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The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02
COTTON FUTURES.

New York, April 1.-The cotton mar
ket opened steady, points higher TO
points lower and then was firm on.
active covering by room shorts and
light demand from commission houses.
Port receipts were considerably small
er than expected and spot market
news from the South was firm. Offer
ings were small to say the least, and
for the time being sentiment favored
higher market. Bull support was not
aggressive and a prominent commits
sion house was seen to be quietly sell
ing July cotton around S.S3c. The Liv-
erpool cables were rather disappointing
when the market here opened and for
the balance of the day the English
prices worked slowly lower, closing
with the tone easy. Toward midday
local prices began to sift lower and
sentiment gradually crossed over to
the bull side. Then came a sharp rail-
ly, on light estimates for to-morrow's
New Orleans and Houston receipts, fol-
lowed by a setback under profit taking
by local holders. What appeared to
be a bear raid and scattering liquida-
ton sent prices down just before .
O'Clock, July touching S.75c, and for the
rest of the day the whole list appear
ed heavy and very sensitive to selling
from any quarter.
The market closed quiet, net to s
points lower. Strike news from the
Fall River mills and better weather
repor is from the belt helped to under
mine the afternoon market.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02
Murphy & Co... Cotton Letter.

New York. April Very little bust
ness was transacted on the New York
Exchange, but in spite of dullness the
market displayed a considerable
amount of steadiness to noon. Liver
pools response to our advance over
their close last Thursday was about as
expected. though many had anticipated
that owing TO the lighter estimates for
the into sight during the current week
the other side would have taken a
leading, rather than a following posi-
ton. Considerable liquidation by weak
holders was noted in the day by buy
ers who were apparently disposed to
take their profits on cotton held over
holidays, particularly in view of the
generally clearing weather. Fresh
buying orders, however, appeared on
all weak and spots and later when the
small estimates for to-morrows re-
ceipts at Houston was received. the
room became more bullish notwith-
standing fractional recession at the
close in Liverpool. Conservative au-
thorities are estimating the into-sight
for the week at from $4,000 to 100 900,
and opinions are freely expressed that
anything below this will be imrne-
diately reflected in values. In fact it
would appear that with a diminishing
movement and Southern sea son,
which has thus far proved backward,
cotton should do somewhat better,
while should the extreme scarcity of
Southern stocks so generally reported
on apparently trustworthy authority
be shortly felt in the daily movement,
the summer months will undoubtedly
prove a very profitable purchase at
present prices. The Wall street bull
crowd under the leadership of an ex-
change member, continue buying on
every recession and confidently expect
much higher prices.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02
TRADE AND FINANCE
LITTLE OF INTEREST IN ANY OF
THE MARKETS.
COTTON SLIGHTLY LOWER.
STRIKE TALK TENDS TO DEPREss
THE MARKET.

T.Srpentfne Firm at 45c, With In
auiry Lfght-Rosins Firm and I'm
chauSed-LOcaI and Telegraphic
Markets.
The Morning News Office,
Tuesday. April 1.
The markets generally closed quiet
to-day. with no unusual features in any
branch, either locally or from the out
side. Cotton futures at New York
closed steady at to 8 points lower,
owing to threatened strikes at Fall
River and extreme sensitiveness of
longs to unfavorable developments.
Spots generally were quiet. Stocks at
New York were not dealt in largely.
and notwithstanding the financial mag
mates are leaving there for outings. one
element continue to predict an impend-
ing boom in securities.
In the naval stores market there was
little of interest, with trading upon
liberal scale. Turpentine was in mod
crate demand at 45c, and resins in light
demand at unchanged prices. The
wholesale markets closed in the main
steady. Resume of the markets as fol-
lows:
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.

