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> TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 19ffr. 7 THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH CBTTBS1SETTIED Tho 5 tO •d fr compliant! on >m WashinSS tional bank ’ Currency. count of tt-.< Lumber. (Corrert*** by Maasee-Felton Lnm. Ca) "'rr.^'on Tramins at $16 to S2d per th" ard. LIVERPOOL spots closed...'. NEW YORK spots closed. NEW ORLEANS spots closed 6.03 ...11.00 • . 10 7-16 ?f!lr.s at $17.50 per thou THE LOCAL COTTON MARKET The Macon cotton market y - :'*rd tvas quiet and unchanged at the folio 1 ing quotations: Range of Prices Good Middling lf Ftrict Middling * **!.; Middling *I»i Strict Low Middling Spot Cotton Movement Feb. 16, 39f Feb. IS. 1007. R** Sept. 3. February Stock on Hand. United i call. arA iblA rtion of bom Siz-i fram'.rr at $*.7.50 to $22.50 per ] thousand. -r’ovrr. 5h*athlrg at $17 per thousand. No. 2 common flooring at $20.00 per thousand. No. common and. No. ! common flooring and colling at $25 r.<r thouaand- “B” rr f'tnar** edee 'v*‘ath*?r rcard- lrr: -»t 122 "0 rer thousand. No : common weather boarding at 571 per thousand. No. 2 pine shingles at $2.25 per thous and No. 1 pine shingles at $4.25 per thous and. • Nc». 1 cyprers shingles at $5.50 per THE COTTON EXCHANGE OF HEW TOP Liquors—Wholesale, is. cka today wt NEW YORK. NEW YORK. Feb. IS.—Ti ket way rath or nervous during today's market, o months’ liquidation. True active, however, and the steady at a net decline of the active old crop mopt unchanged to 2 points hlglter on positions. Sales for the day w mated at 125,000 bales. Tho market opened steady at ■, of 1h3 points anil riprlit worked up to a not ad Ia4 points, led by the no for -which there were for ders. Cable., made a pret big and rumors of sales stock may have helpet which was quickly check) the Houston estimate for reipts showing a Was followed b\ otton mar- Grain and Provision retty 'teady.show- ley from the local ped the advance. ck<?d on receipt of for tomorrow's re- y movement. This idation of March contracts through wire and commission houses, while there was some buying by spot Interests on a scale down, the <!••-, cllnc was continued until the March op tion sold at 9.15 and May at 9.23. or within 7 or 8 points of the low record for 1 the season. At this level the demand ! for March increased slightly, and during j the balance of the session the market was steadied by covering. There seemed to be little rallying pow- ‘ or in tho face of the largo movement, however, and the close was onlv 3 to t 1 points up from the lowest. Southern spot markets were unchanged to *4e. lower : and there were rumor- of an easier feel- I Ing by holders 0 f the lower grades in the j 3outh. Exports so far for the season I ire about a half million bates ahead of ' :he record during the big crop year. Receipis of cotton at the ports today | ■were 3C.929 bales against 11.126 bales last i week, and 21,929 bales last year. For the ! week (estimated) 183,009 bal 209.102 bales last week and 133,002”hales last year. Tod ' ‘ ' — - - n Feb. 19.—a revival of cx- nd caused strength today in market, the May delivery eios- fCorrcced bv R e’ch'elbaum « Mack.) ! WHISKEY—Rye v» -o S3.50; -orn St.10 *n 31.*0: gin. 51.10 to JT.7S: North i Carolina com. 11.10 to S1.5Cr Georgia ' ■ WIN’E --75c. to 55; high win"**. S' 30. no-: and sherry. 75c. to $4; claret. 54 to : Sid a case; American cr.-mpagne. 57.50 to ■ tomorrow. hospital at Gross Lichterfelde, near Beriin. but from* the first he had to contend with tho enmity and scorn of , the orthodcTi medira! fraternity, may j be right or wrong, who certainly treat- | ed their colleague in an unehivalrous ; manner, and finally drove him from his j ► hospital into private life. ' It is probably not too much to say that “Der Arzt" is Schweninger's re venge on his detractors. The book is divided into the following sections: , “Humanity," "Doctoring," “Medical Activity," “The Physician's Calling.” | “Physician and Society," “Physician and Patient." It is a book of brilliant thought, brilliantly written, almost I every sentence an epigram . ! “No Physician Can Curs.” i "The great mass of the public." says • Schweninger, “is under the Impression that a physician is to be valued ac cording to his cures, and believes with the naivete of a child that, ir is the doc tor that cures. Therefore it often hap- PENNSY RAILROAD COMPANY INVESTIGATES CHARGES COTTON SITUATION XETV YORK, reo. l ' 1 o;f following is the defense 9e by th New York Cotton Exchange In •Ter'; to certain criticisms in the c. as handed out to the press: The fixing of grade differences by the revision committee of the New York Coition Exeange on November 21. last, has been in the main the basis of the criticism against the New York Colton Exchange. It appears that there has been up to the present time a Jack of correspondence between the relative differences between the different grades of cotton as determined by the revision committee and the grade dlf- . , . ferences quoted in the various South-- R^ns that wine medlca. dilettante who a re three things to wnlch I ern markets; but, as under the rule- treats a patient utnil he recovers and : y 0ur particular attention, of the exchange ten months must' fUer he has been treated unsuccessful- , *.j n tire f irs : place, your cotton crop elapse before another revision is pos- J_^hyother doctor: I is a natural rr.onoply, a fact which ATLANTA. Ga.. Feb. 17.