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14 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. APRIL 22. 1013. COTTON PRICES COTTON GOSSIP Large Spot Houses Heavy Sellers. Good Weather and Labor Troubles Are Blamed. NEW YORK. April 22.*—In the fa«e e? ateadv cables, the < otton market opened barely steady to>day, with prices 4 points off to 1 point higher than last ulfht’s close Room trailers were in a bearish mood, particularly as to near months, and offerings became heavy enough to force prices off some 7 t«» 15 points from the opening range. May and July were heavily sold. Many of the most conservative spot houses Bold, which encouraged freer offering from the ring and Wall Street May dropped to 11.66, against an <>nen- .ing of 11.71: July fell from LI.72 f *11.59: August! followed by loalng 11 points from the Initial figure. The new 'Tops followed, hut their losses were smaller New Orleans and Liverpool were lib eral sellers. The continued liquidation is chiefly based upon the continued favorable weather conditions in almost every sec tion of the cotton belt. In almost every section of the belt preparation Is al most complete and planting Is in full swing The majority of traders say it Is a weather market, and if weath er developments are good during the rvext few weeks, it will give the planter ample ime to plant a large acreage The attitude of the market during the next month will be governed by the course of the weather. In addition to ideal weather, a po tent factor, which 1h causing consid erable unfavorable apprehension, is the weakness in the Southern spot situation. Snots all over the belt are reported cheaper, with little demand. Such fac tors cause hesitation among the, bulls. Many recent bulls arc now the most radical bears. A few of them are pre dicting lie cotton for July and August and October as low as 10* The weekly weather report was favor able, except It showed some moisture is needed in Texas. Indications are that this will come This with a cable from Moncherter stating that the labor trouble was becoming more serious, brought out heavier gelling during the afternoon session. The market was given no support, and May increased its decline to 11.62, July to 11 64 The entire list made declines of 9 to J9 points from the initial level. Commission house® w r ere good sellers, while the buying was mainly from .shorts and scattered buying of the new crops. This buyihg. however, was not effective At the close the market was steady with prices at a net decline of 13 to 16 points from the final quotations of Mon day RANQE IN NEW YORK FUTURES. Futures opened quiet. 11.71 11.71 11.61 11.52 11.72 11.72:11.64 111.65 ll.54ill.54 11.36*11.38' 11.3111.31 11.34 11.35 11.89*11.29 11 30'11 31 11.17 11.18 1 11.20 11.20 1 11.17 11.20 1 11.2*111.2811 U6 I 1.51-52 11.67-68 L.53-57'11.70-72 t :.i ftft 11 6ft 'i«. 1.37-38! 11.52-53 1.21-23 11.36-36 1.17-18 U.30-31 1.20- 21111.34-35 1.16-18 11.29-30 1.21- 23 1 1.34-35 Closed steady. RANGE IN LIVERPOOL FUTURES. IJVERPOOL, April 22.—This market was due to open 1 to 2 points higher, hirt opened quiet I to 1% points higher. At 12:15 p. m. the market was quiet, at a net advano* of 1 to 1% points higher Fair business doing in spot cotton at \ points advance; middling 6.83d. sales d 8,000 hales, including 7,000 American bales. Imports 6,000 hales, including 3,000 i American hales. At. the close the market was easy with prices at a net decline of 3 to 4 points from the final figures of Mon day Futures opened quiet. Opening Prev. Range. Close Close April . . • .6.57 -6.66^ 6.62% 6.56% ApHl-May . . 