well.) The sinister threat needed no com mentary after Louvain. Dinant, Aer schot. and a hundred other towns to the east, still smoking at that mo ment under their ruins. The people read it in silence but took what com fort they could in another phrase: Beiges: (the proclama tion continued): Je ne demande a personne de renier ses sentiments patriotiques.” (Citizens of Belgium —I ask no one to renounce his patri otic sentiments.) Nor did they miss the implications of another feature, one little word and that an insignificant preposition, suddenly swollen with an immense importance, pregnant with a deep meaning. That was the preposition “in”—governor general in Belgium then, and not governor general of Belgium! Men stood perhaps more erect, they were not required to re nounce any of their patriotic senti ments, and the land was not annexed. The Brussels Sense of Humor But it would not have been Brus sels had not the people had their fun out of it; that old and unconquer able Flemish and Walloon sense of humor; that remarkable resilience of spirit which is innate in the Belgian character. Somewhere on a wall of the lower town the notice had been put up so high that it could not be read by the passers-by, and a buxom woman of the people, a “bonne Brux elloise” with the naivete that is also a part of the Brussels nature, brought from her shop a ladder and mounted upon it to read it for the benefit of the crowd. But her voice was not strong enough, and a man, some droll wag, climbed up in her stead and read the proclamation with running com ment on its statements, and then held out his hands in benediction, and said: Et maintenant, meg enfants, je vous benis; avec ca (waving a hand at the proclamation) et six cents yous aurez un verre de biere dans tousles cabarets de Bruxelles.” (And now my children, t bless you; with that and three cents you can get a glass of beer in any saloon in Brus sels). (A cent at Brussels is two centimes). Proclamations and Bulletins Affiqhes, proclamations, notices or bulletins, indeed, played as large a part in the life of Brussels just then as had newspapers before the war. They might not always provide news but they could provide sensation, and. if written by the proper hand, send a thrill through the community. On the morning of the last day of August the crowds that pressed eag erly up to the walls where the affi -1 ches were posted were held, necks 1 craned forward, eyes peering, thrill ed by one of the most stupendous sen sations the city had ever known. For there was a white poster, with black i characters, its text vibrating with the passion of the man who had written i it. It was the burgomaster himself, I who. with the consecrated phrase the French use when they wish to give I the effect of the short and ugly word | they are too polite to use, had prick- II ed the German pride: “City of Brussels.” The German governor of the City ; of Liege. Lieutenant General von Ke | lewe, has caused to be published the ' following notice: “To the Inhabitants of the City of Liege—The burgomaster of Brussels has informed the German commander that the French government has notified the Belgian government of the 11 impossibility of- assisting it of fensively in any manner in view , of the fact that it finds itself compelled to take the defen -1 sive.’ “This affirmation I ca,tegori callv denv. The bnreomaste’’. ADOLPH MAX. i “Brussels. 30th August. 1914.” It was the very thing to catch the crowd: Brussels was delighted, and celebrated its dashing and daring '■ “bourgmetre.” Then, a few hours 1 later, there was another affiche on the walls: Important Notice It is strictly forbidden, also to the municipality of the city, to ! publish notices without having [ received my special permission. The Military Governor. ' Baron Von Luttwitz, Maj. Gen. Brussels. August 31. 