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6 The Truth About Belgium :■: BY BRAND WHITLOCK (Continued from Lut liiui) “The Oravw of Twmob" Thia vast and complicated engine of oppression and of terror was in cessantly. tirelessly hunting down patriots, seeking out evidence for prosecution for what the Germans, by a very peculiar logic, impossible simply by charging him with trea son in time of war. Anyone, if tt be ao desired, may be convicted of treason against Germany, no mat ter what bis nationality may be. dmply by charging him with trea son in time of war. Hundreds of graves wnere Belgians lie testify to the fact When this was not the object sought, they were gathering information for the purpose of draining the resources and ruining the industries of the country. The Komtnandantaur and the secret po lice formed a section of the cen tral military branch of the govern ment, and they were by far its roost powerful arm. The whole organization of Das General Gouvernement is exceeding ly difficult for anyone of Anglo- Saxon or Latin culture and temper ament to understand. One hears much expansive admiration of the German genius for organising, but it comes for the most part from those who have never had actual experience of German organization. . Perhaps it is because there is so much of it; because it is so col lossal. It is in many ways effiicient. no doubt—they get certain things done; but then so do the French, who seem to have so little organi zation and are so clever In impro visation. But the vast, elephantine deliberation of German organization would drive an American captain of industry mad tn a fortnight. It i s heavy, cumbersome: its compli cated machinery rumbles on and on, remorselessly., and once set in mo tion there is no pray of stopping it, of turning it aside, of adapting it to sudden exigencies. It is blindly impersonal, inhuman, taking no ac count of persons or of the personal equation Wherever it touches hu man beings it consists of a multi tude of regulations, of “Verbotens.” Instead of a few simple guide-posts to point the way through a wilder ness. the Germans would pu| up myriad sign-boards telling the trav eler where not to go; instead of barking a few trees to blaze the trail, they would back all the trees in the forest except those * along the way they wished to indicate. That, indeed, is what they did in the park there in the center of Brussels, which they took from the people and closed in for their own officers. Standing at the east en trance in the Rue Ducale. near the Rue Brtalmont. one morning I counted twenty-six sign boards of many colors, with their various "verbotens." Before the war. the only signs that I recall were those reminding the public that certain places were reserved for the chil dren to play tn. But then the Bel gians had learned liberty in their communal system, and had their own pride in their own park. In the German system there is no room tor liberty or initiative or imagination. The nation is organ ized like a penitentiary, with the lock-step. And the difference be tween the German system and the Belgian or the English or the French or the American, is that which is expressed so clearly in the famour illustration of Tolstoy—the man in the boat who steers by landmarks along the coast and the man who steers by the compass: the one hugs the shore, the other goes forth and roves the seven seas. Our dealings. fortunately, were with the civil government. We found them usually much like the officials with whom one would have dealings anywhere. They were gen erally polite, affable, oftentimes anxious to please. They were rather slow, perhaps, and sometimes let ters referred from one department to another got caught in the cogs of the terrible machine and were lost for weeks, or forever. And there was away. which no doubt had its convenience, of sending one from pillar to post and from Peter to Paul, until one was lost In a hope less labyrinth. But what was horst of all. the machine stopped clanking sometimes, and the ex planation. given with a shrug of the shoulders, was very simple and expressed in two words, “les mili t-vires" (the military). Whenever “les militaires” <poke the machine stalled, the organisation was in stantly paralyzed. . . . There were thousards of these civil officials. 