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The Truth About Belgium
Z By Brand Whitlock Z
(CoitUmd from I>*n
ANTWERP had fallen and the
people of Brussels, as though
stunned by some new* and un
expected bereavement, stood in si
lent groops with solemn faces about
the affiches on the walls, staring
long at the brief announcement:
“Les troupes allemandes sont en
trees a Anvers hier a pres midi.”
(“German troops -entered Antwerp
yesterday afternoon.")
Then’ along the Antwerp road,
open once more to travel, steamed
the refugees, that strange, melan
choly procession that unrolled in
endless sequence its myriad obscure
and anonymous tragedies. For days
and days the poor folk whom the
war had driven out of that land,
once so pleasant, between Brussels
and Antwerp, came pouring into
the capital. The highroad was
crowded with them, miserable peas
ants with wce-begone faces plod
ding stolidly on out of those strick
en towns that had paid for the re
sistance of the Belgian army, when
it fell back from Liege on the forti
fied place of Antwerp. Villages
and their homes had vanished, and
before them lay they knew not what
new sufferings, nor seemed any
more to care. These were they who
unable to slip through the lines
into Brussels, or over the border
into Holland, or westward into the
plains of Flanders, or perhaps,
strange and touching phenomenon,
in the peasant’s stubborn attach
ment to his own soil, had clung to
their homes even when they lay tn
ruins about them.,until, driven out
at last, they had hidden themselves
. in the heather and the bracken of
the dread Campine, or in the woods
in ravines, in fields, in ditches,
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anywhere they could find shelter,
like hunted animals, and now that
Antwerp Was fallen they emerged
and trailed their miseries along the
road into Brussels. Some of those
haggard eyes had looked on while
Eppeghem was destroyed and had
witnessed the dreadful deeds at
Aerschot, or at Boortmeerbeek, the
horrors of Hofstade or of Sempst.
The scattered throngs • moved on,
dumb, heavy, slow, without a word,
without a cry, without a hope, be
yond the power of expression or
the need of it any more, treading
a silent calvary of’which no human
means could voice the pain. There
were men bent beneath their packs,
and bowed under a far heavier load
of despair; women with wan faces,
whereon the stain of futile tears
had long since dried, shawls over
tb<tr heads, figures of utter mis-
children, their smiles gone,
trotting in the mud beside their el
ders, glancing up now and then
with that most terrible of all ex
pressions the human countenance
a can assume—that look of terror In
the eyes of little children who for
the first time in this our tragic life
realize that there are calamities
which their mothers have no power
to avert. The children clumped
along in their sabot, which the
Flemish nomatopoetlcally call
klompen; the elder among them
helping the younger, sometimes
carrying them in their thin, pathet
ic arms.
Day after day and all through the
night, in rain and mud and cold,
they trooped on in those drear Oc
tober days of 1914, with no place to
go. without hope, almost without
the wlh to hope. They trooped on
in wooden shoes, or in no shoes at
all, and they bore in their arms, or
on their backs, their little all tied
up in bundles. Some -of them, the
less unfortunate, had carts, and
since they had no longer any patient
dogs to draw them they patiently
drew them themselves. straining
against the ropes, their forms bowed
in labor.
Now and then when some Ger
man officer in arrogant indifference,
muffled in the great fur collar of his
gray coat, swept by in his gray mo
tor. or some detachment of soldiers,
stolid and with brutish insensibility,
marched by, slavishly singing their
songs, they turned out into the
ditches and waited, and when the sol
diers had passed they climbed back
onto the highway and plodded on
again.
Along the Bead to Antwerp
There were sights to see along the
Antwerp road in those days, German
troops coming back from the siege,
with long train® of lumbering wag
ons filled with knapsacks and rifles,
helmets, belts, sabres, all the sal
vage they had economically, gather
ed; ruined villages, like little Vll
vorde. a spot sacred to the English
speaking race, for there William
Tyndale was burned for having
translated the Bible into our
tongue; ruined houses, their win
dows broken In, their walls rid
dled with bullets or yawning in
gaping holes torn by shells, vomited
their debris into the streets, and all
the beautiful ash trees that used to
line the road felled to clear the way
for cannon balls, some, indeed, fell
ed by the cannon balls themselves.
Near Eppeghem, the trenches the
Belgians had abandoned stretching
across the yellow fields where as
paragus—the famous “asperges de
Malines”—had been growing, the
fields that had been so downy, so
feathery, all trampled down in the
rage that had seared them with its
hot breath. In the little niches in
the trench walls there were crusts of
mouldy bread, a tin cup or a can
teen;- Belgian kepis and knapsacks
were strewn a£out, and in one place
a subterranean room had been hol
lowed out, the garlands of paper
flowers still on its clayey walls and
a table with matches, a lamp, a bot
tle and the remains of the last sup
per—all as they had left it when at
last they had to fly. And there was
one sentient thing, a dog lying in
one of the caverns: the poor fellow
stared with great pathetic eyes but
refused to come out, and lay wait
ing for the master who would never
more return.