6.53% 6/49 6.52 May-Juno . . .6.53 -6.52 6.48% 6.52% June-July . . .6.62 -6.51 6.47 6.60% July-Aug. . . .6.48 -6.47% 6.43 6.46% Aug.-8ept . . .6.36 -6.37 6.32% 6.36% Sept.-<X't. . . 6.25 -6.24 6.20 6.23% Oct.-Nov. . . .6.16%-6.16 6.12 6.15% Nov.-Dee. . . .6.13 -6.12% 6.08% 6.12 Dec.-Jan . . .6.12 6.07% 6.11 Jan.-Feb . . .6.11 -6.10 6.06% 6.10 . Feb.-Mch. . 6.10 6.07% 6.11 Closed easy. ■HAYWARD & CLARK’S DAILY COTTON LETTER Nl.w ORLEANS, April 22 The Liv erpool board shows a narrow market following the changes in New York. Political news shows that no progress 1s being made toward peace. Another ultimatum was sent to Montenegro. The allies have practically accepted the proposed terms of the Powers, hut have reserved for themselves the most im portant question of division of territory. Uverpol cabled: "Labor troubles in ■ East Lancashire coming. Feeling very bitter." The Journal of Commerce says that reporiB from New England states arc that trade in cotton goods is beginning to show a steady decline. Our market to-day was easy from ♦he start and sagged to 12 05 for July Lin the second hour. RANGE NEW ORLEANS FUTURES. •n S Al Ap ! 12.31 12.31 12.20 12.23 - Jn 12.17 19 12 26- 28 Jly i2.13112.14112.03,12.06 12.06 07 12 15- 'i 11.83 11.83 11.70 11.70 11.70 72 1 1 83- Ho — *Spt 11.42,11.42 Ml. 42jl1.42 11.34 40 LI 50- 52 . Or. 11.38 11.38ill.27lll.29 11.28 29 11 40 41 Nv 11.28 30 11 40 42 T)c ii.40ill.40 11-28 1.1.30 1 1.29 30 11 42 43 -V 11 11.41 ill. 41(11.31 |n.*i 11.82 33 11 44- 45 12.11 12.23-24 « Josed *tcad> Have You A Room To Rent? A little “WANT AD" in The Geor- gian will ring the bell and take down the sign. These ads bring results, as the people read diem every day. Q. NEW YORK. April 22 I M Ander son says; "The cotton market has re ceived very little or no support to-day. Waters. Shearaon arid <#*•• ran sold the market off shortly after the opening It looks like the uptown crowd ia selling and Wall Street also. It is generally be lieved that prices will work lower." • ee The weather continues favorable and the local crowd scorns inclined to sell. BuainesH is very light There has been business is very light. There? have been July and October to change hands. Two breaks close together, which last night had widened Into one three hun dred-foot crevasse, occurred yesterday afternoon in the levee at Woodlawn plantation, several miles north of May- orsvtlle, Miss, midway between Vicks burg and Greenville. The break will flood all of Sharkey and Isaquenria coun ties and nearly ;> 11 of Washington and Warren. Federal engineers say 1,130 square miles will be affected by over flow Last night rain whs threatening all along the lower river section. All records were wiped out last night when the gauge at 4 i». in. read 51.6 feet with the river still rising. The Journal of Commerce says "The w-cather Is a trifle cool west of the Mis sissippi River. Western Texas needs rain. Estimated increase .q ai re.ige in that State 5 to 15 per cent Y’ery favor able crop reports from many sbetionH." * * * Following ate 11 a. m. bids: May, 11.60, July, 11.62; October, 11.24; Janu ary, 11.22. • * • NEW ORLEANS, April 22. Hayward Ar Clark: Tho weather map shows cloudy In Texas and Oklahoma, with some light rain in West Texas; fair in Central and Eastern States. Indications are for unsettled weather, with rains in Texas and Oklahoma; cloudy, becoming unsettled in tho Central States; contin ued fair in tho Atlantic.