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Taibott A PaIrner's tirsia Letter

Rv Private Wire from Ware & Leland
 Chicago, January 5.-Wheat: Liverpool Ac lower; London unchanged; Paris ioc higher; fiouc l5c higher; Antwerp unchang- ed The market was dull with no demand. arrivals fair, quality satisfactory; favora- ble crop reports The market closed heavy. Selling ordeTs-Were in the market from the northwest and southwest A number of timid holders sold out on the expectation of getting in again on a lower level The Argentine situation and large visible sup ply are the main bear arguments. and judg- ing from sentiment this afternoon values will work some lcyS'er The export demand is disappointing, Business in that line be- ing almost at standstiil.
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Ch ..1ea hnnge

Chicago, January 5.-Wheat, depressed by poor export business, declined In outside markets, and good crop news, closed weak. May Ac under yesterday. Provisions slump cd on heavy realizing, May pork closing 10 G12c, May lard 7i3@10c and May ribs 5q7lsc lower. Corn closed 14c and oats 1sc under yesterday.
 The leading futures ranged as follows:
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No. 1 from Macon, columDrs, AIhany.- etc., 7:45 p. m.
 No. 3 from Savannah, Macon, Columbus. etc., 1:35 p. m-
 Elegant through sleepers between Blr- mingham. Columbus. Macon and Savannah on Nos. 8 and 4.
 Connection at Savannah with superb freight and passenger steamers of the Ocean Steamship company from New York Boston and the east.
 To Cuba and West Indies via Central of Georgia railway. By taking the Central o Georgia railway, close connection is made at Por- Tampa and Miami for Key West and Havana For further information apply to
 SOLON JACOBS, Commercial Agent JACK W. JOHNSON.
 Union Ticket Agent.
 Birmingham. Ala
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(S2,5OO.OO Bo S5, 5,oOO.OO

profit within the next 90 days
 We will buy and carry these stocks for You on a margin of five per cent, and will accept accounts of one hundred dollars tglJv.OV) and upwards. When you open an account with us, for the purpose of buying the securities we have in mind, you are at the same time opening-for your own pass age-the gate of the ROAD TO WEALTH,
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Financia,

New York, January 5.-The Commercial Advertisers London financial cablegram says: The markets here opened dull and quiet today. Stocks were found to be scarce, especially Americans. prices Tor which responded readily to the better feel ing. In all other departments business was small. The chief factors were the changed feeling, relative ease in money, and better news from Berlin, where 1t was reported the liquidation was over and there was some picking up of Canadian Pacific and other Pacific shares.
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Metal Markets

New York January 5.-Tin was excited all through the session today in sympathy with unfavorable foreign news, closing ir regular. At the close the metal exchange called pig iron warrants quiet. quotations omitted; lead steady. at s4 700t4.75; spelter quiet, at $4.40d4.60 The brokers price for lead is 4.721a and for copper 4.5O.
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Notice of Stockholders, Meeting

-. IHBGtIng To the Stockholders of the Ensley Land co E The annual meeting of the stockholder, of the Ensiey Land company will be held at the office of the company in the cit,, ae Birmingham Ala, Monday, January 1aoo at room, for the purpose of eiecting direc' tors and for the transa ction of such otber business as may properly come before tha meeting.
 The stock transfer books will be closed at 8 D. m. December 31 1899, and remain closed until a. m, January g, 190O
 JAS. R. VAIL. Secretary. Birmingham, Ala, December Is, 1899. 12-17-to-1-S
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Taibott X Paimers Cotton Letter By Private Wire from L. De Gumeens &s

 Son. s New York, January 5.-Great- Britain has taken so far this season about $, 300 900 bales less than last year. Liverpool reports stocks today of all kinds at 720, 900, against i 3T0 900 last year. No wonder that every decline in that market is followed by a prompt rally, regardless of the possibility of held back cotton being thrown on the market. As usually is the fashion later in the season European buying on a fair scale together with moderate support from Wall street hardened the market to 3 points after a corresponding weakness at the opening. Both sides look on it with rather little satisfaction, but friends of cotton ap- peared to have the upper hand owing to small receipts with no signs of increasing in any direction. Southern spots today ir- dicated determination of spot holders to concede nothing in price and so long as this continues and receipts keep small low CT prices appear to be impossible. Cables were unchanged to # lower for futures and 1-32 higher for spots.
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WALL STREET.

