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secured It is generally admitted that
early crop moves early, and the drogsf
over large portion of the cotton
forced the opening of an already cary ~
and should this be the fastest moving Y,
on record in the past ten years the supps
would be more than 1,000,OOO Daies ~
Of consumption, and should 1t pc 81 WI
as the slowest within the last ilite eno WI y.
it would still be less than 11,o0o,uoNoa; ~
II Mr., Ellison is correct at lo,sVV,U p,.r
consumption. with trade conditions oa,s
pnssed cotton is worth at least lue ~
now being asked for II. .oj
Messrs Hubbard Bros. 90; sas,.ohard
traditions no longer govern ana int ~ Ia A
are Keeping their interest wei III WI
awaiting developments after me admj
Year. They are not yet willing 70 s' IN
that the present light receipts aie cnl
indication of the crop, but Win on .ssos,na
estimates to weigh against the La "A
they will not anticipate any. mate. - Nh
cline I'm prices. though unwilling ,s W M
an advance. 1t is well 10 nole LA LA M
production Of cotton in other ounleo,dInstjoI
increased % per cent over the nnon Nj
three years ago when we entered Wan on M
present range of values. Consump XIV saul
also Increased, but not quite 10 sssso
extent. VIII II increase again 'i,'s nrednl
to meet the further increase ~ (O.|
tionf' hl'haru
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COTTON REMAINS UNCHANGED


tendency Of values is based on supply ana
demand and II the former proves lnsut'
icient TO meet the requirements OF the
latter. there can be but one outcome of
developments and that will be a higher
range az values
Iiverpool opeped quiet with quotations
unchanged to n point lower than the close
~ fbc s,re,ious dnv Tho tone OF the mar
e., .obtinued nt,iet to duji throughout the
Se, ma nratstions showed very little
az. ,, ~" Icitbcr vrav Later I'm the after
nue., ,,rn,c,i coe and prices rose
mo-, nu il ~ IN thon 6cid steady nntiI
sughuy. sne tone ,ngn nS ,,nro nincct III
the close wheh qao1aoiohS W ,ba day befora
points ABOVE nc nsures VI w , "ss So iittic
The spot market was e9sE' u il NeiS ,, III
business trahSarteu, WIN no lihptu,,t' 49,
ever The close was easlcr WIN iu"'"
tions . points lower for the day
New York opened quiet with prices IN
rbsnccd 20 poiut lower than the close OF
.,, - -o,rotnsd
the previous day Inc hEurts iVul"'"eu
stationary during the morning, MS very
-, . ,,,, g., mo marriott
llttle inle'eat ""N vs. IL. =,
while values were kept from teteuihs w
the strength impaired from Liverpool ON
tbc fenr ~ n shortage In tho crop. IN tho
eftcrn"s,n bneiness was worry quiet ana
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Crowley la December "a Croylev
market clean rice; Fancy head rice 5ts6c
6; choice 5@5as; good 4l,d47S: fair 8l@4.
common Sass: low grades 2B025.; screen.
ings 2@2as; fancy Japan 4mHg: good aI5@
35s fair 3Q3as; common 2laa21s: screenings
2@2A; brewers 1iad17s; bran per ton .ooGl
500; polish per ton 17OOalsoO. Healthy
demand for all grades, Mt full values Rough
I 500; NJ. o,T5; NJ. Q . 10: NJ a . ID 10:
No., ? ~. Fancy and high grades In de,
mani; low and common grades 0ufet Re-.
GsiPlsr rough rice previously reported mn
season 33T2s3 ''"' 'nls
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Richard Cooke q Co.'S .ttsr

Houston, Texas, December 24.-wbiIe the
absorption Of cotton may not nccossariIv
represent consumption, it is a good indlco.
tion of the activity of spinners. Tho nj,
sorption so far is on record hosls and
mas Drought the visible supply OF American
cotton 4oo'ooo bales under last year. and
the world's consumption bids fair to be tho
greatest on record il the cotton can no
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NEW YORK COTTON.
FIRST Influences Were Bearsh, But the
Bulls Came Later

