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6 The Truth About Belgium BY BRAND WHITLOCK ■ - / Ar 5 o’clock that afternoon the Echevins Jacquemain. Lem onpier. Maes and Steen had gone to see the military governor, and had told him that all the ad ministrative measures that Max had taken had tween with the ap proval and with "the accord of the College Echevtnal ai d insisted that Max had not broken any of his pacts with th military authorities, ami asked that all b-* arrested with Max. voa Luttwits produced the tha* the buntomaster ha.l written to Oufairc of the Deutsch* bank; it was that for which he had been suspended. He shbuld have written to the authorities, skid the general, not to the director of tl*e bank He asked the Echevin* to take the direction of affairs of th>* <*ity. ’ If they did not do so he would name a German burgomaster, who would take the necessary steps to have the entire amount of the in demnity of war paid. Jacquemain proposed to* General von Luttwitz that he be held as hostage* in Max's place, but this the general, of course, refused to do Then they came to the legation. We Wait News of Max Villalobar and I decided to go to . Genera! von Luttwitz. asking the Echevins to await our return. It was half-past seven o’clock, already aark. and a chill wind blowing. At the old ministry for foreign affairs there were signs of pertur bation and ill-humor; the sentinels were very nasty;,we had difficulty in getting in. The young aide in the ante-room was very truculent, glancing contemptuously at our cards and saying curtly: -What do you want to see the general for?” Vii’lalabar’s Spanish pride bristled at once. ‘■Monsieur!’* he said, in a tone that might has blasted the young fellow where he stood. The officer handed our cards back to us. saying that the general was at dinner and could fl | LIFT OFF CORNS! j i I ’. Doesn’t hurt at all aftd costs j only a few cents Magic! 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A flush of rage reddened the young cheeks that were scarred bv the balata of the prudent duels, but the pnrase dal its work; and young jackanapes clicked his neels and went in, came slamming out presently, shouted angrily to us .hat monsieur le general wished us to wait. . licked his heels again, and Hung out of tile room in a fine show of temper. "Ajuelle pelites; e!” V’How polite”* said the marquis. We sat down and waited, cooling our heels if not our tempers, while the general finished his dinner. We waited long. German generals are good trenchermen, and the wine that poor Davignon had left in his cellar was excellent. But all things come to an end. and fin ally the general came In. He had dined well, of course, and we had not dined at all; he came in. very friendly and with a certain loud laughing geniality, begged our par don for having kept us waiting and showed us into his, or into Davig non’s. private room. We spoke of the arrest of the Bourgmetre. “Qu’est-ce que ca pent bien vous faire?” (“What affair of yours is that?”) It was, of course, none pf our af fair. as we admitted, but our good offices were at his service in the exigency. Then he told us the whole story. It was. he said, the third serious difficulty he had had with Max. and when he mentioned Max’s name he had to restrain his feel ings; he said that the difficulty was that Max had been growing too pop ular and that his popularity had gone to his head, in the intoxicat ing way that popularity will at times. ▼on Luttwitz Explain*. "That man has never written me a letter,” he said, “in which there was not concealed some sharp prick ing point.” and he gave a vicious stab with his finger in the air to illustrate the effect of Max’s piquancy. , f ”1 said this to him the other day. he went on. “ Monsieur Max. do you know what I think you are trying to do? I think you are trying to become the first president of the Belgian Republic’ " He spoke then of the first dis agreement with Max, the affair of the famous affiche. ”1 had no in tention of repeating what Max told me." he went on. “but I felt in duty bound to report it to my govern ment. They told it to the Com mandant at Liege who affiched it. . Then he spoke of the next affiche. the one concerning the Belgian flags, which was