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UM Chlcag® I selves and their bewildering dockets and papers. And they Imported from Germany troops of German Boy Scouts. who wore hats life for esters, to run their errands for them. And these were not enough; they imported hundreds of women and girls and took over entire ho tels to house them. The salaries of all these functionaries were enor mous—and all paid out of the con tributions wrung from the Belgians!, Supreme Authority The supreme authority and the source of all power and privilege was the Governor General, delegated by the Emperor as his personal rep resentative and responsible to him alone. He wielded all political au thority (stallage wait), as chief of the government of occupation. The extent of his powers depended en tirely and exclusively upon the im perial will. The kaiser, in his role of war lord, had. within the limits of international law and interna tional convention, an absolute right, emanating from military force, in the conquered territories. This pow power for occupied Bolgiurq, * as delegated to the governor general. At Berlin neither reichstag, bund esrath or Foreign office had any power of him; his decrees requir ed no countersign or attestatiqp; his will was supreme. In other words, he was a dictator. As to offenses committed against the German state and the German army (which is the German state), he had the power of life and death; and yet. If there were no legal restrictions to his powers save ag the approbation of the kaiser was necessary to them, he was nevertheless subject to the ambient military influence; the pre judices, the opinions, the whims of the military caste. The aged Von der Goltz, who was there so short a time (the gossips say that he was intended for the post of governor general -of France when the Ger mans reached Paris, and that when the battle of the Marne dissolved that dream he was assigned to Brus sels) was not so ferocious a man as the world has painted Vou Bissing, and von Bissing was not so feroci ous as he is generally represented His name bears the odium of all that was done in Belgium, and sine® he was ultimately responsible no formal injustice perhaps is thereby done him; but he was not always in favor of what was done, and much was done even by him that was against his judgment. Like all executives, he was the victim of his environment; the slave of the system that had produced him. Be hind him was the formidable and powerful military machine, from whose occult influence he could not escape. And as in the case of sll arbitrary and autocratic rulers, while untrammeled by laws and principles and courts, he was sur rounded by cliques, constantly dis puting the possession of him, and pulled and hauled, swayed this way and that by the jealous factions of his staff, he revealed himself now just and merciful: now unjust, cruel and Inflexible. There was always In his staff that endless dispute that goes on in Germany between the military and the civil factions. Old soldier even though he was by no means. I often thought that, since he was by no means a stupid or unenlightened man, his feelings inclined toward the clique of civil ians: but in any matter which the military clique considered vital they always had their way. as in Germany they seem always to do. Apportioning Power By decrees of the governor gen eral it was announced that the pow ers appertaining to the king of the Belgians would be exercised by the military governor general; that the powers appertaining to the provi sional governors in Belgium would be exercised by the military gover nors of the provinces and that the roles of commissioners of arron dissements would be filled by Kries chiefs. On February 5, 1915, Von Bissing issued a decree defining the powers of governors, of chefs of arrondissements, etc., in Article 9. of the decree stated that he reserved to himself the unlimited right to is sue such decrees, ordonnanees and orders and to take such repressive or disciplinary measures as he chose. On June 12, 1915. the governor gen eral indicated the jurisdiction of the German military tribunals. These courts-martial were stated to be competent, in conformity with the military penal code of the Ger man empire, to exercise criminal jurisdiction in cases of /‘treason in time of war," for all cases pun ishable by the law of the German empire and directed against Ger man troops or soldiers; for all in fringements of decrees of military authorities, including orders em anating from the local kommandant. and for all infringements of edicts issued by ' the governor general, provincial governors, governors of fortified places, the governor of Brussels, and the kommandants of Maubeuge and the camp of Bever loo. In the case of the later de crees. the authorities were stated THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1918. Cotton NEW YORK. Aug. 15.