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14 Till- ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1913. t < COTTON PRICES »itj< L i Large Spot Houses Heavy Sellers. Good Weather and Labor Troubles Are Blamed. NEW YORK, April 22.—In the face ot ttteaay cables, the cotton market opened barely steady to-day. with prices 4 points off to 1 point higher than last night’s close. Room traders were in a bearish model, particularly a* to near months, and offerings became heavy enough to force, prices off some 7 to 15 points from the owning range May nr>d July were heavily sold. \Jany of the most conservative spot houses sold, which encouraged freer offering from the ring and Wall Street. May dropped to 11.56, against an open ing of 11.71; July fell from 11.72 to » 11.59: August followed by losing 11 >»oints from the initial figure The new crofm followed, hut thtur losses were - smaJler New Orleans and Uverpool were lib eral sellers The continued liquidation is chiefly based upon the continued favorable weather conditions In almost every sc« lion of the cotton belt. In ulmost every section of the belt preparation is a I * most complete and planting is In full swing The majority of traders say t 1t is a weather market, and if weatl - or developments are good during the » next few weeks, it will give the planter ample time' to plant a large acreage The attitude of the market during the next month will he governed by the course of the weather In addition to ideal weather, a po tent factor, which is causing consid- £ erable unfavorable apprehension, is the « weakness in the Southern spot situation. Spots all over the belt are reported cheaper, with little demand. Such fac tors cause hesitation among the bulls. / Many recent bulls are now the most radical hears. A few of them are pre dicting lie cotton for July and August and October as low as 10*£g. » 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 Monchester stating that the labor trouble was becoming more serious, . brought out heavier selling during the afternoon session. The market was * given no support, and May increased its decline to 11.52, July to 11.54 The mi entire list made declines of D to 19 points from the Initial level. * Commission houses were good sellers, while the buying was mainly from shorts and scattered buying of the new , tic crops. This buying, however, was not effective. UH At the dose the market was steady - ■ with prices at a net decline of 13 to 16 points from the final quotations of Mon- day. RANGE IN NEW YORK FUTURES. m tm 11.71111.71! 11.51111.62(11.51 -52 11.67-68 | j 111.53-57 11.70-72 11.72 11.72 11.64 11.65111.54-55 11.69-70 11.54 11.54111.36 11.38! 11.37-38 11.52-53 ...I . ! 111.21-23 11.35-36 1131 11.31111 17 11.18 11.17-18 11.30-31 II. 34 1 1.35 11.20 11.20 11.20-21 11.34-36 III. 89 11.29 11 17 1 1.20 11.16-18 11.29-30 111.80111.31II 1.28 11.28 1 1.21-2311.31-35 RANGE IN LIVERPOOL FUTURES. iv ■lit m I fi I Have You A Room To Rent? A little “WANT AD” in The G-eor- gian will ring the bell and take down the sign. These ads bring results, as the people read them c 1 O High Low a Close ii £e COTTON GOSSIP NEW YORK. April 22. .1. M. Ander son says: "The cotton market has re ceived very little or no support to-day. Waters, Sheargon and (ieeran sold the market oft shortly after the opening it looks like the uptown crowd is selling and Wall Street also. It Is generally be lieved that prices will work lower” • * * The weather continues favorable and the local crowd seems Inclined to sell. Business 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 Woodiawn plantation, several