subsequently cov ered with white paper, and at last came to the case under notice, his own latest affiche, and Max s letter i to Du fa ire of the Deutsche Bank. I “There was nothing left for me to do but to arrest Max,” said Gen eral von Luttwitz. His face grew 1 very hard as he sat there, and very gray hair giving him a dis tinguished look. „ “One or the other must rule here, he exclaimed, “he or I. and I am put here to rule. When this house burns. I’ll bum with it. under the ashes of the door sill.” He clenched his fist, then gave a rather harsh laugh, we made a last effiort to get him to re consider his decision and release Max. but he shook his head deter minedly. „ “He has already been sent away. he explained. “1 gave him a fine dinner.” he concluded, and relaxed more comfortably in his chair. He * added that Max would be sent to a • fortress at Namur, .in honorable confinement. That seemed to close the incident. He was prepared for I trouble when the worst became known •he had posted guns every where. But he hoped to avoid it. 1 he wished the Echevins to continue ■ in their functions, and he asked us Q if we could help him by any sug gestions. * "If the Brussels police continue at * their pasjTs and maintain order. I K. I Regulator Co., Dept. M. 300 Lamar Bldg.. Atlanta. Ga. They will send you a valuable book, “Motherhood and the Baby,” free. It is not only very interesting, but it will make you helpful to others. 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Mon sieur Lemonnier. as ranking echevin. would become acting Burgomaster, but when he arrived at the hour fixed, with his colleagues, he was reluctant to assume the duties of acting Burgomaster precisely be cause of the old ambition to till that very post; he, had a delicacy that did him honor, and a. reluctance to seem to profit by the misfortune of his- ancient rival. He was a large man. ami determined, and he seemed nxed in his determination. It was a position, under the circumstances, doubly difficult for him. and one .could sympathize with his reluc tance. And yet. there were interests at stake, larger than any one man’s delicacy, however creditable it might be to him; if local self-government could be maintained, so much at least might be saved. Sitting there around that long ta ble where so many problems were to be discussed during the troubled months and years of the future that was so kindly hidden from us, my thoughts went suddenly to another city* far across the sea. and to its problems, which in coming to Brus sels I had too fondly hoped to es cape. It was a lucky thought, for all suddenly there flashed into my mind the peculiar coincidence that here was the same old problem that would not down, the old ineluctable struggle of the city to be free. The free city! And Brussels was one of the oldest free cities in the world! I leaned forward toward Monsieur Lemonnier; in Belgium there is one chord in every citizen that vibrates instantly to the touch, and that is the chord of the old city spirit. It seemed strange to be stating the argument Jn another tongue, but I did the best I could, and I said to Monsieur Lemonnier: Brumh, a Free City “This is not the first time that the city of Brussels has been occu pied by a foreign power. Today’ it is the Germans, not so long ago it was the Dutch; before that it was the French and the Austrians and— the Spaniards.” The marquis smiled, and bowed. “Before that it was the Duke of Brabant with whom you struggled. But during all those oc cupations. during all those changes, there was one thing that always floated over the Hotel de Ville down there in the Grand Place. That was the city of Brussels, that flag was the red and green.” Monsier Lemonnier did not wait for me to“flnish. He leaned forward out of the deep chair where he sat. “I’ll do it!” he said. And so it was settled. There were a few details to arrange. Would the police obey him? Yes! The echevins prepared an affiche informing the people that the college would continue in their functions, would maintain order, "feront marcher les affaires.” (“Would keep things going.'