Eppeghem was a silent place of
ruins; not a roof remained, not a
house that had not been ravaged
by fire; the pretty gray old church
but a heap of ruins. The body of a
horse was lying in the street, its
stiff legs sticking up in the air;
hideous cats prowled among the
ruins, and everywhere there were
black bottles, thousands of them,
emptied of their wine by the Ger
mans In their guzzling.
It was so. too. at Malines, empty
bottles everywhere, ranged on win
dow sills, on door steps, or rolling
in the streets, evidence of an insa
tiable thirst. German soldiers, in
that ugly field gray, were slinking
out of houses hiding bottles under
their tunics. The town was de
serted of all, save now and then
some girl picking up bits of wood
with which to make up a fl re, or a
few women, bent over the piles of
debris, picking It over, trying to
rescue something from the rubbish,
all that remained to them.
The beautiful Grand’ place was
but a heap of charred brick and
twisted iron, and while the cathedral
was standing, there were great holes
yawning in its vails and its carven
stone was all broken, and every pane
of the stained glass, all that remain
ed of a beautiful lost art, was shat
tered to bits and quite gone, and its
chimes, under the magic hand of
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Jeff Deyn, would .sound their mel
low peals across the fields no more.
Near by, the gray old monastic res
idence of Cardinal Mercier stood
with its roof beaten in.
Woehlem, a Grass Grown Fort
Beyond, toward Antwerp, stood
the fort of Waerlem, one of the
outer defenses, the key, I believe,
to the position. About, on every
side, stretched the fields, gaunt and
bare, sodden from their late inun-
I elation, every tree cut down, great
masses of barbed wire entangle
ments and chevaux de frise every
where. Here and there was a new
grave, with a wooden cross lettered
in Flemish or French; and just out
side the fort, near the bridge across
the moat, there was the grave of
some German soldier, his rille and
his helmet laid upon it, and a few
faded flowers. Evening was steal
ing over the fields, frepn which the
waters had not all receded; there
were pools here and there, gleaming
in the slanting rays of the hazy sun.
It was very still; there seemed not
to be a living thing left in the
world.
The great mound of the grass
grown fort heaved itself above the
level, wet plain, the cuyve’ of its
outline broken by the great hole
that had been torn, like the crater,
in its very summit by the shell
of the *’4B” that, in the deadly pre
cision of the final perfectly aimed
sho.t had blasted its steel cupola
to bits. And there on the jagged
summit the black, white and red
flag of modern Germany was flying
and beside its staff a sentinel stood,
solitary, immobile, his spiked hel
met and his long bayonet outlined
in sharp silhouette against the
sky of pale garance where the sun
was setting.
As we drove into Malines, there
by the ancient gate, the Porte de
Bruxelles, an old peasant was sit
ting in the sun before the door of
his ruined home; the light of day
shone through the broken windows
and the roof was gone. When he
saw the little American flag on the
motor he raised his hand in solemn
salute. When we returned late in
the afternoon there was the old
peasant still sitting before the ruins
of his home; he seemed not to have
moved, but sat there in dumb de
spair, and he raised his hand again
to his cap, in that reverent salute,
What did it mean to him, that
bright bit of bunting with its flut
tering red and white stripes and
the white stars on the blue? What
vague impressionistic dream of lib
erty and justice did it evoke before
those old eyes that had gazed on
nameless horrors and were beyond
tears? 1 uncovered to him; I trust
that he understood.
And then somewhere along the
road beyond Vilvorde there was the
German officer, his motor beside
the road, en panne—a punctured
tire. He was accompanied by his
wife, an officer and a chauffeur. He
spoke French with difficulty, and I
thought he was asking me to take
his wife in to Brussels. I offered,
of course, to do this, but, “oh, no,”
he said lightly, “she can wait
there.” And he climbed into the
k car, taking the vacant seat, and
rode into Brussels.
“Have ybu seen our glorious can
non?” he was asking me politely.
(Glorlosen cannonen). ,
There along the roadside were
the drab figures of the refugees,
still bowed under their packs,
still bending to the ropes with
which they drew their carts, plod
ding on without complaint, without
a word. The rain was falling dreari
ly before the long, blinding rays of
the headlights; they turned aside.
Now and then one of them, looking
dumbly up and seeing the flag,
touched his cap in salute. Then
their, figures became vague, im
pressionistic blurs.
We Pace Hunger
The ironic spirits have their fun
with mortals; their sardonic laugh
ter rings forever down the awful
void; what were thought to be vic
tories proved to be defeats and de
feats to have been triumphs. Ma
jor Langhorne in Brussels a day or
so after the city had been abandon
ed said that Antwerp, if not a vic
tory for the Belgians, was hardly a
victory for the Germans, since in
their haste to parade the boulevards
of Brussels, to have the eclat of an
entry in the grand style in the cap
ital of the little nation they had
conquered, and to stagger mankind
with their force and power, they
had left the country open westward
to the sea, and allowed the Belgian
army to escape to the immortal
glory of the Yser.