—Three in teresting points in connection with the cotton situation are discussed by Pres ident M. I.. Johnson, of the Georgia division of the Southern Cotton Asso ciation. in this week's letter. Presi dent Johnson says: •To the people of Georgia: There ,’ish to call sible it is still d question among cotton unaesenea tame as a muranu cure , the . lC , op i e of t ; le Soutl xperts whether or not the differences a physician b> the j to roa jj ze , stop and tl: ixed by the revision committee will not ” race God whose patient die.-, be- j f act a , n inute. and try ,e fully justified. F au ° e 7H_ st ?, !p ls !" danger of be- . it nlcan£! . p «.: News in Paragraphs fixed ^Charges^to^he'effect that the mem- ^ed by the public, bers of the revision committee South do not seem hink about this gather what on the close 4c. lower. were from 20 SANDERSVILLE. Feb. 17.—Mr. C. Sept. . Corn— Feb. . May . July . . Oats— May . , July . . Sept. . Pork- Open. Hig 46% 4(1 >4 Mi 40 % 36% 32% 37 >4 3254 Low. 7714 77 U 4674 46% 40*1 3674 32S May . .17.17*4 17.17% 16.75 ^ July . .17.30 17.30 16.80 May . . 9.85 July . . 9.82% Sept. , . 9.90 Short Ribs— May . .9.37% July . . 9.40 ‘ 9.81 9.82 9.82% .82% 9.63 Close. W. Elkins, one of the wealthiest and (most popular of Washington County's j ignorant of the make-up and'duties of 798^ : farmers, dropped dead yesterday noon, j the committee. The position of the 78 i at his home, near Oconee. The cause committee Is not unlike that of the , • TT directors of a great bank whose action of his death was apoplexy. He was at any ^i ven moment mav widely and forty-five years old. He leaves a wife , powerfully affect many interests. At and several children. • He was a broth- j times their action is not understood by 411% j er of Mrs. C. J. Trussell. of Warthen •j,*'? I and half brother of Mr. A. S. Brown. "of Davisboro. 75 Ex-Governor Xorthen is visiting Rev. So I Aguila Chamblee. pastor of the Bap tist church of this place. Governor 46% quack The multitude has vet to learn that no actuated by interested motives in ar- . ^f^wort oThigh^nd^crad^- , ture. The physician can only watch I »~n**rlch and observe and take steps to prevent j s , on it ' Interference with the power of natural laws. He can support nature: he can not take her place. Even the mechan ical aid of the surgeon is not an act of healing or cure, but only assistance which he renders nature." He treats the conception of humanity historically, and says: “Humanity' is neither charity—nor riving at their conclusions or that they did not base their action on what was the current differentiation of grades in 1 the South, are only made by persons the financial community as a whole. It j m ercy—nor love as it is generally is Dased upon a broad \ tew of known , <j e! - s t 00 ,d. Love trembles, counsels, corn- existing conditions, upon past history j forts b , Jt shP dops n „ t pu! , out the and data over such a period of time as nrror. and her finger does not' stanch to give basis of average? It is. in a the b!oc( 3i n g of a wound." measure, foresight the foresight of -‘To he a physician to a patient Xorthen addressed a large audience at j ^fourtee^ 1 y“ra the fourieen "r" ancthe? q1"ce° f “The^’-’ the Baptist church last evening. j casts of the revision committee have } ribI(> w0 ,. rt •medicine* has been invented l bean true to l - h ^ developments ten ; fcr thp pracUct . 0 f the physician's call- C-OLL.iIBIA. S. C., reb. IS.—Go. - | subsequent months, The forecast of ; Peonlr thmk a soignee is meant ernor Martin F. Ansel late tonight is- ; last November, due to certain physical I Hv this designation Phv-icians call ml j conditions in certain parts of the cot- ,hemseTves^ " Stay^ naturiiHsts “orker" in tbe science of nature, and point out proudly that there has never been any- thing 1 more silly or more deceptive pro mulgated.” haf 6-77% 9.37*4 9.42*1 9.85 9.65 9.97% 9.22% 9.30 DRY GOODS MARKET. NEW YORK, Beb 38.—The dry goods market today was firm and active. The lobbing houses and specialty houses were particularly busy. Cloaks and suits are having a large sale. Dress goods are active for spring. In cotton goods the market is strong and the buying being ainst I done ls largely for delivery months ahead. COTTON SEED OIL. _ NEW YORK. Feb. 18.—Cotton seed oil roda> s receipts at New Orleans were ; was firm on covering of shorts and suee- ■ 0 bales against - 102 bales last year. I illative buying. Prime crude In barrels 4.9 and at Houston 12.074 bales against 3,925 bales last year. Spot cotton closed steadv; middling up lands 11; middling gulf 11.23; sales 198 nales. Futures dosed steady at the following quotations: January .. February . March .... April May •Tune •Inly A ugust ... September October November December . Open. ..10.01 ;; 9.22 9.37 .. 9)46 .. 9.49 .. 9.46 .. 9.50 .. 9.78 . 9 80 .. 9.85 High. 10.06 I/iw. 10.00 9.24 9.39 9.42 9.15 9/50 9.35 9.54 9.44 9.55 9.50 9.84 9.76 9.90 9.84 Clos 10.91 9.11 9.1S 9.26 9.36 9.43 9.47 9.47 9.53 Movement at the Ports. f.o.b. mills 41: prime summer yellow 49 prime summer yellow 44a45; good off Mimraer yellow 44%a45: good summer white 57; prime winter yellow 61. NAVAL STORES. WILMINGTON. Feb. IS—Spirits tur pentine firm a) 70c.; receipts 11 casks. Rosin firm at S3.95: reipts 65. Tar firm nt S2.30; receipts 242. Crude turpentine hr m at S3.35. S4.50 and S4.50; receipts sued a . proclamation Instructing ... dispensaries to close their doors to- I ton belt, is ooen to challenge hut not to I morrow and remain closed until the I the charge Of fraud. ! county boards are appointed and take j -The revision committee." said Mr. charge of the dispensaries. j A. R. Marsh, who is recognized on the This means that the dispensaries 1 exchange as an authority has each j will not open "their doors at all again | year no 'easy task in ascertaining the I until the counties have taken charge, j differences that prevail in the different It is likely that the State will have J Southern markets in November, during complete prohibition for several days, the period of active shipping, and : adopting those differences for the New BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 18.