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bid; . sciiers. ' value.
New Orleans Futures.
Futures opened steady. closed steady.

a asked: b bid, nominal
New york Futures.
Futures opened steady at a decline; closed
quiet and steady.
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GALVESTON STOCK.


Exchange Il quoted ~ .feilows. Nov Yosn.
buying, S2.0o6s.@ discount. scllluu. WeW
York. 81 Louis and kanssA City, par 70 eEto
discount: New orleans. buying ~ discount;
selling. par.
HOUSTON BANK CLEA18IN0g.
The following are the cleArAuces Of ~
Houston banks for this week thus far ana ~
the corresponding Tins last yeas. tpeQtbag
With the increase or decrAsee: 81 s s
s,,... rsis * ~ s hr:s a ~ - Issss,ss
Decrease.
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Nymph. ss.es: ~ sewel xs.so. a., 80,
szW: rye hour, $40; puiilpcrntrkci Il ~
i,osr - r h ior shipments to interior points
rels soc sbovc barrels. Old wheat Tidal w nss.
rxRiNASEotiss cooDs-erl... hom.o, :.
so-h sacks, 81 5O@i Sc Der bbi II four ma ssny "
seo'en ana Friends oats. SEAS; Columbia ost
III HAMs--stsndard. sxasAc; picnic hams.
roNEy--rn so-,b cans, extracted. s.,ss,c,
~ comb. snioc. in 12-lb cans. extracted. SD
LAKp--Refned tierces. compound. 44c. Ia,
&c. 5o.ib cans Nc higher than tierces ,csih
Fans, &c higher; S-lb cans. &c higher; al
.MCLAssE,s- Repoiied, fair, leqpisc. rvn.
Nv. choice. 2s026c; fancy new crop syrun
RICE -Estr. fancy head. sas4c: choice. 81,
-, KoPE-Hasis for 7-iS: sisai. sAs: manila.
\ SALT, Liverpool coarse, 7o675c: sin., soc
s!sana a. fSarss 1911 fine aoc barrels
!, SALT FisH-Mackcrel. No. i. in io-ib kits.
sl;v9T q 40; ~ half barrels. Sc. soar 90.
tard three-quarters, $3.50 Imported Gillette
* Sia 20 quarters, fii5o; fancy spras quarters,
sTARcH Standard goods. PEAR, /, .o,h
,nnSSxes, sNc; Royal Gloss. bulk, SIC. Nickel
~ pscErges. per box, $3.50: corn starch, $40
per 70, 20 md 4o-lb Loxes. ~
Standardization are for pmali let's: spe.
c "a! PRICES given on car load ORDERS. Standard
New York granuisted sac; cubes aud DOW.
sC,ered. 5Sc: Louisiana yellow clarified, fancy
eeNyo9sc; choice, &c: Arbuckle's, in 2-lb and
o-io packages. SIC.
PRODUCE.
bEANS.-Navy. 2hG2Xc: Bayou, SIC; Eng.
i h,ll !. dried. 2Nc; pinks, 3lac; Limaa. 4Ac;
black eyes. 4lsc
BEANS--Snap beans 81. 0o01 80 per bushel.
bOITElt--Blue Star, 22c; dairy, 156116c: FL
GIN creamery, 25G26c; Elgin dairy bricks.
ib'zc; oIeomargarire. solids. lUc; prints. lie;
special Blue Star, 16c.
Ai,BBAGE-s2. 25G2.5o per crate.
CHLEE Y-55G65c per buncn.
,,uHEESE--New York full cream, l3c;
Wisconsin full cream. 12ikGD13c: Young Amer
i s.i, l5'agl4c; Western skim, 10c fancy rolls
fuli cream. 13hG1fc.
ONIONS-Calfornia, S0GS5c per bushel.
IEPf ER--Chile. i7I20c per ID.
POTATOES-Colora and California, ESQ
soc per bushel; sweet potatoes. 30G45c.
IOULTRY-Hens, $2.50G275; fryers, 81 25M
. Is: broilers, S1.75GD2.25 Turkeys. hens, $50
d0j.00: gobblers Sc. 5919.50 per dozen. Ducks
2,ooQS.V. Geese. s4.0oG5.O0.
DRIED FRUITS AND NUTS
APPLES-Fancy evaporated, 50-ib boxes
&C.; lib cartons, 9lac; choice ,evaporated, in
bulk. 50-lb. Snc; fancy sliced. In te.b boxes
5h.
APRICoTs-11c per Id loose: llAcein Lib
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GFhfH HHH FrUSOHN T"rW"rTr'
No hard 62G6s No. 2 hard 6iIs2ts No. !:
red 65; No. 3 red 62ds4: No. spring eol6l,
Cora &c lower; No. mixed 20lsMs0; No.
white g. Oats weak; No. 2 white 254 Rye 80.
Hay steady; choice timothy 6.5o@7 10; prairie
i. Ol@7 90 Recelpts--Wheal $4,000, corn H..
21o cats 1000. Shipments--Wheat $4,000, corn
1900, oats 5000.
New York. October 29.--Wheat--spot easier;
No red 79ia fob adoat options Mdilsc
lower; May IT, Wool quiet; fleece 17T2S Pig
iron quiet; copper steady; lead Arm; tin
steady.
Puts and Calls on Grain.
Chicago advices to p. w. Hunter & Co. CAV,
pits on December wheat 65A, 65ssI6534 and
65g, and calls ee7s and esai.
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LIVE srock.
NEW ORLEANS

