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1 J11\ Aii/AlMA UtiUfUjilA^ AINU iN £, IV S. ST YERKES Discovery Is Made by Argentine Astronomer—Professors Try ing to Fix Orbit. Players Will Speak On'BlueBird'andlts Author, Maeterlinck MISS ALICK Bl’TLER. COTTON STOCKS GRAIN NEW YORK, Dec. 26 Trading in the cotton market wan «lull ai the opening to-day In the ahnence «»f Uverpool <a- blen and first prices were 1 to it points lower than Wednesday's close There was some selling by New Orleans, Mem phis and Wall street. The ring seemed inclined to take the short side, resulting In prices declining some 3 to 7 points from the initial range. loafer the market developed strength, due to active buying by leading spot houses and a wave of scattered shprt covering, which was a factor in the r* covery during the forenoon This held the list firm, with prices practically un changed from the previous close Estimated cotton receipts: Tuesday. lid 2. New Orleans .9.000 to ID,000 11,226 (la I vest on . . .6,600 to 6,000 18.532 M MEW Y0HK COTTON. S A X FR ANCISt'O, I >e< 26.— There's a new comet In the offing. | Whither it is headed no one knows J Astronomers at the Yerkes Obser vatory hope, if they arc able to get) an observation, to determine the orbit | of the new heavenly body. For nights and nights at the oh- j servatory telescopes have been set. i Trained men put their eyes to thti instruments and swept the heavens.! hoping to < atoh a glimpse of the j comet they knew was somewhere above them Soon their labors were j rewarded. There it is' shouted Dr. E. B. j Frost, director of the observatory, I and sure enough, "there #it was.” j Again another Meeting view of the comet was obtained. The new comet was discovered by Delevan an Argentine astronomer Then Professor Graft, of Hamburg, verified the discovery, and now the scientists at the Yerkes Observatory, where there is the most powerful telescope in the world have check ed up. * "The new comet is very dim as yet. said Dr. Frost "It is barely discernible through powerful lenses far away to the south. But we have seen it in fact, have had two very good views of It. The next thing is to determine the orbit of the new cornel. The only way that this can be done is to get the sights on three successive nights. Then, by noting the change of posi tion on these nights we can get at the orbit Within a few days we shall know more about the mysterious visitor, whence it comes and whither it is bound. "It Is possible that the new comet may be coming this way and that sooner or later we will get a better, >ight of it. It is possible that it will soon fade from sight. Comets are ‘ uncertain things.” Slays Wife and Self In Child's Presence I INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. L-6. —In the presence of their 12-venr-oid daufch'- i u r, James f. Carney, 42. a carpenter. ‘ >hot and killed ; Is wife yesterday j «nd then committed unhide. "Papa came home drunk last night," i sobbed little Laura Carney, “and this morning he accused mamma of ta.t- ! ,ng a bottle of whisky from Ills pock- I • I She said she did not. and he shot her and then shot himself." SM, 1 >ec. .Ian Feb Mcii April May .1 line July Auk Sepi ( let. I I 1,1 I Frev. OoenlHIgh Taow Norm Cm*# 12.10|12.10,12.03 12.10 ft. 12-15 I I .91 11.94 11.88 11.92 II.94-95 11.99-03 12.18 12.2112.14 12.18 12.21 j 12.16-20 12.15,12 17 12. 10 12 14 12.16-17 12 Lt Li 12.16 2.17)12.12 12.15 12.18-19 11.99 1 1.99 1 I.99 11.99 I I.98-12 . . 1 1 1. 11.75 . ... 