—Ar- • York market. T$ is a fantastic idea barrels: CHARLESTON, Feb. IS.—Turpentine and rosin, ^nothing doing, and unchanged. thur Johnson, a deputy sheriff, was shot and killed on Fifth avenue at an eariy hour this morning. Jim Sams is held, charged with the shooting. It Is said the men had a quarrel at Sams' house and as Johnson was leaving he ; was shot just as he reached the street. ELBERTOX. Ga., Feb. IS.—Fire early today destroyed in? Southern Railway depot. 400 bales of cotton, SAVANNAH. Ga-, Feb. 18.—Turpentine j eight freight cars and ton tents, and a i ra dp 4 'knowK tbatthe New York' ni-Vr* *.*?«!!: &T«rV ra l n - r The 1088 iK ; $60,000. Sparks from a passing train actua] cotto l n b xact , those d are said to have ignited the cotton. • ‘ th3t the Southern difference? in No vember establish the permanent com mercial values of all the different grades of cotton in any given crop, or that any departure from them in the New York market is necessarily ab surd. The normal commercial differ ences based upon the spinning valu of the different grades year in and year out are of much more importance. "Every thinking man in the cotton mentis h. Rosin firm; sales 892; receipts 298; shipments 660; stock 6S.890. Quote: ■ C. D. $4.05; E. 54.10: F and «. H, 54.45; I. 54.53: K. 55.25; M. 53.50; N. 56.00; W. G„ $6.25; W. W.. 56.50. A. B. 54.20; Recclnts and Exports. Today. Consolidated net receipts.. 36.929 Exports to Great Britain.. 11.023 Exnorts to continent 17.329 Exports to Japan 375 Stock on hand all ports. .1,100.800 New York Money Market. NEW IORK. Feb. 18.—.Money on call firm at 4»5% per cent; ruling rate 5 Since September 1. 1900- Oonsolldated recclnts. 7.964.572 Exports to Great Britain 2.713.969 Exports to France 709,311 Exports to continent.. 2.495,512 Exports to Japan 131.796 Prlc-. Net Rec-lpts. Sa'es. Stock. cantlle paper 5%a6% per cent. Sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers’ bills at i.S459a8455 for demand, and at 4.80S0aS035 for 60- day bills. Posted rates 4.Sl%aS5%. Commercial bills 4.80%. Gar silver 68%; Mexican dollars 53%. Grain, Provisions* Groceries. Tho Ports. ■I Prlco. IRecis.; Galveston . . • ill ! 14232! ,Nmv Orleans .!10 7-16! 49701 ‘Mobile . . . .non i uni Savannah . . • !in% ! - 53591 Charleston . y i o% i 1 6611. v.'ilinington . . !10% 1 1 600! Norfolk . . . J10*»; 1230' Baltimore . . .119% 1 New York ... J11 1 36! Tost on . . . .111 1 1 ■ 55', rhllndelnhla . J11.25 1 ..... J. Pensacola . . 8161|. 2500J3 2W ;389 M539 ....! 11351 ....! 15889 296' 3S957 ....’ 12174 1981150567 2Q09 Interior Movement. Price.!Rocts.|Sales.| Stck Houston . : .110 15-16112974! 17721 79758 Augusta . . ,111V* I 1311 7TT 33599 Memphis . , J19 7-16[ 27171 27301161823 St. Louis !10% I / i594! 209 53981 Cincinnati ....' I 1S8* 8850 Louisville . . .|10 9-16[...*.*.* I*.:y.. LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL. Fob. IS—Spot cotton ii fair demand; prices unchanged to i ooints | higher; American middling fair 6.85; good j middling 6.39: middling G.'03: low mid dling 5.71: good ordinary 5.23; ordinary Lt 99. -piic sales of the day were 8.000 bales, of which 500 hales were for speru- j Pit ton anil export, and including 6.290 j bales American. Receipts were 22,000 j bales. Including 18.* inb-s American. ! Futures opened steady and closed quiet: American middling C.. O. C.: 1 gtek i These prices are at wholesale and not 'J' __ _ f (Corrected by S. R. Jaoues A Tinsley Co.) "' 1 to consumers: CORN—Sacked white 68 Sacked mixed 67 Special quotation on car lot. • either sacked or bulk, made on application. OATS—White clioped .... No. 2 white No. .3 white Special quotations car lots- HAY—Choice timothy No. l timothy No. 2 timothy. No. 1 clover..... Timothy and clover hixed. B»ddlng straw BRAN—Pure wheat— Mixed bran Jersey stock feed Reliable feed Standard feed ...' FLOCR—Private Stock, fancy past.. 5.25 Royal Owl, best pat 4.20 Top.Notch, first patent 4.19 New Constitution. % patent. 3.59 Orange Blossom, straight.... 3.50 MEAL—Water ground Juliette 67 Other brands 66 MEATS—Dn- salt ribs m*j Extra, half ribs 19% 56 made on ..51.30 .. 1.25 ..1.20 .. 1.29 .. 1.23 .• 65 .. 1.35 .. 1.20 .. 1.25 .. l.ia 1.19 BALTIMORE, Md.. Feb. 18.—A spec tacular fire, which it was for a time feared would do imhiense damage, but tonight estimated at only $30,000, broke out at 1:30 o'clock this morning in the blacksmith shop of the South Balti more steel ear and foundry company, HJSSiS cmnn 01 ^ b°" i C T‘ 8 cot ton than any crop for the past thirty miles ‘LJ 'cPs^ 5-hc.rs. But to meet fully th/slaughter P V^ K ' i 1 u. Th ” n 1 prices of low grade cotton obfainin ee 0 n t e k r oT the brg bmid “ng! r to which i the So " th in " Iikr “ thi it was confined. The loss is covered which, owing to their temporary ' perabundance, the South is selling at less than their real commercial. : spinning, value. Some adjustment the revision committee may properly make to meet the very unusual conditions in ; any given crop, as, for example, in the present one, which" seems to contain larger percentage of very low grad by insurance. WASHINGTON, Feb. IS.