1914. ' The town was swept by laughter; the burgomaster, already popular, 1 became an idol. i (Continued Next Issue) i • i ( Published by special arrangement I with the McClure Newspaper Syndi * cate. Copyright, 1918, by Brand i Whitlock, under the title “Memories -of Belgium Under the German Oc i cupation.” All rights reserved. - Copyrighted in Great Britain, Canada ) and Australia. All rights reserved i for France, Belgium. Holland. Italy, I Spain. Russia and the Scandinavian •countries.) Cotton NEW YORK, June It.—The cotton market was fairly active during today's early trading but sentiment seemed to l>e divided between the optimistic view of the crop and the bullish ness of spot advices and fluctuations were ir regular. The opening was steady "at unchanged prices to an advance of 4." points, July and Au gust being 32 to 45 points higher while new crop months were unchanged to 16 points higher. Hie more active positions sold some 8 to 38 points net higher after the call but at 211.73 for July ami 24.83 for October, offerings increased on the favorable weather news and forecasts. July sold off to 26.55 and October to 24.G0 iu consequence, but there was some trade buying ns well ns covering by near months shorts and the undertone was steady. ’the strength of the near months both here and in New Orleans had a sustaining influence on later deliveries, but prices gradually sagged off late in the morning owing to the continued favorable character of weather and crop ad vices. July reacted from 26.73 to 2G.5G or back to within 20 points of Saturday’s close, while October -old off from 24.83 to 24.56 or 16 points net lower. NEW YORK COTTON The following were the ruling prices on the exchange today: Tone, steady: midling. 30.50 c. quiet. Last Prev. Open. High. Ix>w. Sale. Close. Close. Jan 24.20 24.29 24.00 24.05 24.05 24.24 Feb 24.00 24.19 Mar 24.36 24.40 24.15 24.18 24.00 24.20 Muy 24.25 , 23.95 24.15 June . .• 27.61 26.43 July 26.50 26.75 26.42 26.55 26.49 26.35 Aug * 25.09 25.45 Sept 25.05 25.12 Oct 14.75 24.83 24.45 24.55 24.53 24.72 Nov. ..... .... ..* 24.28 24.52 Dec 24.35 24.50 24.12 24.19 21.18 24.42 NEW ORLEANS COTTON NEW ORLEANS. June 17. —A good demand was felt on the opening of the cotton market today and prices were lifted by it 6 to 30 points. After the call considerable liquida iton came in and caused a reaction. At the end of the first half nour of business July was 11 points over last week’s close and the new crops were 4 to 5 points under. Favorable crop accounts from nearly alll sec tions of the belt increased offerings. In the trading up to noon July fell to a level 11 points above Saturday’s final prices while the new crop months went to a level 10 to 13 points under. .Increased selling pressure was felt and at 1 o’clock the trading months were 5 to 20 points below the final quotations of Saturday. NEW ORLEANS COTTON The following were the ruling prices in the exchange today: Tone, steady; middling, 31.25 c. steady. Last Prev. Open. High. Low. Sale. C’ose. Close. Jan 23.36 23.37 23.03 23.00 23.04 23.36 Mar 23.38 23.43 23.18 23.33 23.19 23.32 June 28.37 28.45 July 28.25 28.35 27.97 27.97 27.97 28.05 Aug 26.10 26.10 Oct 23.92 23.95 23.61 23.70 23.69 23.80 Dec 23.50 23.50 23.19 23.24 23.24 23.44 NEW ORLEANS SPOT COTTON NEW ORLEANS, June 17.—Spot cotton steady; 25 points np; sales on the spot. 1.878; to arrive. 102; low middling. 28.50; midling. 31.25; good midling. 32.50; receipts, 3,775; stock, 394,791. SPOT COTTON MARKET Atlanta, stecdy. 30.20 c. New York, quiet. 30 oOc. New Orleans, steady, 31.25 c. Augusta, steady, 30.50 c. Memphis, steady, 30c. Charleston, steady. 30c. Montgomery, steady, 30c. Boston, steady, 30c. Philadelphia, steady. 30.75 c. Norfolk, staedy. 28.50 c. Galveston, steady. 