—Bullish private eondi tton figures and continued dry weather in tne southwest led to an opening advance of 6 to 21 points in the cotton market today. There was considerable realizing at the initial figures and moderate reactions after the call, but the mar ket firmed up again after the publication of the western belt forecast, with October selling at 30.75 c and January at 30e, or 18 to 26 points net higher. A private crop report made the condition 67.2, against 78.8 toward the end of last month. There was some southern selling as well ns realizing on the early advance and the market reacted to 30.40 c for October and 29.70 for Jan uary late in the forenoon, or about 7 to 12 points net lower, and 30 to 33 points from the early high level. The market was steadied at this level by tbe failure of the detailed weather report to show anything more than a few • further light showers, but bulges were barely maintained and trading was comparatively quiet around midday. « No fresh feature develcped during the early afternoon and prices sagged off under com paratively small offerings, with Oc.vber selling at 30.26, and January at 20.59. around 2 o'clock, or about 21 to 22 points net lower. NEW YORK COTTON Tbe following were tbe ruling prices In tbe exchange today: Tone, steady: middling, 33.35 c; quiet. Last Tree. Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close. January... 29.90 60 05 29.58 29.83 29.83 29.82 February 29.79 March 30.00 30.00 29.55 29 90 29.80 29.77. April 5® .80 May 29.97 29.97 29.76 29.83 29.79 2p.77 August 29.35 30.28 September 29.47 30.37 October... 30.50 30.73 20.26 30.47 30.47 30.47 November 29.95 December.. 29.90 30.14 29.63 29.96 29.95 29.85 NEW ORLEANS COTTON NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 15. —Reports of some what more liberal spot offerings from tbe in terior caused a drop of 4 to 10 points around the opening of the cotton market today. The demand Increased on tbs decline, coming appar ently from traders who were disappointed over the failure of tbe weatier man Io slii’V rair-s In Texas. At the en 1 'f *be first m.f aour of trading prices were *1 to 15 points over yes terday's close. '• Hedge selling against the new crop increased offerings and encouraged abort sales. In tne trading np to noon prices went 17 to 34 points below yesterday’s finals. Reports tha the war risk-rate had been in creased to 3 per cent increased the selling and at 1 o'clock prices stood at a net decline of 21 to 34, points. NEW ORLEANS COTTON Tbe following were the ruling prices in the exchange today: Tone, steady: middling, 29.50 c; steady. Last Prey. Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close. January... 29.12 29.22 28.88 29.22 29.16 29.00 March 29.15 29.23 28.95 28.96 29.23 29.15 May 29.14 August 30.35 30.00 September 29.82 October.... 29 30 29.47 29.00 29.32 29.32 29.34 December.. 28.95 29.15 28.75 29.05 29.05 29.00 NEW ORLEANS SPOT COTTON NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 15.—Spot cottons teady. quotations revised; middling, unchanged; sales on the spot, 378 bales; to arrive none; low middling. 25.75; middling. 29.50; good mid dling. 31.50; receipts, 406; stock 249.986. SPOT COTTON MARKET Atlanta, steady, 31.80 c. New York, qniet, 33.35 c. New Orleans, steady. 29.50 c. Augusta, steady. 30.50 c. Memphis, steady," 30c. Charleston, steady, 29e. e z Montgomery, steady, 30c. Boston, steady, 33.40 c. Philadelyhia, steady. 33.60 c. Norfolk, steady, 30.50 c. Galveston, steady, 31c. Mobile, steady. 29.25 c. Little Rock steady. 30.50 c. Dallas, steady. 30.60 c. Savannah, steady, 30.50 c. St. Louis, steady. 31c. Houston, steady. 31.25 c. ATLANTA SPOT COTTON Atlanta spot cotton 31.80 c Sales , Receipts Shipments __ Stocks 18.378 ATLANTA COTTONSEED PRODUCTS MARKET JULY— * • Bid. Asked. Crude oil, uritne basis 17% Cottonseed 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 Cottonseed hulls, sacked 25.00 26.00 AUGUST— Crude oil. prime basis 7% Cottonseed meal, 7 per cent Georgia common point rate ....47.50 Cottonseed hulls, loose ;20.50 21.00 Cottonseed bulls, sacked 25.00 26.00 Linters clean mill run 04% .05 COTTON SEED QUOTATIONS Georgia, common rate poins Cotton seed f. o. b. Atlanta $70.<>0@78.00 COMPARATIVE PORT RECEIPTS Last Year. Today. Galveston 3,528 2,632 New Orleans .-. 