—The Hnure was in session for an hour and a half Sunday hearing eulogies of the late Representative Robert Hitt, of Illinois. Addresses were deliverer] by Messrs. Lowden. Foss and Fuller, of Illinois; Clark, of Missouri: Cousins and Lacey, of Iowa, and Lamar, of Florida. NAPLES, Feb. 1$.—The White Star- line steamship Republic, from Boston, while entering the harbor here yester day, collided with the Italian steamer Centro America. Nobody was injured, but a great panic ensued. Both steam ers were considerably damaged. would be to abandon sound commercial princi ples in general and in particular th fundamental principle of the entire business of the New York Cotton Ex change. “Looking at the matter in this light, jt is little less than insane to direct against the action of the revision com mittee on November 21. last, the flood of abuse and denunciation that has ■ filled the Southern papers and the i mouths of Southern orators for some j weeks past. When we are told that j it was criminal for the revision eom- ' mittee to have made the difference be tween middling and low middling ent- : ton only %c. per pound, when the pre vailing difference in the South ' was lc. to me. per pound, if we are • sane, we shall remember that the re- 1 vision committee had the records of 1 the New York Cotton Exchange before it. and that since 1S93 there had been MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb. IS.— The people of Nicaragua demand rep- , . , „„„„, aration -from the government of Hon- i fZ 1 year w! J en duras fur the invasion of their terri- i difference in the New York market tory by Honduran troops, and have ' 'V 35 ? as .., u!c J? ? s - c ' ,P er P?und. and offered financial aid for a conflict with ! "'I 1 ! 1 taat exception during all Honduras. The whole country is ex- * hoso years the widest difference had c l te< 3 . : been 7-16c. per pound. “No informed person is ignorant that NEW YORK, Feb. IS.—Alexander ' the true commercial or spinning value Fullerton, secretary of the Theosophi- ' ?/ ^ 0w middling is considerably less 18-20-lb. D. S. bellies 11 18-29-lb. Boston bellies 11% Bulk plates 8% ricked meats ~,c over abeve Eehrunrv-Mnrch March-April Anril-May May-June June-July .Tiily-Auvuat, \ugust-September .. Sep!einbe--Octoiier rirtober-November .. N'.V fllll.i ••-lie Y|l]l.fr December-Jsnusry .. .Janunry-February ... 5:59% 5.58 5.56 5! 48% 5.44*- 5 44 “ 5.44 5.44% HAM?—Fancy sugar cured standard sugar cured... i Picnic liams LARD—Pure tierces Purs, in 89-lb. tubs Pure, In 59-lb tins •Pine, in 69-lb. tubs Pure, In 10-Ib. tins Pure, in 5-lb. tins Pure, in 3-lb. tins Whlte-flalSb tierces.... NEW ORLEANS. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 18.—Spot cotton closed quiet and unchanged, middling i" 7-16. Sales on the spot were 2,300 lii.l-s and 290 bales to arrive. Futures opened quiet and steady. 2 points higher to a decline of 5 points. Tenders of March settlements l>v New York brokers served to keen prices nt a standstill. The cloVe was quiet steady, unchanged to 9 points under that of Saturd v Cotton futures closed quiet and steady as follows: 11 11 11% 11% 11% 11% 9 The same additions for other sires as named above. SYRI7P—Georgia cane (new) 49 New Orleans 28 Black .strap is SALT—’"9 lbs. tvnlte Eotton sole....59 100-lb Burlap tncJts 48 Imported Rock Salt, lb 1*4 CHEESE—Full cream 17% Snec! .; prices ear lots. GRISTS—Hudnuts. in bbls 58.6? TTednufs. jn 86-!b sacks 1.70 SEGAi’.- Gr. 1 ■’ in lib's or sek..3.o3 New Orleans clarified 4% New York yellow 414 COFFEE—Choice Rio 14 ' Prime Rio 13 Medium Rio 12 Common H A chuckle's Roasted ,16.54 RICE— Choice head 7 Jled him 6 cal Society, announces tho death from heart failure today at Advar, India, of Henry Steel Olcott, co-founder with Mme. Blavatsky, of the Theosophists in this country. He was seventy-five years old. 10.14 10.09 19.29 19.29 Hardware—Wholesale. SWAINS BORO. Ga. Feb. 17.—Fire here last night caused a loss of $75,- 000. A total .of but $29,090 insurance was carried. " The origin is supposed to have been incendiary. The fire started in John Ehrlich’s dry goods store and the McLeod building, the Mason Drug Company's store, and the Mason and Clark skating rink were destroyed. PITTSBURG. Feb. IS—.A fire late Iasi night, which threatened the de struction of several city blocks in Al legheny. across the Allegheny- river from Pittsburg, destroyed five busi ness buildings and. three dwelling houses causing' an aggregate ios? of $200,000. Four fire companies were sent to Allegheny from this city tc fight the flames and a number of fire men had narrow escapes from falling walls. October WSE PROFESSMIL NF.W YORK. Feb. 18.—The d, (Ccrected bv Dunlap Harmara Co.) WELL BUCKETS—S4 per doz EOPE—Manila. 14%c : Resel. lie.; eot- %c. per lb. (- Harman, 90c.: Fergu- HT? Pnirier*. $2.3 rt : cedar. $5.00. POWDER—54.50: half kegs. 52 75: % kegs. 51.59: Dupont and Hazard smoke, less half kegs. $11.33: % kegs. $3.73; 1-ih. canisters. $1. !ess»23 o»r cent.; Tro(s- do-' smokeless rowder, 1-ib. cans 5L 5HOVTTS—56 io 511 per doz. C» RDR—Cotton. $4.59 per doz. T>I ow BLADES 5c. per lb. troN—2%c. pound, base; svede. 4%e. ^ \XES.—56-25 dozen, base. IE*D --Bar 7Ue pound NAILS-—Wfe. 52.60 keg. base; cut. $2.69 keg. base. gflOE8—Horse. $4.25: mules. 54.25. BT'CKETS -Print. 