*- * * * River News: Cairo, 45.2; Vicksburg, 61.7; Memphis, 40.4; New Orleans, 19.4. Liverpool cables: "American mid dling fair, 7.37d; good middling, 7.03d; middling, 6.83d; low middling. •* 67d; good ordinary, 6.33d; ordinary, 5.99d." . * « * Spot cotton brokers here say nothing doing in spots and the market is lower to trade. * * * The weekly weather report at 11 o’clock is expected to he unfavorable, owing to the cold weather beginning of last week. • • • The New Orleans Times-Democrat says: "After declining in the early ses sion on a favorable crop report from Texas the cotton market advanced in the late session on steady spots, unfa vorable reports from Texas, a serious break in the Mississippi levee below Greenville, Miss., and the anxiety of shorts to get under cover. May con tracts were bought In New Orleans by the same people who have been buying them recently. New Orleans May is not very far below a spot parity, hut New York May and July are way below a Southern spot parity. Once the market began to advance resistance melted away. As a matter of fart the corpse- s tab hers ran when the corpse showed life, then hurled epithets at it from a distance. "Yesterday’s break in the levee will inundate many of the best cotton plan tations in Mississippi, some of which were inundated last Spring and again in January this year and again in April. It Jh yet early enough for the waters to recede in time to make a cotton crop, but three inundations within twelve months will probably restrict operations because of the damage done farm equip ment." * • ♦ Following arc 10 a. m. bids May. 12.25; July, 12.07; October, 11.34; Jan uary, 11.38. * * • Estimated receipts for Wednesday: 1913. 1912. New Orleans 3,700 to 4.700 2,441 Galveston 4,200 to 5.200 589 SPOT COTTON MARKET. Atlanta, quiet; middling 113-16 Athens, steady; middling 12%. Macon, steady; middling 12 Now Orleans, quiet; middling 12 7-16. New York, quiet; middling 12.15. Philadelphia, quiet; middling 12.55. Boston, easy; middling 12.15 Liverpool, steady; middling 6.79<1. Savannah, easy; middling 12%. Norfolk, quiet; middling 12%. Augusta, steady; middling 12 % Moldie, steady; middling 12%. Galveston, steady; middling 12% Charleston, steady; middling 12%. Wilmington, quiet; middling 12c. Little Rock, steady; middling 12< Baltimore, nominal; middling 12%. Memphis, steudy; middling 12%. St. Louis, quiet; middling 12%. Houston, steady; middling 12 9-10. Louisville, firm; middling 12%. Greenville, quiet; middling 11%. Charlotte, steady; middling 12c. TO DAY’S PORT RECEIPTS The following table shown receipts ;\t the ports to-day compared with the name day last year; Shorts Cover Their Lines Early, but Prices Ease Off Later in Absence of Support. By C. W. STORM. NEW YORK. April 22. Tli- inter- ventlon of the government in the Min nesota rate rases had a good effect on the stock market and general gains were shown at the opening to-day. Among them were Amalgamated Hop per %, American Gan %, Anaconda %, Canadian i acific % Chesapeake and Ohio %. United States Steel common Vh. United States Rubber common %, Union Pact fie %, I Leading %, Pennsyl vania %, Northern Pacific %. M1»- Hourl Pacific >*, Great Northern pre ferred •'%. Atchison shaded and Union Pacific lost part of its advance after half an hour. The curb wax steady, Americans in London were strong, specially the llarrirnan group. Cana dian Pacific In London moved up sharply. Although the market was inactive 'luring the forenoon .stocks showed a fractional improvement. Pennsylvania ind Reading roae 1 ,, t Inion i ’aciflc gained % to 155%. Steel common was m % at 63%. Missouri Pacific, Great Northern preferred and Canadian Pacif ic were up %. The tone in the late 'orenoon was steady. Call money loaning at 2%. Trading was dull in the last hour and price changes were without importance. Chesapeake and Ohio