617 406 Mobile 81 ...., Savannah 2.706 388 Charleston 2 Wilmington 5 .... Norfolk 1.751 226 New York 19 4 Boston 379 039 Philadelphia 165 .... Total all ports 9.232 4,687 DALLY INTERIOR RECEIPTS Last Yerr. Today. Augusta 35 88 Memphis 2,625 287 St. Loti* 472 370 Cincinnati 303 324 Houston 3,786 (3,738 Little Rock 78 937 to be entirely free in the choice of penalties to be applied. Thus were erected those engines of terror and oppression that set at nought every principle of right and justice and liberty that had been won for mankind by the struggles of the long centuries through which Latin and Anglo-Saxon civilization with such toil had been reared. They were expectional 'tribunals, organ ized to render ‘‘extraordinary” jus tice and to apply the German laws of war. They were veritable courts martial, sitting in the principal cities. In theory they were to try persons who had committed crimes against the German state or the German armj, but un der the almost illimitable pow ers given them by the decree cre ating them, they presumed to try and punish a thousand offenses that were not envisaged by criminal law or even by the German military pen al coda. They tried men for assault ing German secret agents in civilian garb, for harboring wounded soldiers of the allies, for preaching patriotic sermons, for peddling prohibited newspapers, for trying to cross the frontier into Holland, for aiding or permitting and even for not having prevented men to join the Belgian army, for distributing La Libre Bel gique, for helping “le mort du sol i dat" (word of the soldier, an organ ization that undertook merely to ob tain news as to the health of sol diers), for doing the goose-step, for “looking at a German woman inso lently in tbe street,” for whistling the “Lion of Flanders,” for refus ing to work for the German army, for refusing to continue the publica j tion of a newspaper. In one year ' over 600.000 persons were condemned I to pay fines, to prison, te hard labor, to deportation or to death. The most terrible of all these exceptional trib unals, perhaps, was the one that sat at Hasselt. (Continued Next Is me) (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.) (ATLANTA MARKETS' \, ATLANTA, Ga„ Aug. 15.—Cotton by wagon, firm, 31.80 c. SALT Salt—Brick, medicated, per caae, $7.50; do. plain, per crate, $4.50; White Koek. per cwt., $1.50; Jack Frost. 25 3 Ib. package*. $1.25; Ozone, case, 25 2-lb. packages, SI.OO, blocks, 50 pounds, 60c. CRACKERS Florida soda crackers, 17c per pound; Tear! eyster crackers, 17c per pound; lemon rounds. 18c per pound; cart wheels. 18c per pound; all 10c package crackers. 00c per dozen; all 20c packages, $1.75 per dozen; family tin i-risneltes. *8.25 per dozen. • FISH Pompano. senree, per pound, 25c; Spanish mackerel, per pound. 17c; trout, drawn, per pound. 18c; headless rec snapper, pound, 19c; bluefish, pound, 15c; whiting, per pound. 12%e; mango snapper, per pound, 12%c; mullet, per 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 tum, large, >2.25; assorted, $2.50; small, $2.70; instant Postum, Urge, $4.50; assorted, $5.00; small, $5.40; Grape-Nuts, 15c size, $2.85; indi vidual size. $2.00; Pest Toasties. $4.10; indi vidual 'size, $2 00. 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; Bonbon mix ture in 30-pound pails, 22c per pound: Fulton mixture in 35-pouml cases, lie per pound; Honeycomb taffy in 20-pound cases, 24 %c per pound; broken taffy in' boxes, 21c per pound; bonanza assortments, $11.25 each. 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, 31c; Cudahy’s sandwich boiled hams, 42c; Cudahy's Puritan lard, tierce basis, 29c: Cudahy's Rex lard, 27%e; Cudahy’s White Ribbon compound. 23%c 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 bams, G-8-pound average, 25c; Cornfield breakfast bacon, 48c; Cornfield sliced bacon, 1-pound boxes, 12 to case, 55c; Grocers' bacon, wide or narrow. 38c; Cornfield pork sau sage, link or bulk, 22c; 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 aipauy plain meal, 96 pounds. $2.02; 48 pounds, s2.vi; 24 to 12 pounds, >2.07. _ Mackerel —U-Kno-It, 5%-6-ounce, 190 count, out; Leader, 7-ounce, 100 count, out; Anchor, 8%-ounee. 60 count, $7.25; 75 count, $8.50; Crown, 9%-10-ounee, 60 connt, $7.50; 75 count, $9.00; Eureka. 13-14-ounce, 60 count, SIO.OO. 1 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, tn cartons, Homerun, $8.00; key, % mustards. Imperial, none; key, % mustards, in cartons, Gamecock, none. Meata—Potted meats, 47%c; roast beef. $5.25; corned beef, $5.25; tripe. $3.30; C. B. bash. $1.55; hamberger, steak and onions. $1.55; veal loaf, $2.40. Coffee—Blue Ridge brand, roasted. 