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The Truth About Belgium :
BY BRAND WHITLOCK
(Costumed from Last Xsnue)
I HAD asked that there be no
manifestation in America’s
honor that New Year’s day for.
since assemblages ware forbid
den. it could only result «n embar
raaamcnt for the officials of Brus
sels and difficulties tor the people;
the Belgians had understood in
sta'VJy and the word had gone out
over the city that the demonstra
tion before the legation was not
to take place And then a strange
thing happened. In the morning,
there, before the door of the lega
tion. were two or three officers of
the Brussels police in their blue
uniforms, smart kepis. crea*l blue
capes, white gloves, their straight
swords. And there on a table in
the ball was a blank book, bound
handsomely in morocco, lying open
at the first of its white pages, with
the inscription. "1 janvier 1915.”
When I asked Gustave about it he
smiled and shook his head help
lessly: and when I went out for a
walk the agents de police merely
raised thetr white gloved hands in
salute.
And then, all day long, the peo
ple eame quietly down the rue de
Treves, in pairs or in little groups,
a constant procession; those of the
Quartier Leopold w-t* 1 in formal
dress, frock coats and high hats:
the others were "endtmanche," (in
Sunday clothes) wearing little
American flags as boutonnieres
some of them buttons with portraits
of the president or of his minister
at Brussels. They come. signed
their names tn the bock, left their
cards, and went away, lifting their
high hats without a word Those
that had not time to sign left their
cards; the little latch in the street
door was clicking all day long.
There were all sorts of cards, the
engraved cards of princes and noble
men. names of old families: there
were cards of tradespeople and even
hits of cardboard on which laun
dresses had traced their names. And
on the cards were written all sorts
of sentiments, the formal ’’P. F.”—
pour feliciter (to wish you happi
ness) —expressions of gratitude in
all possible ways; now and then, in
some honest workman's hind, in
Flemish, the simple, touching word
• Dank'’ (Thanks). All day long
the silent procession streamed by.
all day long the latch in the street
door clicked, and by night the book
was filled with names and there
were whole baskets full of cards,
literally thousands of them.
There were letters, too. and flow
ers. great bouquets and baskets that
filled the whole legation, turning ft
into a bower of roses and of those
lovely orchids of which Belgium is
so prodigious. Late in the night
they were still coming, the latch
was still clicking, the cards were
•till falling through that slit in the
outer door —a beautiful expression
of the gratitude of a whole city, a
whole nation, for what America had
tried to do for them in their dis
tress.
There were many callers, too. All
afternoon the drawing rooms were
filled, all the Americans In town
and many English and many Bel
gians besides, with, of course, Villa
lobar and the secretaries of lega
tion and the other ministers left in
Brussels.
In the midst of the reception a
footman brought up the card of a
German officer! I went downstairs
and there was a pale little officer in
full uniform—sword and helmet. He
eame to tell me that his wife
wished to help to re-establish the
lace industry in Belgium; that she
would open a shop or a depot, buy
the lace from the Belgians and send
the lace to America, and he wished
me to have the tariff taken off the
lace. I could tell him. as an old
though somewhat disillusioned if
not discouraged free-trader, that the
American congress would hardly go
as far as he wished in aiding his
industry, however tender its infan
cy. I went back upstairs and the
Belgians had all fled as from a pes
tilence; not one was left, and VII la
lobar. standing there with that hu
morous expression of his, heaved a
heavy sigh and said:
“Wware saved.”
Tlalgtirrrps Great Cardinal
That New Year's day. so full of
meaning for us at the legation be
cause of the outpouring of a na
decr^rheart tn gratitude, had the cu
rious amelioration everywhere that
high days and holidays bring to
men. In those currents of feeling
that so mysteriously make them
selves felt in whole populations,
there was something like a breath
•f new vital air. because It was a
new year; there was a new hope, a
■ensation of relief that an old and
evil year was dead. That amazing
phenomenon which found its
springs tn the deep wells of the
Bel gran nature, that everlasting and
never tiring resilliency. lifted them
up and they felt that better times
were ahead; with the springs the
allies would advance, the Germans
would go, the war would end. The
feeling pervaded all classes. And
then an event occurred that sent a
thrill of patriotism pulsing through
every heart, an event that was the
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expression of a single greatman,
one of those rare and pre-eminent
personalities, those moral heroes
that srfmehow miraculously appear
upon the earth in times of great
stress and trial, and sum up and
express their people and their times.