gained slightly, but fractional recessions from the noon level were made by Amalgamated Cop per, American Can. Steel, Southern Pa- iM<* and Missouri Pacific. The market closed steudy. Government bonds unchanged Other bonds firm. MONEY AND EXCHANGE. NEW YORK, April 22. Money on call 2%(b2V Time money unchanged, sixty days •0/4% per cent, ninety days 4%@ 4%. six months 4%<&4% per cent. Posted rates: Sterling exchange 4.84 •/4.87, with actual business in jankers’ bills at 4.866514 4.8680 for demand and 4.83404.8345 for sixty-day hills. Prime mercantile paper unchanged TRAINMEN HOLD CONFERENCE. NEW YORK. April 22.—Conductors and trainmen on fifty-four Eastern rail roads will hold their first conference with railways to-day over wage de mand?. METAL MARKET. NEW YORK. April 23.—The metal market was firm to-day. Copper, spot to July offered 15%; lead. 4.58 (bid); spelter, 5.50&5.70; tin, 49.39@ 49.50; zinc, 5.50 <145.70. STOCK EXCHANGE BILL. NEW YORK, April 22. The stock ex change incorporation bill will be consid ered at the executive session of the senate judiciary committee to-day at Al bany. BAR SILVER. LONDON, April 22.— Bar silver steady at 27 1l-l6d. NEW YORK. April 22.—Commercial bar silver, 60c; Mexican dollars, 48c. MINING STOCKS. BOSTON, April 22. Opening: North Butte 30%, Smelting 41. Superior Bos ton 4, Wolverine 61, Calumet Arizona 67. BALTIMORE AND OHIO EARNINGS. NEW YORK, April 22. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad earnings for March shows a net decrease of $1,009,000. For eight months earnings show an increase of $981,600. I 1913. New (Orleans . . • i 5.021 ! 2,236 Galveston. . . . .1 T.iwi; i 9.244 Mobile .{ 185 5 1 9 Savannah. . . . 4,285 3,363 (’harleeton. . . 70 559 Wilmington. . . 267 599 Norfolk 1.114 2 “83 Baltimore . . . Boston. 84 210 Philadelphia. . . Various 6,122 to Total 24.50b 19.751 INTERIOR MOV I M ENT. ! 1913. 1 Houston. . Augusta. . . Memphis. . St. T^ouis. . Cincinnati. . Little Rock. Total. 8.926 COTTON MARKET OPINIONS. Logan & Bryan: We look for lower prices Thompson, Towle & Co. \Yc are very conservative about the long side, though as far as weather is concerned these conditions can change very quickly. Xewburger, Worms \ Newman We still maintain our belief In ultimately lower levels, unless the elements inter fere too long or too much with the crop. Miller A Co.: It is a weather market. Norden A Co.; Wo feel it is better to buy on breaks than to sell. Hayden. Stone & Co.: It is difficult to see what can amuse a favorable opin ion as long as weather continues good. Atwood. Violett & Co.: While the ral ly may go further, we look for lower prices COTTON SEED OIL. Cotton seed oil quotations: I Opening < ’ii'sing. Spot 7.04 (n 7.15 April . 7.07 n 7.13 7.07(n 7.10 May . 7.06(a 7.10 7.05@ 7.06 June 7.07(q 7.14 7.0B© 7.08 July . 7.10.7 7.11 7.08(a 7.09 August .... . 7.14 w 7.15 7.12@ 7.13 September . . . . 7.13(g7.15 7.120i 7.13 October .... . 6.87(a 6.90 6.83 <t 6.85 November . . . 6.6H16.66 6.60@ 6.62 Crude Southeast Crude \ alley ... ... .5.1*4 bid *1 exas mule ... ....5,87 bid Closed heavy; Bales 11.900 barrels. NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET. Coffee quotations: ’ Opening. Closing. January . . . . 11.20(1/ 11.25 1 1.30'q 11.32 February . . . . 11.2HU 11.25 11.32 ft 11.34 March . 11.24 11.35 rq 11.36 April. .... 10.7r,*i 10.77 Maj .10.69 10.8G n 10.81 June , t<).80 m >1 10 94 July. . , , , . '10.95 11.05ft 11.06 August . H.05@1I.15 11.17 fti11.19 September. , , . 11.20 11.17ft 11.19 October. . , , . 11.21 @11.25 It.I7.il 11.19 November. , , . 11.21 1 1.179(1 11.19 .1 »eceml'or. . 