miles north of May- orsvllle, Miss., midday between Vicks burg a fid «Jreenvllle The break will flood all of Sharkey and Isaquenna coun ties und nearly all of Washington and Warren Federal engineers say 1,130 square miles will he affected by over flow. Last night rain was threatening all along the lower river section. All records were wiped out last night wdien the gauge at 4 p. m. read 51.6 feet with the river still rising The Journal of Commerce says: "The weather is a trifle cool west of tire Mis sissippi River. Western Texas needs rain Estimated Increase of acreage in that State 5 to 15 per cent. Very favor able crop reports from many sections.” * * * Following are 11 a. m. bids: May, 11.60; July, 11.62; October, 11.21; Janu ary. 11.22. * * * NEW ORLEANS, April 22 —Hayward & Clark: The weather map shows cloudy in Texas and Oklahoma, with some light rain in West Texas; fair in Central and Eastern States, indications arc for unsettled weather, with rains in Texas and Oklahoma; cloudy, lajcoming unsettled in the Central States; contin ued fair in the Atlanties. * * * River News: Cairo. 45.2; Vicksburg, 51.7; Memphis. 40.4: New Orleans, 19.?. Liverpool cables: "American mid dling fair, 7.37d; good middling, 7.03d; middling, 6.83d; low middling. 6.67d; good ordinary. 6 33d; ordinary, 6.98d.” * * • * 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 be 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 (Jreenvllle, 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, but 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 fact the eorpse- stabbers 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, Home of which were inundated last Spring and again in January this year and again in April. It is 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 are 10 a. m. bids: May, 12.25; July, 12.07: October, 11.34; Jan uary, 11.38. E Shorts Cover Their Lijies Early, but Prices Ease Off Later in Absence of Support. By C. W. STORM. NEW YORK, April 22.—The inter vention of the government in the Min nesota rate cases had a good effect on the stork market and general gains were shown at the opening to-day. Among them were Amalgamated Cop- oer ] t, American (’an Anaconda %, Canadian Pacific %, Chesapeake and Ohio L. United Slates Steel common U, i fritted Statef Rubber common L. Union Pacific •"•*, Reading L. Pennsyl vania L, Northern Pacific V*. Mis souri Pacific \, Croat Northern pre ferred ■>. Atchison shaded and Union Pacific lost part of its advance after half an hour. The curb was steady. Americans in London were strong, specially the Harriman group. Cana dian Paoirh in J.ondon moved up sharply. • Although fhe market was inactive Turing the forenoon stocks showed a fractional improvement. Pennsylvania and Reading rose Union Pacific gained to 155**. Steel common was id e at 63*4. Missouri Pacific, Great Northern preferred and Canadian Pacif- .<• were up V The tone in the late 'orenoon was steady. (’all 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- •;fle and Missouri Pacific. The market closed steady. Government bonds unchanged. Other bonds firm. MONEY AND EXCHANGE. NEW YORK, April 22. Money on call - :i 4til2 7 8• Time money unchanged, sixty lays 4(ft)4*4 per cent, ninety days 4*4(ft) 4Ms. six months 4*4(ft)4*4 per cent. Posted rates: Sterling exchange 4.84 (ft 4.87, with actual business in bankers’ bills at 4.8665®4.8880 for demand and 4.8340® 4.8345 for sixty-day bills. 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 today over wage de mands. Today's New York Stock Market The following table shows the highest, lowest and close, to gether with the previous elose: Stock quotations: Last Prev. METAL MARKET. NEW YORK, April 23.