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The Truth About Belgium :
BY BRAND
(Continued from Lwt Iseue)
“I realize better 'than anyone, per
haps. what our poor country has suf
fered.” he wrote. "And no Belgian
will doubt, I hope, that my citi
zen's and cardinal's soul has been
tortured by the thought of all these
The. last four months
•P-wa. w» »*r> nasw » «w-..
"Nt r thousands our brat> ones
have been slaughtered; wives and
mothers weep for the absent they
will never see again; homes are
broken up; misery is spreading and
anguish is poignant. At Malines, at
Antwerp. I hare known the popula
tion of two large cities to be sub
jected one during six hours and the
other during thirty-four, to a con
tinuous bombardment and to hate
been in the throes of death. I have
visited the most devastated regions
of my diocese. Duffel, Lierre. Ber
laer. Saint- Rembaur. Konings-
Hoyckt. Mortsel. Waelhem. Muysen.
Wavre-Sainte-Catherine. Wavre-Xo
tre-Dame. Sempst. Weerde. Eppe
ghem. Hofstade. Elewyt. Kymenam.
Boortmeerbcek. Wespalaer. Haecht.
Werchter - Wackerzeel. Rotselaer.
Tremeloo. Louvain and the suburb
an agglomerations (Os Malines),
Blauwput. Kessel-Loo, Booven-Lxx».
Linden. Herent. Thildonck. Bueken.
Relst. Aerschot, Wesemael. Hers
selst. Diest. Hchatfen. Molenstede.
Rillaer. Gelode. and what I saw of
ruins and ashes exceeds anything I
could have imagined. Certain .parts
of my diocese which I have not yet
had time to visit, i. e.. Haekendover.
Roosbeek. Hautersem, Budingen.
Neer-Linter. Capelle aux-Bois. Hum
beck. Blaeveld. experienced the
same ravages. Churches, schools,
asylums, hospitals, convents, in
considerable numbers, are almost en
tirely destroyed or in ruins. En
tire villages have practically dis
appeared. At Werchter-W ackerzeel.
for instance, out of 3SO homes. 130
remain; at Tremeloo. two-thirds of
the community has been razed, at
Bueken. out of 100 houses, twenty
are left; at Schaeffen. a village of
200 dwellings. 189 have disappeared
at Louvain, one-third of the town
has been destroyed. 1.047 buildings
have disappeared; within the city
limits and including the suburbs of
Kessel-Loo and Herent and Heverie.
there is a total of 1.823 houses burn
ed.
”In that beloved city of Louvain,
from which I cannot succeed in de
taching my thoughts the superb col
legiate of St. Peter will never recov
er its splendor; the old college of
St Ives; the Institute of Fine Arts
of the city, the commercial and con
sular school attached to the univer
sity; the venerable ‘Halles’ or mar
ket building, our substantial libra
ry. the gallery of its illustoirus
men. from the first days of its foun
dation portraits of the rectors,
chancellors and famous professors,
at the sight of which masters and
students of today became imbued
with traditional nobility of charac
ter and went at their work with re
newed ardor; all this accumulation
of intellectual, historic and artistic
riches, the fruit of five centuries of
toil. everything, has been de
stroyed.
"Many parishes were deprived of
their curate. I hear again the
plaintive voice of an old man whom
I asked if mass had been celebrated
in his dismantled church the past
Sunday.
" it is two months now since we
have had a priest.’ said he. The cu
rate and the vicar were In a concen
tration camp at Munster, not far
from Hanover.
"Thousands of Belgian citizens
have thus been deported to German
prisons; to Munster, to Celle, to
Madgeburg Munster alone held
3.100 civilian prisoners. History will
tell the story of the physical and
moral torturi they endured.
"Thousands of innocent ones were
shot; I do not possess the sinister
necrology, but I know that at Aer
schot ninety-one were killed, and
that there —under the menace of
death —their fellow citizens were
compelled to dig the burial trenches.
In the agglomeration of Louvain and
near by communes one hundred and
seventy-six persons, men and wom
en. old men and women with chil
dren at breast, rich and poor the
strong and the weak were shot down
or burned
“In my diocese alone I know that
thirteen priests were executed. One
of them, the curate of Gelrode. fell
undoubtedly like a martyr. I made
a pilgrimage to his tomb and. sur
rounded by the flock that he had
pastured only yesterday with the
zeal of an apostle. I asked him to
safeguard from on high his parish,
the dircese and the country.
"We can neither count our dead
nor measure the extent of our ruins.
What would it be if we undertook
to visit the regions of Liege. Namur,
Abdenne. Dinant. Tamines, Charleroi
and then toward Virton and the
valley of the Samois river, all the
provinces of Luxembourg toward
Termonde. Dixmude and our two
I landers.”
The letter was read in all the
pulpits and within a few hours
many of the priests in the prov
inces who had read the letter had
been arrested, as well as several
priests in Brussels, among them
the Doyen of the collegiate of Ste.