11.22 11.17© 11.19 I Closed steady, Sales, 93,500 bags ATLANTA MULE AND HORSE MARKET (Corrected by the National Stock Yards Commission Company; C. G. Tur ner, President.) MuleB. 14 to 14% hands, rough, good ages, $115 to $130. 14 to 12%, finish with quality, $155 to $180. 14% to 15 hands, rough, $130 to $170. 15 to 15% hands, finish, $180 to $205. 16 hands, with quality and finish, $205 to $230. 16 hands, heavy chunk, weighing form 1,250 to 1,400 pounds, $255 to $330. Horses. Southern chunk horses, from $75 to $110. Southern chunk, finish, $1 10 to $135. Good driving horses, quality and finish, ranging in price from $160 to $2*10. Heavy draught horses, rough, $160 to $210. Heavy draught horses, finish, $210 to $300. The following taLI«- shows the highest, lowest Hiid dose to- get her with the previous c lose: [ Stock quotations: Last Prev. STOCK— H igh. Low. Sale. Close. ' Amal. Copper. 78 77'.. 77'/, 77'/, j Am. Ice Sec. 26' 4 2614 26'4 26'/, 1 Am. Sug. Ref. 113» 2 113'/ 2 Am. Smelting. 70’ K 70 69% 70H Am. Locomo.. 35'% 36 Am. Car Fdy.. 51 51 Am. Cot. OH.. 47 47 Am. Woolen. 21 21 Anaconda . 38 7 « 38% 38% 18-, Atchiton 102', 101% 101% 102 A. C. L. 123 123 * 122 122 American Can 35'% 34' 4 34' ' 2 3454 do, pref. 95 95' 4 94 94'4 Am. Beet Sug 20% 31 Am. T.-T. 130' 4 129% 129% 120 Am. Agricul... 51 51 B. R. T. . 90' 4 90 V. 90‘4 90 k B. and O. . 99 a 99 98% 99'4 Can. Pacific.. 246'4 244'% 244% 244' 2 Corn Products 10-4 10% C. and O. . 68% 673a 67% 68' a Consol. Gas. 132'. ■ 132' 2 Cen. Leather . 55'/4 55'/, Colo. F. and 1. 34' 2 34 33% 33% Colo. Southern 31'/» 31 D. and H. . . 160 160 Den. aid R. G 20'., 20' \ Distil. Secur. . 17' „ 167, 16' 4 16',« Erie 304„ 30 30',, 30! 4 do, pref. . 46' 4 46' 4 45 46'i Gen. Electric. 141' 140' 139% 140' 2 Goldfield Cons. 2'/. 2'., C Western. . 145, 15'/. C. North, pfd.. 128' 128' 4 125 7 e 127% G. North. Ore. 36 36 34 35 Int. Harvester. 105 104' 4 Ml. Central. .. 11*% 1193, 119'/, 119!a 1nterboro .... 16% 167, 16% 16 do, pref. 58 58 5734 575, Iowa Central. 8 8 K. C. Southern 25 25 243 4 24', K. and T. 26 26 26 26 do. pref. 60' 4 60'/ 8 L. Valley 161' 8 160 s 160‘e 160' 2 L. and N, . . 133 Mo. Pacific 38 37'4 38 38 N. Y. Central 103' 4 102', 103' 4 103 Northwest. 133 Nat. Lead . 49' 2 N. and W. . 106 4 106% 106 106 No. Pacific. . 116'/* 116 116‘, 8 116'% O. and W.. . 303 4 30% 30% 30*/ 2 Penn. 114% 114' , 1143 4 114'/, j Pacific Mail . 23 P. Gas Co. 112 P. Steel Car . 26 Reading . 165-s 164' 2 1655, 164'/. Rock Island 22 22 22 26 do. pfd.. 377„ 37/2 37'/, 37' 2 R. 1. and Steel 253 4 25?4 253 4 25 do. pfd. . 843 4 843, 84 3 4 84 So. Pacific . . 10112 100'4 100% 101'% So. Railway . 26' 2 26'/ 2 26' 2 26'/. do. pfd.. . . 79 St. Paul. . . 110' 4 1097, 1097., 109'% Tenn. Copper. 36 36 36 36 Texas Pacific. 68' 4 Third Avenue 36 Union Pacific. 155' 2 1543,4 154% 154% U. S. RubTier 64 637, 64 64', „ Utah Copper. 5334 53% 53% 53'/ 2 U. S. Steel . 63'4 627, 627, 627, do. pfd. 108S S 108% 1085, 108' % V.-C. Chem. . 33' 4 33 33 33'% W. Union. . . 665, 66' , 66' , 66* 2 Wabash. . . . »/, do. pfd.. . . 10 W. Electric. . 64 W. Central . . 53'/ 2 W. Maryland. 40'4 PRIMARY MOVEMENT. WHEAT— I 1913. i 1912. Receipts . . . ' •! 471.000 i 231,000 Shipments . . . 2.442,000 ! 281.000 COHN— | | | Receipts . . . 346,000 38 *1.000 Shipments . . • • I 1,183,000 1 370,000 RECENT BUYERS SELLING WHEAT Good Rains Favor Crop Prospects and No Support Is at Hand in the Grain Pit. ST. LOUIS CASH QUOTATIONS. Ill) 222222; U limit So. 2 red Corn—No. 2 red . Oats—No. 2 red . UHiCAGO, April 22.