*) Vilalobar and I wrote a note then to Von Luttwitz asking him to post the affiche; and he thanked us for suggesting it. It was after midnight I was startled out of my sleep by th heavy booming of cannoning, and then suddenly it was still, and the church bells were ringing f ln an other Sunday. For days we had been waiting' for the passes that would permit Gibson to go to Ant werp for the wheat, and our two mothers to leave. Their trunks had been packed and were waiting, and now more than ever, since we did net know what might follow the ar rest of the popular burgomaster, we were anxious to have them gone, and to know them safely out of Belgium., That morning the passierschein came, and at 10 o'clock they, with Gibson in the motor piled high with luggage, drove away under the American flag. A little knot of peo ple gathered in the Rue de Treves to see the departure—a little knot that quickly grew’ to the proportions of a crowd, a fact not without dis quieting suggestion. They went away bravely and as they went we watched them, with hearts full, but a great load lifted from our minds. They expected to reach Maestricht that night and The Hague on the morrow. The frowd outside melted away and the town was still. Villalobar came in and we chatted for a long time, oddly enough about the Span ish-American war. and the king of Spain, who felt that the future of America and the future of Spain were mysteriously bound together, and so tried to do away with every trace of feeling and bitterness. And then M. Van Villenhoven, charge des affaires of {he Dutch le gation, appeared to say that he had just been down to the Grand place and that a German lieutenant with some want of tact had selected that as a propitious moment to parade tere some Belgian soldiers, prisoners of war. But as the morning wore away the atmosphere of the city be came surcharged with a nervous quality that was not reassuring: the news of Max’s arrest was spreading, and then by noon there w*ere callers at the legation anxiously inquiring if it were true that the American minister had left. It was precisely what I had expected; the crowd that had gathered to watch the motor laden w’ith luggage drive away had already’ done its work. A number of citizens suggested that some means be devised to counteract, the effect of the rumor and in the afternoon, then, shorty- after luncheon, I took an open motor, and with my wife drove all over Brussels. The day was fine, clear and cold, and in the sunlight crowds were gathered ev erywhere. Our motor carried the flag and we drove along the Boule vard Bischoffshein to the Gare du Nord, the Boulevard Anspach, the Rue de I’Escalier and al! through the popular districts of the* Ma rolliens; children were playing on the sidewalks and people were gos siping at the doors; there were carts everywhere with fresh English wal nuts for sale, the women before them gesticulating with their stain ed hands. We drove through the Boulevard du Midi, Rue Neuve, out to Laeken and there* just across the canal the only incident of the drive worth mentioning occurred. The German sentinel stopped us and a irreat crowd gathered and when they saw the flag thev raised excited • Ties of “Vive I’Amerique! Vive I’Amerique!” The Belgian police rushed everywhere among the crowd crying: “Alez! Alez!” ("Move on!”) It took the thick-headed German sentinel as long to read the passier schein as though it had been Chitty “Outwitting The Hun” I he War’s Greatest Story By Lieut. Pat O’Brien (Continued from Last Issue) I CAN’T say I had no misgivings as I made my way to the theater; cer tainly I was going there more for > discipline than pleasure, but I had made I up my mind ahd I was going to see it through. The entrance to the theater or beer garden, for it was as much one as the other, was on the side of the building and was reached byway of an alley which ran along the side. Near the door was a ticket seller's booth, but as this was one of the free nights there i was no one in the booth. I marched slowly down the alley, imi i tat, ng as be*st 1 could the indifferent gait of the Belgians, and when I entered the theater I endeavored to act as though I had been there many times before. A hasty survey of the layout of the place was sufficient to enable me to select my seat. It was early and there were not more than half a dozen people in the place at that time, so that I had my