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Gudule. And at 6 o’clock on Mon
day morning there were soldiers be
fore the Episcopal palace at Ma
lines. The cardinal was saying mass
in his chapel when a priest came to
him saying that a German officer
was waiting to see him.
"Tell him that 1 am saying
mass,’’ said the cardinal.
The priest went out and returned
to report that the officer said the
cardinal must come at once. The
cardinal took off his vestments and
went out. and the officer handed
him .i letter from General von Bis
sing. covering eight pages and de
manding an immediate answer. The
cardinal explained that since the
letter was in German he would have
to have time to reflect; he would
send a reply. But the officer said
that he would have to insist that
the order be carried out.
’’But I give you my word of honor
not to leave my palace.”
This would not satisfy the offi
cer; he said he would have to re
main with htm-
“You mean in the room with
me?’’ asked the astonished cardinal.
The officer, abashed by the glance
in the fearless eyes, said that he
would wait in the courtyard of the
palace. It was raining and the offi
cer waited all day while his emi
nence, in no hurry, prepared his re
ply. General von Biasing in his
letter put six questions to the car
dinal, had presumed too far upon
what Bissing was pleased to call
their "personal” relations, and the
cardinal, replying to this proposi
tion, said that his excellency had
evidently misunderstood, or had
not sufficiently understood, their re
lations. which were not at all per
sonal, but wholly official; aside
from this he added—no doubt a
touch of the Walloon sense of
humor —their relations were simply
those of Christians. The cardinal
said that he was a Belgian, with
Belgian sentiments.’ prejudices, feel
ings. and loyalty; that he had writ
ten his letter out of those feelings
and that he could not retract it, and
he concluded:
"This answer will suffice as an
answ.’r equally to all the other five
questions.”
Freiherr von Bisslng was not a
patient nor always a diplomatic
man. and when he read the letter
which the officer, after waiting
there all day in the rain, brought
back to Brussels in the evening,
he might have gone to forcible ex
tremes had not the counsels of
Baron von der Lancken prevailed.
The baron motored up to Malines
the next morning and waited on the
cardinal. The conversation was
long and courteous. The cardinal
insisted that it, was unjust to punish
his priests for reading a letter that
he had prepared—and he refused to
retract or to modify the statement
tn his pastoral, and the incident was
assumed to be closed.
The next day, however, the gov
ernor general sent an order to the
priests of the diocese of Malines,
in which he said that the cardinal
. . “on my representation as to
the trouble and irritation caused by
his pastoral letter among the pop
ulation has declared to me at Ma
lines. verbally and in writing, that
he had no intention whatever to
provoke such an action and had ex
pected no such result. He had
merely tried to convince the popu
lation of the necessity of obeying
the occupying powers, even In the
case cf the Belgian patriots who
felt Internally in opposition with
the German administration. In
the event of my fearing any such
irritating effect the cardinal would
not persist in desiring on the part
of his clergy, and in accordance
with the provisions of the conclu
sion of his pastoral letter, a repeti
tion of its public reading on fol
lowing Sundays, or that it be any
further spread.
“Now this hypothesis has arisen
and therefore I repeat my prohibi
tion of January 2. concerning the
public reading and propagation of
the patsoral letter. I remind the
clergy that they will palce them
selves in opposition to the desire
which their cardinal has expressed
to me if they act in opposition to
my prohibition.”
The clergy were, for a moment,
uncertain, but not 'or long. Mon
seigneur Evrard, Doyen of Brus
sels. went to Malines, and on his
return sent each cure a note, which
I translate:
Monsieur le Cure: —I have just re
turned from Malines.
Despite the prohibition received
yesterday H. E. .the cardinal, wishes
his letter read.
The written prohibition is clever
and false.
“Neither verbally nor in writing
have I withdrawn any. and I do not
now withdraw any, of my former
instructions, and I protest against
»he violence done to the liberty of
my pastoral ministry.”
That is what the cardinal dictat
ed to me.
He added: "They have tried
everything to make me sign some
attenuations to my letter; I have
not signed. Now they seek to sep
arate my clergy from me In pre
venting them from reading it.
“1 have done my duty; my clergy
must know whether they at* going
to do theirs.
“I beg you to accept. Monsieur le
Inc AILAIUA OEffil-yVLLM. I JUUniIAL) AILAIUA, kJrt. rniUAI, AUUJJOI V, IVIO.
Grain
CHICAGO. Aug. B.—Chances that the gov
ernment crop report this afternoon would prove
bullish brought about an advance in the corn
1 market today after some weakness at the outset.
Opening prices, which varied from the same as
yesterday's fnisli to %c lower, with September
$1.61% to $1.62 and October $1.62% to $1.63,
were followed by material gains all around.
The close was strong. 5-8 to 1c net
higher, with September $1.63 5-8 to 3-4
and October $1.64 to 1-8.
Oats paralleled the action of corn. After
opening unchanged to %@%c down with Sep
tember 60 to 60%c, the market sconsl a sub
stantial advance.