Should you not be in a position at the present time to take advantage of this op- pcrtunity, or if you desire information about anything in Wall street, write us; our services are always at the command of our customers, either present or prospec-
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Galyeston-Steady; mlddling, IT

Galveston-Steady; mlddling, 77-16c; sales, 11O5; receipts, 5G27; stock, 204.69S. Mobie-Quiet and steady; middling, 5-i6; sales. 1000; receipts, TIP; stock, 30,904.
 Savannah-Quiet; middling 7asc; receipts, 2el5; stock, 142,695.
 Chaneston-.Steady middling, 7Ae; re- ceipts, 665; stock, 21260. Wilmington-steady; middling. TAG: re- cetpts, S64: stock. 613i.
 Norfolk-Quiet; midding, T1sc; sales 22S; receipts 3,SS6; stock, 451S0.
 Baltimore-Nominal: mddling, FAC; re- ceipts, 1652; stock 17546.
 Boston-Quiet; middling, TAG; receipts, net 551; gross, 1,794
 Philadelph phaa-Cuiet; middling, ' 15-16c receipts, 393: stock 6611.
 St. Louis-Dull: middnng. ' 7-16c; sales 20o; receipts, 2l6S; stock, 103.356.
 Memphis-Steady and ur'cnanged: mid ding, 71ac; receipts. 1,19s: sales 1890; ship ments, 3,444 stock, 1S0z-5.
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yer, DO t,tit

Liverpool. January 5.-Spot cotton, good business done; prices 1-32d higher. hmeri- can middiing fair 23-32d; good middling 4 17-32d; middling, 15-32d; low middling 4 5-16d good ordinary, 41&d: er'dinary 3 15-1sd. The sales of the day were 1z.0O0, of which 800 were for speculation and export and included Il 100 American. Receipts, 6O0 including 100 American. Futures opened firm and closed quiet. American middling l.. NJ G.: January, 4.H value: January and February. 4.14 sellers: February and March All sellers; March and April, 4. &C., ts puy-i CTS; April and May 4.06d4 07 buyers: May and June, 4.04i4.05 buyers; June and July, 402d4.03 buyers; July and August. 4.0l brv- CTS; August and September, 3.61 buyers: September and October, 3.52 buyers; Octe-. Der and November, 3.45 buyers.
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LOCAL MARKETS.

Local Cotton Market Good middling, 7c. Middling. 67sc. Strict low middling, 6Ac. Low middling, 6Ssc.
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YOU WILL BE RICH.

There is no question about it; the prop critics have the merit, and new develop ments which are soon to take place, will make the securities almost double in value. Five hundred dollars
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No. 3s, washington and Southwestern Limited" solid vestibuled train. Atlanta to Washington; Pullman sleeping car, Bir- mingham to New York; also Pullman Ii- brary observation car. Atlanta to New York, making close connection at Atlanta with through sleeper for Tampa. Fla.
 No. ss. "U. s. Fast Mail" carries Pun. man sleeping cars, Birmingham to Jack sonvile, Fla, via Atlanta; also sleeper At lanta to New York.
 No 37 carries Pullman sleeping car. Bir- mingham to Greenville. Miss.
 F. S.. Cannon. Third Vice President and General Manager. Washingtcn. D. c. D. c.
 w. A. Turk. c. P. A., Washington. ID. c.
 .. A. Benscoter. A. c. F A.. chatta- npoga, Tenn.
 c. E Jackson. T. P. A.. Birmingham Ala R. M Ellis. T. P. A., Birmingham. Ala.
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RttNis'

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 United States 2s, registered.... ......-102hs United States 3s. regisfered.... ..1o9A United States 3s, coupon..,. ...... .1lels United States new As, registered .l54Ft limited States new As, coupon.,.. -.... .134A United States old As, registered. ...... .1141s United States old 4s, coupon.... ....... u41s United States 5s, registered.... .-..u3A United States 5s, coupon.... ......HSh Louisiana new conso1s 4s.... l06h North Carolina 4s.... ...-.-.-iVo Tennessee new settlement 3s.... -- 9 Virginia Centurics..:. ..--.. So Virginia Centuries deferred.
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Articles lOpened lIlghestl Lowest Cl,