.sepcrted for The Post daily except rnurs-
Aavs and sundays by Albert Mon.sonew 10,
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modest uses. and consequently he has petit
toned the supreme court of Erie county
to relieve him of the burdens of being
Lhauneey NJ. Depew Very sensibly this
young man desired to be called something
less familiar to the public eye and ear, and
henceforth he is to be known as plain
Mitchell Depew. Good enough for any,
body. 1t is not young Mr. DepeW's fault
that he has a conspicuous relative, nor that
his parents paid nunky the compliment Of
giving the boy his name, for 1t could not
be foreseen tnat Chauncey M. Depew, the
great, must ring through all ages as he is
like to do. 1t is this same thoughtlessness
l.lat induced a family heavily weighted by
the immortal. surname, Shakespeare to
have one of its progeny christened William.
Trying to live up to such a combination as
that must paralyze the best intentions. One
of these days parents will enter clause
in their name calling privilege. They will
remember that the infant cannot protest
on its own behalf, and give a name with
the understanding that it can be changed
when the youngster attains years of dis
erection. As it stands now, offspring have
no rights.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08
Cotton Prices and Prospects.

The spinners have heretofore accepted the
opinion of Mr.. Henry M. Neill the cotton
expert of New Orleans who thinks the
cotton crop may be 100000 bales, and
they have kept out of the market expecting
even lower prices. In other words, no
ton men were accommodating great stocks
that had to be moved. Cotton very natur-
ally went down under such circumstances.
But the indications now are that, not
only has the bottom been reached, but that
the spnners know it has and they are
therefore buying freely again. When cot
ton is wanted the pressure to sell is at once
relieved. Men become willing to hold cot
ton when they see that some one really
wants it. The period of non-purchase is
probably to be succeeded by period of ac-
fled that the bottom price has been reached,
they will take all that is offered. A move
ment of this nature is now in progress.
Cotton has "frmed up Cotton is really
wanted once more.
If on top of this impulse should come an
early frost or heavy rams, or any other I'M
toward event, prices would certainly be
sharply advanced, wholly regardless of Mr..
Neills Delphic utterances. All in all, the
probabilities of the situation point to bet
ter prices. Much cotton will be held back
in the expectation of living prices again,
and there is really no reason for thinking
that conditions during the remainder of the
season will be favorable enough to admit
of the outturn that Mr.. Neill has pre-
dicted.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08

Han Kow from Hong Kong, 1t will indeed
be difficult to keep this country from gain
ing fair share of Chinese trade. If all
the Philippines become American territory,
our trade opportunities will be considerably
increased. We will be in position to
trade with Borneo and Sumatra and all
lands even up to and including India itself.
Our trade will get foothold in Japan and
in Corea, and all the way around the coast
to Bombay.
1t is pity that the Oregon and Iowa
have been stopped. Admiral Dewey has a
large and important task on his hands,
and he needs the two battleships much
more than we need them on this side of the
sea. We have no more important interests
at stake and in uncertainty today than our
trade interests in the Orient, and particu-
larly in China.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News
The heaviest pocketbook has silver In
ing.
Premature gray hair often causes the
good to dye young.
1t is difficult to convince loafer that he
bores busy man.
Men look forward into the future, while
women dwell upon the past.
Some men take less advantage of oppor-
tunities than of those who offer them.
Some men get into financial stra is and
others get into financial crookeds.
The man who talks the most about oblig-
his friends very seldom does it.
The gallants of the summer girl are now
being mustered out of active service.
A vioinist works a bow-and some rls
do likewise, but they spell 1t differently.
When death stares a man in the face
and he lives to tell the tale he spends lots
of time telling 1t.
A financial note says that money is
easier. Perhaps it goes that way, but it
doasn't seem to come apx easier
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08
China and the BRIDGE.