choice. There was a raised platform, per haps two feet high, all around the walls of the place, except at the end where the stage was located. On this platform I tables were arranged and there were tables on the floor proper as weil. I decided promptly that the safest place for me was as far back as possi ble, where I would not be fn the line of vision of others in back of me. Ac cordingly, 1 slouched over to a table on the platform directly opposite the stage, and I look the seat against the wall. The whole place was now In front of me. I could see everything that was going on and everyone who can e in, but no one, except those who sat at my own table would notice me unless they deliberately turned around to look. A Kight of Dissipation The place began to fill up rapidly. Every second person who came in the door seemed to me to be a German sol dier, but when they were seated at the tables and I got a chance later on to make a j-ough count. I found that In all there were not more than a hundred soldiers in the place and there must have been several hundred civilians. The first people to my table were a Belgian and his wdfe. The Bel gian sat next to me and his wife next to him. I was hoping that other civil ians would occupy the remaining two seats# at my table, because I did not rel ish the Idea of having to srt through the show with German soldiers within a few feet of me. That vtfould certainly have spoiled my pleasure for the eve ning. Every uniform that came in the door gave me cause to worry until I was sure it was not coming in my direction. I don’t suppose there was a single sol dier who came in the door whom I didn't follow to his seat—with my eyes. Just before they lowered the lights, two German officers entered. They stood at the door for a moment looking 1 the place over. Then they made a bee- I line in my direction and I must con fess my heart started to beat a little faster. I hoped that they would find another seat before they came to my vi cinity, but they were getting nearer and nearer and 1 realized with a sicken ing sensation tha. --.y were headed di rectly for the two seats at my table, and that was indeed the case., Germans at Same Table These two scat, were In front of the table facing the stage and except when the officers would be eating or drinking their backs were toward me, and there was considerable consolation in that. From my seat I could have reached right over a one of them on his bald head. It would have been more than a touch, 1 am afraid, if 1 could have gotten away with it safely. As the omcers seated themselves a waiter came to us with a printed bill of fare and program. Fortunately, he waited on the others first I listened intently to their orders. The officers ordered some light wine, but my Bel i gian neighbor ordered “Bock” for him- I self and his wife, which was what I ! had decided to order anyway, as that was the only thing I could say. Heaven ■ knows I would far rather have ordered : something to eat, but the bill of fare meant othing to me, and I was afraid to take a chance at the pronunciation | of the dishes as set forth. Tnere were a number of drinks listed which I might safely enough have or dered. For instance. I noticed “Lemon squash, 1.50,” “ginger beer. I.—” Spark ling Dry Ginger Ale, 1. —,” “Apolinaris, l.~,” and "Schweppes soda. but it occurred to me that the mere fact that a selected something that was listed in English might attract atten tion to me and something in my pro nunciation might give farther cause for suspicion. B It seemed better to parrot the Belgian and order “Bock,’’ and that was what I decided to do. One item on the bill of fare tanta lized me considerably. Although it was listed among the "Prizzan der drunken," which I took to mean "Prices of drinks." it sounded very much lo me like something to eat, and Heaven knows I would ratffer have had one honest mouthful of food than all the drinks in the world. The item I refer to was "Dubbel Gersten de Flesch (Michaux)." A dou ble portion of anything would have been mighty welcome to me, but I would have baen contented with a sin gle “Gersten” if I had only had the courage to ask for it. To keep myself as composed as pos sible. I devoted a lot of attention to ! that bill