But whatever minor consolation
there may have been for the people
of Brussels in the thought that the
Germans had made a mistake of
which history would calmly speak,
there was an immediate and. an in
tense preoccupation, destined thence
forth never to quit the mind for
years. It was the thought of famine.
The wheat had not come from Ant
werp yet. It was even reported that
the Belgians in leaving the citadel
had destroyed the foodstuffs there,
whereupon a German general re
marked:
(Continued Next Issue)
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Syndicate. Copyright, 1918, by
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Cotton
NEW YORK, July 15.—The cotton market
showed renewed steadiness during today’s early
trading. The detailed weather report of Satur- !
i day showed showers in parts of central, east ,
i and coast sections of Texas, but the rainfall '
was not considered sufficient to relieve drouth
and after opening 10 points lower to 9 points
higher prices firmed up in a comparatively quiet
| market. July advanced from 27.68 to 27.95 and
October from 21.44 to 24.64 with active month* ;
ruling about 15 to 17 points net higher toward
' the middle of the morning. The census figures '
showing domestic mill consumption of 527,464
bales for June, against 574.110 last year, failed
■ to create any fresh sentiment nnd the market
again appeared to be chiefly influenced by the |
I talk of deteriorating crop prospects in Texas. i
Trading was very quiet later in the morn- .
ing and fluctuations were somewhat irregular I
with the trade waiting for the detailed weather
report from the Houston district and further |
news from the western front. Toward mid-lay, j
however, there wns a flurry of covering by |
early sellers, which sent prices into new high j
ground for the day with October selling at 24.74
and December at 24.1-1, or 25 to *26 points net I
higher.
The detailed weather report for Texas showed j
a little precipitation at five or six points, but I
created no fresh sentiment and business was |
dull during the early afternoon. After the
bulge above 24.70 for October prices reacted |
several points under realizing with tlmt de- ,
livery ruling around 24.58 toward 2 o'clock, or |
about 10 points net higher.
NEW YORK COTTON
The following were the ruling prices In the
exchange today:
Tone, firm; middling, 82.95 c. quiet.
East Prev
Open. High. Low. Sale. Ctase. Close.
Jap 23.75 23.95 23.65 23.92 23.92 23.69
Feb 23.85 ....
Mar 23.70 23.85 23.62 23.74 23.85 23.69 I
Apr 23.64 I
May 23.87 23.64
July 27.70 27.99 27.65 27.95 27.93 27.78
Aug .... 26.15 25.40
Sept 25.70 25.40
Oct 24.45 24.83 24.4424.80 24.80 24.48
Nov 24.34 24.09
Dec 23.98 24.19 23.89 *4.15 24.14 23.89
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS. July 15.—Bearish consump
tion figures for June were offset in their effect
on cotton today by the dry weather which pre
vailed in the belt over Sunday. Fluctuations
were nervous, prices rising 16 to 18 points on
the opening call, only to fall 3 to 15 points
tinder Saturday’s close on the more active
months immediately nfter the call. Later there
wns a recovery to a net advance of 10 to 12
points.
The demand increased moderately and In
the trading up to noon the advance was widened
to 21 to 40 points.
The market turned very quiet with values
inclined to sag under the inactivity. At 1
o’clock prices were 8 to a points tip net.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
The following were the ruling prices in the
exchange today:
Tone, steady; middling. 30c. steady.
Last Prev.
Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close.
Jan 22.96 23.12 22.90 23.12 23.03 22.86
March ... 22.90 23.05 22.87 23.01 23.01 22.82
July 26.77 27.00 26.35 26.85 26.85 26.50
Aug 25.32 25.12
Oct 23.60 23.81 23.49 23.73 23.72 23.52
Dec 23.10 23.21 22.99 23.15 23.15 22.98
NEW ORLEANS SPOT COTTON
NEW ORLEANS. July 15.—Spot cotton quiet.
35 points off. Sales on the spot 765; to arrive
none; low middling, 25.50; middling. 30.00; good
middling. 31.75; receipts 1,239; stocks. 249,617.
SPOT COTTON MARKET
.Atlanta, steady, 31.20 c.
New York, quiet, 32.95 c.
New Orleans, steady, 30c.
Augusta, steady, 29.25 c.
Memphis, steady, 3Ce.
Charleston, steady, 30c.
Montgomery, steady, ,30c.
Boston, steady, 32.95 c.
Philadelphia, steady, 23.20 c.
Norfolk, steady, 30c.
Galveston, steady. 30c.
Mobile, steady, 30c.
Little Rock( steady, 30c.
Dallas, steady, 28.75 c.
Savannah, steady, 30.25 c.
St. Louis, steady, 30e.
Houston, steady. 30c.