—The metal market was firm to-day. Copper, spot to July offered 15%; lead. 4.58 (bid); spelter, 5.50ft 5.70; tin, 49.39@49.50; zinc, 5,50(ft/5.70. STOCK EXCHANGE BILL. NEW YORK, April 22. -The stock ex change incorporation bill will be consid ered at (he executive session of the senate judiciary committee to-day at Al bany. BAR SILVER. LONDON, April 22.—Bar silver steady at 27 11 -16d. NEW YORK. April 22. -Commercial bar silver, 60c; Mexican dollars, 48c. LIVERPOOL. April 22. This market J WHS due to Open 1 to 2 points higher, but opened quiet 1 to 1*4 points higher. At 12:15 p. m. the market was quiet, at a net advance of 1 to 1% points higher T- Fair business doing in spot cotton at 4 points advance. middling 6.83d, sales 8.000 bales, including 7,000 American Dales; imports 6,000 bales. Including 3,000 American hales. At the close the market was easy with prices at a net decline of 3 to 4 r points from the final figures of Mon day. ' ’ Futures opened quiet * Opening Prev. Range. Close Close tpril ... .6.57 -6.56Vs 6.52V2 6.55Vi ' April-May . . 6.63*4 6/49 6.52 May-June . . .6.53 -6.52 6.48Vis 6.52*4 ) lune-July . . .6.52 -6.51 6.47 6.50/ July-Aug . . .6.48 -6.47U 6.43 6.16*., Aug.-Sept . . .6.36 -6.37 6.32Va 6.36*.. *■ Sept.-Got. . .6,25 -6.24 6.20 6.23*» * Oct.-Nov. . . -6.16h.-6.16 6.12 6.15*. *" NoV.-Dec. . . .6.13 -6.12*4 6.08**. 6.12 Deo.-Jan. . . .6.12 6.07*4 6.11 4 Jan.-Feb . . .6.11 -G.10 6.06*4 6.10 Fob.-Moh. . 6.10 6.07*4 6.11 Closed easy. * HAYWARD & CLARK’S DAILY COTTON LETTER NEW ORLEANS, April 22. -The Liv erpool board shows a narrow market following the changes In New York. Political news shows that no progress f is being made toward peace. Another » ultimatum was sent to Montenegro. The allies have practically accepted the proposed terms of the Powers, but have reserved for themselves the most im portant question of division of territory. Liverpol cabled: “Labor troubles in ICast Lancashire coming. Feeling very bitter.” The Journal of Commerce says that reports from New' England states arc that trade In cotton goods is beginning .. to show a steady decline. Our market to-day was easy from the start und sagged to 12.05 for July in the second hour RANGE NEW ORLEANS FUTURES. 16. Estimated receipts tor Wednesday: ! 913. 1912. New Orleans........ 2.700 to 4,70rt 2,441 Galveston . . 4.200 to 5,200 589 SPOT COTTON MARKET. Atlanta, .quiet; middling 113-16. A the s, steady; middling 12 1 «. Macon, steady; middling 12 New Orleans, quiet; middling 12 7 New York, quiet; middling 12.15. Philadelphia, quiet, middling 12.55. Boston, easy; middling 12.15. Liverpool, steady; middling 6.79d. Savannah, easy; middling 1 IS*<«■ Norfolk, quiet: middling 12V,.. Augusta, steady; middling 12 V Mobile, steady: middling 12*4. Galveston, steady; middling 12%. Charleston, steady; middling 12 : v Wilmington, quiet; middling 12c. Little Rock, steady; middling 12c. Baltimore, nominal; middling 12*4- Memphis, steady; middling 12%. St. Louis, quiet; middling 12%. Houston, steady; middling 12 9-16. Louisville, firm: middling 12%. Greenville, quiet; middling 11%. Charlotte, steady; middling 12c. MINING STOCKS. BOSTON, April 22.—Opening: North Butte 30%, .-Duelling 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 allows a nef decrease of $1,009,000. For eight months earnings show an increase of $981,600. TO-DAY'S PORT RECEIPTS. The following table shows receipts at the ports to-day compared with the same day last year: Ap 12 11 | My 12 31 12 31 12 2t' 12.23 12.33-24 12.32-33 In 12.17-1“ 12.20-23 ' ,||v 12 13112.14 12.03 12.06112.06-07 12.15-17 \K 11.83 11.S3 11.7(1 11.70111 70-72 11.