30.55 c. Mobile, steady, 30- Little Rock, steady, 29c. Dallas, steady, 30.60 c. Sarar.nal’. steady, 30c. St. Louis, steady, 30c. Houston, staedy, 30.50 c. ATLANTA SPOT COTTON Atlanta spot cotton 30.20 c Sales 357 Receipts 321 Shipments 386 Stocks .. 29,469 ATLANTA COTTONSEED PRODUCTS MAKKEI JI NE Crude oil. prime basis 17% • Cottonseed meal, 7 per cent am- monia 47.50 Cottonseed meal, 7 per cent Georgia common point rate... .47.50 Cottonseed hulls, loose 20.50 21.50 Cottonseed bulls, sacked 25.'J0 26.00 Linters, clean mill run 04% .05 JCLY- Crude oil. prime basis 07)4 Cottonseed meal, 7 per cent Georgia common point rate... 47.50 Cottonseed hulls, loose 20.50 21.00 Cottonseed hulls, sacked 25.00 26.00 Linters, clean mill run 04*4 -05 COTTONSEED QUOTATIONS Georgia common rate points 570.00ti75.00 Cottonseed f. o. b. Atlanta *7o.oo'g 78.00 DAILY INTERIOR RECEIPTS Last Year. Today. Augusta 500 310 Memphis- 2,845 598 St, Louis 1,057 902 Cincinati ' 451 2.>9 Houston 1,521 846 Little Rock 273 COMPARATIVE PORT RECEIPTS Last Year. Today. Galveston 2,935 406 New Orleans 890 3.775 Mobile SO Savannah 772 1,2-10 Charleston 120 lt>o Wilmington 1 ..... Norfolk 2.0541 4W9 Boston 14 66 Philadelphia Total all ports 6,892 6,251 LIVERPOOL COTTON Tone, quiet; sales. 2,000; good middling. 22.61 W. Open Prev Mange. Close. Close. June 22.59 22.50 22.45 July 22.05 22.00 21.00 August 21.22 21.03 21.00 September 20.28 20.05 20.06 October 19.70 19.50 19.47 OLD CONTRACTS ' Prev. Open. Close. Close. June 20.82 20.02 20.83 Junue-July 20.74 20.84 20.75 z s Atlanta Live Stock | \/ (Corrected by W. H. White, Jr., president of the White Provision Co. Cnited States Food ' Administration License No. R-21371.) i Good to choice heifers. 850 to 1,000 pounds. I $10.50 to $12.50. Good steers. 750 to 850 pounds. $9.50 to $11.50. Medium to good steers. to 750 pounds. $9.60 to SIO.OO. Medium to choice beef cows. 750 to 850 pounds, $8.50 to $0.50. Medium to good cows, 650 to 750 pounds. SB.C‘O to $9.00. Good to choice heifers. 550 to GSO pounds. $S 01 to $0.50. The above represents ruling prices for good quality fed cattle. Inferior grades, dairy typ and range cattle quoted below. M.dium to good cattie. <550 to 750 pounds. $8.50 to $0.50. Medium to good cows, 600 to 700 pounds, $7.50 to $8.50. Mixed common, $6.50 to 7.50. Good fat oxen. $8.50 to $9.50. Medium to good oxen. SB.OO to $9.00. Good butcher bulls. $7.00 to $10.0,9. Choice veal calves. SB.OO io $9.00. Yearlings. $7.00 to Sf.UC. Prime bogs, 16a to 225 pounds. $15.25 to $16.00. Light hogs. 150 to 165 pounds. $14.50 to $15.00. $14.50. Light pigs. 80 to 100 ;>oun<ls. $12.50 to $13.00. ■Stags and roughs. $12.00 to $13.00. The alnive quotations apply to good quality mixed x fed hogs. LIVE STOCK BY WIRE CHICAGO, June 17.—Hogs—Receipts 33.000; mostly 10c above Saturday's average: bulk. butchers, $16.500116.85; packing. $16.00ftt;16.4."; light. $16.7501.16.90; rough. $15.5001'15.85; pigs. $16,250(16.75. Cattle —Receipts. 24,000. good to choice corn fed steady; others unevenly lower; quality poorer. Sheep—Receipts, 17.000; market 50 cents lower on both sheep and lambs. EAST ST. LOVIS. 111.. June 17.—Cattle—Re ceipts, 10.000. including 637 Texans; market steady: native beef steers. $11.500417.60; year ling steers and heifers. $9.500115.50; cows. 0112.00: stockers and feeders. 57.754 t 1.3.50. Hogs—Receipts. 9.500. market steady; mixed and bulchers. $16.250j16.65; good and heavy. $15.2501 15.50; rough. $16.250416.65; light, $16.00@16.40; pigs, $16.25@16.55. Sheep—Receipts, 4.200. market steady; clip ped ewes. $12.OO@14.00; lambs, $14.00G20.25; canners and choppers, $9.00@10.00. ATLANTA MARKETS' j ATLANTA, Ga., Ji.ne 17. —Lottou by wagon,' steady, 30.2VC. SALT Salt—Brick, uietilcaicu, per case, $7.50, do, plain, per case, $4.50; White Kock, per cwt., j $1.50; Jack Frost, 25 3-lb. packages, $1.25; | Ozone, case 25 2-IL. packages, $1.09; blocks, 50 ; pLut.cs each, 60c. CRACKERS Florida soda crackers. 