15e; Wall orand, 5@5%c; AAAA, 15c; Uno. 25c, Rice—Japs, sij6c; Honduras, medium head, s%4ji4%c; Arkansas fancy bead. 6&6%c. Beans—California blackeyes, $10.50; pink, $9.50; limas, $14.50; small whites, $14.00; Michigan choice, $16.00. Atlanta Live Stock | / (Corrected by W. H. White, Jr., President of the White Prevision Company, United .States Food Administration. License No. G-21371.) Good to choice steers, 860 to 1.000 pounds, sll. *X)@12.50. Good steers. 750 to 850 pounds, 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 69.00. Good to choice heifers. 550 to 650 pounds, SB.OO @>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(119.00. t Medium to good cows, 600 to 700 pounds, sß.oo@ 9.00. Mixed common, $6.00@7.00, Good fat oxen, $3.5069.00. Medium to good oxen, $7.50@8.00. Good butcher bulls, $7.00@9.00. Choice veal calves, $8.50610.00. Yearlings, $6.5068.00. Prime hogs, 165 to 225 pounds. $16,256)16.75. Light hogs, 130 to 165 pounds, $16.000116.50. Heavy pigs, 100 to 130 pounds, $15.50(916.00. Light pigs, 80 to 100 pounds, Stags and roughs, $12.00@14.00. The above quotations apply to good quality mixed fed hogs. LIVE STOCK BY WIRE CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—Hogs—Receipts, 20,000; market steady; butchers, $18.90619.55; light, $19,000(19.75; packing, $17.750418.75; rough, $17.250417.75; bulk of sales. $18.0001'19.50; pigs, good and choice, $18.000118.50. Cattle— Receipts, 13,000; market very dull; bidding unevenly lower except on few best corn fed and canners; calves, 25c higher. Sheep—Receipts, 17,000; lambs, firm; choice wethers, $17.85; best natives, $18.00; sheep slow to lower. Commission Announces Rates for Compressing The railroad commissiotr of Georgia Thursday subscribed the following maximum rates to be charged by compress corporations or others op erating compresses, the new scale to become effective September 1: At interior points: Compression, re-compression or re-banding: (Standard Compression—For account shippers or carriers) 70c per bale (Plus 5c per band if more than 8 bands are used: This charge covers compression, re-com pression or rebanding and truckage to and from cars). Compression, re-compression or rebanding: (High Density Compression—For account ship pers or carriers 90c per bale (Plus 5c per band if more than 8 bands are used. This charge covers compression, re-com pression or re-banding, and truckage to and from ca.s). At the ports: Compression, re-com pression or re-bsnding: (Standard Compression—For account suiptiei > c carriers)) 80c per bale (Plus 5c per band if more than 8 bands are used. This charge covers compression, re-com pression or re-banding and lighterage nnd truck age in making delivery to ships or otherwise). Compression, re-compression or re-banding: (High Density Compression—For account ship pers or carriers) ..SI.OO per bale (Plus 5c per band if more than 8 bands are used. This charge covers compression, re-com pression or re-ban<iing, and lighterage and track age in making delivery to ships or otherwise). Watch Your Blood Supply, Don’t Let Impurities Creep In Pure Blood Means Perfect Health. The average druggist has handled hundreds of medicines in his day, some of which have long since been forgot ten. But there is one that has been sold by the druggists throughout this coun try. for more than fifty years, and that is S. S. S., the reliable blood medicine. 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Prices closed unsettled, %c off to l%c net higher with September $1.62 to $1.68% and October $1.62% to $1.62%. Firmness in oats resulted from tbe advance of corn. After opening %c off to %@% c high er, with September 68% to 68%c, the market scored light general gains. Business in provisions was of only a scat tered sort. Prices changes were unimportant. CHICAGO QUOTATIONS The following were the ruling prices in the exchange today: Prev. Open. High. Low. Close. Close. CORN— Aug.. 159%@159% 161% 159% 160% 159% Sept.. 161%@160% 162% 160% 162 161% Oct... 162% @162% 163% 162% 163% 162% • OATS— August 68% 68% 68 68% 68 Sept.... 68%©68% ’ 69% 68% 69% 68% bet 69%©C9% 70% 69% 70% «9% PORK— September 44.00 44.00 October 44.35 44.35 44.30 44.30 44.35 LARD— September a ..... 26.82 26.75 October •• • 26.72 26.65 r.JBS— September... 24.65 24.72 24.70 24.67 October 24.80 24.87 24.80 24.85 24.80 RECEIPTS IN CHICAGO Today. Wheat 1,200 cars Corn 44 cars Oats 296 cars Hogs 20,000 head CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—Corn. No. 2 yellow, nom inal; No. 3 yellow, $1.85; No. 4 yellow, $l.B. Oats, No. 2 white. 