*:; Set 11.42 11.42 11.42 11.42 11.84-40 11.50-52 Oc 111.3* 11.38111.27 11.20 11.28-29 11.40-41 ,T 11.28-30 11.10-42 »<■ 11 4011.40 11.28 11.30 11.29-3(1 11.42-4;: 111 11.41 11.41111.31.11.31,11.32-33 11.44-45 sj.-.iiiv 1913'. | 1912. New Orleans . . . 5,021 2.236 Galveston 7,033 9,244 Mobile 185 " 519 Savannah 4.285 3,362 Charleston. . . . 70 559 Wilmington. . . . 267 599 Norfolk. 1.414 2.982 Baltimore . . . . Boston 84 ... 210 Philadelphia. . . . Various •>' 6.122 40 Total. 24.506 r.'.76i INTERIOR MOVEMENT. 1913. 1912. Houston 4.045 3,277 Augusta 67 869 Memphis 482 1,154 St. Louis 1.215 2,835 Cincinnati 297 837 Little Rock. . . . 154 Total 6.106 8,926 every day. COTTON MARKET OPINIONS. Logan & Bryan: We look for lower prices. Thompson. Towle Co.: We are very conservative about the long side, though as far as weather is concerned these conditions can change very quickly. New burger. 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 «SL Co.: U is a weather market. Norden A Co.; We feel it is better to buy on breaks than to sell. Hayden. Stone & Co Tt is difficult to see what can arouse a favorable opin ion as long as weather continues good. Atwood. Yiolett A Co.: While the ral- ATLANTA MULE AND HORSE MARKET (Corrected by the National Stock Yards Commission Company: C. G. Tur ner, President.) M mes. 14 to 14*/2 hands, rough, good ages, $115 to $130. 14 to 12W finish with quality, $155 to $180. 14% to 16 hands, rough, $130 to $170. 15 to 15*4 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, $110 to $135. 1 Good driving horses, quality and finish, \ ranging in price from $160 to $210. Heavy draught horses, rough, $160 to $210 Heavy draught horses, finish, S210 to $300. OPINIONS ON GRAIN. CHIC AG* *. Apihl 22. Bartlett, Frazier & 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 slowly. Provisions—We look for a little firmer market. NEW YORK PRODUCE. NEW YORK, April 22.—Petroleum, firm; crude Pennsylvania 2.50. Turpentine, firm; 43Va bid. Rosin, easy; common 5.00 bid. Wool, quiet; domestic fleece, 28ft>30; pulled, scoured basis, 40(ft-60; Texas, scoured basis. 48(ft 62. Hides, dull; native steers, 16%(ft 19%; branded steers, 15%(ft 16%. Coffee, steady; options opened 1 to 5 higher; Rio No. 7 on spot. 11%. Rice, steady: domestic, ordinary to prime. 4%(ft)5%. Molasses, steady; New Orleans, open kettle, 354ft 50. Sugar raw. steady; centrifugal. 3.36(ft 3.39; muscovado, 2 864)2.89; molasses sugar, 2.614) 2.64. LIVERPOOL GRAIN MARKET. LIVERPOOL, April 22 Wheat opened * *4 to %d higher. \i 1:30 p. m. the j market was % to %d higher; closed % j to \d higher. Corn opened unchanged. At 1:30 1 p, m. the market was % to %d higher. Amal. Copper. 78 rr/ t 77% 77% | Am. Ice Sec . 26' 4 26' 4 20'% 26'/* Am. Sug. Ref. 113' 2 113'/ 2 Am. Smelting. 70? « 70 69 <4 70% Am. Locomo... 35'4 36 Am. Car Fdy.. 51 51 Am. Cot. OH.. 47 47 Am. Woolen. . 21 21 Anaconda 38% 38% 38% 38% Atchison . . . 102' „ 101 7 fi 10P 4 102 A. C. L. . 123 123 122 122 American Can 36'/ 2 34' , 34 34% do, pref. . 95* 2 95' 4 94 94% Am. Beet Sug. 30' 2 31 Am. T.-T. 130' 4 129% 1293 4 130 Am. Aqricul... *1 51 B. R. T 90% 90% 90% 90% B. and O. 99 J „ 99 983 4 99' % Can. Pacific.. 2453 fi 244' 2 2443 4 244' 2 Corn Products 10*4 10% C. and O. . 68% 67 3 4 67% 68% Consol. Gas. . 132' " 2 132'4 Cen. Leather. . 55' '4 55% Colo. F. and 1. 34' 2 34'/a 333 4 33(4 Colo, Southern 31* s 31 D. and H 160 160 Den. and R. G. 20'% 20*4 Distil. Sacur. . 17' » 16 7 b 16% 16'/4 Erie 30‘a 30 30% 30'4 do. pref. . . 46' 4 46' 4 45 46% Gen. Electric. 