Belgium, for so small a nation, was
rich in two such transcendent char
acters; King Albert was one. then
at that moment on the flooded
reaches of the Yser, the symbol of
his own people’s force and resist
ance; and now, suddenly, a second
was revealed who resumed in his
great character the moral courage
and resistance of his race.
On Christmas day he had sat in
his austere study in the gray old ec
clesiastical palace in Malines, its
roof fallen tn from the shells that
had rained upon it during the fierce
battles of August and September,
penning in sorrow, but in the lofty
courage of an indomitable will, a
pastoral letter to his bruised and
scattered and tortured flock. It was
that great prince of the church, the
power and clarity of whose intellect,
like the rigid austerity of his al
most monastic life, recalled the ear
ly fathers of Christianity—Desire
James. Cardinal Mercier, archbishop
of Malines. He was proud of being
a Walloon; he had been born tn
Brain# I’Alleud there near the field
of Waterloo in 1851; he had been
educated at Louvain in the same
university that had given Father
Damien to history, and now he was
the primate of Belgium. He was
called to Rome at the outbreak of
the war to render the last hom
mages to the late Pius X. and to
participate in the election of the
new pope; he had returned to Bel
gium to find his land laid waste by
the sword, his alma mater de
stroyed. his see city in ruins and the
roof of his own palace open to the
sky. And during the months of that
autumn and early winter he had
been quietly visiting the devastated
pastures of his flock.
I had not seen him at that time,
it wqs not until weeks after that
New Year’s day that I had the privi
lege of making his acquaintance,
and the ultimate honor of claiming
him among my friends. He came in
the simplicity that was so implicit
an element of his greatness, one
February morning, to express his
gratitude for what America had
done for his nation, and to give me
an autographed copy of the pastoral,
which at that moment had somehow
got out of Belgium and gone around
the world and made him famous*.
He entered, advanced, tall and
strong and spare, in the long black
soutane with the red piping and the
sash, not with the stately, meas
ured pace that one associates with
the red hat. but with long, quick
strides, kicking out with impatience
the skirt of his soutane before him
as he walked, as though it impeded
his movements. He was impres
sive in his great height and he bent
slightly forward with an effect of
swooping on, like an avenging jus
tice. But his hand was outheld and
in his mobile countenance and kind
ly eyes there was a smile, as of
•weetness and light, that illumined
the long, lean visage.
"When he had laid off the low,
black beaver hat, with its cord and
tassels of red and gold, and seated
himself in one of the government's
ugly leather chairs, he adjusted the
little red calotte that covered the
poll whereon ths grey hair had long
been thinning, drew off his red
gloves, and as he sat his long fin
gers, that played for an instant
with the gold cross and chain that
hung before him found a pair of
common steel-rimmed eye glasses
and played with that instead. The
detail seemed to be expressive of
the utter simplicity of the man in
all that concerned him personally;
for if. in all that pertained to his
high office as a prince of the church,
he was correct, punetillbus even,
in all purely personal ways be was
as simple, as unpretentious, as mod
est as one of those rugged prime
val natures to which one instantly
compared him. His hands were
large and powerful and of the
weathered aspect of his face. It
was a countenance full of serene
l : .ght with little of the typically ec
clesiastical about it—a high brow,
a long nose, lean cheeks, strong
jaw and a large mobile mouth, hu
morous and sensitive, the mouth
of the orator, but with thin lips that
eould close in impenetrable silence.
The eyes were blue and they twin
kled with a lively intelligence and
evident humor. Perhaps I could do
no better in the effort to give some
impression of him than to say that,
had it not been for those touches
of red tn his black garb, he would
have recalled some tail, gaunt, sim
ple, affectionate Irish priest whose
life was passed in obscuro toll
among the poor, in humble homes,
amid lowly lives, whose every care
and preoccupation be knew and
sympathised with, going about at
night alone, in all weathers, unspar
ing of himself, visiting the sick and
the imprisoned, forgetting io eat, ac
customed to long, weary vigils, and
of an independence that needed none
of the reliances or approvals of this
earth.
There was something primal orlg-
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY. AUGUST 6, 1918.
{ATLANTA MARKETS!
ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. s.—Cotton by wagon,
quiet, 31.20 c.
SALT
Salt—Brick, medicated, per case, $7.50; do.
plain, per crate, $1.50; White Rock, per cwt..