What does the Pacific bridge that we are
Hawaii, Guam and Manila. San Francis
co may be said to be at one end of the
bridge, and Hong Kong at the other. The
point we desire to reach-the trade we de-
sire to possess in due parts not at any
of the piers of the new bridge, not even in
the Philippines; 1t is in China.
The Boston and the Petrol have been dis
patched to Tien Tsin, the port of Pekin,
and it would be well If more ships were to
follow them. There is a great deal of I'M
rest in China at present, and no one
knows what form affairs will take in that
troubled country. This country does not
desire territory in China, but it does desire
a full and proper share of Chinese trade
and this desire cannot be made too plain or
too emphatic. An American syndicate Is
preparing to build a railroad from Han
Kow, in the heart of China, to Canton and
to Hong Kong. Such a railroad would
alone give this country access to one hun
bred millions of people. We have, there
fore, deep interest in all that affects
Chinese prosperity and freedom of trade.
If we hold Manila. which is two days
from Hong Kong. and build railroad to
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08
Campaign Investigation

The Whitewash Board sits with closed
doors, admitting, however, stenographers
and permitting their revised and cast-iron
reports to go out to the public. Practically
it is a shareholder proceeding, regulated
with a view to the exonoration of Agerism
Every question is framed with that object
in view, excepting only the questions put
eral Dodge and DR.. Conner seem to be
framed especially for that purpose.
The witnesses thus far called are general
officers of the volunteer service, none of
whom have been ordered to appear before
mustering-out officers. Tn testimony of
these men is uniformly of a negative char
acter. What they don't know and what
they didn't see woulud fill book; but such
testimony is valueless Instead of calling
men who are under the control of the war
department, let the mustered-out generals,
colonies, captains and privates be called
They were in position to know and see a
thing or two, and are now in a position to
tell it.
Thus far the proceedings have been a
farce, and the understanding is said to be
that the farce must be steadily maintained
until election day. The calling of Gen. Joe
Wheeler and General Fftzhugh Lee, both
good democrats, was a political trick; but
all such tricks will be unavailing unless the
doors of the star-chamber are opened, and
some affirmative witnesses are summoned-
some witnesses who saw something and
know something. Negative testimony I'M
der the manipulations of the Alger White
wash board should not longer be permitted
.--at is needed for real news.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08
SPAIN AND THE PHILIPPINES

From the Review of Reviews.
1t is tolerably clear from our examination
of a large number of Spanish papers, that
the colonies having become SO serious
burden-the Spanish people have made up
their minds to lose them all without much
further display of opposition. Cuba has
always been the one outlying possession for
which the Spaniards felt a strong attach
ment. Having lost Cuba, knowing that in
any case they certain to lose Manila,
they look upon the whole series of beyond
sea island possessions as virtually surren-
dered. The Spanish commissioners at Paris
will doubtless make a great show of bag
Cling about the Philippines; but it will only
Ne for the sake of gaining certain other ad-
vantages of detail in the working out of the
treaty. Ii possible, in compensation for the
Philippines, they will endeavor to devolve
upon Cuba or this country a part of the So
called Cuban debt, and they will also try
to make saving stipuations regarding the
vast property holdings of the monastic or
ders in the Philippines. But there remains
no considerable body of public sentiment in
Spain that demands the retention of SOW
ereign rights over any portion of the Phil
ippine islands The inevitable has already
been accepted.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08
THE PREJUDICE OF RACE
the New York Journal.