141'/a 140' . 1393 4 1401/2 Goldfield Cons. 2% 2% G. Western . . 14% 15% G. North, pfd.. 128' 128' 4 125% 127% G. North. Ore. 36 36 34 35 Int. Harvester 105 104'4 III. Central. .. 119 3 4 1191-8 119' 2 11®'/2J Interboro .... 16 7 s 16% 16% 16 do, pref. . 58 58 573 4 5754 Iowa Central. 8 8 K. C. Southern 25 25 2434 24/2 K. and T 26 26 26 26 do, pref. 60'4 60' 8 L. Valley. 161' e 160-3 8 160% 160' 2 L. and N. 133 Mo. Pacific 38 37'4 38 38 N. Y. Central 103'% 102% 103' 4 103 Northwest. 133 Nat. Lead . 49' . N. and W. . 106'. 4 106*4 106'4 106 No. Pacific. . 116' 2 116 116% 11614 O. and W. 303/4 30% 30' 2 Penn 1143 4 1141/a 114% 114*4 Pacific Mail . 23 P. Gas Co. . . 112 P. Steel Car 26 Reading . . . 1653r 164' 2 165% 164/2 Rock Island . 22 22 22 26 do. pfd.. . 37 7 r 371/a. 37' 2 37' 2 R. 1. and Steel 25% 253 4 253 4 25 do. pfd. 843 4 84% 843 4 84 So. Pacific . . 101»/ t 100' 4 1003, 101 4 So. Railway 26', a 26'/2 26% 26/2 do. pfd. 79 St. Paul. 110' 4 109% 109% 109*/2 Tenn. Copper. 36 36 36 36 Texas Pacific. 68/4 Third Avenue 36 Union Pacific. 155' j 154% 1543 4 154% U. S. Rubl>er 64 63% 64 64% Utah Copper. 533 4 533 4 533 4 53' 2 U. S. Steel 63' 4 62% 62% 62% do. pfd. 1083 a 108% 108% 108,2 V.-C. Chem. 33'/4 33 33 33 4 W. Union. . . 66=8 66'/8 66'/, 66/2 I Wabash. . . . 3' a do. pfd. 10 W. Electric. . 64 W. Central . . 53'/a | W. Maryland. 40'/^| PRIMARY MOVEMENT. WHEAT— 1913. ! 1912. Receipts . . . 471.000 231.000 Shipments . . 2.442,000 2 81,000 COHN— | | ! Receipts . . . 346,000 1 383.000 Shipments . . 1.183,000 3 76,000 RECENT BUYERS SEELING WHEAT Good Rains Favor Crop Prospects and No Support Is at Hand in the Grain Pit. ST. LOUIS CASH QUOTATIONS. Wheat Corn N< Oats -No, No. 2 red red .. red .. . .110 CHICAGO. April 22. Wheat was to %c lower this morning on the more fa vorable weather throughout the North west for seeding, coupled with cloudy conditions in the winter wheat belt, where rain is most needed. Northwest ern ears were more liberal and there was a big increase in the European vis ible supply .’or the week. There was a disposition on the part of the big longs to continue on the sell 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 the strength being buying by shorts and the smaller offerings. Oats were firm with corn. Hogs at the yards were 10c lower and tlie feeling in provisions was easier. Wheat closed with losses of % to %<\ and sentiment was favorable to the bear side. 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 Southwest and scattered showers there, caused heavj 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 l%c to Buffalo. Corn closed % to Vic lower and the feeling was weak. Oats were off %toVic. Hog products were lower on liquida tion by longs. CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS. CHICAGO. April 22.—Wheat. No. 2 red, 1.07 ft 1.10%; No. 2 red. 1.004) 1.04; No. 2 hard winter. 93(ft;95; No. 3 hard winter, 9l@94*4; No. 1 northern spring, 924ft93; No. 3 spring, 884) 91. Corn, No. 2, 56%(ft-57; No. 2 white, 584/ 59: No. 2 yellow, 574) 57%; No. 3, 55(ft 56V£; No. 3 white, 57%(ft59: No. 2 yel low. 554/ 57%; No. 4, 54ft 55%: No. 4 w'hite, 56(ft57: No. 4 yellow, 54%@55%. Oats, No. 2. 33%; No. 2 white', 36% @ 37; No. 3 white, 34%<ft35%; No. 4 white. 33%ft34%; standard, 35% (ft 36. CHICAGO CAR LOTS. Following are the receipts for Tuesday and estimated for Wednesday: ITuesday. tWedn’sda? Wheat . . . . . . .! 137 I 44 Corn . . . ... 84 ! 45 (>ats . . . . . . 173 1 119 Hogs . . . . . .1 12,000 | 24,000 I. 0. 