of fare, and I think by the time the waiter came around I almost knew it by heart. One drink that al most made me laugh aloud was listed as "Lemonades gazeuses,” but I miqrht just as well have introduced myself to the German officers by my right name and rank as attempt to pronounce it. (Contlnned Next Issue) on Pleading, but he finished finally, and we got away, and I can still see among the red and excited faces the Belgian with a pointed yellow beard shouting frantically as he swung his hat in the air: “Vive I’Amerique!” • Everywhere people were waving their hats and shouting, but nothing happened, and we came back half frozen late in the afternoon. (Published by special arrange ment with the McClure Newspaper Syndicate, Copyright, 1918. by Brand Whitlock, under the title “Memories of Belgium I’nder the German Occu pation." All rights reserved. Copy righted in Great Britain, Canada and Australia. All rights reserved for France. Belgium. Holland, Italy, Spain. Russia nad the Scandinavian countries.) The average girl Is a queer creature. She'll make tun of a young man one I day and marry him the next. A woman either adjusts herself to her surroundings, adjusts her sur roundings to suit herself—or gets a di vorce. Cotton NEW YORK, July S.—There was a renewal of the covering movement at the opening of the cotton market today. Wall street brokers who had been buying at the close of last week were buyers again, unit after starting steady at an advance of 5 to 11 points,* active months sold a'lout 25 to 27 points net higher with October touching 25.23 and Ilecember 24.80. Ttiis ad vance nret increased offerings, however, with selling promoted by bearish private crop ad vices and the market soon eased off in conse quence. Octolier broke to 24.8(1 and December to 24.25, making net losses of 7 to 11 points. Selling was general on the decline, including houses with New Orleans and other southern connections. Reports that an early new crop movement was to lie expected from south Geargia as well as south Texas probably served to stimulate selling later in the morning. October contracts broke to 24.C0 and December to 24.23, making declines of some (kl to 65 points from the early high level and of 37 to 39 points from Satur day's closing. Trading became less active at these prices, and there were rallies of 10 to 12 points around midday. The decline extended to 24.53 for October and 24.19 for December during ihe noon hour, or about 40 to 44 pointsn et lower, but at this level there seemed to be some trade buying j a># well as covering on reports that the drouth area was incerased in the southwest. October rallied to 24.73. and Decmeber to 24.36, with the market steady around 2 o’clock. NEW YORK COTTON Toe following were the ruling prices in the exchange today: Tone, steady; middling. 31.70 c. qniet. l.ast Pre* Open. High. Low. Sale. C’ose. Close. Jan 24.54 24.75 24.0 S 24.23 23.28 24.50 Feb 24.27 24.4® Mar 24.10 24.43 24.05 24.27 24.27 24.46 May 24.50 24.50 24.50 24.50 24.28 24.52 July 27.92 27.95 27.40 27.71 27.71 27.80 Aug 27.17 27.37 Sept 25.67 25.70 I Oct 24.95 25.23 24.53 24.78 24.78 24.97 Nov 24.50 24.72 Dec 24.67 24.89 24.19 24.41 24.40 24.62 NEW ORLEANS COTTON' NEW ORLEANS, July B.—Continued drouthy weather over the belt caused a rise of 20 to 25 points in the first half hour of trading in the cotton market today. Buyers found few cen tral ts to trade on. Heavy selling developed at the advance." "based on a favorable construction placed on crop ac counts by a local newspaper and rumors of a slightly easier spot situation. In the trading up to noon prices were sent 32 to 43 points under Saturday’s finals. NEW ORLEANS COTTON The following were the ruling prices In the exchange today: Tone, steady; middling. 30e, steady. laist I’rev. Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close. Jan 23.31 23.85 23.30 23.42 23.50 23.56 March ... 23.75 23.75 23.30 23.42 23.50 23.64 July 27.28 27.55 Aug 25.30 25.50 October. .. 24.05 24.25 23.56 23.78 23.77 24.00 Dec 23.85 23.92 23.28 23.54 23.52 22.70 SPOT COTTON MARKET Atlanta, steady. 31.30 c. New York, quiet, 31.70 c. New Orleans, steady. 