Cash quotations. were as follows: Flour was firm. No. red wheat, 67is46Slac. No. ? corn, 3lc. No. oats, 22AG23c; No. white, 25lsc; No. white, a4@25Ac. No. rye, 5Oa531zc No. barley, S9d45c. No. 1 flax seed and northwestern. $l.49h; prime timothy seed, $235. Mess pork, per barrel, $9.3Od10.50; lard, per 100 pounds, $5.671a@ 5S21s; short rib sides, loose, $5.50d5.SO; dry -salted shoulders boxed, 51zG5Ac; short clear cides, boxed, 8. .sefs5yS5. W.hisky-Dis- titlers finished goods, per gallon, on basis of high wines, S1.231a. Sugars-Cut loaf S5s7O: granulated, $5.1S. No. ? yellow corn, 31M31Ac. Clover-Contract grade $S.10 On the produce exchange today the butter market was firm; creamery, 19d2Sc dairy, 17d23c. Cheese was firm a 12d12%c. Eggs were firm; fresh, l9@191sc. ''--
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! invested at once In the stocks in question will make you from twenty-five hundred , to five thousand dollars
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New orleans. January 5-cotton quie

New Orleans, January 5.-Cotton quiet; sales 6,200; ordinary. 3-16c; good ordinary, 6 11-16c; low middling, 3-16c; middng, 7-1ec; good middling, 79sc; midd.ing fair, 15-16c; receipts, 60S6; stock, 406,6 ,647.
 Consolidated statement: Net receipts, 14s 249; exports to Great Britain. 6S,77i; to France. B ,6o3; to the continent. 99,9S7; stock 1,011, ,101.
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Treasury Statement

Washington. January 5.-Today's state ment of the condition of the treasury shows. Available cash valances. S2ss, 1881, : O27; gold reserve, $236, ,251,S ,S3S.
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Three ships week to Cuba, leave Port Tampa 200 D. m. Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. For further information ad- dress R w wRENN
 Pass. Trafic Man, Savannah, Ga R. l.. TODD. Div Pass. Agent ~
 Montgomery, Ala.
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A BIG WINNER

was the man who followed our advice, giv- en every day during the first week in De- cember, to
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WITH IDLE CAPITAL.

we wish to say that we are now in posses sion of knowledge regarding several stocks which are going to have tbig advance in price. If you buy them now and sell them later at a price, of which we will advise
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Lost small Bay Pony with saddle on. Please return to Jno. D. Lykes and get reward.
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Venable's Hot Chocolate. the best.
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Coffee

New York. January 5-The coffee market opened steady, with prices points lower
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REGIll,hR SPEGuLhIORS

can see at a glance the value of such Knowledge regarding financial affairs, as our connections enable us to acquire. To those who have never speculated, men and
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New Orleans. January 5.-Cotton futures easy. January, 7.13@7.15; February, 713@ 715; March, 7.16@7.17; April. 7.1sm7.19; May 720@72 21; June, 7.22aZ23; July. 7.24@7.25; Au gust ZO7@70S; September, 6.69@6.70; October 65906.60.
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comnaratlye stalement.


 New York, January 5.-The following is the comparative cotton statement for the week ending Friday, January }: Net receipts at all United States
 ports during week.. .....-.... l4S,IiS Net receipts at all United States
 s,orts same week last year.. 2Si, ,9S5 Tntal receipts to this date. ... .... 4, ,039, ,5A Total receipts to same date last
 year. ......... ..... .6, ,025, ,4SS E,xnortsA for the week . ......... 202, ,364 Exports for same week last year.. SOS,l55 Total exports to this date.... ...... ..2,7Ol,39' Total exports to same date last
 year...... ...... .'.--'. =.+.-'.f,fof,oi' Stock at all United States ports. Il ,0ll,l ,lcl Stock at all United States ports at
 same time last year. ..........l, .l,2oi,Oio Stock at all interior towns.... ISS,ii9 Stock at all interior towns at same lime Hast year l .s. sn5, JsJl Stock at Liverpool ...... .... 720,000 Stock at Liverpool same time last
 year.... ........ .... .......... 1,37o,OoO Britain. ...... ...... ...... 1S5. 600 Stock of American afioat for Great
 Britain same time last year. 54O,O0O
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I A. e. S.-N orth. . Arrive. Depart | +No. 2, Fast Mall, N. o. ..5 45 am eo am
 'No. 4. Fast Mail, N. O. ..12 10 pm lspm South,
 | .No 1 from Cincinnatie 55 pm 10 05 pm 1 sNo. 3, from Cincinnati. II 30 am 10 pm
The age-herald., 1900-01-06

Ours was the only house in Wall street that inslsted upon its customers getting out of their long stocks, and urged them to sell short large amounts of Sugar, To5ac- co T c L. At pfd and c. B. Q.
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SELL STOCKS.
FORTUNES.