51.79 doz.; white ce dar tnree noons. 53.20. CHAINS Trace, $t to $6 doz. GUN POWDER—Per peg. Austin cra.-k 54.59 SHOT. $2 00 a sa?k WICHIA. Kan.. Feb. IS.—In a ser mon on morality, entitled "Woman’s Rights,” Dr. John Henry Cudlipp, pas tor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, declared last night that all the testimony in the Thaw trial should be printed. "I want to see every line of the Thaw evidence printed,” said Dr. Cudlippe. "and I want to read it. I think the public should read it.” Big Fir« at Lexington, Tenn. LEXINGTON, Tenn.. Feb. 17.—Four buildings on the south r-ide of the pub- j lie square were burned tonight, on- J tailing a Joss of $50,000. Insurance was light. TOKIO. Feb. IS.—No official step has yet been taken looking to a settle ment of the California situation in ac- 1 cordance with the agreement reached' between President Roosevelt and the San Francisco authorities, but should it be effected on that basis the gov ernment must be prepared for violent attacks. , than %c. below that of midding. The i revision committee realized, what most of its critics seem tonable to do. that in | the long run it is spinning value that counts, rather _ than the temporary ideas of Southern cotton traders. Anil just in the same conservative spirit that it handled the question of low middling, the revision committee treat ed the question of the grades above middling and the grades below low middling. For the time being the values of the higher grades were pur posely fixed lower, relative to mid dlings. than panic-stricken short-sell ers of these grades were paying in the South; and the values of' the lower grades were fixed higher than those at which the panic-stricken holders of these grades in the South were dump ing them on the market. But perhans it will appear in the long run that the revision committee of the New York Cotton Exchange with the long and satisfactory experience of the exchange, with its ample information as to the genuine commercial value from the manufacturing point of view of the I different grades of cotton, has been * fairer to the Southorr cotton producer than his orntorb " nds have shown themselves.” He ridicules the prevailing notion that the seientiflcaih- educated nhysi- eian must be superior to the, ordinary practicing doctor. H> catsightos the vulgarity and "cne e k" of the voting physicians scientifically educated nnd iheir contempt for the old. Equally reprebenrible is. the growing practice of accepting the dicta of these young men as something inspired. It is like a comedy, he declares, to see venerable graybeards drinking in words of wis dom from these youths. He wants a comic poet to do the suject full justice. — Doctoring is an Art. j “If doctoring were only a science.” he go(?s on. ”if the principles of the doctor’s calling rested only on science, woe to the patients. Humanity would long since have died out had its sick been treated scientifically. Doctoring is rather an art, one of the highest arts. Historians have told us, and will tell our grandchildren, how often science las changed its chameleon appearance and how often that has been proved to he erroneous which was once held as unassailable truth. Things remain eternally the same. The changes in science the changes in our knowl edge show one thing clearly, and that is that our knowledge and science of today is just as erroneous as it was yesterday and as it was a hundred years ago. Only art is young and eter nal. The physician is an artist, or, to he more exact, only an efficient physi cian can be an artist. The practice of doctoring is the exercise of an art. not the practice of a science." "Doctor and Patient” is a most markable chapter, a treasure house of pointed golden sayings. ‘It is not every physician," he serfs, “who can be the physician of every patient. The question for all is. and it is a terribly serious question; Can the sick 'be given clearness of vision? If lint. can. the physician take the responsibility to remove ‘the veil and show the man consecrated to death what his fate is?" Schweninger has heard in consulting rooms and clinics and hospitals words used, often thoughtlessly and without comprehension, which pronounced arbi trary sentence of death on listening patients. Treating of universities as establish ments for training physicians, Schwen inger says caustic things: •The universities are an old survival. Their teachings may serve as orna ments for scholars, philosophers, phil ologists, jurist; but they still remain high schools with a curriculum for cramming into empty heads. What is tile use of all the memorizing and ex aminations for a physician? Physi cians are to be trained, not crammed, but if you take away the cramming the world will not believe in you and the supply of medical students would fail. But those who would come would jus tify their existence. They would not be hunters after posts: would not be blackmailers of the sick, exploiting them to the top of their bent; exagger ating trifles and multiplying visits and prescriptions to fill their pockets. They would not make milch cows of patients. They would be few, but they would not be beggars appealing to the State for assistance. And the State in their view is the money bags of the citi zens. “We are not in the world for our pleasure nor our own profit. Therefore let us bear our burdens more worthily as individuals not as a flock nor as a trade. Let us be lofty and at the, same time humble.” /ULO 1 HiS SECRETS REV. DO. WSA. PADEN “If you do this you will quickly come to the conclusion that we are about the only people on the face of the earth with a monopoly who have never got- the result of the pos Not only have we failed to make money out of it. but we have remained poor. “I am not talking of course, about cotton brokers, or merchants, or bank ers. or people in other lines of busi ness. but about the producers—rho.qe who actually grow the cotton: the men, women and children who actually plant, cultivate and gather it. “What do you think of the fact—and it is a fact—that only n few of the many producers of cotton, were they left wholly to their own resources, would be able this year to grow any cotton at all? How does that strike yon? Owners of a monopoly, nnd yet unable to grow a crop without assist ance? "How would that sort of business, for instance strike John D. Rockefel ler - ’ Did you notice the peculiar and interesting coincidence the other day when he gave $32,009,000 to the cause of education? Within two days the price of oil had gone up' 13 cents a barrel. At that rate it won't take long for him to get it back. “This is not the first coincidence of this kind that has come to my atten tion. Reports of these largp gifts from the beneficiaries of our protected in dustries have been so constantly con nected with a raise in the prices, that I always stop to (bonder just how much of this or that particular'dona tion was my own. It was a mite, of course, but mites from many people ultimately make millions. “And so it might be with the cotton crop. It Is our own natural monopoly, and there is no reason why wo should not get together, and make it pay our price. "In the next place, let me call your attention to the fact that cotton is al ways a gold-commanding crop. The- exporting and sale of it in foreign countries means a return of golden dollars to us. “Two-thirds of the South's cotton crop goes every year to foreign coun tries. which is nearly equal in value to the world’s total output of gold. Think of it. Southern cotton growers supplying the world every year with values equal to the total output of all the world's gold mines! “And yet the people of the South cannot grow this crop without assis tance—and assistance which, when ex tended this spring, will he \used next fall to bear fhe price of our cotton! “Now I submit again that no people with hut one money crop can afford to be a debtor people. Your country is a creditor nation, solely due to your cot ton. Why shouldn't you be a creditor people Instead of a debtor? "Another thing to which I wish to call your attention is that all of us who "have -to do with cotton and its products are engaged in one common industry. Cotton growing, spinning, weaving, knitting, bleaching, dyeing, finishing and garment making are but successive stages of one industry. Yet for all of these various stages there is but one producer—he who grows the raw cotton, as there is hut one con sumer—he who wears the cotton goods. "Raw cotton may be cheap, yarn dear, and cloth dearer, which is the situation now, but the average of these prices, affording each branch of the in dustry a fair division of the profits, is only fair and just. What we want is a natural and fair price for cotton es tablished by the balance of supply from the primary producer and the de mand from the. ultimate consumer of cotton cloth. Is there not every reason, there fore. for co-operation on the part of American spinners with the producers of raw cotton? We need it. are en titled to it. and should have it, not only from them, but from each and every business man and every indi vidual in the South. “The South, the United States, owe to the cotton producers debts which they will never pay. Is there a. Georgian so indifferent to the splen did victories of our association since January. 1905, and to the possibilities of its great work in the future, who will not aid us in combatting the wrongs which are being heaped upon us through this compulsory tribute to others? “Does not every condition, every thought upon the situation as it con fronts you. call aloud for and poiat to the necessity of organization? I ap peal for organization and a fight to the finish. M. L. JOHNSON, "President Georgia Division. S. C. A.” th- Dr. Broughton Charges Coun cil With Grave Robbing to Secure Money. Dry Goods—Wholesale. BHEETINS—4-4. 5 to 6c. PR] J.T .TNGS— 7 I - 7%^ T!TICINGS—4k, :o 1S%C. BERLIN. Feb. IS.—A sensation has been caused in medical circles here bv the publication of a book by Prof. Schweninger entitled 'Der Arzt" (The Physician.) Schweninger, as is well known, was Bismarck's physician, as well as the principal medical adviser of 1 °f a number of celebrities, among whom j devoted most of his speech to review- may be mentioned Richard Wagner, ing the minority report submitted to the composer, and his wife, Cosima. , the Senate in the'Smoot case, and de- When chosen by Bismarck to attend ; dared that the stand taken by Senator him Schweninger was comparatively 1 Knox of Pennsylvania, was nothing unknown, but in medical circles he more nor less than a plea to the Ameri- had already made a name as the foun- can people to acquiesce in the poiyga- WASHTNGTON, Feb. 18.