30c. Augusta, steady, 29.75 c. Menipl'.is, steady, 3Ge. Charleston, steady, 30c. Montgomery, steady, 30e. Boston, steady, 31.60 c. Philadelphia, steady, 31.95 c. Norfolk, steady, 30.50 c. Galveston, steady, 31.25 c. Mobile, steady, 30c. Little Rock, steady, 29.50 c. Dallas, steady, 31.05 c. Bavanuah, steady, 31.25 c. St. Louis, steady, 30c. Houston, steady. 30.30 c. ATLANTA SPOT COTTON Atlanta spot cotton 31.30 c Sales None Receipts 63 Shipments 299 Stocks i. 24,402 AIJ-ANTA COU Oh SEED PaODUCJE MAali.l.. JULY Crude oil. prime basis .17% ..... Cottonseed meal, 7 per cent am- utouia 47.50 ..... Cottonseed meal, 7 per cent Georgia common point rate... .47.50 Cottonseed bulls, loose 20.50 21.50 Cottonseed hulls, sacked ........25.U0 26.00 Linters, clean mill run 04% .05 AUGUST— Crude oil, prime basts 07% ..... 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% .05 COTTONSEED QUOTATIONS Georgia common rale points 570.00@75.00 Cottonseed I. o. b. Atlanta R70.004578.0U COMPARATIVE PORT RECEIPTS Last Year. Today. Galveston 2.60 s 1.647 New Orleans 2,208 1,078 Mobile 181 529 Savannah 811 729 Charleston 229 ..... Wilmington 83 Norfolk 16 Baltimore 141 ..... Boston 153 96 Philadelphia i 729 Total all ports 7,010 4,178 DAILY INTERIOR RECEIPTS Last Yenr. Todav. Augusta 25 34 Memphis 864 .... St. Louis 983 233 Cincinnati j 155 240 Houston 536 475 Little Rock 171 .... VISIBLE SUPPLY Wheat, decrease, 231.000 bushels. Corn, decrease, 604.000 bushels. Oats, de ereaseti 981.000 bushels. LIVERPOOL COTTON Tone, irregular; sales, 2,000; good middling. 23.07 d. Open Pre* Mange. Close. Close. July 22.2 G 21.98 21.99 August 21.25 20.93 20.93 September 20.15 19.85 19.85 October 19.48 19.25 19.24 November 19.15 18.87 18.87 OLD CONTRACTS Pre*. Open. Close. Close July 21.19 21.34 TIMES-PICAYUNE REPORT NEW ORLEANS. July B.—The Times-Pica yune, in pursuance of its usual custom, pre sents the replies of its correspondents on the cotton crop as of date July 1. The concensus of opinion, as shown by these reports, is to the following effect: 1. There has been a general increase in the acreage, varying in different states. Taking the belt as a whole, the gain has been about 6 per cent. 2. The condition of the -top is generally ' excellent, the best in years, except in purls if ; Texas where drought is complained of. 3. The supply of labor is deficient in vary ing degreeir in different states, owing to the draft and the exodus to industrial centers, but fine weather has facilitated proper cultiva tion. 4. The boll weevils are numerous and ac tive in southern Alabama Jhd Georgia and over large areas of Mississsppi, Aiabam'a and Florida. 5. The're has been an increased use of fer tilizer of generally better grade. 6. Starting somewhat late the crop has pro gressed so well under favorable condition that it is now about normal in i>oinl of progress to one week late. The main fear now expressed is the effect of labor scarcity later on and the extent of the ultimate ravages by the boll wee vil pest. NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET NEW YORK, July B.—Flout—Quiet and firm, i’ork —Quietj mess. $47.50<q48.00. Lard—Firm; middle west siiot, ¥2’>.9O(q26.W>. Sugar—Raw, quiet; centrifugal, 96-test, 6.005; refined, quiet; cut loaf, 9. GO; crushed, 8.75; powdered, 7.t0; granulated, 7.50. Coffee^—Rio No. 7, on spot, 8%. Tallow—SpeciaU. 17%; city, 16*1. lL.y—Quiet; No. 1, 1.40; No. 3, 90® $1.05; clover. 75(<r51.25. Dressed Poultry—Quiet; turkeys, 37® 40; chickens. 43'<r54; fowls, 25®35%; ducks, 33® 35c. Live Poultry—Steady; geese, 17; ducks, 23® 35; fowls, 34; turkeys, 25; roosters, 23; chick ens. broilers, 40® 45. Cheese -Firm; state milk, common to spe cials, 20%®24%; skims, common to specials, 18%. Butter—Steady; receipts. 12,952: creamery, extra. 44®44*- l ; do. special market, 44% ® 45%; imitation creamery, tirsts, 36®44; state dairy, tubs, 36®36%. Eggs—Firm; recipts. 14,152; near-by white fancy, 32®54; near-by mixed fancy. 36®43; fresh firsts, 38®43. CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET CHICAGO. July 8. —Butter—Creamery extras. | 42%: creamery standards. 42%; firsts. 40'<t 42; seeoruls, 37'_-®39 ; i4. Eggs—Ordinaries. 34®35; firsts, 36®37. Cheese--Twins. 22%®22 : U; Young Americas. 24® 24%. Live Poultry—Fowls. 28%: ducks. 22; geese, 14’iil*: springs, 33® 38; turkeys. 