$1.50; Jack Frost. 25 3-lb. packaces, $1.25:
Ozone. case. 25 2-lb. packages, $1.00; blocks.
50 pounds. 60c.
. CRACKERS
Florida soda crackers, 17c per pound; Pearl
oyster crackers. 17c per pound; lemon rounds.
IHc per pound; cart wheels, 18c per pound; all
10c package crackers 90c per dozen; all 20c
packages, $1.75 per dozen; family tin crispeltcs,
(8.25 per dozen.
FISH
Tom pa no. scarce, per pound. 25c; Spanish
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 pound. 12%c; mullet, per
pound. 11c; small channel cat and perch, per
pound, 10c.
CANDIES
Kennesaw stick candy, in barrels. 20c per
pound; small chocolate drops in 30-pound pails,
24c per pound; Stone Mountain chocolate drops
in 30-pound pails, 23c per pound; Boubon mix
ture in 30-pound pails, 22c per pound; Fnlton
mixture in 35-pound cases. 17c per pound;
Honeycomb taffy in 20-pound cases, 24%c per
pound; broken taffy in boxes, 21c per pound;
bonanza assortments. $11.25 caeh.
CEREALS
Purity oata. 18s, round, $2.00; 30s. round,
$3.90; 12 family size, $3.10; Purity grits. 245.
round. $2.75; 10s, ruoud, $2.90; regular Pos
tum. large. $2.25; assorted. $2.50; small, $2.70;
instant Postuin, large. $4.50; assorted. $5.00;
small. $5.40; Grape-Nuts, 15c size, $2.85; Indi
vidual size, $2.00; Post Toasties. $4.10; indi
vidual size. $2,00.
MEAT, LARD AND HAMS
Dry salt extra ribs, 27c; dry salt rib bellies,
medium to average, 28c; dry salt rib bellies,
light, average. 28c; Cudahy's Puritan brand
bams. 32c; Cudahy's Rex hams. 81e; 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%e
per pound.
Cornfield hams. 10-121 pound average, 33c;
Cornfield hams. 12-14 pound average, 33c; Corn
feld skinned hams. 16-19-pound average, 35c;
Cornfield picnic hams, 6-8-pound average, 25c;
Cornfield breakfast bacon. 48c; Cornfield sliced
bacon, 1-ponnd boxes, 12 to case. 55c; Grocers'
bacon, wide or narrow. 38c; Cornfield pork sau
sage. link or bulk, 22c; Cornfield wieners, in
lOpound cartons. 21c; Cornfield bologna sau
sage, in 25-lb. boxes, 20c; Cornfield smoke link
sausage, in 25-lb. boxes. l9c; Cornfield weiners.
in 12-lb. kits, pickle, 2.88; Cornfield lard,
tierce basis, 28c; compound lard, tierce basis,
23%c.
GROCERIES
Flour—Capitola, $12.70; Olympia, $13.00.
Meal —Atlanta Milling tympany plain meal. 96
pounds. $2.02; 48 pounds, $2. tri; 24 to 12 pounds,
$2.07.
Mackerel—U-Kno-It, 5%-6-ounce, 190 count,
out; Leader, 7-ounce, 100 count, out; Anchor.
8%-ounce, 60 count, $7.25; 75 count, $8.50;
Crown, 9%-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, % oils, Continentals, $7.50;
keyless. % oils. Conqueror, $7.00; key. % oils,
in cartons. Homerun, $8.00; key, % mustards.
Imperial, none; key, % mustards, in cartons,
Gamecock, none.
Meats —Potted meats. 4714 c; roast beef. $5.25;
corned beef, $5.25; tripe. $3.30; C. B. hash.
$1.55; hamberger, steak aud onions, $1.55; veal
loaf, $2.40.
Coffee —Blue Ridge brand, roasted. 15c; Wall
brand, 3@5%c; AAAA, 15c; Uno, 25c.
Rice—Japs. s@6c; Honduras, medium head,
8%@4%c; Arkansas fancy head, 6@6%c.
Beans—California blackeycs. $10.50; pink.
$9.50; limas, $14.50; small whites, $14.00;
Michigan choice, $16.00.
ATLANTA COTTONSEED FftODUCTS MARKED
JULY— Bid. Asked.