—Wheat was % to hc lower this morning on the mure fa vorable weather throughout the North west fer seeding, coupled with cloudy conditions in the winter wheat belt, where rain is most needed. Northwest ern cars were more liberal and there v.a- a Lix increase in The European vis ible supply for the week. There was a disposition on the part of tiie big longs to continue on the sell- i ing side of the market, and the July, which has been given such great sup port during the past few’ days was not as strong as yesterday. Corn was strong, the principal cause of tlie strength being buying by shorts and the smaller offerings. Oats were firm with corn. Hogs at the yards were 10c lower and the feeling in provisions was easier. W heat dosed with losses of % to 7gc, and sentiment was favorable to the bear sid**. The fact that a round lot of wheat is now on the Lakes, destined to Chicago from Duluth, the amount being placed at 2.000,000 bushels, coupled with cloudy conditions in the Southw'est and scattered showers there, caused heavy liquidation on the part of holders. It is also said that increased receipts of wheat are expected at both Duluth and Chicago. There was considerable May wheat sold by influential concerns, who bought the deferred months instead. Cash sales here were 35,000 bushels wheat: 315,000 corn, and 125.000 oats. Vessel room was chartered for 250,000 bushels corn at 1 %c to Buffalo. Corn closed % to %c lower and the feeling was weak. Oats were off %to%c. Hog products were lower on liquida tion by longs. CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS. CHICAGO. April 22.—Wheat, No. 2 red. 1.07(^1.10%; No. 3 red. 1.00@1.04; No. 2 hard winter, 93@95; No. 3 hard winter, 91 $494%; No. 1 northern spring, 92ft 93; No. 3 spring, 88ft 91. Corn, No. 2, 56%@57; No. 2 white, 58(d 59; No. 2 yellowy 57@57%; No. 3. 55ft. 56%; No. 3 white, 57%<&69: No. 3 yel low, 55ft 57%; No. 4, 54@55%; No. 4 white. 56 ft 57; No. 4 yellow, 54%@55%. Oats, No. 2, 33%: No. 2 white. 36%@ 37; No. 3 white, 34 a .i@35%; No. 4 white, 33%@34%; Standard, 35%@36. CHICAGO CAR LOTS. Following are the receipts for Tuesday and estimated for Wednesday: ITuesday. i\Vedn’sdar Wheat Corn Oats Hogs 137 84 .I 173 . | 12,000 44 45 119 24.000 I. 0. 0. F. SPECIAL SAVANNAH, GA., MAY 27TH. In order to properly take care of I. O. O. F. delegates and their friend? who will attend the Convention at Sa vannah, May 28th-29th, the Central of Georgia Railway will operate special train, to leave Atlanta 8:40 a. m.. May 27th, stopping only at GrifTin and Macon, and scheduled to arrive in Savannah 5:00 p. m. This train will be composed of first class coaches and parlor car. A passen ger representative will accompany this train to render the delegates every nec essary attention. In addition to this special train, there are two other daily trains each wav through without change, leaving Atlanta 8:00 a. m. and 9:35 p. m. Returning, trains leave Savannah 6:45 a m. and 8:00 p. m. Those leaving on night trains, and desiring sleeping car reservations, can make same now by ap plying to W. H. FOGG. District Passenger Agent, Marietta and Peachtree Streets., At lanta. advt MM: New York Dental Offices H 28i/o and 32% PEACHTREE STREET. Over the Bonita Theater and Zakas’ Bakery. OPINIONS ON GRAIN. UH1UAGO, April 22. Bartlett, Frazier A* Co.: Wheat The strength in Liver pool and continued dry weather in the Southwest are likely to give us a firm market to-day. Corn- Do not look for any advance in prices. Oats Very little outside buying and May continues to be liquidated slowlx. Provisions—-We look for a. little firmer market. NEW YORK PRODUCE. NMNY YORK, April 22. Petroleum, firm; crude Pennsylvania 2.50. Turpentine, firm; 43% bid. Rosin, easy; common 5.00 bid. W ool, quiet; domestic fleece, 28 <(30; pulled, scoured basis, 40@60; Texas, scoured basts. -18 @62. Hides, dull, native steers, 16%@19%; branded steers. 