Provisions were upheld by strength in the hog
market. Sales of hogs here were reported at
$20.05, a new top record for Chicago.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
The following were the ruling prices in the
exchange today ;
I’rev.
Open. High. Low. Close. Close.
CORN—
Aug.. 157%'KlbS 150% 157% 159% 158%
Sept.. 162 ®1«1% 1O!% 160% 162% 162
Oct . 163 *IG2% 161% 162% 164 163%
OATS—
Aug... 69 70% 68% 69% 69%
Sept.... C9%®G9 70% t® 70% 69%
Oct 70%%70 71% 70 71 10%
PORK—
September... 41.C0 44.45 44.00 44.50 44.25
LARD—
September... 26.82 26.82 26.67 26.77 26.77
October 26.77 26.82 26.70 26.77 26.77
It IBS—
September... 24.82 24.82 24.47 24.62 24.77
October 24.90 24.97 24.60 24.77 24.92
RECEIPTS IN CHICAGO
Today.
Wheat 937 cars
Corn 123 cars
Oats 419 ears
Hogs 15,0(W head
PRIMARY MOVEMENT
Receipts; Wheat 3.889,000, against 837 000
last year; corn 453,000, agulr.se 520,000 last
year; oats 1,290,000. against 653.000 last year.
Shipments: Whrat 1,656.000 against 384,000
last year; corn 402.000. against 333,000 last
year; oats 888,000. against 568,000 last year.
GRAIN CLEARANCES
Clearances; Wheat, 170,000, against 87,000
bushels last year; corn, none, against 200,000
bushels last year; oats. 32,000. against 333,000
last year; flour, 22,000, against 1,000 barrels
last year; wheat and flour, 267.0U0, against
92,000 last year.
Chicago Cash Quotations
CHICAGO, Aug. B.—Corn—No. 2 yel
low, $1.80; No. 3 yellow, $1.75a1,78; No.
4 yellow, $1.68a1.72.
Oats—No. 3 white, 69a69 3-4; stand
ard, 69 l-4a70 1-2.
Rye—No. 2, $1.58.
Barley—9oa $1.02.
Timothy—s6.soa9.oo.
Clover—N om i nal.
Pork—Nominla.
Lard. $26.62.
Ribs, 23.57a24.87.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET
NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—Flour, dull and un
changed.
Porky-Dull; mess, $49.50<550.00.
Ijird—Quiet; middle west spot, $26.70®}
26.80.
Sugar—Raw, steady; centrifugal, 96-test,
6.005; refined, steady; cut loaf, 9.00; crushed,
8.75; powdered, 7.65; granulated, 7.50.
Coffee —Rio No. 7, on spot, B%c.
Tallow —Specials, 18%c; city, 17%c.
Hay—Firm; No. 1, $1.45«1.50; No. 3, $1.15
@1.30; clover. 90c@51.40.
Dressed Poultry—Dull; chickens, 37@50c;
fowls, 254$S8c; ducks. 3Cc.
Live Poultry—Quiet; geese, 20c; ducks, 27®}
28c; fowls, 32c; turkeys, 28®30c; roosters, 20®!
22c; chickens, broilers, 35<r$37c.
Butter—Firm; receipts. 10,823: creamery ex
tra, 45 %c; special market, 45%®E46%c; imita
tion creamery, firsts, 3G'o4sc; state dairy, tubs,
32%«138%c.
Egga—Firm; receipts, 16.883; near-by white
fancy, 57®t60c; near-by mixed fancy,
fresh firsts, 39«549c.
JOHN F. CLARK 4 CO.’S COTTON LETTSR
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. B.—Yesterday's decline,
although mostly in the nature of a reaction,
after several days of an excited advance, easier
technical conditions, increased hedge selling
against crops, was nevertheless forced also
along by unwarranted rain from the west. Many
believed that wire interruption with Texas
meant that the storm went into that state. This
miymneeption was cleared awaya this morning.
The storm spent itself largely on the Louisiana
side of the Sabine river and brought no relief
to Texas. Detailed news from western Louis
iana, however, shows that there was material
damage to the cotton crop there. Welsh, La.,
saj* plants distorted, stripped of leaves and
bollls, some farmers will have to look for work
elsewhere.
Maap this morning shows the weathen situa
tion over the cotton belt about unchanged and
the drouth and heat spell over the west unbro
ken and continuing. Some scattered showers,
fell in Arkansas, Tennessee and Florida. Indi
cations point to generally fair in the western’
belt except that there might be a little precipi
tation in northwest Oklahoma, increasing cloudi
ness in the central and eastern belt with a
change to showery weather over the northeastern
quarter of the belt.
A reliable report from west Tennessee says
our crop outlook has lost at least 25 per cent
In the past two weeks from drouth and heat.
Our market opened 7 to 15 lower, mainly on the
lower Liverpool and declined further on the low
opening in New York. Easier technical condi
tions and increased hedge selling against crops
were the principal bear arguments for selliug
but in the face of such a weather situation and
continued decline in crop prospects, bearish con
trol of the market can hardly last very long.