—Polygamy was scored and President Joseph Smith and the leaders of the Mormon church in Utah were denounced by the Rev. Dr. William Pa den, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Salt Lake City, and president of the Ministerial Asso- I dream that it would come to thi elation of the Northwest at an. anti- ■ the city would go into the grave-rob- Mormon mats meeting, which was held , bing business in order to secure mon- at the Metropolitan Memorial Meth- ey. The only time when a poor man odi3t Episcopal church in this city to- J is equal to the rich man is when he night under the auspices of the league is dead and buried, said the pastor of of woman's organizations. Dr. Paden ! the Baptist tabernacle, and “for Heav- sake let's nor interrupt that.” ATLANTA. Feb. 18.—In the prelude to his regular Sunday night sermon. Dr. Len G. Broughton bitterly criticised the proposed ordinance to sell that part of Oakland Cemetery in which the bodies of the paupers rest, removing the bodies of whites to Westview and the negroes to a negro cemetery. Dr. Broughton declared that he knew Atlanta was getting crazy about mak ing money, but that even he did not that NEW YORK. Feb. 17.—The final re port of the special committee appointed by the board of directors of tho Penn sylvania Railroad Company nearly a year ago to examine into the facts con nected with the acquisition and owner ship by officers and employes of the company of stock or other interest in any company, the holding of which could affect the performance of their duty or the company's duty to the pub lic. which report was made public to day, says in brief: "A mistaken public opinion, misin formed as to the facts, because of the publication of portions and not the whole, of the testimony of the witnesses before the interstate commerce com mission and therefore, basing its con clusions upon insufficient premises, has done grave injustice to the whole serv ice of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany. That service is of more than sixty years* growth: it is constituted, in the main, of educated, trained and self-respecting men, whose honorable lives have won the esteem of those who know them best: it has its tra ditions of loyalty; and it has had. in the successive officers, examples of unselfish devotion to duty and stead fast adherence to the right. “Of the 2.505 officers and employes examined, including every officer of the several companies whose individual ac tion or whose individual order to ant- subordinate chief on any discrimina tion. 26G were found to have Interests in coal or other corporations, or firms, or with individuals. The majority of those interests are In corporations, whose shares are dealt In on the open market. Of those 266 officers and em ployes. 231 had acquired their inter ests by purchase. The few remaining officers and employes (15) received gifts of shares or interests in various corporations. Regrets Acceptance of Gifts. "The committee regrets that any o r - ficer. or employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company should have so far •forgotten that, which was due to tho service and that which was also due 1 ■> is own character, as to accept a gift, hose acceptance might bring a sus picion of conflict between his official duty and his personal interest. "The committee has reported to the presidents of several railroad com panies for appropriata action, the names of those officers and employe- who have within the judgment of the committee been found to have failed in the ’ performance of their duty. -'As the finni result of its examina tion of whole subject committed to is fhe committee reports that, with few exceptions, the officers and employes of the companies constituting the Penn sylvania railroad system have hern faithful to duty." % Officers and Employes Vindicated. On the whole, the report vindicates officers and employes of the Penn- ylvanla system. It is found that in the development of the company from between 1899 and 1907 the interests of the stockholders in every instance have been properly safeguarded. Tt is declared that the terms on which in creases in share and debt capital have been marketed have received the com mendation of competent and inde pendent financiers, so that as effect!!*' competition as possible in work of such magnitude was obtained in plac ing the thousands of contract for maintenance of way and new construc tion: that no favoritism was shown in the purchase of supplies or equipment and that the officers of the railroad companies, in all engineering and con struction work, have been a* faithful as they were skilled. As to allegation of favoritism to certain shippers of freight, mainly coal, the committee re ports "that there has not been .and as has not been on the part of the railway company any discrimination ns between shippers in the facilities giv en for the exercise for that legal right.” As to Individual Cars. Much of the trouble' which led to the allegations, the committee says, was due to the so-called Individual ears. In 1906 there were 27,590 indi vidual cars in service on the Pennsyl vania Railroad. For the use of these cars the railroad pays six mills per mile, loaded or empty, and charges the regular freight on the loaded cars. While recognizing ail the disadvan tages, however, the railroad companr has not yet seen its way clear to do away with the Individual cars, mainly because equipment cannot be pro vided rapidly enough to meet the growth of business. On charges of- discriminntion to favored shippers in the bituminous coal fields, the com mittee quotes the report of a company of expert accountants who made an investigation of the matter. The ac- 1 countants’ report declares that "tho officers of the railroad company have fair operating or other reasons