65%Q69c; standard, 68% @69 %c. Rye. No. 2. $1.56%. Barley, 95c@51.03. Timothy. $6.00@9.00. Clover, nominal. Pork, nominal. Lard, $26.67. Ribs, $24.25@24.87. NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET NEW YORK. Aug. 15.—Flour, .dull and un settled. Lard, quiet, middle- west spot, $26.70fp16.80. I’crK, steady; mess, $49.00@49.50. bugar, raw, steady; centrifugal, 96-test, 6.055; refined, steady; cut loaf, 9.00; srnshed, 8.75; powdered. 7.65, granulated. 7.50. Coffee, Rio No. 7.- ou spot. B%c. Tallow, specials, 18%c; city, 17%e. Hay, firm; No. I. $1.55(81.60; No. 3. >1.30 @1.35; clover. $1 20@1.45. Dressed poultry, easy; chickpns, 35 @ 59c; fowls, 24@35c; ducks, 36c. Live poultry, firm; geese, 20c; ducks, 27@ 10c; fowls. 34@36c; turkeys. 28(j30e; roosteis, 32c: chickens, broilers, 30@39c. Cheese, firing state milk, common to si« cials. 21 ©26c; akiins, common to specials, 5@ 2t)%c Butter—Steady; receipts, 7,507; creamery, ex tra. 45%c; creamery, special market, 46%c; imitation creamer?-, firsts, 38@45%c; state dairy, tubs, 38%@42c. Eggs—Firm; receipts, 14,243; near-by white fancy, 60@62c; near-by mixed fancy, 38@48c; fresh firsts,. 40@48c. CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—Butter —Creamery ex tras, 44%e; creamery standards, 48%c; firsts, 396@43%c; seconds, 39@41c. Eggs—Ordinaries, 35%@36%c; firsts, 37@38c. Cheese —Twins, 24%@25c; Young Americas, 26@26%c. Live Poultry—Fowls, 27@29%c; ducks, 25c; geese, 16c; springs, 30c; turkeys, 30c. Potatoes—Cars, 20; new springs. $2.15(82.35. LIVERPOOL COTTON Tone, steady; sales, 2,000; good midling, 23.63 d. Opening Prev. Range. Close. Close. August p 22.70 22.50 22.66 September 2.35 22.31 22.48 October 22.10 22.95 22.20 November 21.91 21.85 22.01 December 21.79 21.74 21.89 COTTON MARKET OPINIONS N. L. Carpewter A Co.: Looks as if tbe zenith has been reached in bull crop developments, and unless some very fivorable feature arises in the war zone cotton prices are high enough. Bond, McEnany & Co.: There is still hope that as new receipts increase the south will sell more freely and ease tbe price situation. However, until this naturally develops, we look for a firm market. Hayden. Stone A Co.: This season began with about 800,660 bales more lint cotton in the hands of spinners and in public storage places combined than last season. JOHN F. CLARK & CO. COTTON LETTER NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 15. —A decided change lias occurred overnight in the weather situa tion. The protective high pressure over the Atlantics has disappeared, raising the probabil ity of a material change in weather conditions. Only a few showers occurred so far in the west, but early records show no 100 degrees night records which may indicate the breaking of the heat spell in the west. However, unfavorable high night minimums are hsown over the east ern states. General indications are for a change to cloudy showery weather in the near future. Liverpool was about 10 lower than due on futures, but quotes spots 38 higher, sales 2.000 bales. General news was quieter, shewing a temporary susiiense, hut suggestions are not lacking encouraging the expectation of further good news soon from abroad. Our, market opened somewhat easier and re mained in a waiting attitude around last night's closing figures for some time. The pull, how ever seems still upward. The after-effect of yesterdya’s bullish week ly report, the absence of rain and high temper atures over the Atlantics, a stiff advance in Texas spot quotations and bullish drygoods re ports, provided a liberal demand for contracts which was barely offset by ralizing on the general idea that 30 cenrs is a debatable level at the outset of a season and better rain pros pects for the belt. * , There has been much shifting of hedges late ly between Liverpool and our markets and the working basis has improved so much that spot activity- is likely. Yesterday’s drygoods report says: “Cotton goods demand was large today,” indicating the effect of government crop reports on consumers views. The uncer tainty of price basis as Washington reports: “Cotton yarn prices have been fixed by the government.” Trading settled around 29.25 for October, to a waiting market for developments. NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET Close. January March » D ril Mav Angus? September 8.8»©8.40 October November , December that is