ATLANTA SPOT COTTON
Atlanta spot cotton 31.20 c
Sales .100
Receipts 124
Shipments 686
Stocks 22,332
ATLANTA COTTONSEED EuODUUTS MAKuI.
Crude oil. prime basts 17%
Cottonseel meal. 7 per cent am-
monia 47.50 .....
Cottonseed meal, 7 per cent
Georgia common point rate... .47.50
Cottonseed bulls, loose , 20.50 21.50 I
Cottonseed bulls, sacked 25.00 26.00
AUGUST—
Crude oil, prime basis 07& |
Cottonseed meal, 7 per cent
Georgia common point rate... 47.56 ... .
Cottonseed hulls, loose ..........20.30 21.00
Cottonseed hull.*, sacked 25.00 26.00
Linters, clean milt run .04% .06
COTTONSEED QUOTATIONS
Georgia common rate points J7U.00@73.V0
Cottonseed f. o. b. Atlanta J70.00@78.0fl
COMPARATIVE PORT RECEIPTS
Last Year. Today.
Galveston 2,520 2.739
New Orleans 959 1,239
Mobile 130
Savannah 2.307 3,322
Norfolk 692 302
Boston 43 136
Total at all ports .. —.... 6,651 7,757 |
DAILY INTERIOR RECEIPTS
’ Last Year. Today. |
Augusta 5 1"
Memphis 680 1.026
St. Louis . 1,410 788
Cincinnati 452 ....
Houston 1,523 272
Little Kock 57 ....
LIVERPOOL COTTON
LIVERPOOL. July 15.—Cotton spot quiet;
prices unchanged: good middling, 22.67; mid
dling, 22.04; low middling, 21.51; good ordinary,
20.52; ordinary, 19.99. Sales 1,000 bales, in
cluding 800 American. Receipts 1,000 bales, no
American.
Futures closed steady. New contracts: July,
21.83; August, 20.56; September, 19.61; October,
19.13; November, 18.84.
Old contracts: July. 20.89.
Tone, steady; sales, 1,000; good middling,
22.67 d
Open Prev.
Range. Close. Close.
Julv 21.79 21.83 21.90
August 20.60 20.56 20.90
September .... 19-64 19.61 19.*7
October 19.15 19.13 19.28
November 18.87 18.84 19.00
OLD CONTRACTS
I’rev.
Open. Close. Close.
July" ’ 20.89 20.89 20.89
JOHN F. CLARK A CO. COTTON LETTER
NEW ORLEANS, July 15.—There was no I
rain of consequence over Sunday and the situa- I
tion is unchanged. Reports of deteioration and
damage owing to deficient rainfall, are tow
coming not only from the west but also from ;
localities east of the Missisippi river. More- l
over, delav in the development of the eastern |
crop, owing to low night temperatures, is more ,
prominently mentioned. These features will un
doubtedly be contained in the government re
port on Wednesday. <
Temple, Tex., says drouth and excessive heat
continue: plant undersized and deterioration
rapid. Practically nothing will be made be
tween iiere aud San Angelo.
The weather map shows partly cloudy to fair,
no rain. Temperatures high In the west, cool i
over the eastern half of the belt. Indications I
arc for generally cloudy nnd cooler with some
prospects of showers in the northwest toward
Wednesday, but so far it does not look like
any relief of consequence in the western area.
Another cool spell will come on the Atlan
tics, which is unfavorable.
The government tor the first time gives the
consumption of linters and statistics show that
the combined consumption of cotton and linters ■
so far for the season is 25,000 bales greater i
than last year, 7,080,000 bales vs. 7.033,000 last |
year. ’ ,
The market opened 5 to 10 up and conditions
wore in favor of advance when news came
from Wall street that the expected enemy of- ;
fensive had been started this morning in the ,
west. This and weather prospects for some ,
showers northwest caused support to be held I
In suspense tor news of developments, and
scalping tactics prevailed. 'Diere is no ques
tion but that active support would be created
by any favorable war news, and there is pref
erence therefore for buying cn dips.
The following is the latest report from dry
goods quarters:
Dry goods report pal ß cotton goods markets
have begun to improve; demand increases and
buyers coming in the market more freely. Gov
ernment orders have come forward this week
in large volume. Owing to growing government
requirements a shortage for the civilian trade
Is looked for. ,
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKETS
CHICAGO. July 15.—Butter, creamery, ex- |
tras, 43%c; creamery, standarrs. firsts, 43%@ I
43%c; seconds. 40%@42%c.
Eggs, ordinaries. 35@35%c; firsts. 38@39c.
Cheese, twins, 22%@23c; Young Americas. 23 j
©24c.
Live poultry, fowls, 29%c; ducks, 22c; geese,
14@15c; springs, 36c; turkeys. 30c.
Potatoes, cars, 35; new springs,
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ATLANTA MARKETS'
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ATLANTA, Ga., July 13. —Cotton by
firm, 31.20 c.