17c per pound; Peart 1 Oyster crackers, 17c per pound: ieuiou rounds. ' the per pound; cart wheels, 18c per pound; all , t'J-- package cracker*. One per doeeu; all 2oc packages, $1.75 uer dozen; (r.tuily tin cnspettes 18J.0 per .lozen. FISH I'ouipaiio, scarce, per pound, 25c: Spanish mackerel, per pound, 17c; trout, drawn, per pound, ISc; headless reu mapper, peund, 19c; Iduefi'.-U. pound, 15c; whiting, per pound. 12 , .4ct uiango snapper, ver poum'. 12fee. mallet, per pourrf. lie; small channel cat and perch, per porad, 10c. CEREALS I'unty outs, IBs, ruumi, $2.00; 30s. round, •5J.90’ 12 family size, S3.W: I’unty grtts. 245. ituml, s2.ia; 10s, round. $2.30; regular I’os ti.ni, .irg*. $2.2.'>; assorted, $2.50; small, $2.70. instant I’ostum, large. 84.50: assorted. $5.00: small, $3.40; Grape-Nuts, 15c size, $2.55; indi viuual size, $2.00; Post Toasties. $4.10; indi vidual sine. $2.00. CANDIES Kennesaw stick candy, in barrels, 15c per pound; small chocolate drops in 30-pound pails. 20c per pottmi: Stone Mountain chocolate drops in 30-pouud pails, 19fee per pound; Bonbon mix ture in 30-lAJunci pails, Jec per nound; Fulton mixture in 35 pound cases, 15c per pound; Honeycomb taffy in 20-notmd cases, 22c per pound; broken taffy in baskets, l.'lic per pound; bonanza assortments. $9.75 eneh. ’ MEAT. LARD AND HAMS •Dry salt extra ribs, 24c; dry salt* rib bellies, medium to average, 26c; dry salt rib bellies, light, average, 26c; Cudahy's Puritan brand, hams. 32c; Cuday’s Rex hams. 31c; Cndahy’s sandwich boiled hams, 41c; Cudahy’s Puritan Inrd. tierce basis. 2S’ac: Cudahy's Rex lard. 27c; Cudahy’s White Ribbon compound. 23%c per pound. Cornfield hams. 10 to 12 average. 82.-; Ca*"- field hams. 12 to 14 average. 32e; Cornfield picnic hams. t> to 8 average. 23)-;c; Cornfield breakf'st bacon. 4v< ; Cornfield sliced li.ie.-~. 1-pound boxes. 12 to case. 52c; grocers’ t aeon, wide or narrow. 3~7sC; Cornfield pork sansage, fresh link or bulk. 22c; Cornfield wieners in 10-pouud cartons. 21c; Cornfield t>olo ;aa sau sage. 25-pouud boxes. 26c; Cornfield smoked link sausage. 25-iw-d boxes. 19c; Cornfield wien ers, in pickle. No. 15 kits. $3.00; Cornfield laid, tierce basis. 26 1 ;c: compound lard, tierce basis, 23%e; country style lard, tierce basis, 26)jc;. GROCERIES Flour—Capitola, $12.70; Olympia. $13.00. Meal—Atlanta Milling company plain meal. 86 poomis. $3.02; 48 pounds, $2.04; 24. to 12 pounds, $2.07. Mackerel—U-Kno-It. sfe-6-oitnce. 190 count, out; Leader, 7-ounce, 100 count, out; Anchor, hfe-ounce, 60 count, 37.25; 75 count, $8.50; Crown, 9%-10-ounce, 60 count, $7.50; 75 count, $9.09; Eureka. 13-14-ounce. 60 count, SIO.OO. B. & M. fish flakes, 21. small, $1.45; 24, large, $2.25. Sardines—Key, )4 oils. Continentals, $7.50: keyless, )4 oils. Conqueror. $7.00; key, % oils, in cartons. Homerun, $8.00; key, mustards. Imperial, none; key, % mustards, in cartons. Gamecock, none. Meats —Potted meats, 47)4c; roast beef, $3.25; corned beef. $5.25; tripe, $3.30; C. B. bash, $1.55: hemberger, steak and onions, $1.55; veal loaf, $2.40. Coffee —Blue Ridge brand, roasted, 15c; Wall brand. AAAA. 15c; Uno. 25c. Rice—Japs. s@6c; Honduras, medium head, 3%®4)4c; Arkansas fancy head. 6®6fec. Beans —California blackeyes, $10.50; pink, $9 50; limas. $14.50; small whites. $14.00; Michigan choice. sl6 00. JOHN F. CLARK & CO.'S COTTON LETTER NEW ORLEANS. June 17.