Liverpool, April 1.-Spot, moderate
business, prices 9-S2d higher; Ameri-
can middling fair, Nd; good mid
ding, 4 S1-52d; middling, 27-32d; low
middling. AID; good ordinary. 4ssd; or
binary, 4ssd. The sales of the day
were 1000 bales, of which 500 We're for
speculation and export and included
$500 American. Receipts since last re-
port $4,000 bales. including 1890 Amer
lean.
Futures opened firm and closed easy;
American middling g. o. c.: April,
4.47044Sd, sellers; April-May, 4.47d,
BUYERS: May-June. 4.4Sd, buyers; June
July, 4.4SG4.49d, buyers; July-August,
4.4S@4. 49d, buyers; August-Septembe
4.45d, sellers; September-O October, 4.34@
4.S5d, sellers; October-November, 1890
4.30d; November December, 4.26@4.27d.
BUYERS
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02
NAVAL STORES.
Tuesday. April

Tuesday, April /.
TURPENTINE-The spirits market
opened firm at 45c with sales of $50,
and closed firm and unchanged, with
sales Of 120. The demand was fcir,
but the larger takers are evidently
waiting to make sure that the market
rs on the bottom, and then, too. to
await fresh receipts. To-days re-
ceipts were 563. and the exports none.
ROSINS-The rosin market opened
firm and unchanged, with no sales,
and closed unchanged, with no sales.
Inquiry very limited. Receipts to-day,
1858, and the exports, $780, Prices as
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02

terest and did not bring many new
buyers. Receipts were light through
out the cotton belt, but were thought
to mean the effect of the heavy rains
and floods upon the road and railroads,
We're still felt. There does not seem to
be any desire to sell short in face of
these receipts and the advices of ex-
haustion while the buyers are timid at
the total movement, disproving the low
crOn estimates
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02

IUSIH uIICIIdIIStUs
Wilmington. N c., April 1.-Spirits
turpentine firm, 45c; receipts a.
Rosin firm, $1.10@1.15: receipts 215.
Crude turpentine quiet $1,35D2.50 re-
ceipts Is.
Tar firm. 81 20; receipts 179.
.Note-Produce Exchange to-day
made an order that in future spirits
will only be quoted in machine casks
and the difference in regular made and
irregular casks shall be one cent per
gallon.
New Orleans, April Exports,
rosin, Genoa, % barrels.
No receipts.
New York, April 1.-Rosin steady
Turpentine quiet.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02
FINANCIAL.
MONEY-Market easy.

MONEY--Market easy.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE - Market
barely steady. Commercial demand,
sterling, $4.S6A; so days, 81. "a; 80 days,
81. SO; French 5.19; Swiss, so days,
521al Belgian, 5.2012; marks, so days,
94ss: 80 days, 941s.
DOMESTIC EXCHANGE - Steady;
banks are buying at 75c per M dis
count; selling up to 5q26. 1oc; 25Q50.
30c; SoO@4OO, SIC: 400@50o, Acc: 50O9sOO,
45c; 600 and over, 75c per M premium.
SBCURITIES-The market is fiat.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02
DRY GOODS.

New York. April 1.-Business has
been quiet to-day and little outside of
filling in orders for current needs de-
veloped. The absence of mail orders
also contributed to the general quiet
ness. Prices, however, remain firm
and unchanged
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02

bankers bills at $4S7M@4.Ss for de-
mand, and at $4.S5ss for sixty days.
Posted rates, $4.S6@4Ssh. Commercial
bills, $4.S4Sz 04S5%. Bar silver, $3.50.
Mexican dollars. 43c. Government
bonds steady; state bonds inactive;
railroad bonds steady.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02
NEW ORLEANS COTTON FUTURES.

New Orleans, April Cotton futures
quiet and steady. April, S.56@S 5Sc;
May, S.65@S Soc; June, 8.71@S. 7Sc;
July, S.77GS.7S: August, S65@S Soc:
September, S.16@S .1Sc; October, 1850
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02
COTTON FUTURES AT NEW YORK.