Crude oil. prime basis 1714
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 hulls, sacked 25.00 26.00
AUGUST—
Crude oil. prime basis 07)4 •••••
tottonaeeu 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 rate points $7<>.00@73.00
Cottonseed f. o. b. Atlanta $70.00®78.00
inal, about him, a man out of the
people yet above them, one of those
rare and lofty personalties who
they are like him, and yet create
in him new aspirations and higher
hope because they demonstrate in
their sufficient selves what a com
mon man may become if only he
have tne will by devotion, by abne
gation, by sacrifice and by love. In
his mere presence one felt all little
things shrivel up and wondered
why small annoyances should fret
and irritate; and when he had gone
♦he impalable influences of his lofty
spirit hung for hours about one in
the air. Te was the incarnation of
the principle that is the antithesis
of that upon which tho power that
had overrun his country was found
ed, and because of this all its armies
and all its guns and bayonets and
kommandanturs were powerless;
its ininions, who had not hesitated
to destroy whole cities and commu
nities, did not dare even so much
as to touch a hair of his head. Ul
-timate history, written at that hour
when mankind shall have emerged
out of the darkness and savagery of
these times into the light of those
better days that must come if there
is any meaning or order in the uni
verse, will celebrate the astonish
ing coincidence that, in the little
nalion which the most ruthless
power of all times chose as the
first and most tragic of Its many
victims, there was a man whose per
sonality alone and of itself, proved
the superiority of moral over phys
ical force.
Cardinal Mercier's Letter
The visit with which the cardinal
honored me that February morning
was coincidental with the hour
when, in his long struggle with the
German authorities, he had challeng
ed them to submit to an impartial
tribunal their evidence concerning
the atrocities; he had publicly pro
posed a court to be composed of
three German and three Belgian
judges, to be presided over by the
American minister at Brussels. The
suggestion had not as yet been acted
upon and I thought from the twin
kle in his eyes that morning that he
had not much hope that it ever
would be.
That, however, was in February,
six weeks after the incident of the
pastoral letter. We had no sooner
heard of that letter than we heard ’
that the cardinal had been arrested.
The news spread through Brussels
on a Monday morning. The letter,
written at Christmas, had been ap
pointed to be read in all the
churches on the first Sunday in Jan
uary, and that was done. No syn
opsis of the letter could give any
notion of its strength, its dauntless
courage, its serene and lofty spirit.
It breathed patriotism, and yet it
counseled patience and even obe
dience to the authorities. But His
Eminence made it plain that the au
thorities then in the land were not
there by right, and that their au
thority was but passing and tempo
rary. and that they* were to be obey
ed only in ■ heir efforts to execute
the laws of the country as an occu
pying power. And it closed in a
strain that resumed all the anguish
of his people and his land. 1 pre
fer it in the French, but even trans
lated it loses little of its force;
(Continued Next Tstrtte)
(Published by special arrange
ment with the McClure Newspaper
Syndicate. Copyright, 1918, by
Brand Whitlock, under the title
“Memories of Belgium Under the
German Occupation." All rights
reserved. Copyrighted in Great
Britain, Canada and Australia. All
rights reserved for France, Bel
gium. Holland. Italy, Spain, Russia
and the Scandinavian countries.)
Cotton
NEW YORK. Aug. s.—There was a renewal
| of the general buying movement in the cotton
1 market at the opening today. If anything, the
: demand zm even more urgent and excited ow-
I ing to the continued dry hot weather in the
; sou th wist nud the inspiring character of the war
; news, with first prices showing an advance
l of 5 to 120 points. October sold up to 28.50
1 shortly after the call, making n net gain of 105
I points, while December touched 27.97, or 102
I |K>ints higher, with the advance finding further
, encouragement in the forecast for continued
i fair weather in the southwest.
With January contracts selling at. 28.30 the
market showed an advance ot fully 420 points,
;or $21.00 per bale from the price prevailing
just before the publication of the'government's
) report or. last Thursday. This advance met
, a good deal of realizing, while there was
i also some selling on reports of a continued
i slack spot demand and talk of an easier tech
-1 nical position. Reaction of about half a cent
! followed, but offerings were fairly well taken,
with the market comparatively quiet and staedy
around midday when prices were still some 68
to 80 points net higher. October reacted from
28.50 to 27.98 and December from 27.97 to
> 27.50, with these deliveries ruling around 28.25
> and 27.75 at midday.
i The detailed weather reports showing very
i high temperatures in the southwest held selling
I in check during the middle of the day. but
I later offerings increased on reports of Tain at
Houston. The heavyl buying of the morning ap-
I peared to have left the market without much
I support and prices broke very rapidly toward
2 o'clock with October selling off to 27.70 and
December to 27.25 with active . months gener
ally showing declines of some 80 to 110 points
from the early high level and back to within
20 or 30 points of Saturday’s closing.