The semi-monthly condition forecasts are likely
to show several points further loss in condition
for the belt and a heavy loss in Texas and Ok
lahoma.
The market gained a sold-out appearance in
the second hcur and advanced sharply on the
detailed government records for the west show
ing that yesterday’s rain news from Teaas was
untrue. Paris. Tex., had only one-hundredth of
au inch.
50 Policemen Halt
Open Air Meeting
Os Suffrage Party
WASHINGTON. Aug. 7.—Fifty police
men halted an open-air meeting of the
National Woman's Suffrage party in La
fayette square, opposite the White
House this afternoon, when they for
cibly prohibited more than fifty women
from speaking from the base of the La
fayette statue.
Cure, the hommage of my respect..
E. EVRAUD, Doyen.
"Brussels, January 9.” .
The cures’ thereupon read the let
ter again the following Sunday and
it was not Icng before the world
was reading it. It intensified and
stiffened that moral resistance
which on the. part of the Belgians
had never waneed or slackened.
During that discussion between
the cardinal and Baron von der
Lancken this telegram, addressed
’’Cardinal Mercier, Brussels,” came
from the Associated Press in Amer
ica:
"Is it true that you have been ar
rested and are now a prisoner?”
To this telegram the cardinal pre
pared a reply, saying:
"Some of my priests have been
arrested because of the litter I
wrote; others have been mtnaced
with threats of prison and depor
tation to Germany, while others
have been fined. As for me, they
have done nothing more than to
forbid me to leave my palace.”
The reply did not go over the
German wire.
The next day there came an offi
cer saying that since the incident
was closed it was desired that the
cardinal modify the telegram, and
he wrote one which, in effect, said:
"You will understand that in the
circumstances in which .1 am
placed it is difficult for me to re
ply to your telegram. Please ac
knowledge receipt of this.”
But the cardinal never received a
response.
(Continued Next Issue)
f 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.)
PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES i
OF FOOD STUFFS GIVEN
Production of Winter and.
Spring Wheat Will Total
878,000,000 Bushels
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.- Production
of winter wheat this year was announc- ■
ed by the department of agriculture to- !
day in its preliminary estimate at 556,- ;
000,000 bushels.
Spring wheat production was foreoast
aL 322,009,000 bushels from July 1 con
ditions.
Production of all wheat was estimat
ed at 878,000,000 bushels.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. —Corn prod- ,
uction was forecast at 2,989,000,000 |
bushels from August conditions. Other |
forecasts of production based on the
August canvass were announced as fol- I
lows: Oats, 1,428,000,900 bushels; bar- i
ley, 232,000,000; rye, 76,700,000. (Pre- I
liminary estimate.)
Buckwheat, 20,600,000 bushels; white
potatoes. 391,000,000; sweet potatoes,
84,500,000; tobacco, 1,228,000,000 pounds; i
flax, 64,800,0; rice, 41,60.000; hay, 99,-!
300,000 tons; sugar beets, 6,360,000 tons; ■
apples, 199,000,000 bushels; peaches, 49,- j
900,009 bushels.
The condition of the crops on August
1 was announced as follows:
Spring wheat. 79.6; corn, 78.5; oats,
82.8; barley, 82.0: buckwheat, 88.6; '
white potatoes, 79.9; sweet potatoes, |
78.3; tobacco, 83.6: flax, 70.6; rice, 85.7;'
hay, 82.3; sugar beets, 88.6.
The preliminary estimate of winter i
wheat production by principal states 1
(in thousands of bushels, I. e., 000's
omitted) follows:
Ohio, 38,722; Indiana, 54,999; Illinois, |
54,266; Missouri. 18,591; Nebraska. 35,- ;
262; Kansas, 92,878; Oklahoma, 32,638.
Condition of corn on August 1 by
principal states follows:
Ohio, 79; Indiana, 83; Illinois, 84;
lowa, 95; Missouri, 72; Nebraska, 86;
Texas, 50.
Condition of spring wheat by states:
Minnesota, 95; North Dakota, 73;
South Dakota, 98; Washington, 55.
Loss of 170,000,000 bushels of corn and
13,000,000 bushels of wheat from the
prospective production of this year’s
important food crops as indicated a
month ago was shown today in the de-'
partment of agriculture’s crop report
resulting from a canvass made Au
gust 1.
Corn and wheat are bumper crops this
year, .despite adverse weather conditions ;
which have curtailed somewhat the
heavy production indicated earlier in
the growing season.
[ATLANTA MARKETS!
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ATLANTA. Ga., Aug. B.—Cotton by wagon,
steady, 31.55 c.
SALT
Salt —Brick, medicated, per case. $7.50; do.
plain, per crate, $4.59; White Rock, per cwt.,
$1.50; Jack Frost. 25 3-lb. packages, $1.25;
Oxone, case, 25 2-lb. packages, $1.00; blocka.
50 pounds, 60c.