New York, April 1.--Cotton futures
opened steady. April $3.50; May, S.79c;
June, S.S0c; July, S.S1c; August, S.62c;
September, S.29c: October, Size: No
vember, S.06c; December, S.05c; jan
uary, S.06c.
Futures closed quiet. April, S.S0c;
May, SIDE: June, sic; July, size;
August, S.5Sc; September. S.24c; Octo-
Der, S.10c;. November, s.02c; December,
S02c; January, S.03c.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02

New York, April although Liv-
erpooI made a substantial advance our
market did not consider it an adequate
response, and from the opening there
was a lack of snap and vim. Then a
slow stream of realizing orders ap-
peared, which carried the market be-
low last evenings quotations. Yester-
days advance exhausted the short in
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02
MONEY MARKET.

New York. April Money on cali
steady, 21h64% per cent; closed Of
fered per cent. Prime mercantile
paper. 1905 per cent. Sterling ex-
change f1rms with actual business in
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02
SEA ISLAND COTTON.

The sea island cotton market closed
firm, with the demand satisfactory
and a fair business reported. Towards
the closing a better demand was re-
ported. with the outlook more encour-
aging for trading. The weeks receipts
We're 161, against 710 last year. Sales
We're 1888, against 1,019 last year. No
anxiety is manifested among factors,
who appear confident that while the
demand is not of an urgent character
a. the moment, it is but a question of
time until it will be. Little eagerness
is shown in any quarter to sell. Stocks
are 10000, against $4,000 last year.
prfnae ok1,,+ foIInt4+e.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02
Southern
Railway.

Trains arrive and depart Savannah
on soth meridian time-one hour slower
than city time.
Schedule Effective Jan. Is, 1902.
TO THE NORTH AND EAST.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02
COTTON.

The cotton market closed steady and
unchanged, with sales of 294. Receipts
977, against 1892 last year. The de-
Ynand was moderate throughout the
day. The port movement was light,
but on strike talk from Fall River and
sensitive longs futures were dull, clos
ing 2 to points off. For f. o. b. ship
ment the demand was light. Fully
good middling, Sc to 8 Lice, and good
middling. So to 15-16c.
The following were the official spot
quotations at the close of the market
at the Cotton Exchange to-day:
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02

do do preferred ................... a
Sugar .,...-..... ..'''.'....''''' Log
Tennessee Coal and Iron ......... IO1s
Union Bag and Paper Co. ...... 15A
do do preferred ................... 80
United States Leather ............ 1875
do do preferred ............ 1875
United States Rubber ............... Il
do do preferred ................... 5s1a
United States Steel ...........-... 421s
do do preferred .................. 947s
Western Union ..................... 90k
American Locomotive .......,.... 3lss
do do preferred .................. 81
Bonds.
u. S. refunding rs, registered ....1o9
do do refunding rs, coup ex-int. 109
do do 3s. registered ex-int ...... 10Siz
do do 3s, coupon ..................lO 9A
do do new As, registered ........1S9
do do new As, coupon ........... 1894
do do old As, registered -........111
do do old Is, coupon ex-int.. Ill
do do IS. registered .............10 6
do do SIS, coupon ...............-.1 06
Atchison, general As ex-int ....... 103B
do adjustment As ................ 94L
Baltimore and Ohio IS ex-int $3.50. 10315
do do 31zs .........-.........--... 95B
do do Conv. As ..................l0
Canada Southern I'd .................1OS1k
Acontinued on Eighth Page.)
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02
Savannah Bank
and Trust Go.

JOSEPH ID. WEED, President.
JOHN C. ROWLAND, vice President.
WIN. f. McCAULEY, Cashier.
SAML. l.. CLAY, Assistant Cashier.
A general banking and exchange
business transacted.
Savings Department, interest
computed qoarterIy.
Accounts of merchants, sbanl<s
and corporations solicited.
= American Express COmpany's let
tiers of credit issued available in NIL
parts of the world.
Collections carefully made and
promptly accounted for.
Safety Deposit Boxes and Storage
Vaults for rent.
Correspondence invited.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02
Market steady: sales. 294.