0. F. SPECIAL SAVANNAH, GA„ MAY 27TH. i In order to properly take care of I. O. O. F. delegates and their friends 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 Griffin and Macon, and scheduled to arrive in Savannah 5:0u 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 way through without change, leaving Atlanta 8:00 a, m. and 9:35 ]> m. Returning, trains leave Savannah 6:45 a m. and 8:00 p. m. Those leaving on night train*, 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 New York Dental Offices 28*4 and 32% PEACHTREE STREET. Over the Bonita Theater and Zakas’ Bakery. Gold Crowns . . . $3.00 Bridge Work . . . $4.00 All Other Work at Reasonable Prices. DECATUR ITS EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES =d lv may go furtl er, we look for lower prices. COTTON SEED OIL. Cot Ion seed oil quotations: | Opening. Closing. Spot 7.04 fi 7.15“ April T.OTfti 7.12 7.07 ./ 7.10 May 7.06ft 7.10 7.05ft 7.06 June 7.07ft 7.14 7.06ft 7.00 July 7.10ft 7.11 7.08ft 7.00 August .... 7.14ft 7.15 7.124/'?.13 September . . . 7.13ft 7.15 7.12ft 7.13 October . . 6.87 <1 6.90 6.83ft 6.85 November 6.61 ft 6.66 6.60s, 6.62 Crude Southeast .. . .6.00 bid Crude A alley . . . . .5.94 hill Texas crude .... ... .5.87 bid Closed heavy; sales 11,900 barrels. NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET. Coffee quotations: Opening. Closing. January. „ . . 11.20ft 11.;;% 11.30ft11.32 February . . . 11.1! ft 11.1-5 11.32 •! 11.34 March . 11.24 !1.35ft 11.36 April 10.739, 10.77 May .10.69 10.Si ft 10.81 June . 10.80 10.1*24/ 10.!' t July . 10.95 11.05ft11.06 litlgU^ . . . . 11 .L5ft 11. IT 11.17(1/11.19 Septrtfc be/ . 11.20 ill.174lll.lil October. U. 21 (dll. 25 11.1791 11.19 1 November. . . 11.: 1 11.17ft 1J.U* J| December 1*1.22' 11.17ft 11.19 Closed steady. Sales. 93/00 bags U 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 5c. New York refined 4%e, plan tation 4.85c. COFFEE - Roasted (Arbuckle’s) $24.50, t\.\ \.\, $14.50 in bulk; in bags and barrels. $21; green 20c. RICE -Head 4 V ■ / 5%c. fancy head 5-\ ft6*4c, according to grade. LARD—Silver leuf 13c pound, Scoco pound. 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 case. $4.85; salt red rock per hundredweight $1; salt white per hundredweight 90c, Granocrystal, per case, 25-lb. sacks, 75c; salt ozone. ; per case. 30 packages, 90c; 50-lb. sacks, 30e: 2.‘-lb. sacks 12e. MISCELLANEOUS — Georgia rar.e i *>•**»P 37c. axle grease $1.75. soda I crackers 7%c pound, lemon crackers 8c, oyster 7c, tomatoes (2 pounds) $1.65 case, (3 pounds) *2 25. navy beans, $3.25; Lima beans 7%c, shredded biscuit $3.60, rolled oats $3 40 per case, grits (bags) S2 40, pink salmon $7. eocca 38c. roast ! beef $3.80. syrup 80c per gallon. Sterling ball potash $3.30 per ease, soap $1,504® 4 per case. Rum ford baking powder $2 50 per case. A SECOND NEW Public School Building, costing ap proximately $25,000, will be erected in Decatur before Sep tember. The site lias been bought, plans have been ac cepted by the Board of Education, and work will bo begun in a «fe\v 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 9,000 to-day. For the past year DECATUR has operated a public HIGH 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 MEN AND RELIGION BULLETIN No. SS Ninety Per Cent Jacob, Woman’s Wage, The Price ot Opera Seats, Anri a Fee. “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 giris?” 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 her trunk with her and found board at three dollars a week with the understanding that she 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 of 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 hers.” 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