Almost all of our customers did So. al several of them made
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COTTON MARKET a
 
 A TAME AFFAIR  Everybody Was Waiting for Something to Turn Up. ; CLOSED WITH NET DECLINE Sentiment Was Very Much Mixed and Few Operators Cared to Make Inn .. portant Changes Slight Fur
 ry Over Foreign Buying
CLOSED WITH NET DECLINE

New York, January 5.-Speculation in cotton futures was very tame today, and the price movement compara lively narrow. As has been the case most of the week. sentiment was very much mixed and few operators cared to make important changes in their relations to the market, inasmuch as it was rumored that the market was be- ing manipulated Commission houses and brokers handling business for the invest ment public were poorly supplied with or ders, and all sides the. disposition was manifested to wait for something to turn up."
 The market opened steady in tone, with prices one point higher to ? points lower.
 From this level there was a gradual rise foreign buying and bullish news from the crop center. Then came "a decided drop under a spurt of liquidation and feeble bear hammering which owed its origin largely to a bearsh set of English cables and hesitation on the part of the invest ment public The weekly statistics from Liverpool and the south showed the position to be strong one.
 The market closed quiet and steady, With prices 20I4 points net lower.
 New York January 5.-Cotton dull mid ding 11-16; net receipts, S97; gross, 2QS9; stock, 1l61H; Continent, 500; France, 2oSl.
 Total today: Net receipts, 30 456; exports to Great Britain, 22,219; France, 16,S22; Con tinenS, 15,723.
 Consolidated Net receipts 149 ,249; ex- ports to Great Britain, 6S,774; France, SS,6o3; Continent, 999S7.
 Total since September l. Net receipts, 4- O39, ,544 exports to Great Britain, 1O61 ,l49; France, 451 O57; Continent, 1,195 ,1S3.
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By Private Wire to Talbott & Palmer.) :
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OFFICERS-N. E. Barker, President . Harding, Second Vice President; Tom O. { Cashier.
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Ala. Great Southern R. R.

sbortext and quickest line to Clncin1att rouisyill and the North: also to Shreye- port, New orleans and all points south.
 Schedule in effect Nov. 19. 1893.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-09-27
SONG OF THE CYCLER.

Sun OIL the upland and dew on the clover
Gold on the heights and green shadows
below
With the gray mists OF the morn hanging
All the wide marshes where rush-grasses
grow.
Beauty behind us and beauty before us,
Everywhere beauty to see and to feel!
Sing with the lark in the blue heaven Ger
Good-by to worries and work when a.
wheel!
1 am gypsy, blithe-hearted rover!
Kin to the winds and the woodland am L
Free as the hawk floating silently over,
Bathing his wings in the blue of the sky.
Free as the fancies that come all unbidden,
As, with my comrade whose sinews are
steel,
Mile after mile of the green earth is ridden
Care to the winds, and be glad when
a-wheeli
Blithe blows the breeze from the valley be-
fore US
Pause to take breath on the crest of
the hill,
Under the pines that are singing in chorus
Songs that are echoes of wind and of rill.
Earth smiling heavenward, and all that
above it
Sweet with the beauty we see and we
feel
Life is worth living when men learn to
love it
Under blue skies and the spell of the
wheel,
ladies World. New York.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-09-27
I, A STRANGE FRIENDSHIP
Lump. n COllies Dog of Unknown An
cestry, Is the stepfather of
Family of Kittens.