15% ft 16%. Coffee steady; options opened 1 to L higher; Rio No. 7 on spot. 11%. Rice, steady; domestic, ordinary to prime, 4%@5%. Molasses, steady; New Orleans, open Kettle, 35@50. Sugar raw. steady; centrifugal, 3.36ft 3.39; muscovado, 2.86@2.89; molasses sugar. 2.61@2.64. LIVERPOOL GRAIN MARKET. LIVERPOOL. April 22. Wheat opened % to ■ »d higher. At 1:30 p. in. the market was % to %d higher; closed % to %d higher. Corn opened unchanged. At 1:30 1 p. m. the market was % to %d higher. m Gold Crowns . Bridge Work . . $3.00 . $4.00 All Other Work at Reasonable Prices. Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue will sell goods. Try it! GROCERS. SUGAR—Per pound: Standard granu lated 6c. New York refined 4%e, plan tation 4 85c. COFFEE — Roasted (Arbuckle’s) $24.50. A A AA, $14.50 tn bulk, in bags and barrels. $21. green 20c. RICE- Head 4%@5%c, fancy bead 5% @6%c, according to grade. LARD- Silver leaf 13c poifnd. Scoco Mound, Flake White 8%r pound, Cottolene $7.20 per case, Snowdrift $5.85 per case. SALT One hundred pounds, 53c; salt brick (plain) per case, $2.25; salt brick (medicated) per ease. $1.85; salt red rock per hundredweight $1. ^alt white per hundredweight 90c, Granocrystal, i per « nse, 25 lb. sacks, 75c; salt ozone, per case, 30 packages, 90c; 50 lb. sacks. 30<*: 26-lb. sacks 12c. MISCELLANEOUS — Georgia cane H.vrup 37c, axle grease $ l7r 5. .soda crackers 7Vic pound, lemon crackers 8c. | oyster 7c. tomatoes (3 pounds) $1.66 case, (3 pounds) $2 25, navy beans. $3.25; Lima beans 7%e, shredded biscuit $3.60, rolled oats $3.90 per case, grits (hags) $2.40, pink salmon $7, cocoa 3S<\ roast beef $3.80, syrup 30o per gallon, Sterling hall potash $3.80 per ease, soap $1.50ft> 4 per case, Rutuford baking powder $2.50 per case. DECATUR ITS EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES A SECOND NEW Public School Building, costing ap proximately $25,000, will be erected in Decatur before Sep tember. The site has been bought, plans have been ac cepted by the Board of Education, and work will be begun in a few days. This is the SECOND new public school building erected in DECATUR in three years, made neces sary by the growth of population from 2,400 in 1910 to about 3,600 to-day. Eor the past year DECATUR has operated a public IliCU SCHOOL of three grades. Beginning in September there will be added a FOURTH HIGH SCHOOL grade, making it so that boys and girls may be prepared in DE CATUR for the best college and universities in the United States and for LIFE ANYWHERE. AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE Grows steadily by every standard by which a great wom an's college is judged. To-day it ranks among the first educational institutions of America. BESIDES, residents of DECATUR enjoy all the edu cational advantages of ATLANTA, with which it is closely connected by TWO ELECTRIC LINES, Georgia Railroad, TELEPHONE and DRIVEWAYS. SEND FOR BOOKLET. DECATUR BOARD OF TRADE DECATUR, GA. BELL PHONE DECATUR 148 WEEKES BUILDING MEM AMD REUGIOH BULLETIN No. 55 Nine!]