NEW YORK COTTON
The following were the ruling prices in the
exchange today;
I Tone, steady; middling. 31.50 c, quiet.
Last Prev.
Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close.
Jan I 27.80 28.20 27.20 27.40 27.40 26.92
Feb 27.38 26.30
March ... 27.85 28.00 27.20 27.38 27.38 26.80
April 27.38 26.80
May 28.00 28.00 27.63 27.65 27.38 26.80
Aug 28.20 28.30 28.20 28.20 27.97 27.50
| Sept. ..... 28.07 27.61
I Oct 27.46 28.50 27.46 27.99 27.97 27.45
, Nov. ..... 27.03
j Dec. 27.55 27.97 27.25 27.52 27.52 26.95
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. s.—Cottoh rose sharply
today, bulging 81 to 110 points in the first
few minutes of trading. Buying was stimu
lated by the continued favorable war news, dry
weather in the western belt and the warning of
a hurricane headed for the Yucatan channel.
Realizing became general on long side and
the market reacted from the advance under the
offerings, standing at its lowest in the trading
up to noon, at a net rise of 41 to 63 points.
The reaction continued in the afternoon, the
volume of selling increasing. At 1 o’clock
the tradnig months were 20 to 28 points over the
closing of Saturday.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
The following were the ruling prices tn the
exchange today:
Tone, steady; middling. 28.25 c, steady.
Last Prev.
Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close.
Jan 27.00 27.00 26.50 26.67 26.63 26.19
Mar 27.08 27.02 26.50 26.0 26.65 26.10
May * 26.64 26.09
Sept 27.75 27.25
Oct. 27.25 27.60 26.69 27.01 27.00 26.50
Dec 27.10 27.16 26.35 26.60 26.60 26.10
NEW ORLEANS SPOT COTTON
NEW ORLEANS. Aug. s.—Spot cotton steady,
quotations revised. Middling. 50 points up.
! Sales on the spot 296 bales; to arrive 500. Low
middling, 24.50; middling. 28.25; good middling,
30.25. Receipts 545; stock 292,180.
SPOT COTTON MARKET
Atlanta, steady, 31.20 c.
New York, quiet, 31.50 c.
New Orleans, steady, 28.25e.
Apgusta, steady, 29.50 c.
Memphis, steady, 30e.
Charleston, steady, 29c.
Montgomery, steday, 29c.
Boston, steady, 29.50 c.
Philadelphia, steady, 31.75 c.
Norfolk, steady, 30.50 c.
Galveston, steady, 28.75 c.
Mobile, steady, 28c.
Little Rock, steady, 28.50 c.
Dallas, steady, 21.63 c.
Savannah, steady, 2&.25c.
St. Louis, steady, 80.50 c.
Houston, steady. 2k. 25c.
ATLANTA SPOT COTTON
Atlanta sjot cotton 31.20 c
Sales 100
Receipts 219
Shipments 260
Stocks 19,684
COMPARATIVE PORT RECEIPTS
Last Year. Today.
Galveston 1,616 1,132
New Orleans 621 545
Mobile 78 241
Savannah 1,633 2,781
Charleston 841 11
Norfolk 1,219 45
Boston 193 161
I Philadelphia 472 ....
j Total all ports 6,673 4,916
DAILY INTERIOR RECEIPTS
Last Year. Today.
Augusta 38 60
Memphis 337 570
St. Louis 3,899 124
Cincinnantl 391 187
Houston 1,993 1,730
Little Rock 150 220
JOHN F. CLARK & CO. COTTON LETTER
NEW ORLEANS. Ang. s.—The array of facts
i and news this morning was as strong if not
. stronger than on Saturday. Fine war news,
i intepse drouth and heat, over the west, tropi-
I cal storm warnings, bullish crop report by the
Times-Picayune. Demane exceeded offerings
to a marked extent and first trades were ut an
I advance of 70 to .100 points, much more than
I with northern markets, and the straightening
l out process of straddles of course caused a
I temporary reaction from an over-excited open
i Ing. <-
The map shows cloudy Tennessee and South
Carolina, generally fair rest of the belt no
rain except some showers in Oklahoma. Very
high temperatures over the western and cen
tral belt. Absence of rain over the Atlantics
was a favorable feature but am afraid it
will not last long, as indications are for con
tinued fair hot waetlier west of the river but
increasing cloudiness east owing to the outrun
ning effects of the tropical disturbance, which
from present indications is taking the usual
course on the Atlantics.