oNHS C0Ine Later
New York, December -. The co,ton
market opened quiet and steady ot n'
changed prices, rallied point ar tao am
then oosed of to { points only ~ ,nrn
steady again with the close very stcaa,,
at a net loss OF . poiuts to a NET r,se NJ .
points The influences at work nm I'M
market were first hearlsh and then bu,,ish
the early cables were unsatisfactory Eorly
We're un6r az to the receipts for tho dnv
I1hsent started an ancipient TaiS a. V W
apssnTe Oh public speculation Inter tmc
factor gfo oiio vsGnpori became something Of
Satisfactory showing by The u6, tV az ~
tb rS &na tending TO strengthen td
As The dn sts sdT eSpSrts and large hodings
ana there was some invsstS5ln oIts covered
70 ths ssiosss '1e market Arm undertons nm
S'OsN Inc January situation rer rv Nv
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON.
Factors Want the Top Prices for Thei
Offerl1ds

actors Want the op Prices tor Their
Offerings.
New Orleans, December 24-There was
very little business transacted In the spot
cotton market today the sales, which in
cludcd 800 sold after hours Yesterday.
reaching totals Of only 100 bales of spots
and $50 +. o. b. terms and fifty bales to
arrive, Factors held to top prices for their
offerings, which were rather light and
poorly assorted, while buyers were i'm.
measurahy indifferent. with the result
showing IN the meaCer trades. Despite the
usual Christmas eve celebration held no
small part of the operators attention. there
was n very good volume of business in cot
ton contracts today The market opened
ut declines of to . points from Yesterday
lcycl and, In keeping with the course az
values at New York, tuctuated over n mar,
row range Throughout, finally closing at an
exact level with yesterdays figures on ali
months save December which was down
/ point, and July, which was up / point.
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Trading Was Limited and Prices Con-
tnusd Very Easy.

tinusd Very Easy.
Operations on the Houston OH Exchange
yesterday were included In dealings in two
stocks only
One lot N 10000 shares Of Merchants aud
Mechanics sold nj Ac per share, which bid
was kept in the market, and at the close
another deal OF 10000 was made at the
same figure, making total of 10000 shares
for the days business In this stock.
Higgins sold at a very firm figure. four
shares changing hands at 5000 per share.
There was not as much easncss shown In
stocks as one would look for on account
Of the holidays that follow, instead a quiet
but steady nrm existed Throughout 1t is
said that Higgins will declare another dlvi.
deno IN the early part Of January, which
accounts for the hrmness In the stock
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ST Louis. December 24-Catte- Receipts
150c head including 100 Texans, Mar.
tct active and strong: native shipping and
export steers AgOa6oo: dressed beef ond
bntchers steers 4.25d6.J0; steers under
1000 pounds 3.I5d5.Oo: stockcrs aud feed.
ers . 50U 100; cows ana heifers 2.2Jd4 ~;
hulIs 25O6f4JO: calves 4.O0Nt1.0O: Texas
ana Indian steers 100000; cows and he'll
crs >. 25a3 H. Hogs Receipts 300 head.
Market firm and higher; pigs ana lghts
4 i0siG n. hackers G25 6i6.JO; butchers
G.35mG.G go sheep Receipts 800 head. Mar
ket steady. native muttons 34Nd4.Vo; lambs
4COmj.Jo. culls and bucks 2I3m4.Vo' STOCK
.r. 1 -p.yD 40
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SUGAR.

New York December "a Sugar-Quiet;
tair refining T-i6 centrifugal, a6 test. 3
1915. Molasses sugar 3 3-16; refined steady
New Orleans. December -. Sugar Dull,
open kettle 2Ad3h; open kettle. cen.
tritugal, 8 T.160l3s4; centrifugai Granuldted
4 3-16d4ls whites SIsM4 i-i6; yeilows 3ia
25136
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GALVESTON STOCK.
Port Of Sabine

Sabine, Texas. December "a Arrived
Tug Albert y Hughes with barges Mary
land, Virginia and Andrews, from Morgan
city,
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London Consols,

london December "a Cousole for money
~ 1i.l6; for account ~ Rar silver steady.
at 22ia Money 4 per cont; short h,ills
464s por cent? thrcc months bills per
cont.
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New YORK Money.