Galveston-Firm; middling, SIS; net
receipts, 6092; gross, 6,092; sales, 1888;
stock, 101, 7S4. Exports-Continent sos.
Norfolk-Firm; middling, So: net re-
ceipts, l,241; gross, 1,241; sales, 1863;
stock, 34,157. Exports-Coastwise, 230.
altimore-Noninal, 9; gross re-
ceipts, 1,436: stock, 1885.
Boston-Quiet; middling, 8; net re-
ceipts, 265; gross, 3,212. Exports
Great Britain, $685.
Wilmington-Firm middling, SIS; net
receipts, so; gross, SO; sales, 1874; stock.
10,209 Exports-Coastwise, 212.
lphia-Quiet; middling, 81 !:
net receipts, 1; gross, i; stock, 4,494
Savannah-Firm; middling, 9-16;
net receipts, 977; gross, s77; sales, 212;
stock. 46,56S Exports-Coastwise &C.,;
France, 2944.
New Orleans-Steady; middling,
GIG; net receipts. 1884; gross, 1884;
sales, $500; stock, 74,391 Exports
Continent 1850
Mobile-Nominal; middling, Sh: net
receipts 26; gross. 26; stock, 1884.
Exports-Great Britain. 2,227.
Mempliis-Firm; middling, S15 net
receipts, 925; gross, 1,4S4; sales, 1000;
stock, 1854
Charleston-Firm middling, S1s net
receipts. Is; gross, %; stock. 2,719.
Cincinnati-Steady; middling, S3s;
net receipts. 81 gross, 81: stock, 1854.
Louisville-Firn; aniddling, S5s.
St Louis-Firm; middling. s1k; net
receipts, 61 gross, 1.067; stock, 46,4S6
Houston-Firm; middling, S5s: net
receipts, 5342; gross, 5,342; sales, 5S,655.
New York-Quiet: middling, 8; net
receipts. 1880; gross, $3.50; sales, 400;
stock, 1S6,059 Exports-Great Britain,
Isl.
Newport News, Va, April Cotton
receipts none; exports to Great Britain,
$500; stock, 1919.
Pensacola, Fla. April 1.-Cotton re-
ceipts. 500; exports to the continent,
500 stock, none.
Total To-day-Net, 1891; Great
Britain. 1894; France, 2,s44; continent,
1853; stock, 689, 6S3.
Consolidated-Net, 1854; Great Brit
ain, 1924; France, 2,944; continent, 49,
Os5.
Total Since Sept. met, 6.92S, 216;
Great Britain. 2.72S.223 France 64S,s19;
continent 2215900.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02
MURPHY a co. INC
Stock Marc

Domestic. via Brunswick. s,O2s
Reshipped inland .......... 1924 SO, 1853
Stock March 81. 1902 ............ 1O.S5O
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02

ADaily. sExcept Sunday.
Connections made at terminal points
with all trains Northwest, West and
Southwest.
Sleeping cars on night trains between
Savannah and Augusta, Macon, At
lanta, Columbus, Ca, and Birming-
ham, Ala.
Parlor cars on day trains between
Savannah, Macon and Atlanta.
For complete information. schedules,
rates and connections, apply to
w. G. BREWER, City Ticket and
Passenger Agent, 1o7 Bull street, or
w. r. MCINTYRE, Depot Ticket
Agent.
J. c. HALLE, Gen. Pass. Agent.
F. ]. ROBINSON. Asst. Gen'l Pass.
Agent.
W. A. wINBURN, Traffic Manager.
THEO. d. KLINE. General Supt.
Savannah, Ca.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02
H. & B. BEER.
Cotton Merchants,
NEW ORLEANS.