The market experienced a sharp dip towards
10 o’clock on raelizing but recovered soon.
While futuies have advanced fast within the
past five days, they are only just about up to
spot gains. Therefore the change in the mar
ket was rather a long delayed adjustment than
a change in value and the real price ex
pression of the unfavorable change in crop
prospects may yet have to come.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET
NEW Y’ORK, Aug. 5.-—-Flour dull and un
changed.
Pork qniet; moss, 549.50@50.00.
Lard, dull; middle west spot. $26.60@26.70.
Sugar—Raw. quiet; centrifugal, 96-test.
6.055; rfeined, quiet; ctft loaf. 11.00; crushed,
8.75; powdered, 7.65; granulated. 7.50.
Coffee—Rio No. 7. on spot. B%c.
Tallow—Specials. 18c; city. 17%@17%c.
Hay, firm; No. 1, $1.45@1.50; No. 3, $1.15@
1.30; clover. 90c(<r$1.40.
Dressed poulrty. quiet; chickens, 37@50c;
fowls, 26@36c; ducks. 36c.
Live poultry, steady; geese. 20c; ducks. 27 @
28c; fowls. 33@34c; turkeys. 28@'30c; roosters,
23c chickens, broilers, 38@41c.
Cheese, firmer; state mrtk. common to spe
cials. 21@26c; skims, common tc specials,
sto-'o%c.
Butter, firmer; receipts. 8.813; creamery,
extra. 44%@45c; do. special market, 45@46c;
imitation creamery, firsts. 36@45c; state dairy,
tubs. 87@‘38c.
Eggs, dull; receipts 10.397; near-by white
fancy, 55(057c; near-by mixed fancy, 38@47c;
fresh firsts. 40@47c.
TIMES-PICAYUNE REPORT
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 5. —The Tlmes-Pica-
. yunc report says:
1. The crop has deteriorated materially! ow
ing to long continued drouth and high tem
peratures west of the Mississippi river. The
loss in condition has been greatest in Texas
but has also been serious in Oklahoma. Louis
iana and Arkansas, Mississippi has also gone
back where there has l>een a scarcity of rain
fall. East of the Mississippi river there has
been less deterioration. ranging from about
normal, falling off for July on the Atlantic
coast to a more appreciable loss in Georgia
and Alabama due to excessive rain.
2, Tlie crop lias been well cultivated and I
owing to the hot dry weather over a portion I
1 of the belt it is maturing early and rapidly I
over a large area.
3 - While boll weevil have been reported '
plentiful in a large section of the belt little |
damage has resulted owing to the hot dry I
weather evcept in parts of Georgia anil Ala- I
bania. where rains have been frequent. A pest |
known as red spider is reported to have dope ,
some injury in the extreme eastern part of
the belt.
4.—-While labor is scarce owing to the draft
and the drift of negroes to manufacturing
towns, good weather has enabled farmers to
properly cultivate the crop. Some fear is
felt that the scarcity will be felt at picking
time should the yield prove liberal or the
weather bad.
Grain
J CHICAGO. Aug. s.—Record breaking high
temperatures throughout the west and south
west together with failure of expected rains
led to a wild opening toaay in the corn mar
ket. Opening quotations, which ranged from
l&c to 4®sc net higher, with September $1.59
to sl. 61*4. and October $1.59 to $1.61, were
i followed by continued strength and in some
cases by additional gains.
The close was strong. 4%c to 6%c net high
er, with Seplember $1.62% to $1.63, and Octo
ber $1.63.
Oats went soaring* with corn. After open
ing unchanged to 2%c higher, the market scored
further upturns.
Provisions were neglected. The market hard
ened a little in sympathy with the advance
of grain.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
The following were the ruling prices in the
exchange today;
Prev.
Open. High. Low. Close. Close.
CORN—
Aug 1.57% 1.59% 1.57% 1.57% 1.55%
Sept. . .1.57@1.61% 1.63 1.59 1.62% 1.57%
Oct. ..1.59 @1.61 1.63 1.59 1.63 1.58%
OATS—
Augt 68@69 69 67 % 68% 67%
Sept 67@68% 68% 67 68% 67%
Oct 68@69 69% 68 69 % 67%
PORK—
Sept '.....44.85 44.85 44.85 44.85 44.95
LARD—
Sept 26.67 26.72 26.67 26.70 26.65
RIBS—
Sept 24.95 24.95 24.85 24.87 24.90
RECEIPTS IN CHICAGO
, Today.