From the New York Journal.
The poor foreigner always catches 1t hrst
when there is trouble, and in this there Is
little difference between widely dissimilar
nations and civilizations.
China is in trouble The proper thing, of
course, is to let little blood and kill off a
few thousand christian dogs"-that is
what the dispatches inform us they propose
to do.
American labor is in trouble-and, presto!
the foreigner must go, or at least be kept
out.
France is rotting with its own corruption,
and the foreign Jew is to blame, OF course.
And so it goes everywhere.
The time may come when all the peo-
pies on earth will measure with the same
standard; when good will be good. and evil
evil in all this world-be the man white or
black or yellow-when there will be but
one commandment, that of not doing to
others what you would, not have them do
unto you-that time may come, but surely
it is a long way off,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08
VIII Have no 30 ( Saap

Representative Seay, of Lamar county,
will not get much pleasure out of his term
in the legislature. according to the follow
ing from the Lamar Democrat:
We learn that there will be an effort
made to get a stock law for Lamar county
at the next session of the legislature The
people of Lamar county are divided on this
question somewhat; some want stock law
and others oppose it. We are confident
that unless 1t is demonstrated to Hon. A.
b. Seay our member-elect of the legisa-
ture that majority of our people want it
he will oppose it. The question should be
agitated and some organized stand taken
so that Mr.. Seay can determine the wishes
of the people before he goes to Montgom-
cry early in November. Just at this time
we cannot see wherein a stock law will
benefit the people of Lamar county.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08
SeIma's Quarantine Action.

More fool things become possible, and
even become actual occurrences, in times
of semi-panic than in times when mems
heads are undisturbed by rumors. The ac-
ton of Selma in quarantning against
Birmingham must be ascribed to the
panicky feeling existing in towns that
know they can and may have yellow fever
Birmingham rests on a bed of porous
ebert, at an elevation above the sea rum
ming all the way from $50 feet to $50 feet.
A case of the fever was never originated
here, and one never will be. Selma knows
this full we'll, and yet it sees fit to hurt the
fair fame of this city by declaring quar-
antine against 1t. This is not only foolish,
but it is unneighborly and unpatriotic.
The two cities are each parts of one state,
and one should not wantonly and unneces-
sarily injure the other.
Selma need not consider Birmingham's
quarantine lax; for this town has none to
be lax or stringent; it has none at all; and
it will have none while state quarantine
against Mississippi is ample for all practi-
cal or sensible purposes. Selma should re-
gain it's equipoise. 1t is much too previous
so far as Birmingham is concerned If
Selma never shelters a fever germ until
one is brought in from this city, it might
piled forever against the fever.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08
CHILDRENS' NAMES

From the Boston Herald.
The wisdom of letting children select their
own names is becoming more and more OBJ
vious as society grows older and more con-
ventional Hampered and annoyed by the
names reckless parents bestow on them
early in their careers, many a man and
woman would thankfully change them to
some others more to their taste, but the
act implies certain disrespect which CIV
ilized people are loath to express without
sufficient cause. The nephew and name
sake of DIR. Chauncey M. Depew, however,
has no such sentiment to restrain him from
abandoning a name too popular for bis own
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08
MARKS GREAT HEART

From the st. Louis Republic.
Philanthropist Marks Hanna is solicitous
that the Philippine Islanders shall be treat
ed with the utmost humanity. The COAL
miners iron workers, street car crews and
lake sailors who have been in Mark en-
ploy when their wages were cut below the
subsistence line can understand now that
Mark has been keeping his humanity in the
safety deposit vault of his granitoid con.
science all these years that he might pour
it out upon 100000 yellow, brown ana
black semi-savages 1900 miles away from
our shores. Mark has some of the milk
of human kindess in him, despite the many
ard things that have been said about him.
This fact may be proven by powerful
microscope not yet invented.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08
BIRMINGHAM VS.. Soldiers

HuntsvilIS is experiencing little trouble
with the large camp of soldiers there. The
Democrat of this week says:
The Birmingham people are in a muss
over the question of having soldiers, and
saying some hard things about one another.
One side says the soldiers will demoralize
the community, and the other side thinks
they are all right. OF course there were
differences of opinions about bringing them
here, but the papers kept quiet about the
inside trouble, and we got the soldiers and
no one regrets having them. On pay day
there have been some thigh rollers" but
the provost guard gathered them in, and
that was the last of it. The soldiers have
appreciated the kind treatment accorded
them on every side, and the ladies on all
occasions are treated with gentlemanly
courtesy. Every soldier has a friend in
the Huntsville people, and We believe
every soldier is friend to Huntsville.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08
Mosquitoes in Russell