CEREALS
Purity oats, 18s, round, $2,00; 30s, round,
$3.90; 12 family size, $3.10; Purity grits, 245,
round, $2.75; 10s, ru-und, $2.90; regular Pos- i
turn, large, $2.25; assorted. $2.50: small, $2.70;
instant Postuiu, large, $4.50; assorted, 55.00; 1
small, $5.40; Grape-Nuts. 15c size. $2.85; indi-
Vidnal size, $2.00; Post Toasties. $1.10; indi
vidual size, $2 09
CANDIES
Kennesaw stick eandy,. in barrels. 20c per
pound; small chocolate drops in 3U-pound pails,
24c per pound; Stone Mountain chocolate drops
in 30 pound pails, 23e per pound; Bonbon mix
ture in 30-pound pails, 22c per pound; Fulton
mixture in 35-pound cases, lie per pound;
Honeycomb taffy in 20-pOund cases, 21%c per i
pound; broken taffy in. boxes, 21c per pound; I
bonanza assortments, $11,115 each.
MEAT, LAKD AND HAMS
Dry salt extra ribs, 27c; dry salt rib bellies,
medium to average, 2sc; dry salt rib bellies,
light, average, 28c; Cudahy's Puritan brand
hams, 32c; Cudahy's Rex hams, 31c; Cudahy's
sandwich boiled bams, 42c; Cudahy's Puritan
lard, tierce basis, 2»c; Cudahy's Rex lard,
27%c; Cudahy's White Ribbon compound, 23%c
pec pound.
Cornfield hams, average, 33c;
Cornfield hams. 12-14 pound average, 33c; Corn!
fold skinned hams. 16-Jlt-pound average, 35c;
Cornfield picnic hams, 6-S pound average, 25c;
Cornfield breakfast bacon. 48c; Cornfield sliced
baqon, 1-pound boxes, 12 to case. 55c; Grocers’
bacon, wide or narrow, 38c; Cornfield pork sau
sage, link or bulk, 22cy Cornfield wieners, in
10 pound cartons, 21c; Cornfield bologna sau
sage, in 25-lb. boxes, 20c; Cornfield smoke link
sausage, in 25-lb. boxes, 19c; 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 c-watpuny piain meal. 96
pounds. $2.02; 48 pounds, $2.u4; 24 to 12 pounds,
$2.07.
Mackerel—U-Kno-lt, 5%-6-ounce, 190 count,
out; Leader, 7-ounce, 109 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,
targe. $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, 47%c; roast beef, $5.25;
corned beef, $5.25; tripe, $3.30; C. B. hash,
$1.55; hamberger, steak and onions, $1.55; veal
loaf, $2.40.
Coffee —Blue Ridge brand, roasted, 15c; Wall
orand. 5@5%c; A AAA. 15c; Uno, 25c.
Rice—Japs, s®6c; Honduras, medium head,
3%@4%c; Arkansas fancy head, 6®6%e.
Beans —California blackeyes, $19,59; pink.
$9.50; limas, $14.50; small whites, $14.00;
Michigan choice. $16.00.
LIVE STOCK BY WIRE
CHICAGO, Aug. 8. —Hogs, receipts,
16,000; market 10c to 15c higher on
good grades, slow on others; pig pack
ers doing very little; top, $20.05; butch
ers, $19.25 @20.00; light, $ 19.40 @ 20.05;
packing, $ 18.20@ 19.10; rough. $17.75@
18.10; bulk of sales, $18.40@ 20.00; pigs,
good and choice, slß.oo@ 18.60.
Cattle, receipts, 10,000; market very
slow except on best grades; calves,
steady.
Sheep, receitps, 16.000; market opened
steady to strong; some packers bidding
lower; feeders and breeders, strong to
higher.
EAST ST. LOUIS. 111., Aug. B.—Cattle—Re
ceipts. 12,000. including no Texans: market
slow; native beef steers, 511.50iWi18.25;
yearling steers and heifers. $n.50"<715.50; cows,
57.59'W 12.50; stockers and feeders,
12.00; calves. s7.7s<’a 14.00; Texas steers, $16.00
®17.70; cows and heifers, $7.50. r 15.00.
Hf-gs Receipts, 9,000; market steady; mixed
ami butchers, sl».ss*i;TJ.!»r>: good ami heavy. '
$19.754710.90; rough, $18.00» 18.25: light. $19.70
@19.95; pigs, $18.254719.25; bulk. $19.654719.90.
Sheep—-Receipts. 2,5(10; market sternly:
clipped ewes, $11.004712.00; lambs, $14.00®;
17.00; cannerw and choppers. $C.004r9.00.
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET
Close
January
February 8.83W8.84
March 8.90® 8.92
April 8.95@8.!*9
Mar ».0.Vu9.09
jure 9.12419.14
July 9.194J9.20
August
September 8.3947.5.41 ■
October 8.4947'8.50 I
November 8.50478.00 <
December S.GS@S.7O j
Don’t Let Catarrh Drag
You into Consumption
Avoid Its Dangerous Stage.