to present in explanation of such seem ing preferences and discriminations." Investigated Car Distribution. “In connection with the subject of car distribution,” the report says, "the committee has carefully investigated the relations of the Berwind White Coal Mining Company to their com pany. The lease of Harsimus pier in New York harbor is an arrangement by which the railroad secures a prof itable traffic of great magnitude: so handles that traffic that cars can ba unloaded with the minimum of deliv ery and returned to the mines for re loading, has performed, at a cost rea sonable to the railroads, the railroad's duty of transferring coal from pier -to boat; obtains without cost to the railroad an adequate coaling wharf for its large fleet of tugs and lighters plying in the port of New York; re ceives an income at the rate of 4 per cent, on the assessed valuation of the ground leased: has received reim bursement for the cost of building the pier; gives to the railroad company full use of its facilities at South Am boy coal terminal for handling the business of general and smaller ship pers: and does not in any respect constitute a preference to the Ber wind White Company. He stated that he did not like to ar ray ciasa against class, but that he would not keep still and see such heartless discrimination made against the poor. MAN INVITED TO LONELY SPOT WAS SET UPON. SHOT AND CUT. PHILADELPHIA. Thoroughly eon vine of an unknown Itol circumstances late Pa- .Feb. IS.— I that the 'mur-ic- [an under unusual Saturday night. personal, envy of 1 resented, lights. 1 new school whose main object free its adherents from cant aventlonalistn. This and the at he was intimate with the haneellor aaid the repository of • ecrets. state secrets as well as 1. won for him the dislike and *he medical fraternity, as rep ly rate, by their leading 1 inous practice in Utah. Dr. Paden presented the gentile side of the Mormon controversy. &■ Cra fixers . ith- supposed (Co-rertert 1 Baroita sodas Bare- a r.icna Parona cyste: (y Winn-Johnson Co.) 6c :s. TUc, crackers. 6%c. sa id No author itative announcements followed the ru- ■ Ginxer snaps Assorted cakes, 1(4 Sugar cakes, k. N. R. C.» ! From, the date of Bismarck’s death until the present time Schweninger has j been treated as a sort of charlatan 1 whose opinions were not worth listen- j ing to. whose medical methods were j dangerous or useless, and who was i seeking notoriety at ail cost. Of course Italian was invited to a lonely j this view was absolu*e!y false. Schwen- near Glenside. where there is an ! inger is a man of brilliant mind and .'Italian settlement- There he was set j of the highest scientific attainments, lupnn and shot many times. His body Shortly after- the death of his great | was then hacked and cut in a most patron he had influence enough to be brutal manner. _ J appointed to the oversight of the new near Glenside. a suburb, was the re- >-jlt of a "black hand" plot, the police a-.nhoritei of this city have been asked by the officials of Montgomery Coun ty. ir which county the murder oc curred. to help run down the nturder- The NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your pa per. It tells how you stand on the books. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and also renew for the year 1907. Casus Belli. “What was the cause of this rum pus?" asked the judge. "Well, you see, judge," replied the policeman, "this man here and that woman there are married." “Yes, yes, I know. But what other cause?"—Cleveland Press. $11,000,000 COTTON ” IMPORTED LAST YEAR. WASHINGTON, Feb. IS.—One of the surprising features of a statement issued today bv the Bureau of Statis tics on the "Ebb and flow of com merce in the United States in 1995.” is that while this country produces three-fourths of the worldjs cotton, 811.090.900 worth of that product was imported last year, to say nothing of 31.000.900 worth of waste cotton. Thi.-- product. however, is of a different quality from that produced in the T'nited States, being of the long ar.d silky fiber, coming principally from Egypt. While this country is tho largest manufacturer of cotton good", the importations of manufacturers of this product aggregated. in round figures. $69,900,900 in value. which was more than 50 per cent, in excess of the yajue of these goods exported. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your pa per. It tells how you stand on the books. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and also renew for the year 1907. 15 000 PERSONS DELIVERED VIO LENT ANTI - CLERICAL SPEECHES IN ROME. ROME. Feb. 18.—Fifteen thousand persons, among them 150 red-shirted Giribaldans with 120 f ams and twenty bands of music, participated today in an anti-clerical demonstration in fa vor of France. Military demonstrations took place throughout Italy. The pro- cession crossed the city and went to the monument of Giordar.a Bruno, the Ital ian philosopher, who was burned at the stake by order of the inquisition, where thirty wreaths were deposited. Afterwards the marchers went to the- "apitol and. despite their being pro hibited doing so. entered the balcony of Michael Angelo, overlooking the hill, and planted the red Republican flag and. amid enthusiastic cheering. Re publicans and Socialist deputies deliv ered violent anti-c!erical speeches. The Government took energetic measures to avoid trouble. The whole garrison was under arms and all. the streets leading to the Vatican were barred by troops. INDISTINCT PRINT