Wheat 540 cars
Corn 107 cars
Oats 274 ears
Hogs 20,000 head
GRAIN CLEARANCES
Wheat, 164,000 versus 967,000 last year.
Corn, none, versus none last year.
Oats. 164.000 versus 445,000 last year.
Flour none.
Wheat and flour, 164.000 versus 967,000 last
year.
PRIMARY MOVEMENTS
Receipts—Wheat, 4,231.000 versus 1,833,000
last year.
Receipts—Corn, 780,000 versus 1,395,000 last
year.
Receipts—Oats, 1,467,000 versus 1.560.000 last
year.
Shipments—Wheat, 146,000 versus 609.000 last
year.
Shipments—Corn, 337,000 versus 523,000 last
year.
Shipments—Oats, 744,000 versus 818,000 last
year.
VISIBLE SUPPLY
Wheat, increase, 3.986,000 bushels.
Corn, decrease, 626,000 bushels.
Oatz, increase. 1,631,000 bushels.
TOTAL VISIBLE
Wheat, 17,155,000 versus 5.819,000 last year.
Corn, 9,456.000 versus 2,841,000 last year.
Oats, 7,876,000 versus 6,679,000 last year.
CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS
CHICAGO, Aug. s.—Corn, No. -C yellow,
$1.76@1.77; No. 3 yellow, $1.67@1.70; No. 4
yellow, $1.60@1.6L
Oats, No. 3 white, 65@69%; standard, 693
69%.
Rye, No. 2, $1.56.
Barley, 90fd-SI.OO.
Timothy, $6.00@8.50.
Clover, nominal.
Pork, nominal.
Lard, $26.65.
Ribs, $Z5.25@25.50.
✓ \
Atlanta Live Stock
(Corrected by W, H. White. Jr., President
of the White Provision Company, United
States Food Administration License No.
G-21371.)
Good to choice steers. 850 to 1,000 pounds,
$11.50@12.50.
Good steers, 750 to 850 poupnds, slo.oo@
11.00.
Medium to good steers, 650 to 750 pounds,
$9.50@10,50.
Medium to choice beef cows, 750 to 850
pounds, $9.00@10.00.
Medium to good cows, 650 to 750 pounds, SB.OO
@9.00.
Good to choice heifers, 550 to 650 pounds,
$8.00@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, 650 to 750 pounds,
$8.00@9.00.
Medium to good cows, 600 to 700 pounds, $7.0
@B.OO.
Mixed common, $6.00@7.00.
Good fat oxen, $8.50@9.00.
Medium to good oxen. $7.50@8.00.
Good butcher bulls. $7.00@9.00.
Choice veal calves. $8.50@10.00.
Yearlings. $6.50@8.f>0.
Prime hogs, 165 to 225 pounds. $16.25@16.75.
Light hogs. 130 to 165 pounds, $16.00@16.50.
Heavy pigs, 100 to 130 pounds, $15.50@16.00.
Light pigs, 80 to 100 piunds. $14.50@15.50.
Stags and roughs, $12.00®14.00.
The above quotations apply to good quality
mixeed fed hogs.
LIVE STOCK BY WIRE
EAST ST. IAJUIS. Aug. s.—Cattle—Receipts.
1.000. including no Texans; market lower; na
tive beef steers, $11.50@12.85; yearling steers
and heifers. $9.50@15.50; cosw, $7.50@17.50;
Stockers and feeders. $8.50@12.00; calves, $7.75
@14.00; Texas steers, $16.00@17.70; cows and
heifers. $7.50@15.00.
Hogs—Receipts, 8.000; market higher; mixed
and butchers. $19.35@19.75; good and heavy.
$19.55@19.70; rough. $17.75@ 18.00; light,
$19.45@19.70.
Sheep—Receipts. 1,500. market steady; clip
ped ewes. sll,oO@ 12.00: lambs. $14.00@17.00;
canners and choppers. $6.00@9.00.
CHICAGO. Aug. s.—Hogs—Receipts. 33.000.
market strong; butchers. $19.10@19.70; light,
$19.45@19.80; packing, $18.00@18.95; rough,
$17.50@17.90; bulk of sales, $18.95@19.15;
pigs, choice. $17.75@18.50.