New York December "a Money on call
firm at GH10 per cent; closing offered at q
per cent. limo paper firm sixty and
Wucty days ana six months 6 per ccnt'
Prime mercantile paper q per cont. sterling
at tS312l for sixty days; posted rates iSi
and hS7ls: commercial hills 4S2di SGT.
Bar SILVER 4St,; Mexican dollars IS. Coy
crumcnt bonds strong. Railroad bouds ir
regular.
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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

FORT OF GALVESTON, December -
ARRIVED.
SIS Horntio tBr), Para.
SIS Monadnock OBJ, Shields,
SAILED,
SIS Actor (Br.l. Liverpool.
SIS Nueccs (Am.), New York.
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A GOOD UNDERcURRENT.
HELD PRICES UP WELL.

The Feeling at Liverpool That There Are
Indications OF a Short Crop Has
Impaired Strength to Cotton.
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Established 1882,
CARGlLL 4 RICHARDSON,

Members: New York Cotton Erchsn
New Orleans Cotton Exchange, Liyep
Cotton Association, Chicago Board
Trade.
Offices: Houston, Texas, Cotton
change; Houston, Texas, 20S Main sire
Beaumont, Texas; Shreveport, La
Orders executed in Cotton, Grain /
Stocks. Direct private wire 10 all la
exchanges. References: Commercial
tional Bank, Houston, Texas; National c
Bank, New York; Iibernia Bank and Tr
Company, New Orleans.
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Houston Spot Market.
Houston-Spots closed steady, prices IN
changed; stock 80, los bales; sales 1889
Comparative Spot Market.

The following are the closing quotations
for cotton on the spot today at the leading
markets together with the closing OF mid.
ding yesterday, with sales today:
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Other Spot Markets,

New Orleans-Spots closed quiet and
steady, prices unchanged; stock s95, Ill
bales.
low ord. 5-1s MlddlinE .....sN
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AT THE CLOSE:
Liverpool, I ~ points higher.
New Orleans, I lower to higher.
New York, 2 lower to higher.
SPOTS:
Liverpool, 2 points lower
Others, unchanged.
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ESTIMATES Fer TO-DAY.
Houston, e5oo to 10000 bales, against
1880 last year.
Ne wotlesns, $4,000 to $4,000 bales,
against e3it last year
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GALVESTON

Tho market Is oVerstoohed WIN commoh
classes. ana there IS strong demand for
choice beef and calves.
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Net Reeelpts at All U. S. Ports.
The Oil Market.

difference 25,853 2,a72 i55, i54 -.
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sales for the day $4,000 shares.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-04-30
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a mans labor for life, and leave
something over. Here some few,
who endeavor TO raise a wife and
family, earn in the aggregate in
ten years what the Polish pianist
might make in single night.
/ happened to pass this street
with a respectable young land
agent who had some of the earth
left him by a relative. Referring
to the condition of poverty he en-
lightened me on the subject of an
"unfrugal, lazy, vicious and igno-
rant poor" "Let them said
he practice thrift and buy some
land az an investment. Now,
he continued with a proud air. j
bought some lots in this very
street, that lodging house stands
on it, and good investment it is /
must say; rents are very high here
considering"
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The Great Dismal Swamp.

OF Virginia is a breeding ground
of Malaria germs. So is low,
wet or marshy ground every
where. These germs cause weak
ness, chills and fever, aches in
the bones and muscles, and may
induce dangerous maladies. But
Electric Bitters never fails to de-
stroy them and cure malarial
troubles. They will surely pre-
vent typhoid. 1--WE tried many
remedies for malaria and stom-
ach and liver trouble" writes
John Charleston, of Byesville, O.,
"but never found anything as
good as Electric Bitters." Try
them. Only SOC. j. w. Har
ris guarantee satisfaction.
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Dallas is a fine city. Some of
it is very respectable indeed.
There would seem to be a dull va
Guilty of life about these quarters.
The people in the front gardens APP
pear ennued somehow although the
houses are standing III large gar
dens, shade trees line the streets,
and the gardens are bright with
varigated flowers, But they are
all very, very respectable and, !
should say entirely ASSOCIATED
from business. | know this, be-
cause chance throwing me into
conversation with a dweller in
this quarter, she made a remark
about "the working class" The
working class" lives in another
section where the garden bloometh
not, and the maidens know not
ennui. The pipe also is more in
evidence tbs n the cigar, and the
saloon standeth at each corner
for him who yearneth for the
brief rapture of a long drink.
Seven-up is the favorite game in
this quarter, whereas Might've is
more loved by the respectable. In
this quarter of the town things are
sometimes pawned, in the other
mortgaged. There is another
quarter of the town where the
poor live. 1t is unlovely, and the
place swarms with humanity.
There seem to be many children,
and the streets are mean and
dingy. An artist with an abnor-
NAL eye might call them pictur-
esque. Here the name Paderewski
is unknown. Here the price of
fairly good race horse would buy
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perience seem to have subdued
their expectations.
In the sunset days of life, and be-
meath the strokes of bereavement
and the touches of sorrowful
memory, the hero has ripened into
the saint; the aged warrior ever
increasing in charity, ever consid-
crate of others, and forgetful of
self, marches with erect head and
unfaltering steps to the Grand
Muster.
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House Moving.