/ Per Cent Jacob, Woman’s Wage, The Price of Opera Seats, And a Tee 44 Thou fool, this night thy Soul shall be required of thee; then whose shall those things be?” LUKE 12:20 Jacob was a business man. ‘‘If God will be with me," he said,‘‘And will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on— ‘‘Then shall the Lord be my God— ‘‘And of all that Thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto Thee." Ninety per cent for himself! Ten per cent for God! Generous Ja cob? His favorite son, Joseph, cornered the world’s grain and enslaved the old man and his other sons through their necessities. And until this day we suffer from Jacob’s percentage ideas. YOU are content if you get your ninety per cent, but you say: ‘‘Touch not the tariff, it will lower the laborer’s wage! ‘‘Name no living wage for girls. To do so would throw many un skilled ones out of employment. ‘‘If I have to pay women and girls enough for them to live upon, why—I will employ boys and young men. Then what will become of the girls?" LO, THE PHILANTHROPIST! You pat yourself upon the back for employing a woman at a wage upon which she cannot live. To decrease your percentage, your dividends and increase her wages, her living, might be wise! A factory owner said: “The average wage in my place is five dollars a week." Five dollars? For that, her week’s wages, you may get a seat at the opera, but she cannot live. HER QUESTION is not: “Shall I go to the Opera, and forget the barrenness of my room, the loneliness of my life in hearing God-given music?" BUT— “Shall I have shelter to-night?" For the grocer and butcher must be paid; the landlord must have his rent; the landlady is compelled to collect the board bill, however kind her heart may be. One girl received four dollars a week; an inferior room and board cost her three dollars and sixty cents a week. The remaining forty cents a week would not meet her necessities. For several weeks she did not pay the whole of her board. The landlady finally said: “You must pay.” The girl left hei; trunk with he r and found board at three dollars a week with the understanding that sh e would hold her trunk for thirty days. At the end of that time the girl had saved three dollars; her debt was eight. For the lack 6f five dollars ? Friends found her in time. BUT CONSIDER THIS: A madam of one of the houses which were in our midst paid one of our City Fathers, a lawyer, one hundred dollars, just twenty times the amount the girl lacked after thirty days of slavery. Why did the madam pay the Alderman one hundred dollars? To insure herself a peaceful residence with her mamma in the house— never to get the lawyer to plead in open court with Recorder Broyles. WHY did the Alderman take the fee? Men are saying: “THANK GOD, we have in Atlanta NO one man, three men or six men government at this time. There is safety in num bers." The Chief of Police rightly closed the woman’s house. POOR DE LUDED CREATURE! She and those who prey upon her kind are learning at last that pro tected vice can not be revived in Atlanta. But the other problems—the barren and lonely room, the underpaid girl— ’ These, too, will be quickly solved. Bernard Shaw says: “THE WAGES of prostitution are stitched into your button holes, and into your blouse, pasted into your match boxes and your boxes of pins, stuffed into your mattresses, mixed with the paint on your walls, and stuffed between the joints of your water pipes. “The very glaze on your basin and teacup has in it the lead poison that you offer to the decent woman as the reward of honest labor, while the procuress is offering chicken and champagne. “YOU will not cheat the recording angel into putting down your debts to the wrong account." To-day God is asking you: “WHY do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your la bor for that which satisfieth not?" To-day Jesus is saying to you: “Take my yoke upon you and learn of Me." You will pay her a living wage. THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE MEN AND RELIGION FORWARD MOVEMENT r * -1 b - • r - ,4 ■ .1 ♦ \ mm H • --..a