—Excepting the activity reported from the Italian front, there was not much news over Sunday, and the mar ket opened at about ttnenanged figures with traders in a waiting attitude for developments. The contrast between crop views, the sta tistical shownig on one s»de and the strength of spots and bullish technical conditions on the other, is so great that marked changes could come in the market with great suddenness. While July soon worked 20 higher, to 28.35. on some covering demand, new crops declined on general selling to 23.73 and the July-October difference widened to 450 points. This large discount, of course, is causing increased sensi tiveness in new crops and if aayhting should happen to change crop views, the strength in spots and near positions would tell more ef fectively. Furthermore, July here is now only 275 points under spots, while in New York it is still nearly 400 points under spots, and a further adjustment there closer to spots can have a sympathetic bullish effect all around. So everyhting de;>epds on action in the near positions. August here scored a further cor rective advance of GO to 80 points in the early trading. This advance is probably due to spot hedge interests transferring into the next nearest position to profit by the discount. Generally fair, hot weather prevailed over Sunday with the exception of south Texas, where a local rain formation caused generally heavier rainfall. Indications are for increas ing cloudiness west, generally! fair in the cen tral belt, part cloudy in Atlantics. High tem peratures are reported from the central and south Atlantics. Follownig are two crop reports from the in terior: Vicksburg says: ’’Boll weevil showing up in large numbers in sections where no rain in a month.” . An authority on crop situation tn the eastern belt says: "Reports from all sections show continued im provement. Complaints in June are usually few. Squares are plentiful but few blooms are reported, indicating that the crop is per haps a couple of weeks late. The critical sea son is yet before us.” NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET Close. January February 8.4668.47 March April Mar - 7.97&7.90 August * September October November December n Classified Advertisements WANTED HEL?-Main. __ tmnecessary. Travel, make secret investigations, reports. Salaries, expenses. American Foreign Detec tive Agency, 322. St. Louis. WANTED HELP —Kale and Female. SIOO MONTH paid men-womcn. 18 or over. Thousands government clerical positions open. I’leasaut work. Vacations with pay; seven hour duv. Pull unnecessary. Common educa tion sufficient. Examinations everywhere soon. Write immediately for list positions «l >e a- Iranklin Institute, Dept. RIOL Rochester. N. Y. WANTED —Salesmen. to .-.nli’ions brought about by the war we have a tew well- I worked territories open and will he i lea ed to ’ hear frinterested persons. Apphrnnt least be exempt from draft. McConann k Dept. 72, V.'n.ona. Minn. WANTED —Agent*. AGLNTs^Make^a^doiiar an hour. Sc ! Mendels, a pattiit patch sot inst*ia<ly T«:(n<lir.ir ir hu i.rv.sils. Sample »:i.?kai;e frer. • Lett- Mfg Co., Dept. 72-S A. Amst/ usm, a(, r XTS —Dig summer s» Iler. Something new. Concentrated soft drinks: just add water. De- Helens .'.rinks in a jiffy. Popular for the home, (denies, parties, socials, etc. Small package. . carrr 111 pocket. Enormous demand. Agents making $6 to sl2 a day. Outfit free to work ers. Just a postal today. E. M. feltnian, • I i’hi'rd St.. Cincinnati, O. (NV ALL ABLE for extinguishing fire, hiving ‘bees washing buggies and autos, cleaning windows, spraying trees, lawns, gardens and disinfectin'.' hen roosts. Agents making $L> to S2O day. Price only SI.9S. Libera! commis. to acts. R. L. Phillips Pitl». Co ■ Atlanta, MfSCZD D AN F O US. TEACHERS—LET ME TELL YOU HOW TO GET a first-grade license. B. S. Holden, Ei lijay. Ga. WANTED —FAHMS lOR aALE —For bargains in term lands near "The racking House City” of Georgia. Ap ply But ns Realty Co., Moultrie. Ga. ' ' i-ATiaivTS. I xiE^TTFhoend^'aUiiitF^t’uh^wri’'^ nt " I "Lists of Needed Inventions.” "Patent Buy ers” and ”Ilow to Get Your Patent and Your ' Money.” Advice free. Randolph & Co.. Patent ! Attorneys. Dept, cn, Washington. D. C. Ml a vraaßPO Wat*>enK.C*lwuiaii,WMDi S# 14 3S> | Ington.D.C. Books free. H!gt> rM I ImS 1I W eat. reference Best resutV dreds of Ideas Wasted, etc. Patents Advertised Free. Adviee Free. Trade marksreglatered. «’ e ß«rd B. Owen. Patent Lawyer. 