Cattle —Receipts, 20.000; cattle grading good
or better, steady; others slow and lower; calves,
steady to 25c lower.
Sheep—Receipts, 17,000; native lambs, weak;
quality poor; western lambs held higher', bid
ding steady.
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET
Close
January 8.61@8.63
February 8.69@8.71
March 8.77@8.79
April 8.84@8.86
May 8.91 @8.93
August 8.05f ( /8.09
September 8.25fcr'8.26
October 8.35@8.3«
Novemtier 8.45@8.46
December ' 8.55@8.56
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It wasn’t necessary for me to ex
plain to them that I was a refugee,
even if I had been able to speak
their language. I was caked w-ith
mud to my shoulders and I suppose
my face must have recorded some
of the experiences I had gone'
through that memorable night.
“I want the British consul!” Il
told them. ’’And I want him mighty
bad.”
Apparently they didn’t understand,
but one of them volunteered to con
duct me to the village. They seemed
to be only too anxious to do all they
could for me; evidently they realized
I was a British soldier.
It was very late when my compan
ion finally escorted me into the vil
lage, but he aroused some people he
knew from their beds and they
dressed and came down to feed me.
The family consisted of an old lady
and her husband and a son, who was
a soldier in the Dutch army. The
cold shivers ran down my back while
he sat beside me because every now
and again I caught a glimpse of his
gray uniform and it resembled very
much that of the German soldier.
Some of the neighbors, aroused by
the commotion, got up to see what
it was all about, and came in and
watched while I ate the meal those
good Dutch people prepared for me.
Ordinarily I supposed I would have
been embarrassed with so many peo
ple staring at me while I ate as
though I were some strange animal
that had just been captured, but just
then I was too famished to notice or
care very much what other people
did.
There will always be a warm place
in my heart for the Dutch people. I
had heard lots of persons say that
they were not inclined to help refu
gees, but my experience did not bear
these reports out. They certainly did
much more for me than I ever ex
pected.
I had a little German money left,
but as the value of German money
is only about half in Holland I didn’t
have enough to pay the fare to Rot
terdam, which was my next objective.
It was due to the generosity of these
people that I was able to reach the
British consul as quickly as I did.
Some day I hope to return to Holland
and repay every single soul who
played the part of the Good Samari
tan to me.
With the money that these people
gave me I was able to get a third
class ticket to Rotterdam, and I was
glad that I didn’t have enough to
travel first-class, for I would have
looked as much out of place in a
first-class carriage as a Hun would
appear in heaven.
That night I slept in the house of
my Dutch friends, where they fixed
me up most comfortably. In the
morning they gave me breakfast and
then escorted me .to the station.
Cheered as He Boards Train
While I was waiting on the station
a crowd gathered round me and soon
it seemed as if the whole town had
turned out to get a look at me. It
was very embarrassing, particularly
as I could give them no information
regarding the cause of my condition,
although, of course, they all knew
that I was a refugee from Belgium.
As the train pulled out of the sta
tion,. the crowd gave a loud cheer,
and the tears almost came to my
eyes as I contrasted in my mind the
conduct of this crowd and the one
that had gathered at the station in
Ghent when I departed a prisoner en
route for the reprisal camp. I
breathed a sigh of relief as I thought
of that reprisal camp and how for
tunate I had really been, despite all'
my suffering, to have escaped it. I
Now, at any rate, I was a free man i
and I would soon be sending home
the joyful news that I had made
good my escape.
At Einhoffen two Dutch officers
got into the compartment with me.
They looked at me with very much
disfavor, not knowing, of course,
that I was a British officer. My ,
clothes were still very much in i
condition they were when I crossed
the border, although I had been able
to scrape off some of the mud I had
collected the night before. I had
not shaved nor trimmed my beard
for many days, and I must have pre
sented a sorry appearance. I could
hardly blame them for edging away
from me.
The from Einhoffen to Rot
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American consul—French consul!”
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motioned me to get in and drove off.
I had no idea where he was-taking •
me, but after a quarter of an hour’s
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British consulate. Never before was
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with me up to the office, as I had
no money with which to pay him.
and when he got to the consulate I
told them that if they would pay
the taxi fare I would tell them who
I was and how I happened to be
there.
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escaped prisoner and they readily
paid the chauffeur and invited me
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