We are prepared to move
houses of any size on short notice,
and at reasonable prices. Drop
us card or call and see us.
Powers a Jackson.
l1-4t. San Angelo Texas.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-04-30
PADEREWokl
BY CHARLES j, FINGER.
PaderewskI The Crown is Thine,
Thou Art the Prince OF Pianistsl

Thou Art the Prince OF Pianists!
have heard him / have sat
entranced for two hours by the
1.-THE, nervous figure. In sense
I was alone in the great auditori-
nm. although there were eight
thousand beside myself gathered
beneath the roof; still, each was
solitary unit. The magic of
the musician caused each to be
isolated for the nonce from his
fellows. ! was alone. The magic
web was wrought, and the fire in
my veins quenched; again the
mists dimmed my eyes as sub
consciousness of vanished, un-
fulfilled youthful dreams stole
over me. Old joys and old sor-
rows awoke there was Spring in
my breast, and the burnt out vol
cano which | call my heart was
bursting with the unquenchable
FIRE of love, The world seemed
doubly fair; full of loveliness and
sunshine, and mankind generous
with an enigmatic kindness.
Death itself seemed Il bright spir.
it of joy, bright as Life itself.
The deep, black, hollow mourning
bells seemed u mere mockery, the
entrance into the Land of Eternal
Silence calling for the unison
chorus of brass, exulting, inebri-
ating trumpet tones. Death SEEM
ed benefit to poor tortured hui
manity; a welcome sleep.
At the unbidden Will of the
player, my soul became attuned
TO phantasy, improvising strange
thoughts to the strange music
Borrowing at crucitied love. Or
again an involuntary sigh would
escape, as grewsome thoughts
arose, or an eerie feeling of inef-
fable horror shuddered through
my being. For there, as in IL
magic crystal, side by side with
faces of sweet ladies, dark-eyed,
handsome, fresh and blooming, I'D
peared grinning Deaths heads be-
specked with precious stones; and
above the silver laughter of the
society bellies, the bright human
butterflies, came the half smoth-
cred groans of the countless
thousands who never yet knew a
sutficiency of the bare necessities
OF life.
My imagination called up Wis
Jon of the great Sufferer on the
Galillean shore, suffering and
homeless by the dismal lake.
with cloak wrapped closely about
bis emaciated form in vain en-
deavor to protect from the keen
wind that raved over the low hills
Through crack in the clouds, n
watery moon looked down upon
the dlreful scene. Faith slumber-
ed, and Hope watched. But Char
ity, the Magdalene, scorned of
bypocrltlcal men, passing by, all
heedless of the bitter cold dlvests
herself of outer ruiment, and
with tender hands covers the Sleep
ing one, The woman sufferer,
lonely outcast, blesses thus the
Man OF Sorrows, with the one
womanly, unseltish, uncharitable
act.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-04-30

A thousand miserable scribblers
have eulogi2ed Paderewski and his
playing in prose and poetry, yet
none has said anything new. In
deed there is nothing new to be
said. Paderewski plays as no one
has ever played before, and poster
ity will assign niger rank to his
work than we dream of, From
the most incredible, fairy-like
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-04-30