The editor of the Russell Register wins
tn prize for the biggest mosquito story. He
gives the following instance of the persis-
tence of the Uchee swamp variety:
The mosquitoes are numerous and an
moving in the Uchee swamp. A gentle
man Informed us that it was imposs bic
for him to gather his cotton on account OF
them. An old negro woman was down on
the creek washing and the mosquitoes got
so bad she quit and turned the washtub
bottom up and got under it. The mosqui-
foes drove their bills through the tub in
search of her rich negro blood. She found
a brick and began to hit them on the bill
and she braided enough bills on the inside
for the mosquitoes to H. - with the tub.
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a strong man, and his faults are the faults
of strength. He has, If anything, too little
sympathy with or tolerance for human
weaknesses. Untiring himself, he expects
others to have the same power of endur-
ance rising early and-going to bed late, yet
always about and always ready for action.
He has not, perhaps, made many firm
friendships since his rapid rise to eminence
began, but he has known how to keep the
old ones, and they are ready to go wherever
he leads, as the history of the Sondan for
the past ten years should prove
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08
Were Once Bad Bows

Editor Carter, who succeeds John Earl
Garrison on the Sulligent Lightning calls
on the boys for assistance iH the following
manner:
Say, boysl We all used to be bad, didn't
we? We'd go to the same party, drink out
of the same bottle, and dance with the
same "gal." But come, now, let's be
purity subscribe for Lightning, and turn
a new leaf
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08
THE sIRDAR AS A MUMMY UNRoLLER

FTOm IOnuOH LIIe
Sir Herbert Kitchener, besides command
ing the campaign against the Khalifa,
keeps a sharp lookout for specimens and
curios both for himself and the South
Kensington Museum. He Is an Egyptolo-
gist of the keenest kind, and is an init
mately acquainted with the art of unrol-
ling a mummy as he is with that of rolling
up and driving before him the forces of
LIE Khalifa.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08
THE ALABAMA sCRIBEs.


Should the war department leave the
matter to vote of the handsome young
officers there would probably be a very
large camp at Florence within few days
time The Florence Herald says:
If the war department decides to send
a permanent camp of troops to Florence,
we hope there will be enough officers to go
around among the girls, who are a unit
upon the question of their coming.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08
BAD FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN

From the SchOOImaSter.
1t has hitherto been the custom of the
children attending the public schools in
Austria and Hungary to kiss the hands of
their teachers on arrival and departure.
This has now been forbidden by a ukase
just issued by the imperial board of edu-
cation, which bases it's decision on a dec
laration of the sanitary council.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08

The bear Island aborignes evidently con-
sidered Santiago myth, or else they nave
not kept up closely with events, or else
they do not care whom they run up
ins
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08
The DeyiI VIII Get EN-

The Greensboro Waterman is very much
wrought up by false reports of yellow fever
there. Editor zerby puts it like this:
Somebody has been spreading all sorts of
lies on Greensboro to the effect that the
town is full of smallpox and yellow fever.
There has not been even a suspicious case
of fever in Greensboro this year, and there
is not a case of smallpox in the town. The
devil is going to get the tale-bearers sooner
or later.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08

Is is now conceded that Boss Buck car
ried away republican party of Georgia in
his vest pocket This accounts for some of
Colonel Gamblers majorities.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08

Algerism, always inefficient, is quick
enough in unloading. 1t made haste to
shove Montauk onto General Wheeler's
shoulders. Little Joe never shirks.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08

Bishop Potter crushed impromptu SER
mons and expansion in one blast. What
else he annihilated need not be particular
lied He is a crusher from Crushville. in
his own estimation.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08
SOUTHERN REPUBLICANIsM

From the Fort Payne Journal.
Republicanism may be something granH
and inspiring in the north. In the south,
however, it's a sort of a bob-tailed pullet
on a wobbly hen-roost.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08

The rapproachment of Uncle Sam and
Mr. Bull is counteracted by the demands
of the tariff robbers on our side of the
frontier.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08

Scientist Crooke may be preparing to take
over Mr.. Joe Letters wheat corner.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08

The football mortality lists will not be so
shocking to the nerves, coming as they
will so close after Bear Island.
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BETTER SCHOOLS

From the Lafayette Sun.
Let us have better public school system,
more money to operate the schools, and a
class of teachers whose lives are above re-
proach.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-08

Now that we want all of the Philippines
the Spanish commissioners think the phrase
''the American pigs" does not do the sub
ject Justice.