There is a more serious stage of Ca- ,
tarrh than the annoyance caused by the
stopped-up air passages, and the hawk- i
ing and spitting and other distasteful [
features.
The real danger comes from the ten- i
dency of the disease to continue its
course downward until the lungs be
come affected, and then dreaded con
sumption is on your path. Your own
Cotton
\ NEW YORK, Aug. B.—There was a renewal
, of yesterday’s selliug movement at the opening
jof the cotton market today. The map showed
I some rain at Amarillo, Tex., with light precipi
, tation in Oklahoma, and selling was stimulated
by the hope of showers and lower tenq>eratures.
At the initial decline of some 30 to 59 points,
• however, offerings were well absorbed, and nil
; lies followed on crop deterioration reports from
■ Georgia and parts of Texas. October contracts
sold up from 27.50 c to 27.90 c, and January from
; 27.15 cto 27.43 c before the end ot the first
I hour, or hack to within 15 or 20 points of Just
i night's closing figures.
NDyfrK- did not '.;;vome partlcuKTty'
active or general, but offerings were
light and a favorable view of the war
news helped to steady the early after
noon market. October contracts sold high
as 28.50 and January 28.11, making ad
j vances of approximately a cent a pound
i from the low level of the morning and
'of 39 to 56 points from the closing
i prices of last night.
j The official forecast for generally fair
] weather in Texas was a disappointment
: to early sellers and covering was fur
. ther stimulated by the detailed weather
1 rej’-art for the Houston district showing
showers at only five stations with tem
. peratures of 100 degrees or over at
| twenty-five stations. Business was not
: active or general, but offerings were
light with prices working about 28 to
■ 30 points net higher during the middle
• of the day, with October at 28.30 and
I January at 27.85.
NEW YORK COTTON
The following were the ruling prices in the
: exchange today;
1 Tone, stsad?.
Last Trev.
open. High. Ixtw. Sale. Close. Close.
• Jan 27.15 28.18 27.15 27.85 27.85 27.55
; Feb 27.80 27.51
Marell ... 27.20 28.00 27.05 27 80 27.80 27.51
I April 27-51
j May 27.10 28.00 27.10 28.00 27.80 27.51
‘ August 28.15 27.96
Sept 28.30 . ...
Oct 27.75 25.62 27.52 28.30 28.30 25.11
y vV 28.06 27.74
Dec 27.15 28.25 27.15 27.98 27.96 27.64
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. B.—The reactionary
tendency persisted in cotton today and in the
first half hour of trading prices lost 26 to 36
points. Selliug was stimulated by reports of
new bales in Alabama and in districts well up
into the central portions of the belt.
Rumors of fresh entente successes changed
completely the temper of the market. Heavy
buying developed on which the early losses wore
recovered and replaced by a stiff advance,
which, toward noon, amounted to 41 to 44
points compared with yesterday’s final prices.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
The following were the ruling prices in the
exchange today:
Tone, steady; middling. 28.75 c. steady,
I-ast Trev.
Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close.
,Ir.n 26.48 27.19 26.45 27.07 27.07 26.75
March .... 26.67 27.27 26.60 26.95 27.13 26.86
May 27.15 26.84
Aug. 28.60 23.60 28.60 28.60 28.20 28.17
j Sept 28.00 27.83
Cct 27.00 27.60 26.74 27.30 27.23 27.07
Dec 26.57 27.30 26.39 27.01 27.00 26.75
New Orleans Spot Cotton
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. B.—Spot cotton
quiet and unchanged; sales on the spot
284 bales; to arive, 88. Low middling,
25c; middling, 28.75; good middling,
30.75. Receipts, 671; stock. 280,492.
The market retained its firmness, ’ In
the trading up to 1 o’clock the advance
was widened to 41 to 55 points net.
SPOT COTTON MARKET
Atlanta, steady. 31.55 c.
New York, quiet. 31.15 c.
New Orleans, steady, 28.75 c.
Augusta, steady. 29.75 c.
Memphis, steady. 30c.
Charleston, steady. 29c.
Montgomery, steady, 29.50 c.
Boston, steady, 32.85 c.
Philadelphia, steady, 31.40 c.
Norfolk, steady, 30.50 c.
| Galveston, steady. 29c.
Mobile, steady, 28.50 c.
Little Rock, steady, 29.50 c.
Dalias, steady, 28.35 c.
Savannah, steady, 29.50 c.
St. Louis, steady. 30.50 c.
Houston, steady. 28.65 c.
ATLANTA SPOT COTTON
Atlanta spot cotton 31.55 c
Sales 200
Receipts None
Shipments 375
Stocks 18,755
COMPARATIVE PORT RECEIPTS
Last Year. Today.
Galveston 1,966 781
New Orlaens 174 671
Mobile 55 426
Savannah 1.484 1.787
Charleston 485 62
Wilmington 50 62
Norfolk 860 4
New Ycrk 202
Boston 542 222
Total at all ports 5,616 4,156
DAILY INTERIOR RECEIPTS
Last Year. Today.