purely vegetable. Many drug gists have seen wonderful results ac complished among their customers by this great old medicine, and they know that S. S. S. is one of the most reliable blood purifiers ever made. Keep your blood free of impurities by the use of this honest old medicine, and if you want medical advice, you can obtain same without cost by writing to Medical Director, Swift Specific Co., 28 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga. —(Advt.) ASSEMBLY ADJOURNS AFTER AN ALL-NIGHT FIGHT ON SCHOOLS (Continued from 1) made by members of the contending fac tions and exhortations to the cemmos school contingent to stand together were frequent. Lankford, of Toombs; Strick land, of Haralson, and McCrory, of Schley, were the leaders of the com mon school faction, while the conserva tive side was supported by Beck, of Car roll; Kimsey, of White; Ayers, Arnold, of Clay, and Akin. r Charges that the senate had “double crossed” the house and that it had de liberately sought to place the house in ar. embarrassing position in the eyes of the people were sounded during the heated debate. Just before the final vote was taken in the house, Mr. Ennis, of Baldwin, in an effort to compose the differences be tween the two branches, proposed a com promise of >3,700,000 for common schools, or >500,000 more than the fig ures originally fixed by the senate. This proposal failed to receive consideration, however, as the roll call disclosed the fact that the common school ranks had been broken. The senate passed the sine die ad journment resolution at 12:10 and "passed the buck” to thp The resolution was laid on the table in the house .cad efforts were continued to ef fefit a settlement by the conference com mittee. Fourth Committee Named When the third conference committee reported that it could not agree and the messenger announced that the senate had adjourned, the fourth committee was named, the house members being Culpepper, of Meriwether; Ayers, o£ Jackson, and Moore, while the senate conferees were Senators Carswell, Den ny anjd Kirby. An effort was to instruct the house conferees to stand for >4,000,000 for the common schools, but this action was not taken and the committee went to conference uninstru<:ted. Mr. Bur well, of Hancock, first appointed on the fourth committee, was objected tg by the common school faction on the ground that he had not voted for the $4,000,000 fund and, therefore, did not “reflect the mind of the house.”! Mr. Ayers was named in his place. At 3:10 a. m. the conference commit tee filed back into the hall, and Mr. Culpepper, as spokesman, made known the terms of the agreement, asking the house to ratify it, and pointing out that the governor had indicated his disap proval of any measure carrying more than that contemplated with the pro posed items included. Then followed the final debate, at the conclusioh of which came the record vote and the concur ’rence by the house in the conference report. The senate at its night session passed the amendment to the Veazy act provid ing for the better enforcement of that law. The Veazy law directed the grand jury investigation of eleemosynary in stitutions and the amendment makes It imperative on the grand juries to make such investigations. The bill of Representative Neill, of Muscogee, which provided for biennial sessions of the legislature to canvass tne returns and inaugurate the governor, was lost in the senate because it lacked three votes of the necessary two-thirds majority. The bill proposing to take out of the hands of judges the selection of jury commissioners and put this duty In the hands of the grand juries failed of pass age in the senate. School Moarure Lost The local school tax measure foun dered during the storm over the appro priation bill. The Davis bill, which pro vided for local school taxation with cer tain restrictions, had been passed by the house, but the, senate .passed it by substitute, insisting that tne Elders bill, providing for compulsory local school tax levy, be approved by the house. This the house refused to do and the senate's insistence left the bill hanging high and dry when the assembly adjourned. The measure officially recognizing the school of chiropractic in Georgia failed by a margin of two votes, while the measure restricting <he issuance of marriage licences also failed of passage after a hot fight. About a dozen bills were tabled during the final session, the house manifesting a desire to get rid of contested bills in the easiest manner