66 Owen Bldg.. Waah., D. C READ by thousands Journal Wants. ' Grain • CHICAGO, June 17.—Record breaking high I temperatures which prevailed yesterday led to buying of corn today on a broad scale and for.ed a sharp advance in values. Opening prices which varied from unchanged figures to |l»i<- higher, with July $1.45*4 to $1.46% and ■ August at sl.lS*4 to $1.13)4 * vere follodwed by a decided general upturn. Foremasts cf lower temperatures and show ers over a part of the corn belt induced ’ something cf a reaction in the later dealings. Trices closed nervous. *«e to 1c higher with ’ July $1.45*4 to $1.45'4. and August $1.47%. Oats responded to the strength in corn and ;to hot weather reports. After opening % to l%*-*l’»c higher, with July 71 to 71% the mar ket held near the top side of the range. Provisions rose with coru and hogs. Sellers were hard to find. CHICAGO QUOTATIONS The following were the ruling prices in ths 1' exchange today: Prev. Open. High. Low. 1 p;tn. Close. CORN— 'July . 1.45)4®L46% 1.47% 1.45’4 1.45% 1.45’4 Aug. . 1.48*4(g1.48% 1.49% 1.47% 1.47% 1.47 I OATS— i June 77 77 76 76% 76 iJuly 71®71% 72% 71 71% 70% ! Aug 66®6G% 67’1 66 67% 65% PORK— * ! July ' 42.70 41.85 Sept « 42.90 43.10 42.85 43.10 42.10 I LARD— ' July 24.65 24.53 24.57 24.90 24.52 \ Sept 24.90 25.20 24.85 25.17 24.77 ' RIBS— •' July 22.85 23.10 22.85 23.05 22.80 Sept 23.32 23.60 23.32 23.55 22.25 KEUEXFIS IN CHICAGO Today.) Wheat 3 cars 1 Corn 146 cars : Oats 157 cars Hogs 33,000 head VISIBLE SUPPLY Whret—Decrease, 312.060 bushels. Corn—Decrease, 128.CU0 busheis. ] Oats—Decrease, 1.782,009 bushels. TOTAL VISIBLE Total Visible—Wheat. 509,000 vs. 20,142,000 ■ last year. Corn —12.720,000 vs. 3.437,001 list year. Oats—lß,.'><2.ooo vs. 13.793,000 last year. PRIMARY MOVEMENT ■ Receipts—Wheat, 469.1'00 vs. 696.000 last year, corn, 1.099,000 vs. 1.310,000 last year; j oats, IMXi.OVO vs. t>ti3,oCo last year. Shipments—W heat, 32.000 vs. 491,000 last year: corn. ,373.000 vs. 520,000 last year; oats, ' I ••'12.000 vs. 825,000 last year. CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS ! CHICAGO, June 17. —Cora. No. 2 yellow, ■ $1.7061.71; N'o. 3 yellow, $1.6261.67; No. 4 ■ ! yellow. $1.5001.55. Oats. No. 3 white. 77@78%c: standarw. 77% 1 @7B%c. Rve. No. 2. $1.9661.98. I Barky. 51.00® 1.35. | Timothy. $5.0008.00. | Clover, nominal. | Pork, nominal. ; Lard. $24.65. j Robs, $23.37023.87. CHICAGO PRODUCE BARKET I CHICAGO. June 17.—Butter, creamery extras, ! 42%c: creamery, firsts. 42043 c; firsts, 39042 c; I seconds. 3<t@3Bc. Egss, ordinaries. 2S@3lc; firsts, 31@32%e. j Cheese, twins, 21%c; Young Americas, 22% ©23%c. j Live poultry, fowls. 27c; ducks, 26c; geese, 114 c; springs. 35c.; turkeys, 42c. Potatoes, cars. 67c; Wisconsin and Minneso | tas. 81.4061.60; new. $2.7502.90. SHEPARD & GLUCK'S COTTON LETTER NEW ORLEANS. June 17.—Rather narrow fluctuations m ar '' e< i , ' lf * trading in cotton last week, the market making no very ready re sponses to jyearish influences, even though there was considerable bearish sentiment on dis play. The continued firmness of spots as a source of strength which had to be reckoned with all the time, spots stand 62 points over last week’s close on middling while the dis count on the lower grades has been widened by furt her revision. Crop news has been uniformly favorable throughout the week, so that opinions have come to be that the percentage of condition is considerably higher than it was on May 25. While the evidence forces this concession, we ’ hardly think it probable that favorable weather can continue indefintely and because condi tions have been so favorable any change can only be to the detriment crop. The sea son is yet very