Augusta -02 6
Memphis 878 439
St. Louis 1.958 1.580
Cincinnati 745 168
Houston 1.731 2.967
Little Rock 120 534
LIVERPOOL COTTON .
LIVERPOOL. Aug. B.—Cotton. spot quiet;
prices easier; good middling. 22.28; middling.
21.65; low middling. 21.13; good ordinary.
20.13: ordinary, 19.60; sales. 1.000 bales, in
cluding 500 American; receipts, none.
Futures closed barely steady. Angust. 21.48;
September. 21.08; October. 20.80; November.
20.59: December. 20.42.
Tone, barely steady; sales, 1,000; good mid
dling. 22.28 d.
Open Prev.
Range. 2 p.m. Close. Close.
August 21.54 21.40 21.48 21.94
September 21.16 21.03 21.08 21.58
October 20.87 20.66 20.80 21.29
November 20.67 20.46 20.59 21.09
December 20.51 20.35 20.42 20.92
AIJ.ANU.A CUXXOASEED iMOJUUdb MAKa*..
JULY— Bld. Asked.
Crude oil, prime basis 17%
Cotton seel meal, 7 per cent am- ’
motua 47.50
Cottonseed meal, 7 per cent
Georgia common point rate... ,47.50
Cottonseed hulls, loose .♦ 20.50 21.50
Cottonseed hulls, ssr kcd ........25.00 26.00
AUGUST—
Crude oil. prime basis 07% .....
Cottonseeu meal, 7 per eent
Georgia common point rate... 47.50
Cottcnseed hulls, loose 20.50 21.00
Cottonseed bullr, sacked 25.00 26.00
Linters, clean mill run 04% .00
COTTONSEED QUOTATIONS
Georgia common rate poluis >;o.oo<jj7s.ov
Cottonseed f. o. b. Atlanta s7o.oof*t7B 00
Last Year’s Cotton Crop
Value Over Two Billions
NEW ORLEANS. Aug. S.—The cotton crop
of the season ending July 31 last was the
most valuable ever grown, 'fie yield, including
seed, producing for the first time over two
trillions of dollars. H. G. Hester, in his an
nual statement as secretary of the New Or
leans cotton exchange, issued today, placed the
total valuation at $2,001,682,939. The com
mercial crop was valued at $1,667,788,939. the
seed accounting for the remainder of the total.
The average commercial value of cotton per
bale for the year was 5147.29. against $94.82
the season preceding, and $61.40 two years ago.
The total valuation of the crop of a year ago, i
including seed, was $1,412,860,035. and two i
years ago it was $958,200,000. "Values re- I
ceived have been the highest for the past 48
years.” the report states.
• experience has taught you that the dis
i ease cannot be cured by sprays, inhal
| ers. atomizers, jellies and other local
I applications.
S. S. S. has proven a most satisfactory
i remedy for Catarrh because it goes di
rect tn its source, and removes the
germs of the disease from the blood. Get
a bottle from your druggist today, and
I begin the only logical treatment that
gives real results. You can obtain
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by writing to Medical Director, 27 Swift
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yfIWM
(Continued from Last Issue)
THEY treated me most cordially and
w-ere intensely interested in the
brief account I gave them of my
adventures. Word was sent to the con
sul general and he immediately sent for
me. When I went in he shook hands
with me, greeting me very heartily ana
offered me a chair.
He then sat down, screwed a monocle
on his eye and viewed me from top to
toe. I could see that only good breed
ing kept him from laughing at the spec
tacle I presented. I could see he want
ed to laugh in the worst way.
“Go ahead and laugh!” I said. "You
can’t offend me the way I feel this
blessed daßl” and he needed no second
invitation. Incidentally it gave me a
chance to laugh at him, for I was about
as much amused as he was.
After he had laughed himself about
sick he got up and slapped me on the
back and invited me to tell him my sto-
•‘Lieutenarit," he said when I had con
cluded, “you can have anything you
want. I think your experience entitles
you to it.”
•‘Well, Consul,” I replied, “I would like
a bath, a shave, a haircut and some civil
ized clothes about as badly as a man
ever needed therfi, I suppose, but before
that I would like to get a cable off to
America to my mother telling her that
I am safe and on my way to England!”
Instructions
The consul gave the necessary instruc
tions and I had the satisfaction of know
ing before 1 left the office that the ca
ble, with its good tidings, was on its
way to America.
Then he sent for one of the naval men
who had been interned there since the
beginning of the war and who was able
to speak Dutch and told him to take
good care of me.
After I had been bathed and shaved
and had a haircut I bought some new
clothes and had something to eat, and
I felt like a new man.
As I walked through the streets of
Rotterdam breathing the air of freedom
again and realizing that there was no
longer any danger of being captured and
taken back to prison, it was a wonder
ful sensation.