28. Potatoes—Cars, SO; Virginia, 86: Wisconsin, •$1.90®2.00: Minnesota, $1.90®2.00; new springs, »2.25®3.U0. Grain ; CHICAGO. July B.—Action of congress to ad vance the price of wheat had considerable bull ish effect today on the corn market, despite ; announcement that President Wiljpu would in- i terpose n veto. Opening quotations, which ; varied from figures from %c higher, with Au gust $1.54 to $1.54% and September $1.55% to $1.56, were followed by material gains all around. Prices closed unsettled, %c net lower to l%c net advance, with August $1.54% to $1.54% and September $1.55%. Oats rose with corn. After opening %c off to %c up. with August 70%c to 70%c, the market scored a moderate general upturn. Strength developed in provisions owing to a falling off in hog receipts as compared with Saturday’s estimate. Trade, however, vvas not brisk. CHICAGO QUOTATIONS The following were the ruling prices In th* exchange today: Prev. Open. High. low. Close. Close. CORN— July ..1.53 @1.53% 1.54% 1.52% 1.53% 1.52% Aug. ..1.54 @1.54% 1.55% w 1.54 1.54% 153% Sept. .1.55% @1.56 1.56%* 1.55% 1.55% 1.55% OATS— » July 74%@74% 75 74 74%* 74% Aug 70%@70% 71% 70 70% 70% Sep* 69% 70% «9% 69% 69% PORK— July 45.45 45.45 44.60 44.60 44.45 Sept 45.05 45.80 44.80 45.00 44.80 LARD— July 26.25 26.25 26.17 26.10 25.97 Sept 26.25 26.40 26.20 26.20 26.10 BIBS— July 24.15 24.15 24*15 24.15 24.05 Sept 24.65 24.75 24.65 24.60 24.50 RECEIPTS IN CHICAGO Today. Wheat 4 cars Corn .'. 162 cars Oats 215 cars Hogs 33.000 head PRIMARY MOVEMENT Receipts—Wheat, 924,000 versus 514,000 last year. Receipts—Corn, 1,148.000 versus 949,000 last year. Receipts—Oats. 1,117,000 versus 664,000 last year. Shipments—Wheat. 82.000 versus 268.000 last year. Shipments—Corn. 280,000 versus 970.000 last year. Oats—B64,ooo versus 960.000 last year. GRAIN CLEARANCES Clearances —Wheat, 5,000 versus 550,000 last year. Corn, 10,000 versus 24.000 last year. Oats, 49.000 versus none last year. Flour, 114.000 versus 11.000 last year. Wheat and flour, 518,000 versus 600,000 last year. CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS CHICAGO. July B.—Wheat: No. 1 red. $2.32; No. 3 red, $2.20. Corn —No. 2 yellow, $1.77; No. 3 yellow. $1.70 @1.72; No. 4 yellow. $1.57@1.63. Oats —No. 3 white. 77%@78%c; standard. 78@79c. Kye—No. 2, nominal. Barley, $1.00@1.20 Timothy. $5.00@7.50. * Clover, nominal. Pork, nominal. Lard. $25.95. Ribs. $23.50@24.25. NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET x v Close. January 8.63@8.64 February 8.70@8.71 March 8.77@8.78 April 8.83@8.84 May 8.90@8.91 July 8.15@8.16 August 8.25@8.26 September 8.35@8.36 October ....... 8.40@8.42 November 8.48@8.49 December 8.56@8.57 r ; x | Atlanta Live Stock | (Corrected by W. H. White. Jr., president of the White Provision Co. United States Food Administration License No. G-21371.1 Good to choice heifers, 850 to 1,000 pounds. $10.50 to $12.50. Good steers, 750 to 850 pounds. $9.50 to $11.50. Medium to good steers, 650 to 750 pounds. $9.00 to SIO.OO. Medium to choice beef cows. 750 to 850 pounds. $8.50 to $9.50. Medium to good cows. 650 to 750 pounds. SB.IO to $9.00. Qjod to choice heifers, 550 io 650 pounds. $8.0) to $9.50. The sbove represents ruling prices for good quality fed cattle. Inferior grades, dairy typ;s sud range cattle quoted below. Medium to good cattle, 050 to 750 pounds. $8.50 to $9.50. Medium to good cows, 600 to 700 pounds, $7.50 to $8.50. Mixed common. $6.50 to 7.50. Good fat oxen, sß..*A> to $9.50. Medium to good oxen, SB.OO to $9.00. Good butcher bulla. $7.00 to SIO.OO. Choice veal calves. SB.OO to $9.00. Yeariings, $7.00 to sr.oo. Prime hogs. 165 to 225 pounds, $15.23 to $16.00. Light bugs. 130 to 165 pounds. $14.50 to $15.00. $14.50. Light pigs, 80 to 100 pounds, $12.50 to $13.00. Stags and roughs, $12.00 to $13.00. The above quotations apply to good quality mixed fed hogs. LIVE STOCK BY WIRE EAST ST. LOUIS, HL, July B.—Cattle—Re- ceipts, 7,500, including 410 Texans; market steady; native beef steers, $11.50@ 17.60; year ling steers and heifers. $9.50® 15.50: cows, $7.50 @13.75; stockers and feeders, $8.50@12.00; calves, $7.75@17.00; cows and heifers. $6.00® 13.50. Hogs—" Receipts. 