young and if the experiences of past seasons are anything to go by it will not I be many weeks older before crop scares will de- Ivelop and they will be all the more effective in their results on the urice because of the pres- I ent high condition. Os two bureau reports is . sued Saturday, one puts the condition at 83.3 and the other at 86. Probably the majority of ! j people in the trade think the latter figure the more correct. On May 25, the government said 1 the condition was 82.3. We have carefully reviewed reports from all sections of the belt and have arrived at the conclusion that while conditions could hardly be better over 75 per cent of the belt, there are disturbing possibilities in the widespread appearances of the weevil, at an obnormally early date in Texas, a state which has no sub soil moisture because of the absence of rains last winter. In addition to the dry weather, temperatures have ranged very- high in Texas of late and there have been complaints of hut winds. Here are the foundations for disaster I and they should be watched. In the eastern and ; central belt, rains would produce great weevil damage and would also be very detrimental be -1 cause of the labor situation; in the west rains 1 are imperative if the crop is to continue doing ; well. On Thursday eighteen Texas weather stations out of forty reporting, returned maxi * mum temperatures ranging from 100 to 194 de- I grees. ) We do not believe the' market can be de pressed permanently as long as spots retain their firmness. Declines on further good weather ’ probably will be temporary and a quick buying ) movement would result in any change to unfa- J vorable conditions. TKEES >bl,l, iruit trees, pecan trees, ornamental trees, light work; good profit. Write today. Smith Brothers, liept. 20. Concord. Ga. * SEEDS AHD BLASTS. • CABBAGE plants, frost proof, $1.50 per 1.000. Parcel post or express. Prompt shipments. Clark Plant Co.. Thomasville. Ga. 'FrIUMPH. Nancy Hall, and Porto Rico potato plants. $1.75 per 1,000. J. W. Staf. Waldo. Florida. MEDICAL. CANCER It’s successful treatment without use of the knife. Hundreds of satisfied patients testify to this mild method. Write for free book. Tells how to care for patients suffering f rem cancer. Addrcas UR. W. O. BYE, . Kaasaa City. Ma LEG SORES by ANTI-FLAMMA a ano thing &nticep*~c Poultice. Draws out poipoos, stops itching around sores I and heals e you work. Write today describing < aey» and cet FREE SAMPLE. Bayles Distributing Co., 1820 Grand Ave., Kansas City, Mo. treatment. Gives quick rel!efc J -ivsvs Soon removes •we Bin®* and short vf 1 3 breath. Never heard of its equal for drorsy. \ Tr y Trial treatment sent PRIZE. by mall. Writs to dr. THOMAS E. GREEN Bank Bide.. ■«« if t CHATSWORTH. OA. ' |TOBACCO or -nuif oat.it cured or no pay. Jl.cii I if cured. IXemedy sent cu trial. Superi-i Cu.. Tl.. Itnitine’c. Mil. I ADIFS or .leuj-.d. .w- ’irinnipli I'llls; al'.vays ilepen i 1 able. Nor sold at drug store., ••Relief’ n” ; i articular* free. Ad : rec NATIONAL KEDICAI. | INSTITUTE, MILWAUKEE. WIS. i f’A Mf’ET'Q i'stv when removed. Health Herald FREE. Address Dr. i E. V. Boynton, Fitchburg. Mass. VARICOSE VEINS, are pr .niptly relieved v ith Inexpensive home treatment. It reduces the pa’n .’.nJ swelling—overcomes tiredness. For pnrt’e'ii.rs write W. F. YOUNG, P. D. 261 Temple St., Spring? eld, Maaa, ■hort breathing relieved — veiling. water end uric acid removed in a lew days— regulates liver, kidneys and heart. Cures Dropsy Fee Free Treatment write DOLLL'W DROPSY REM. O- Dept. L.. Atlanta. Ga. Fhlg g«ffiFREE TREATMENT K K VS. We Pay postage and send frre fe SB ■■ R’d Cross Pile and Fistula Cure ■ ■ fchlV MA CO. De«t32MitKa9«its,Mtna.

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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, June 18, 1918, Page 6, Image 6