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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. They descended on
Brussels, immediately after the oc
cupation like a swarm of grasshop
pers They crowded all the min
istries. warminr all the chairs—old
bureaucrats and clerks, ronds de
cuir. hairy professors and special
ists. filling innumerable reams of
paper with their strange characters,
compiling figures and statistics and
reports—until the ministries were
not large enough to contain them
all. and thev had to seize whole
buildings wherein to Install them-
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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'
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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).
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CHICAGO. Aug. 15. —Notwithstanding that
further rains eased the corn market at the
opening today, prices soon scored a material ad
vance. Initial quotations, which varied from
the same as yesterday’s finish to %c lower,
with September $1.60% to $1.61%. and October
$1.62'4 to $1.62%, were followed by a decided
upturn all around.
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
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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.
It Was at the afternoon session that
the house agreed with the senate on
the following items of the general ap
propriation bill: $130,000 for the prison
department; >12,500 for the state chemi
cal laboratory.
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“Outwitting
The Hun”
The War’s Greatest Story
By Lieut. 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.
(Continued Next Issue)
Germans Fear General
Uprising in Bohemia
LONDON, Aug. 14.—Turmoil in Bo
hemia has resulted in the execution of
seventy-two Czech soldiers and whole
sale arrests in many raids, newspapers
of Munich and Dresden say, according
to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from,
Zurich. The Hungarian garrisons have
been reinforced and/arms are being con
fiscated. Public a£d private meetings
have been prohibited, and several news
papers suppressed while others are cen
sored.
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