SALT
Salt —Brick, medicated, per case. $7.50: do.
; plain, per crate, $4.50; White Rock, per cwt.,
I $1.50; Jack Frost. 25 3-lb. packages, $1.25;
■ Ozone, ease. 25 2-lb. packages, $1.00; blocks.
: 50 pounds. 60c.
CRACKERS
Florida soda crackers. J7c per pound; Pearl
oyster crackers, 17c per pound; lemon rounds.
I 18c per pound; cart wheels, 18c per pound; all
10c package crackers, 90e per dozen; all 20c
' packages, $1.75 per dozen; family tin crispetles,
SB.OO per dozen.
FISH
Pompano, scarce, per pound, 25c; Spanish
I mackerel, per pound, 17c; trout, drawn, per
pound, 18c; headless red snapper, pound. 19c;
! bluefish, pound, 15c; whiting, per pound. 12%c;
' mango snapper, per pour.-J, 12%c; mullet, per
i pound, 11c; small channel cat and perch, per
■ pound. 10c.
CEREALS
Purity oats. 18s, round. $2.00; 30s. round.
$3.90; 12 family size. $3.10; Purity grits, 245,
round, $2.75: 10s, ruond, $2.90; regular Pos
| turn, large. $2.25; assorted, $2.50; small, $2.70;
instant Postum. large, $4.50; assorted, $5.00;
I small. $5.40; Grape-Nuts, 15c size, $2.85; indi
|\idual size, $2.00; Pest Toasties. $1.10; indi
j vidual size, $2.00.
CANDIES
Kennesaw stick candy, in barrels, 17c per
I pound; small chocolate drops in 30-pound pails,
; »c per pound; Stone Mountain chocolate drops
in 30-ponnd pails. 20c per pound; Bonbon mix
ture in 30-pound pails. 18c per pound; Fulton
mixture in 35-pound cases. 16c per pound;
Honeycomb taffy in 20-pound cases, 22c per
pound; broken taffy in baskets, 18%c per
pound; bonanza assortments. SIO.OO each.
MEAT, LARD AND HAMS
Dry salt extra ribs, 24c; dry salt rib bellies,
medium to average, 26c; dry salt rib bellies,
i light, average. 26c; Cudahy’s Puritan brand,
hams, 32c: Cudahy’s Ilex haras. 31c; Cudahy’s
sandwich boiled hams. 42c; Cudahy's Puritan
lard, tierce basis, 29c; Cudahy’s Rex lard.
27%c; Cudahy’s White Ribbon compound, 23%c
per pound.
Cornfield hams. 10 to 12 average. 32c; Corn
field hams, 12 to 14 average. 32c; Cornfield
picnic hams. 6 to 8 average. 23%c; Cornfield
breakfast bacon. 44c; - Cornfield sliced bacon.
1-pound boxes, 12 to case, 52c; grocers’ bacon,
wide or narrow, 37%c; Cornfield pork sausage,
fresh link or bulk, 22c; Cornfield wieners in
10-pound cartons, 21c: Cornfield bologna sau
sage, 25-pound l>«|es, 20c; Cornfield mnoked link
sausage, boxes. 19c: Cornfield wien
ers. in pickle. NoM|s kits, $3.00; Cornfield lard,
tierce basis, 26’,«c^(com pound lard, tierce basis,
23%c; country style lard, tirece basis,
GROCERIES
Flour —Capitola. $12.70; Olympia, $13.00.
Meal —Atlanta Milling plain meal. 96
pounds, $2.02; 48 pounds, $2.04; 24 to 12 pounds,
$2.07.
Mackerel —U-Kno-It, s'j-O-ounce, 190 count,
out; Leader. 7-ounce, 100 count, out; Anchor,
B*£-ounce. 60 count. $7.25; 75 count, $8.50;
Crown, 9-fe-10-ounce. 60 count. $7.50; 75 count,
$9.00; Eureka. 13-14-ounce. 60 count, SIO.OO.
B. & M. fish flakes, 24, small, $1.45; 24,
large, $2.25.
Sardines —Key, I* oils. Continentals, $7.50;
keyless. ’4 oils, Conqueror, $7.00; key, >4 oils,
In eartons, Homerun, $8.00; key. % mustards.
Imperial, none; key, ®4 mustards, in cartons,
Gamecock, none.
Meats—Potted meats. roast beef, $5.25;
corned beef, $5.25; tripe. $3.30; C. B. hash.
$1.55; hamberger, eteak and onions, $1.55; veal
loaf, $2.40.
Coffee—Blue Ridge brand, roasted. 15c; Wall
brand. AAAA. 15c; Uno, 25e.
Rice —Japs, s@6c; Honduras, medium head,
34i@4>ic: Arkansas fancy head, 6@6>4c.
Beans—California blackeyes, . $10.50; pink,
$9.50; limas. $14.50; small whites, $14.00;
Michigan choice. $16.00. •
| Atlanta Live Stock I
(Corrected by W. H. White. Jr., president of
the White Provision Co. United States Food
Administration License No. G-21371.)