11.59-61 By CHARLES W. STORM. NEW YORK, Dec. 26. After slight recessions in the initial dealings in the stock market to-day, vigorous buying In all the important issues caused sharp advances, carrying prices in many stocks up to a new high level for the movement. Most interest was attached to the trading in Reading and in the first few j mitlutes the price rose to 170%, against i 170's a' the close Wednesday Amalgamated Copper also advanced more than a point, selling ai 75, and I'nion Pacific advanced a point to 157. The trading in United States Steel common was on a large scale and that stock advanced % to 60%. Lehigh Val iev sold ex-dividend and made a gain of 2 points. At the end of the first fifteen min utes the tone was ore of pronounced strength and the volume of trading was larger than it has been in many months. The curb market was steady. The London market was closed Slock quotations lo noon CHICAGO, Dec. 26.—Wheat opened easier These were no cables from abroad and traders were without earl.v guidance Snows over the West and evenness in corn caused bttle selling Corn was easy an a result of the fore cast of favorable weather over the belt ami prospects for larger receipts to-day. oats weer easy in sympathy with other grains. Provisions were firm. CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET grr ■llnlilllilH I! Crain quotations to noon: Miss Alice Butler, an Anglo-French actress of ability, will address the public conference on Maeterlinck and ‘‘The Blue Bird” at the Atlanta Thea ter next Tuesday afternoon. On her mother's side she is collaterally re lated to the family of General ogie- thorpe. who came to America early in the eighteenth century and found ed the colony of Georgia. In the pa ternal line Miss Butler is one of the Augeardes, an aristocratic Norman flamlly, one of whose squires was knighted for bravery on the battle field by King Henry I of England. Adrienne Augearde is her sister. Miss Butler came from England years and years ago to sing the Gil bert & Sullivan operettas in one of the IVOyley Carte companies. She remained in this country to become a dramatic character woman. and played important roles in the com panies of Richard Mansfield, Leslie Carter and Nat Goodwin. For the last three years she lias been playing NEW ORLEANS COTTON. | | | | I Pr«T Obenflllgh ILow Noon' Cioss 11«< I LO % 19 12. i 11 1 9 1 2 2': I Jan 1*2.20 12.20l I 2.15 12. 1812.23-24 Feb. j 12.28-30 Mch. . . 12.48 12.48:12.42 12.45 12.49-50 April 112.50-52 May . .12 60112.60,12.56 12.59 12.61-62 June . . 1 i 12.6-62 July 12.64112.64jl2.69 12.62 12.65-66 Oct . . . j 12-56 LIVE STOCK MARKET. < ’I IK 'AGO. Dec. 26. Hogs Receipts 17,000. Market 10c higher. Mixed and butchers, $7.05(b8.00; good heavy, $7.8:Vu 7.95; rough heavy. $7.(0(jn>7.80: light. $7.65 (a 7.90; pigs, $5.90fij>7.40; bulk, $7.75(6,7.90. Cattle Receipts 2,500. Market steady. Beeves, $6.75*/ 9.50: cows and heifers. $3.26(^8.10; Stockers and feeders, $5.60(g) 7.40; Texans, $6.40®7.50; calves. $8.50(fa 11.00. Sheep Receipts 8,000. Market strong. Native* and Western. $3.25®5.40; lambs, $5.85*/ 8.00. CHICAGO. Dec. 26. - Cattle—Receipts 1,800, Including 400 Southerns. Market 1.0® 15c higher Native beef steers. 7.50 <09*5; cows and heifers, 4.25(08.50; stockers and feeders, 5.00(07.50, calves. 6 00*i 11.00. Texas steers, 5.76#7.00; cows and heifers 4.00di6.00 Hogs Receipts 6,500. Market 10c high er Mixed, 7.80(08.10; good, 8.00®8.15; rough. 7.60(07.76; lights 7.75(08.05; pigs, 6.60*/ 7.50; bulk 7.76(08.05. Sheep Receipts 1,000. Market strong. Muttons. 3.75® 5.00; yearlings. 6.00(07.15t iambs, 5 25® 8.25. KILLED BY TWIN BROTHER. CORNELIA. Dec. 26. One 7-year-old son of VV. T. Robertson was accidentally killed by his twin brother as they were playing with a loaded gun. which was discharged, tearmg away the child’s head the ugly Fairy Berylune in "The Blue Bird." Miss Butler has spoken before manv dramatic organizations in va rious j»artH of the country. Her sub ject here will he “ ‘The Blue Bird’ From the Actor’s Point of View.” Another address at the same meeting will be delivered bv Charles Hampden, the stage director of the company, who will speak on “My Visit to Maeter linck.” STOCKS— High Amal. Copper. 