6,500: market, 25c higher; mixed and butchers, $16.85@17.10: good and heavy. $16.95® 17.00; rough, $15.40® 15.75; light, $16.90® 17.10; pigs. $16.75® 17.00; bulk, $16.90@ 17.05. Sheep—Receipts. 7.(XX); market steady; clip ped ewes, sll.oo® 12.00; lambs, $14.00@18.00: canners and choppers, $5.00@10.00. CHICAGO. July B.—Hogs—Receipts. 33.000; higher: mostly 15 to 25 cents up: hulk of sales. sl6.so® 17.30; butchers, $16.95® 17.30: packing,, $16.30® 17.00: light, $17.00® 17.40; rough. sls.7S® 16.25; pigs, $ 16.25®, 16.(X). Cattjc—Receipts, 16,000; best beef steers, steady; cows, bulls and calves'steady; heifers, dull; packers and feeders, dull. 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The young chickens are regularly fed once in two or three hours. The grown ups are fed three times a day. The grain is grown on the farm attached and there is variety in the mixtures that are constantly used. A close calculatio nmakes the feed bill of those fine chickens one dollar per day. They have a wonderful range, among native oaks and grassy lawns. They go out and in at will. Two hens are set at a time, on the " same day, so that the young chicks can be given to the one hen best qualified 1 to carry them until weaning time. An incubator is also used at proper times to keep up the number. But the best results come from good hen mothers to hover them of cold nights. ; I said to myself, “If I was only twen- ' ty years younger. I’d certainly have a small chicken ranqh.’’ I must not forget to say how perfect those young chickens were at weaning time. Everything is kept scrupulously clean and water in the troughs is changed three times a day. CONSEKVTNG STRING BEANS. I was interested to see large quanti ties of snap beans strung and drying in the shade when I visited a Bartow county farm house a few days ago. The lady of the house told me she dried surplus beans in the same way last year and they were good eating in the winter time. , The beans were young and tender. She strung them as for dinner (to be , boiled), and then took a coarse needle with a long thread and strung them * like beads, to be hung on the wall in the shade under the piazza roof. It was astonishing that she could accu mulate such a quantity so early in the season. After tjiese tender young beans were cured in the shade she puts them away in sacks until the cold weather. She soaks the dried pods before cooking, for several hours, and then boils them for the table. I have for a long time known that beans and green corn are among the very difficult foods to be safely pre served for winter. I have found that they should be cooked almost done enough to eat or they will not keep at all. If the tender snap beans can be prop erly dried, like fruit and okra are dried in farm homes, there will be a difficult problem solved very satisfactorily. We need simple, easy methods, and 1 had never seen this plan in operation before . Maybe some of our country-home readers have more acquaintance with the plan than I have. Governor Dorsey in Cartersville. The colored people, with their food demonstrators, had a rally in our town last Saturday—and I was invited by them to be present. It gave me real pleasure to attend, because, the war crisis seems to be upon our country and 1 I have been doing my little utmost to encourage the colored men to invest their savings in land—and the women to make everything that caji be pro duced in the home, the. gardens and pa tches. My experience in the civil war has remained fresh in my memory, and we only managed to save some land and my household was clothed by hard work, with looms, spinning wheels and the saving of everything that could make a quilt, or a rag carpet. The time to save has come again—and the col ored people should utilize their own savings. Mrs. Neel, ihe president of the Baptist Woman’s Missionary union, made the colored women a stirring ap peal, before the arriva lof the governor, with School Superintendent Brittain and Commissioner J. J. Brown, of the agri cultural department. These gentlemen gave the colored folks and the white visitors some val uable information on the numbers of colored youths who had gone into the military service, and of their willing ness to go, and their loyalty. I am , certain the effect was very good. 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