Members Of New Orleans Cotton Ex-
change. New York Cotton Exchange and
Associate Members Liverpool Cotton Az
sociation.
Special attention given to The exscutie1
ct ccntrGcts for future delivery Ia esttcM.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-02

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Daily Daily Daily
lex.Su
No 2olNo "a mo 20
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-15
and Herr Ludwig Ma,

government, and Herr Ludwig MAJ
Goldberger, representing Germany's
commercial interests, present as hon
ored guests, made brief addresses ap-
pealing for more intimate trade rela-
lions whereby the manufactured prod
ucts of their respective countries might
find freer entrance into the great Am
erican home market-to the displace-
ment, of course, of an equivalent guam
! tity of the products of our domestic es-
Establishments. Under this sort of in
spiration the importers and foreign
steamship agents carried the day with
a hurrah. If the New York Chamber OF
Commerce had been located in Paris
or Hamburg it could not have shown
more zeal in behalf of foreign produc-
ers or less zeal in behalf of the pro-
ducers of the United States. The body
seems to have been carried off its feet
by an excess of foreign enthusiasm
very much as it was something over
four years ago, when this same Cham
Der of Commerce, in an address tic
Queen Victoria, went out Of it's way tc
lug in a fulsome allusion to her illus
trious grandfather" George III!
Wouldn't that jar George Washington:
New York may or may not pride her
self upon the possession of so thor
oughly foreign an organization as hei
Chamber of Commerce has shown Itself
to be. Certain it is that the country as
a whole does not share the chambers
solicitude for the interests of foreign
manufacturers. 1t prefers the status
quo. 1t finds that under the Dingley
tariff our exports have in five years in
creased SAB, 42S, 254, or A per cent
and our imports are larger by $191 &c.
924, or 2S per cent. A country which
bought during 1901 from foreign coun-
tries total of 1878, $50, 4S0 worth OF
merchandise, while selling to foreign
countries 81, 449 ,265 ,495 worth of do
nestle products, is not going to lie
awake nights worrying about is for
eign trade. 1t has much bigger things
to think of. For example, its domestic
ured by the fact that in the past five
years-1S96, free trade tariff, to 1901
protective tariff-the bank clearings OF
the United States increased from $751;
175, Pol 73 in 1886 to Sis, 525, 1874 ,54S
a difference of over sixty-seven billion
dollars, and an increase of 1872 per cent
The great body of our countrymen are
justified in concerning themselves
chiefly about the enormous internal
trade and the phenomenal industrial
and commercial activity expressed in
these bewildering figures of over lis
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-15
Divorce and Suicide.

A German statistician has been col
Letting facts regarding the relation
that suicide bears to divorce. In Prus-
STA it seems, out of 100000 persons
348 women committed suicide after
being divorced, as compared with only
sixty-one married women. while the
men were in the proportion of ten di-
vorced to one married suicide. Di-
vorce, it would appear, is a sign of
unhappiness, and the unhappy are
naturally most prone to self-slaughter.
1t is also shown that many of those
who do not commit suicide go mad.
In Wurttemberg there are in the asy-
lums 1924 divorced persons, against
283 married, 416 celibates and 676 wild
ows and wido&ers But here, again,
facts and common sense are in per-
feet harmony. Mental alteration, ap-
parently, is likely to lead to crazy
choice in marriage, a crazy choice to a
divorce and divorce to that intensi-
fication of craziness which is official
insanity.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-15

conceived by the worlds military
aeronauts. is for the transportation
of bodies of soldiers over rivers not
spanned by bridges Imagine. for in
stance. that our army wishes 10 invade
Mexico and that it is concentrated on
this side of the Rio Grande, many
miles from the nearest bridge The
great dragon balloon, together With
the two pear-shaped vehicles, which
make up our aerial fleet. are anchored
SO that they overhang the center of
the stream Numerous ropes hung
from each, are fastened on the Amer
lean side. Soldier after soldier grasps
a rope and swings himself to the Mex
lean bank All the ropes thus used
are fastened in the latter side until
the last has been used. Then all ropes
are unfastened and the positions of
the balloon are shifted until the next
detachment of men selected for cross
ing can reach the ends of the great
cords. Then the balloons are moved
over the center of the river again
until the second body of soldiers has
swung itself across. By such means
regiments can cross not only I'M
SPAWNED streams, but precipitous can
ons and threatening abysses. The new
dragon balloon will perhaps be used by
navy. Its prototype was lately flown
from a German man-of-war with great
success. The object of this experiment
was to test the dragon balloons value
as a floating maritime observatory.
The dragon balloon will be the eye
of the commander of our land forces
in the next war. If flown 1,20O above
the earth, it will command a view of
the horizon fifty miles away on clear
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-15