Lump" is the stepfather of four
shoestore kittens; in fact, they are
nearly cats by now. The relationship Of
Lump to these kittens is the thing that
attracts attention among all who know
about it. 1t occasions surprise and even
scandal among the cats and dogs Of
the neighborhood that have heard
about it, and the result is that Lump
and his stepchildren do not move in
the 400 circle of either canine or fe-
line society. Despite all these queer
things, however, the great love in
this queer family grows stronger. The
existence of this affection is nearly
wholly due to Lump. 1t is not the cat
that brings on trouble between the dog
and cat race. 1t is the fighting in
stinct of the dog. Therefore, if Lump
had possessed any other than good
disposition he could have been accom-
modated with all kinds of fighting
when he first entered the shoe store.
Lump one day ran up into the second
story apartments of G. c. Noble, the
manager of a local shoe store. Mr..
Noble was about to eject him from
the house, when Mrs. Noble interposed
and said that she would at least give
the hungry little stranger good meal.
So the puppy had his first meal. He
liked it, and he wouldn't go away. Mrs.
Noble named him Lump, the German
name for tramp or hobo. Down at the
dog record Office of the district govern
ment Lump is put down as black and
tan collie, but he has no pedigree and
cannot trace his ancestry back to the
days of Harold,
Lump soon got in the habit of going
down to the shoe store and spending
part of the day there. He found the
old shoe store cat He didn't show any
desire TO make things unpleasant, and
the cat gradually grew to like him. ALI
though an old cat, she actually put
aside enough OF her dignity to rub
against Lump. Thus began the friend,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-09-27
Jumping" OVER A TABLE.

get over them is a puzzle. 1t looks
like physical impossibiiity to ride
over them, and how else the feat is
to be accomplished is almost beyond
conjecture.
The audience, however,is not kept
waiting long.
The stairs are really two separate
flights, joined by iron roos at dis
lance of about five feet. The rider
brings his bicycle up to the stairs SO
that its length is at a par with the
length of the stairs. Then step by
step he jumps up the stairs until
nearly at the top. After this he
jumps down in the same way. 1t is
done in the same way that a man
would jump up and down a fight of
stairs one step at time, except that
in this case the man is sitting with
his feet on the pedals of his wheel
After reaching the bottom the rider
again begins jumping up the stairs,
this time pausing at the top. Then,
without hesitating moment, he
jumps down the ten steps at one
jump. never leaving his wheel after
reaching the ground. but riding right
on as though nothing had happened.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-09-27
WHEEL HERE TO STAY.
The Cycling Club Is O Thing of the
Past, But the Bicycle Is More
Popular Than Ever.

Cycling clubs were the outgrowth Of
peculiar conditions. In the days of the
high wheel bieyclists were few in
number and they banded together for
various reasons-among them the
protection of their rights against the
rest of the community, with which
they were not entirely popular.
The invention of the safety popu-
larized cycling and the new recruits
joined the clubs for the sake of the club
runs, road races and other attractive
events devised by the various organiza-
tons. Aspirants for racing honors
deemed it advantageous to ride under
club colors.
But all this has changed. The wheel
is no longer regarded primarily as
racing machine. The club run has lost
its attractions for people who have
learned that the pleasure of cycling is
not in ''scorching." but in leisurcly
tours of the boulevards or of country
roads by parties of two, three or half a
dozen congenial spirits.
Hence the club has lost its adherents.
but the wheel has not. More bicycles
are owned and used than ever before
and the number will increase. The
wheel is used for business as we'll as for
pleasure.
People are no longer bicycle crazy.
They don't get up at four o'clock Sun
day morning and ride until midnight.
They don't dream and talk bicycle
They have simmered down to an APP
probation of the real value of the
wheel as an aid to health and pleasure
instead of a fad. Therefore they have
deserted the clubs, because those or
CARNATIONS were the outgrowth of the
fad idea.
But they have not deserted the bicy-
Gle itself, nor will they desert it. The
"bike" has come to stay. 1t is as much
a fixture as baseball or golf.--Chicago
Chronicle
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-09-27
TRICKS ON THE WHEEL.
Clever Bicyclist Jumps His mount
over Table, Seemingly with
Perfect Ease.

Here are two men, the tombstone
brothers, who not only do new tricks
on the wheel, but who seem to defy
all the laws of gravitation while doing
them.
While one of the men rides rapidly
around the stage the other jumps on
and off his shoulders, doing all sorts
of handsprings to the ground, turning
over while in the air, jumping back
again on the other mans shoulders
in fact, such a maze of tricks that IL
is impossible to keep track of them.
But the unique feature of their act
is their ability to jump over things
while riding at full speed. A chair.
a table, rope or a small stoop form
no obstacles to their progress. They
ride over the chair, jump on and off
the table, skip the rope as child
and ride right over the stoop.
The sensational feature of their per-
Torrance is what the New York World
terms their stairway CLIMB"
A flight of ten steps 10 brought
upon the stage. How the rider will