76 American Can Am. Smelting. Anaconda ... Atchison 1 B. Bud O. .... B. K. T Can. Pacific. and O... G«*csol. Gas. D. and H. Erie do, pref. Gen Electric North, pfd. 127% G. North. Ore. 35% Interboro do, pref.. xL» Valley- Mo. Pacific . N. Y. Central N. and VV. . . No. Pacific . . Penna. . . P. Gas Co . . Reading . . . R. 1. and Steel So. Pacific . . S. Rwv., pref. St. Paul . . . Tenn. Copper. Union Pacific. 157 IT. S Rubber 56% IT. 8. Steel . 60% <1©. pref. . 106% Utah Copper: 50% W. Union . . \V. Electric . x Ex-dividend 31 66 % ^ 35 % # 94% 931s 88% 311% 61% 130% 151% 29'% 46 141 15% 61% 152% 22% 92% 102% 109% 109% 121 171% 20% 90% 77% 101 31 f, 8 66 Vi Low 73% 30% 64 35 % 93% 93 Vs 88% 210% 60% 130% 151% 28% 44% 141 127% 35 16% 60% 150% 22% 92% 101 Vi 109% 109% 121 169% 20% 89% 77% 100% 30% 155% 56% 59% 106% 49% 57% 66 Previous Noon Close 74% 31 65% 35% 94 % 93% 88 Vi 210% 61 130% 151% 28% 44% 141 127% 35% 15% 61% 151% 22% 92% 102% 109% 109 121 171 20 Vi 77% 100% II 156 % 56% 60% 106% 50 % 58 66% 73% 30% 63% 35% 93% 92 % 88% 211 60% 130 150 28 % 4 4 Vi 139 126% 34% 15 60% 153 % 92% 101% 109% 109% 120% 170 19% 90 100% 30% 155% 55% 59% 106 49% 57 65 % per cent. Boy Hunter Drowns As Leaky Boat Sinks FITZGERALD, Dec, 25—Woodson Johnson, of this city, a youth about 15 years of age. was drowned in the Ocmulgee rfiver near Bowens Mill, where he had gone with companions to hunt squirrels. The information that has reached here is that the boys attempted to cross the river in a leaky boat and when about midstream the boat sank. Young Johnson was not able to swim out. However, his companions escaped. What Will Happen In 1914 Forecasts of events which \vc* may look tor during the next year made by the best known prophets of Europe and America, including Raphael and Zadkiel, of Lon don; Mine. DeThebes, of Paris, and Professor Sothnos Letiller, this newspaper's own special forecaster, will appear in Next Sunday's American incidentally that newspaper will, in the coming year, double its already great circulation and advertising power. And it dot's not take a prophet to forecast this. There will he other great features in the coming issue. Look at these— What Is a Broken Heart Worth? The Baroness Lrsula demands $2,500,000 from St. Louis millionaire for hers, hut the record price for a heart is .$250,000, which I )aisy Markham got, and the high est price ever paid fora whole life is only $00,000. What Probably Happened to Dorothy Arnold M by the police believe that in the case of pretty little Susie Ferraro, who was seized by four men and hurried off into shameful bondage, they have an exact du plicate (d tin 1 mysterious disappearance of the New York heiress—except that Miss Arnold, loss fortunate than the Ferraro girl, was probably killed by her captors to avoid diseoverv. Where Bunyan Got His- “Pilgrim's Progress t > A very curious literary discovery which shows that Rumiya culled the ideas for what is, next to the Bible, the best selling hook in the world, from a curious old French work. Outcault s Page of Fun for Old and Young Everybody who remembers the famous "Buster Brown” will welcome the new comic pictures which are presented'in this newspaper by Buster Brown's creator every Sunday. There Are Dozens of Other Interesting Things In It < >rder from your dealer, or by phone to Main 100. High. WHEAT— Dec. 87% May 9(f% July. 87 CORN - Dec May .inly. ..m OATS - Dec May July . . . PORK Jan May.. . 20.85 LARI > Jan Mav.. 11.02 Vi RIBS Jan May .. 11.12 V! 69 % 69 % 69% 38% 41 1 , 40 % Low 87% 90% 86% 69 68% 69% *28% 4 t 40% Previous Noon. Close. 87% ’90 V* 86% 69 69 69% 38% 41% 40% 11.10 20.85 11.02% 11.02% GRAIN NOTES. Mantlet *-Frazier Company says "\Wieai We look for a hull but steady market during the next few days “Corn—Cold weather should improve the quality of the grain now moving and so inspire more confidence on the part of buyers. “Oats The market moves with other grains. Speculative interest is limited. “Provisions—Liquidation in January product is still noticeable, but the in vestment buying ot, the deferred future.