possible. An item of $30,000 for the maintenance of the military department and another of >35,000 for the market bureau were agreed to as minor portions of the gen eral appropriation bill; the military fund having been cut from the original house figures of $120,000. The market bureau fund was made available for one year only. » The general salary increase measure went down to an over*!helming defeat, the bill being voted down item by item At the afternoon session probably the most important legislation passed by the house was the state warehouse system bill, which provides for a uniform sys tem of warehouse receipts. The semi-monthly pay bill, advocate! by the labor organizations, was de seated when it failed to secure 95 votes. 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Pat O’Brien (Continued from Last Issue) CMAPTHB XIX • I Am Presented to the King THEN the dreaded 7th of Decem ber arrived, I hailed a taxicab and in as matter-of-fact tone of voice as I could command, directed the chaeuffeur to drive to Buckingham palace, as though I was paying my reg ular morning call on the king. My friends’ version of this incident, I have aince heard, is that I seated my self in the taxi and leaning through the window, said: “Buckingham palace!'' whereupon the taxi driver got down, opened the door and exclaimed threat eningly: “If you don’t get out quickly and chuck your drunken talk, I’ll jolly quick « 11 a bobby, bli’ me, if I won’t!** But I can only give my word that nothing of the kind ocurred. When I atrivea at ’the palace ga’e. the sentry on guard asked me who I was and then let me pass at once up to tne front entrance of the palace. Decorated Personage There I was met by an elaborately uniformed and equallv elaborately dec orated personage, who, judging by the long row of medals he wore, must have seen long and distinguished service. I was relieved of my overcoat, hat an! stick and conducted up a long stairway, where I was turned over to another functionary, who led me to the recep : tion room of Earl Cromer, the king's secretary. There I was introduced to another earl and a duke, whose names I do not remember. I was becoming so bewil dered, in fact, that it is a wonder that I remember as much as I do off this eventful day. I had heard many times that before being presented to the king a man i 3 coached carefully as to just how he is to act and what he idl to say and do, and all this time I was wondering when this drilling would commence. I cer tainly had no idea that I was to be ushered into the august presence of the king without some preliminary instruc tion. Earl Cromer and the other noblemen talked to me for a while and got me to relate in brief the story of my.expe rience, and they appeared to be very much interested. Perhaps they did it only to give me confidence and as a sort of rehearsal for the main perform ance which was scheduled to take place much sooner than I expected. » I had barely completed my story when the door opened and an attend ant entered and announced: “The- king will receive Lieutenant O’Brien!” If he had announced that the kaiser was outside with a squad of German guards to take me back to Courtrai my heart could not have sunjt deeper. In the Presence of the King Earl Crorner beckoned me to follow him and jKe went into a large room where I supposed I was at last to re ceive my coaching, but I observed the earl bow to a man standing there and realized that I was. standing in the presence of the king of England! “Your majesty, Leftenant O'Brien!” the earl announced and then immedi ately backed from the room. I believed I would have followed right behind him 'but by that time tbe king had me by the hand and was congratulating me, and he spoke so very cordially and dem ocratically that he put me at my ease at once. He then asked me how I felt and whether I was in condition to con verse, and when I told hiqp I was, he said he would be very much pleased to hear my story in detail. “Were you treated any worse by the Germans. Leftenant,” he asked, on ac count of being an American? I’ve heard that th£ Germans had threatened to shoot Americans serving in the British army if they captured them, classing them as murderers because America was a neutral country and Americans had no right to mix in the war. Did you find that to be the case?” I told him that I had heard similar reports, butthat I did not notice any appreciable difference In my treatment from that accorded Britishers. 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