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 ponnis.
SB.OO to $9.00.
Good to choice heifers. 550 to 650 pounds,
SB.OO to $9.50.
The above represents ruling prices for good
quality fed cattle. Inferior grades, dairy types
and range cattle quoted below:
Medium to good cattle, ‘.’>so to 750 ponnls,
$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, $8.50 to $9.50.
Medium to good oxen. SB.OO to $9.00.
Good butcher bulls. $7.00 to SIO.OO.
Choice veal calves, SB.OO to $9.00.
Yearlings, $7.00 to SB.OO.
Prime hogs, 165 to 225 pounds, $15.23 to
$16.00.
Light .hogs, 130 to 165 pound?. $14.50 to
( $15.00. ’
Light pigs, 80 to 100 pounds, $12.00 to SIB.OO.
I Stags and roughs, $12.C0 to $15.00.
I The above- quotations apply to good quality
mixed fed hogs.
LIVE STOCK BY WIRE
EAST ST. LOUIS. HL, July 15.—Cattle—Re
ceipts, 15,000. including 870 Texans; market
slow; native beef steers, $11.50@18.00; year
ling steers and heifers, cows, $7.50
@13.50; stockers and feeders, ' $8.50@12.00;
calves, $7.75@17.00; cows and heifers, $7.50@
16.00.
Hogs—Receipts, 13,000, market 5c lower;
mixed and butchers, $17.50@17.75: good and
heavy, $17.50@17.75; rough, $16.00@16.35;
light. $17.70@ 17.85; pigs, $17.35@15.75; bulk,
$17,504(17.80.
Sheep—Receipts, 1,800; market steady; clip
ped ewes. $11.00@12.00; lambs. $5.00@10.00,
canners and choppers, $14.00@18.00.
CHICAGO, July 15.—Hogs—Receipts, 42,000;
i bulk sales. $17.25@15.1t>; butchers, $17.75@
| 18.15: packing, 81 ».00@ 17.75; light, Jl7.Ss@
'18.15; rough, $16.40''-' 16.90; pigs, J16.75@ 17.2->.
Cattle—Receipts, 20,000; good to best corn
fed steers, steady; others and butchers, slow
and lower.
Sheep—Receipts, 24,000; heavy sheep and
heavy yearlings, steady; choice Washington
wethers, $14.00; lambs und light yearlings, une
venly lower; medium kind, sharply down; one
load choice Washington to outsiders at $18.75.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET
NEW YORK, July 15. —Flour, firm and un
changed.
Pork, quiet; mess. $47.50@48.C0.
Lard, quiet; middle west spot, $26.00@26.10.
Sugar, raw. quiet; centrifugal, 96-test, 6.055;
refined, quiet; cut loaf, 9.V0; < rustled, 8.75;
! powdered, 7.65: granulated, 7.50.
Coffee, Rio No. 7, on spot, 8%.
Tallow, specials, 17%; city 17.
Hay, firm; No. 1, $1.35@1.40; No. 3, 90@
$1.05; clover, 75@51.25.
Dressed poultry, quiet; turkeys, 37@40; chick
ens. 40@60; fowls, 261i@36; ducks, 33@35.
Live poultry, firm; geese, 20; ducks. 27@35;
fowls, 36; turkeys, 2S@3O; roosters, 25; chick
ens, broilers, 35@42.
Cheese, firm; state "talik, common to specials,
20t<-@25; skims, common to specials, 5@19.
Butter, quiet; receipts. 8,305; creamery, ex
tra, 44%@45c; do. special market, 45>4@46c;
imitation creamery, firsts. 36@44*.ic; state
I dairy, tubs. 3654%37c.
! Eggs, steady; receipts, 10,776; near-by white
j fancy, 52@54c; near-by mixed faicy. 33@46c;
fresh firsts, 42@46c.
MILL CONSUMPTION OF
COTTON SHOWS DECREASE
Cotton Used During June
Amounted to 527,464 Bales,
Against 574,110 Last Year
WASHINGTON. July 15.—Cotton consumed
during June amounted to 527.464 running bales,
and for the eleven months ending Jnly 30, it
was 6,049,544 bales, the census bureau today
announced. *
’ Last year, in June. 574,110 bales were eon
snmed. and for the eleven month period 6.250.682
: bales.
I Cotton on hand June 30, in consuming es-
I tablishments. was 1.661.992 bales, cmopared |
i with 1,743.527 a year ago. and in public stor- t
age and at compresses 2,117,300 bales, com- ;
pared with 1,402,403 a year ago.
j Cotton spindies active during June ’numbered ■
I 33.720,413. compared with 33,447.037 a year ’
' ago.
Imports of foreign cotton during June amount
ed to 30.194 bales, compared with 26,181 a
year ago.