day and over level country. Although
it be miles and miles away, the floating
craft will communicate directly all
that it sees. A long electric nerve
emanating from the observer in it's
basket will descend the controlling ca
BILE of the big airship and connect with
the field telegraph line reaching the
commanders post at the front.
Wireless telegraphy will be a fea-
ture of the new ballooning schools
curriculum. The advantages of this
new mode of transmitting thought
would be infinite in case of war, and
in connection with aerial fleets of war
craft.
Drill in the dropping of explosives
will be another feature of the new
work, but such experiments will have
to be made far from populated centers.
Fifty pounds of dynamite dropped by
the dragon balloon so as to explode
within 200 feet of the most powerful
battleship would wipe the latter off
the bosom of the deep.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-15
Uncle Sans War Dragon.


wished to be ready to cope with Euro
pean powers, in case of hostilities. This
necessity was soon realized by General
Greedy, the chief signal officer of the
army Some months ago. while that
distinguished officer was travelling
abroad, he happened to witness the
performance of the German dragon
balloon He straightway ordered du-
plicate Of the Kaiser's monster from its
inventor, lieutenant in the German
army.
Our war balloon fleet is the newest in
the world. 1t is directly beneath. the
chief signal officer. and is a part of the
flying field-telegraph train
The new signal corps .post at Fort
Myer is under the command of Major
Joseph E. Maxfield, U. S. A Just now
it has the double function of a training
school for raw signal corps recruits I'M
dergoing instruction for the Philippine
service and of a depot for signal corps
supplies of all kinds
A large barracks, with all rodern
improvements, has lately been erected
upon the crest of hill rising In front
of the balloon house. In this CHEEKY
and well-ighted building are full ac-
commodations for ITO men,
The most unique employment OF
captive war balloons like ours lately
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-15
Fact. to BE Remembered.

The following statistics tell wing
there should be no tinkering with tina
tariff. In the years 1S93-4-5, under ths
low tariff and partial free trade Will
son BILL our exports of manufactures
were S525, 0O0,0 900, but in the years
1S9S-9-190O, under the Dingley law
they were 81 .061, 900 900. or s11 200 ,OOe
more than double as much. In 1S9;
the balance of trade against us wal
SIS, 900 900, but in l901 it was $685., 00O,-
600 in our favor, gain of 1854. 900 900
Under the Wilson law for the years
1S93-4-5, the total balance of trade il
our favor was 500. 0OO, 900. but in 1885,
$1,000, under the Dingley law. it wal
81 $50. 000. 900, a gain in three years OF
81, 49S, 0O0, 900, or more than 600 PEI
cent The laws which brought about
and sustain the existing condition are
too vital to be tempered Wilhelm
cinnati Times-Star.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-15
Eccentricities of Genius.

The following statement is made by
Mr. Havelock Ellis from the study of
$50 men and forty-three women of note
in Britain. The upper and middle
classes, according to Mr.. Ellis, are
rich in geniuses. The country and
small towns produce genius more often
than cities, and the clergy father
the most distinguished children.
Geniuses tend to come of large fami-
lies, to be the children of elderly par
ents, to be precocious, feeble in health
in early life, but fairly long-lived-
They have usually excellent education;
large proportion travel extensively
in early years There is among gent
uses a tendency to remain unmarried
or to marry late in life. Persons of
unusual intellect are often subject to
govt. asthma or angina pectoris (ner-
vous diseases), to stammering, melan-
cholia or insanity