"Girl, girl do not weep" whis-
pered "A woman on my right to II
young girl, my nearest neighbor,
and ! awoke from my bewildering
dreams.
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pianissimo through gradua
crescendo to magnificent for
tissimo is to the musical critic
listening TO this master perplex-
ing process.
The music sometimes seems to
become visible. Actually, to my
sensations it seemed whilst listen
ming, as though shower of pearls
and diamonds were tumbling in
glorious profusion through a sea
of ruby light, then n pause fol-
lowing, silence itself seemed sa-
cred. In some Undesirable man
ner Il sense of form and color SEEM
ed be to be set up; living
arabesque to be conceived. To
one who has heard Carren Hoff-
man, de Ohe, Pachmann, Sauret,
the work of Paderewski is phenom-
email. The impression that other
players were mere amateurs by
comparison takes firm hold. So
marvellous is his mastery of the
instrument, that one loses entire
sight of the fact that the senses
are being addressed by means of
technicalities of incredible diff
Guilty and insensibly one yields to
the glamor of a dream. An ordi-
nary musician may look at a COM
position such az the "Fantaise
Chromatique ct Fugue" of Bach,
and find little in it but dry class
icism. In the hands of this trans
cedent artist it become a living,
palpitating mass of emotional fire.
"If human syllables could ee'r re-
fashion
That fierce electric passion;
II other art could match as we're the
poets duty
The grieving and the rapture, and
the thunder
OF that keen hour OF wonder
That light as If Of heaven, that
blackness az OF hell
How Paderewski plays them might
dare TO tell"
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1t is restful to sit, as soon as
daylight begins to wane, at win
dow, and watch the gay world
passing. In the main the faces
are ruddy ones, and the bodies
well clad, telling of folks to whom
Fate has been kind, but here and
there one catches glimpse of Il
marble face, wan and pale, telling
of the body chained to the rock of
poverty, prey of some terrible vul-
ture Of illfortnne which daily lace
rates the heart. And the old SOL
der! He lives again on the bat
tletield. He is ready to tell his
story, and tell it often so that the
hearer shares the intoXication
and dreams the same dreams.
Brave noble hearts, all honor to
them; they fought tor what
they conceived to be the right.
Theirs was II faith proper to the
time and place-as holya war as
the Crusades. Great is the faith
indeed that causes man on the
battle field to challenge in dread
enemy, Death. We who live in
quieter times can hardly imagine
how terrible was the night, how
grim the fight, that these old
warriors experienced.
For the most part the veterans
are of modest mein and charitable
speech. Perhaps, realizing that
the glow of the sunrise can no
longer redden their cheeks, and
having learned the Christening
lesson of Time, they are purified
for their universal benevolence is
most strongly marked. Their ex-
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-04-30

If Paderewski is the type of the
Truth bringer in an age which un-
derstands him not, may we not
hope tn It the seed he bears will
yet produce a forest. True HON.
age and glory may be gained only
in the Immortality of the race.
May his art help to realize the
dream of the poet who saw.
Mind writ in every face; books
million fold
Multiplied; galleries with breath
shapes hung
Raphael might wo rship or Apelles
old:
Groups from great Shakespeare
world or Chancer's song
In bronzed or Marble life, seeming
inspiring
From some new Phidian realm OF
earth beneath
To gem the populous squares: mu-
sizes full tongue
Telling TO millions what Mozart In
death
Euraptured heard, but could not
the boon-sounds bequeath
And all for all! Rank, class, dis
tinction, badge
For ever gone Labor by science
made
Brief recreation, not by privilege
Avoided, nor its thrift in name OF
trade
Or commerce tilched To give broth
er's aid
To brethren and enlarge the general
bliss
From knowledge, virtue, health, be.
yond parade
OF pomp or gold atfording JOY.
wis
When truth doth reign, earth shall
be a paradise.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-04-30

The Earthly Paradise! That is
the desire. That is the prophecy
held forth in music as interpre-
ted by Paderewski. The Earthly
Paradise where selffishness and
self will are unknown, and the fire
blackened veldt and the destroy
ed native home, fell deeds promp-
ted by greed and voracity, will be
but shuddering memories of a
cruel and stupid age. The indi-
vidual lesson is one of true broth
erhood. True fellowship, to help
the weak, who cannot fight so
strong as you in the battle of life.
And above all to foster charity.
turning not deaf ear to he who
is his own worst, or only enemy.
Our little lives are too short for
strife and bitterness. Let us
rather pack them full of the deeds
of kindness. For but few more
short years, and all will lie down
together; the rich and the poor;
the guilty and the innocent; your
erring brother and yourself, and
the same sun will shed equal light
and warmth on the green sod
above, the sky will be as blue
above his grave as yours.