Exports during June amounted to 273,302
bales, compared with 245,709 a year ago, and
for the eleven months. 4,256.352. compared
yith 5.467,412 a year ago. Linters inculded
in exports were 9,101 bales for June, com
pared with 20.077 a year ago, and for the
eleven months 171,002, compared with 416.985
a year ago.
June statistics for cotton growing states fol-
1 lows:
| Consumed. 296.980 bales, compared with 327,-
[ 962 a year ago. and for the eleven months, 3,-
' 417.952. compared with 3,582,140.
I On hand June 30 in consuming establisb
| ments. 731,887 bales, compared with 788,402
a year ago. and in public storage and at com
presses 1,723.190, compared with 1,117,356.
Cotton spindles active 14,287.734, compared
with 14,021,158 a year ago.
Grain
CHICAGO, July 15.—Although favorable
weather and big receipts led to a material set
back in corn prices today, the effect failed to
last. Aggressive buying on the decline brought
about u rally which more than overcame all
the losses. Opening prices was varied from
% to’ltie lower with August $1.59'? t051.60’4,
and September $1,591? to $1.60, were followed
by a slight additional sag and then a sharp
upturn.
Oats swayed with corn. After opening % to
11? cents down the market rallied to well'above
Saturday’s finish.
Business in provisions was nearly at a stand
still. No important change in prices devel
oped.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
The following were the ruling prices In tn»
exchange today; .
. Prev.
Open. High. Low. Close. Cloae.
' <'RN—
July 1.59 1.63>4 1.59 1.6274 1.60
Aug. . 1.60>4@1.59 7 4 1.63% 1.59% 1.63% 1.61%
Sept.. 1.60 @1.59% 1.64% 1.59% 1.63% 1.60%
July 74%@74 76% 74 76% 75%
Aug 71%@71 73% 71 73% 71%
Sept. ... 70%@70 71% 70 71% 70%
t.kiv—
Jnly 44.70 44.70
Sept 45.45 45.50 45.45 45.50 45.20
Jnly 26.20 26.10
Sept
I 11188-
I July 24.37 24.25
Sept 24.67 24.70 24.65 24.70 24.67
RECEIPTS IN CHICAGO
Today.
I Wheat 11 cars
Corn 140 cars
Oats 137 cars
Hogs .’ 43,000 head
PRIMARY MOVEMENT
Receipts: Wheat 2.410.000. against 442.000
last year; corn 1.137.000, against 813.000 last
year: oats 1,235,000. against 818.000 last year.
Shipments: Wheat 279,000, against 281,000
last year; corn 422.000, againts 355.000 last
year; oats 330.000. against 660.000 last year.
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET
Close.
January S.ss@s.B6
February ,8.91@8.»2
March ....’.. .5.98@9.90
April 9.<k>@».oß
May 9.13*19.15
July 8.39@8.50
August 8.48@8.50
September B..’W@B_.VJ
Oteober 5.04@5.06
November 8.71@8.73
December 8.79@ 8.80
Cotton Puts Over Million
Into Mississippi Treasury
JACKSON’, Miss., July 15.—The fisca>
year for the penitentiary department of
the state government having expired,
John Rowan, bookkeeper and appraiser,
has made up a statement as to the cot
ton crop for the season of 1918-19, show
ing total cash receipts from the sale
of cotton and cotton seed to have been
?1,135,231.13.
The three convict farms in the delta
produced 5,984 bales of cotton, which
sold for an average price of $149.12 per
bales, the bales averaging 482 pounds.
Os cotton seed there were sold 3,238,-
159 tons, which sold at an average price
of $75.01 per ton, or $242,896.06 for the
lot.
The cotton crop .therefore, put $1,135,-
231.13 in the state treasury, but that
does not begin to show what other crops
amounted to. same not being sold.
Shipbuilding Goes
Forward Rapidly in
- Hog Island Yards
PHILADELPHIA, July 13.—Rapid
progress is being made toward the com
pletion of the Hog Island shipyards, ac
cording to Francis T. Bowles, director
of operations, who today announced that
thirty-five keels had ben laid and that
the number of workers at the yard had
reached 28,500. This, Mr. Bowles, said,
is but 1,500 short of the number of em
ployes that will be required to operate
the yard at full capacity. All the ways
are expected to be completed early in
August.
Members of the naval consulting
board wereto make a tour of the big
plant today.
Pershing Personally *
Decorates 17 of 32 Men
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN
FRANCE, July 13.—General Pershing
personally decorated seventeen of thirty
two officers and men of the New Eng
land division who were awarded the
distinguished service cross. He then
congratulated the division as a whole
for its excellent work in the Lorraine
line.
Rains and heavy winds swept the
battlefield yesterday and last night.
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I
iiCaptured German Wireless
Plant Will. Flash Items
to the Soldiers i
NEW YORK, July 13.—Arrangements
to distribute neighborhood news t® all <
of the American fighting forces abroad
■! have been perfected by the foreign press
cable service bureau of the committee
on public information which iS directed
i by Walter S. Rogers.