-, continues.” THE WEATHER. Conditions. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—The indica tions are that the coast storm will move northeastwardly and be attended by rains and snows this afternoon and to- ! night in the Middle Atlantic States. Elsewhere east of the Mississippi River the weather will be generally fair to night and Saturday. General Forecast. General forecast until 7 p. m. Satur day: Georgia—Fair to-night and Saturday Virginia and North Carolina—Cloudy to-night; probably snow in the moun tains; Saturday fair. South Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi—Fair to-night and Saturday Tenressee—Generally fair to-night and Saturday. COTTON MARKET OPINIONS. Hayden, Stone Co.; “We see noth ing in the marl'V at present." 1! # + E. F. Hutton & Co.: "We believe short commitments in anything, wheth er commodities or securities, should now be undertaken with extreme caution." 1 £1 ill Away Above Everything’ TT is the “Soul of the Grain’’ the acme of distil- lation; aged in oak and purified by time. Lewis 66 Rye has taken first rank as the “Standard JVhiskey of the South. Case of Four Full Quarts $5,00. Express Prepaid. For Sale by all leading mail order houses and cafes. Never sold in bulk. Sold only in glass direct from distillery. THE STRAUSS, PRITZ CO. Diat Ultra ij jmmjm liilliliifimillilli MtfUj BOKKI AWAY ABOVE EVERYTHING World’* Champion Wrestler J^RANK GOTCH, of Humboldt, Iowa, the acknowledged wrest ling King, has conquered all rivals. His victory over the Russian Lion — George Hackenschmidt — at Comiskey Park in Chicago on Labor Day, 1911, was overwhelmingly one-sided. I N a statement, in which it substitutes fiction for fact, the Chicago T-ribune asserts that it lias a * larger net paid city circulation than any other Chicago morning newspaper. Lest anybody whom it may concern should he deceived into mistaking bluff for genuine circu- lation, the Chicago Examiner makes the following proposal: That all the Chicago morning newspapers open up their circulation books and records to the Association of American Advertisers and to such other represent ative bodies as may be selected. * \ + The Chicago Examiner herewith agrees to have this investigation made and it herewith invites the Association of American Advertisers to take the first step to bring this about. The investigation, under these auspices, would be fair and square, comprehen sive and comparative. It would remove all doubt in the minds of national ad vertisers and Chicago merchants as to the circulation, particularly the city circulation, of each of the four Chicago morning newspapers. The period for this investigation shall be the six months beginning July 1,1913, and ending December 31, 1913. If any one of the other morning newspapers of Chicago refuses to open up its books and records, then the Chicago Examiner agrees herewith to have a joint investigation made with the remaining Chicago morning newspapers. If all of the other morning newspapers refuse to open their hooks and records, then the Chicago Examiner herewith agrees to submit to this investigation alone because the Chicago Examiner insists on proving its own circulation. HpHE CHICAGO EXAMINER honestly believes that this investigation will prove that its A city circulation is far'in excess of any other Chicago morning newspaper, both Daily and Nunday. The Chicago Examiner honestly believes that this investigation will further show that the net paid Sunday circulation ot the ( hicago Examiner is almost double that of its nearest competitor. Chicago Examiner I This announcement was printed as a full pogi in The Chicago Examtwer on Saturday, December 20, 1912.