I don’t believe there will ever be a
country that will appear in my eyes
quite as good as Holland did then. I had
to be somewhat careful, however, be
cause Holland was full of German spies
and I knew they would be keen to learn
all they possibly could about my es
cape and my adventures so that the au
thorities in Belgium could out
punishment to everyone who was in any
respect to blame for it. As I was :n
Rotterdam only a day they didn’t have
very much opportunity to learn any
thing from me.
The naval officer who accompanied me
and acted as interpreter for me intro
duced me to many other soldiers and
sailors who had escaped from Belgium
when the Germans took Antwerp, and
as they had arrived in Holland in uni
form and under arms, the laws of neu
trality compelled their internment r.nd
they had been there ever since.
The Lives of Those Interned
The life of a man who is interned in
a neutral country, I learned, is anything
but satisfactory. He gets one montn
a year to visit his home. If he lives in
England that is not so bad, but if he
happens to live further away, the time
he has to spend with his folks is very
short, as the month’s leave does not take
into consideration the time consumed
in traveling to and from Holland.
The possibility of escape from inter
ment is always there, but the British
authorities have an agreement with the
Dutch government to send refugees
back immediately. In this respect,
therefore, the position of a man who is
interned is worse than that of a pris
oner who, if he does succeed in making
his escape, is naturally received with
open arms in his native land. Apart
from this restraint, however, intern
ment, with all its drawbacks, is a thou
sand times, yes, a million times, better
than being a prisoner of war in Ger
many.
It seems to me that when the war is
over and the men who have been im
prisoned tn Germany return home, they
should be given a bigger and greater
reception than the most victorious army
that ever marched into a city, for hey
will have suffered and gone through
more than the world will ever be able
to understand.
No doubt you will find in the German
prison camps one or two faint-hearted
Individuals with a pronounced yellow
streak who voluntarily gave up the
struggle and gave up their liberty rath
er than risk their lives or limbs.* These
sad cases, however, are, I am sure, ex
tremely few.
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a thousand of the men lighting in the
allied lines would rather be in the front
line trenches, fighting every day, with
all the horrors and all the -isks, than
be a prisoner of war in Germany, for
the men in France have a very keen
realization of what that means.
But to return to my day £k
After I was fixed up I returned to
the consulate, and ajrxsng’ements were
made for mv transportation to England
at once. Fortunately there was a boat
leaving that very night, and I was al
lowed to take passage on it. •
Just as we were leaving Rotterdam
the boat 1 was on rammed our own con
voy, one of the destroyers, and injured
it so badly that it had to be put back to
port. It would have been a strange
climax to my adventure rs the disaster
had resulted in the sinking of my boat
and I had lost my life while on my way
to England after having successfully
outwitted the Huns.
But. my luck was with me to the last,
and while the acciden’ resulted in some
delay, our boat was not seriously dam
aged and made the trip over in schedule
time and without further incident, an
other destroyer having been assigned to
escort us through the danger zone in
place of the one which we had put out
of commission.
When I arrived in London the reac
tion from the strain I had been under
for nearly three months immediately
became apparent. My nerves were in
such a state that it was absolutely im
possible foi me to cross the street with
out being in deadly fear of being run
over or trampled on.
(Continued Next Issue)
TWO ATLANTIANS IN
THURSDAY CASUALTY
LISTS OF NEARLY 500
(Continued from Page 1)
William M. Trent, R. F. D. 2. Anderson
ville. Va.; Charles F. Gomez, 406 Cramp
ton street, Tampa, Fla.
Died of Wounds in Action
Private Clement R. Bontemps, Bay St.
Louis, Miss.
Wounded in Action Severely
Trumpeter Murray E. Hart Danville
Virginia.
Privates Horace H. Sharp Colbert
Ga.; John R. Bassett, Blakes, Va.
Southerners in Two Lists
Given Out Late Wednesday
WASHINGTON, Aug. B.—Southerners
included in two army casualty lists is
sued late Wednesday follow:
Killed in Action
Lieutenant D. E. Monroe, Marion, S. C.
Sergeant Nelson, Fort O£fl en, Fla.
Corporal Claude B. Hickman. Waver
ly, Tenn.
Privates Ralph J. Walker, Cowpens,
S. C.; Lee Adams, Troutdale, Va.
Died of Wounds
Sergeant Ernest H. Weaver, Glen
wood, Ark.
Wounded Severely
Lieutenant George William Coke,
Bristol. Va.
Corporal Ernest H. Mann, Ruleville,
Mississippi.
Private Elmo F. Rodenberger, White
Castle, La.
Missing in Action
Lieutenant George H. Ratterman, 2012
Terrace place, Nashville, Tenn.
The lists have a total of 143 names*
classified as follows:
Killed in action, 36.
Died of wounds, 1.
Died of disease, 1. ,
Died of accident and other causes. 21.
Missing in action, 8. .
Wounded severely, 66.
Wounded, degree undetermined, 10.
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ago off the American coast, struck a
mine, Secretary Daniels announced to
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