This new feature, designed to give to
i American soldiers such news as they
j might expect to receive in letters from
■ their relatives and friends if thfe mails
i could be depended upon, will be edited
I by Herman Suter, who has had broad
' experience as a newspaper publisher.
j The service will be sent to France
J and wherever American soldiers are
stationed every day by one of the big
German wireless plants which has been
operated by the government since the
European war started and used exten
sively for American propaganda, in
cluding the world broadcasting of Pres
ident Wilson’s speeches during the fif
teen months this counrty has been at
I war with Germany and its allies.
The wireless reports will be deliver-
II ed free of all tolls to military publica
j tions in France and where no newspa-
I pers can be distributed bulletins be
! supplied- to headquarters of the differ-
■ ent units for posting on conveniently
j located bulletin boards. The reports
will be copied also by the wireless
plants of American warships wherever
stationed.
> Press associations and newspapers
■ generally have agreed to co-operate with
[ the committee in making the service a
, success. The part played by the As-
I sociated Press for instance will be
i largely in the hands of the bureaus
;! scattered strategically throughout the
II United States.
’ | Some one in each bureau called upon
} by the committee will send a brief tele
graphic dispatch to the committee in
, Mew York either daily or two or three
times a week, according to the need,
giving merely the high spots of the
i news local to the territory covered by
■ j such bureau.
Each ‘item will be just about what
would appear in the headlines of the
local papers to describe important b»:al
events, such as nominations by politi
cal parties, deaths of prominent citi-
I zens of the different states, fires, wed
dings of state-wide interest and other
news of less than international or na
' I tional interest and therefore certain
not to be cabled for publication in Eng-
• lish, French or Italian newspapers.
1 In this way it is hoped to give to the
| soldiers from every state at least two
or three items of news from their home
state or city each week. The budget
necessarily will be limited, but th2 com- '
1 mittee believes that the efforts of all
thbse who patriotically contribute to
the hews service will be rewarded by
thd knowledge that they have reduced
homesickness among the men who are
■ offering their lives in the defense of
j the country.
Government to Enforce
Old Child Labor Law
WASHINGTON, July 12.—Federal em
mployment directors in all states in
which the standards of the state child
I labor laws are below those established
by the federal law recently declared un
constitutional by the supreme court
were advised by the department of la
bor today to observe the former federal 9
standards. Their attention was called
particularly to the section of the old
law forbidding employment of children
under 16 in miner and quarries and
those under 14 in mills, canneries, work
shops, factories or manufacturing es
tablishments.
'Cuts Wife’s Throat and Own
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July .13. —De-
spondent or angered, it is reported, over
their separation, which occurred about
two weeks ago, William O. McFall, for
ty-seven, rural route carrier in Sumter •
county, late today cut his wife's throat
and immediately afterwards cut his own
throat from ear to ear and fired a bullet
I into his breast with a ,32-caliber pistol.
' Physicians declared later he had also
taken a dose of strychnine. Mrs. McFall,
! while in a serious condition, will re
| cover. McFall is in a desperate condi
, tion.
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No. 2 cans, 2 1-6-lnch opening, with S. 11.
caps, 532 per 1,000, packed 200 and 300 in
cartons and crates.
No. 3 cana, 2 1-6-inch opening, with S. H.
caps, S4B per 1,000, packed 100 in cartons.
No. 2 sanitary cans, packed 125 in cartons,
>35 per 1,000.
No. 3 sanitary cans, packed 100 in cartons,
$lB per 1,000.
F. O. B. Atlanta, cash with order. Special
price in car lots. We manufacture steam pres
sure fanners and cookers.
AMERICAN CANNING CORPORATION,
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SEEDS AMD PLAIiTB.
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Parcel post or express. Prompt shipments.
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light work; good profit. Write today. Smith
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FARMS FOR SALE?
123 acres, 8 miles Moultrie. Ga.. ’ Colquitt
county. 8G acres cultivation, balance pasture.
Red pebble land with clay subsoil; lies well and
desirably located near churches, schools and
railroad. Three settlements and is cheap at
56.000.
60 acres. 11 miles Moultrie. 2 miles Harts
field, Ga.. 48 acres in cultivation, balance pas
: ture. Extra good land and two good houses.
Price only $3,000.
532 acres, 7 miles Moultrie, on public road.
200 acres in cultivation. 250 more can be culti-
- vat«>d with little expense. .Extra good land, lies
, well and is partly stumped.
Improvements consists of good 7-room dweil-
i ing. two tenant houses. Located near cfurches.
: schools, and in good section. Price only S4O per
sere.
265 acres, 5 miles Moultrie, on public road.
1 135 acres in cultivation. 109 more tillable. Red
pebble land, lies well and desirably located.
One 7-room dwelling and two- good tenant
houses. Price on application.
Few other select farms for quick sale near
Moultrie, Ga.
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