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Daily Statement.

Galveston-Nominal; middling, 13kc; re-
ceipts, 1906: stock 1896
Mobile-Nominal; receipts, 81; stock, a.
N2
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: middling 13Hc:
sales, 81; receipts, 999; stock, SO, 661
MISUNDERSTANDING; receipts. s; stock.
1873
Wilmington-Quiet; middlng. 135Oc; re-
ceipts. 81; stock, 12961
Norfolk-Receipts, 1900 stock. 5,175.
Balumore-Nominal; stock 6272.
Boston-Quiet; middling, 13.50c; net re-
ceipts. s137; gross. 1882
Philadelphia-Quet; middIing. 49, 75c; re-
ceipts. 242; stock, 1857.
st. Louis-Nominal; middling. 131kc; re-
ceipts. Abb; stock, 1919.
Memphis-Nominal: middling, BIC; re-
ceipts. 1140; shipments, 1855; sales none !:
stock, g., 337
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Liverpool Market.

Liverpool. February 17.-Cotton spot
moderate business done, prices IA points
higher American middlIng, 7.S4d; good
middling. 7.1sd; middling. 7.0sd; low mid
ding, 7.02d; good ordinary. sgd: ordina-
ry. 672d. The sales of the day were 1000
bales, of which 800 were for speculation
and export and included $500 American.
Receipts 5000 bales, including 5000 Ameri-
can. Futures opened steady, closed fe-
verish. American middling. g. O. c.: Feb
ruary. 6s6d; February-M March. 6S6d;
March-April. 6.s7d; April-May, 6.Ssd; May
June. Gold; June-July, 691d; July-August.
SID: August-September 6-75d; Septem-
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New York, February 1.-THE dry goods
market at first hands has continued in
quiet condition, buyers placing few orders
except for prompt delivery of spots. But
there has been no inclination to weaken
on the part of manufacturers, the majori-
ty of whom will use every effort to pre-
vent the market fro msagging, while 9TH
ers are of the opinion that the raw mate
rial situation will warrant higher prices
for niece goods in the near future.
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Cash quotations were as IolloWs.
Flour-Firm
wheat-No 8. S5assc; No. red, o5@
ST.
Corn-No. 2, 511kc; No yellow 52hc.
Oats-No. 2, AQ411sc; No. white Als@
44kc.
Rye-No. q CSC.
Barley--Good feeding, 4o@47c; choice
mailing, 48G5Sc.
Flax Seed-No. l. Sill; No. 1 northwest
ern, Sill
Timothy Seed-Prime. 1925.
Mess Pork-Per barrel, $14. 750I14 S71s
Lard-Per 100 pounds. 81 .5215@7 .55.
Short Ribs Sdes-Loose, $6.871sd7 .121s.
Short Clear Sdes-Boxed, H.121a@7.25.
Whlsky-Basis of high wines, $1.27.
Clover-Contract grade, 5000.
On the produce exchange today the quo
tations ranged as follows:
Butter-Firm; creamery, 15d23c; dairy,
131s622c.
Eggs-Easier, 27d2S15c
Cheese-Firm, 10d10Ac.
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cIearlnos and EXCHANGE.

New Orleans, February 17-Clearings
s., 267, 517; New York exchange 81 per 1000
premium; commercial 25c per 1000 prem
ium.
Memphis, February 17.-Clearngs, $685.
1888; balances $197 600.
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BULL LEADER WAS
PROMINENT BUYER
Prices Began Working Down
ward at Midday.
SHORTS ARE DEM0RALIZED
Just Before Close the Cotton Market
Became Very Active and Excited.
Professional ScaIpers
Take Profits.
SHORTS ARE DEMoRALIZED

New York, February 1.-THE cotton
market opened strong at net advance
Of 81@46 points and for time showed fur
Their firmness with the active months sell
ing up to net gain of from 46 to 40
points on bull support. the more stronger
cables than expected, light estimates for
the days receipts and continued bullish
advices as to the attitude of spot holders.
The local bull leader was a prominent
buyer of July on the advance and there
was active covering but around midday
rumors were circulated OF an unsettling
nature in reference to the European war
situation, and with New Orleans heavy
sellers, room shorts became encouraged
and prices were worked downward to
level about So98S points under the best
figures OF the morning.
Then there was rally Of several points
on receipt of the small estimates for to-
morrows receipts at New Orleans, which
led TO a REIMBURSEMENT of estimates for
the weeks into sight, which is now being
placed at 10000 against about $4,000 last
year. In spite of this, however, and In
spite of continued bull support the pub
lie did not seem to take hold and shortly
after midday there was a renewal of bear
prices that broke the market through the
low points previously reached, and within
point or so of yesterdays closing
figures.
This was followed by regular and less
wide fluctuations with sentiment evident
ly nervous and trading for the most part
representing nothing more than the eff
forts of the professional scalping contin-
10.
just before the close when the market be-
came very active and excited The local
bull leader began bidding very aggres-
sively. taking large blocks particularly
OF May and the entire list rallied sharply
with shorts evidently badly demoralized
In the last few minutes the market was
rallied to the highest point of the day
and closed at practically the best, firm at
a net advance of 10652 points. Exports
were moderately full and there were re-
ports Of a larg spot business in the south
that helped in the late advance. Receipts
at all ports today II, 700 bales, against 22,-
523 bales last@week and 1851 last year
For the week 10000 bales, against 1877, 772
last week and 1881 last year. Today's
receipts at New Orleans were $3.50, against
1851 last year, and at Houston 544S against
7l50 last year.
New York, February 17-Cotton quiet;
middling, 1850; net receipts, 6; gross, 469;
sales, 1850; stock, 1855.
Total today: Net receipts, 11,14S; exports
to Great Britain, 12.111; to the continent,
1875; stock, 7O5526.
Consolidated: Net receipts, 62,321; ex-
ports to Great Britain. 42.S39: to France,
PATTI; to the continent S414; to Mexico,
1876.
Total since September 1: Net receipts,
8.2S6,939; exports to Great Britain, L.
sso5S6; to France, 6S0991; to the conti-
nent, 2,155, 459; to Japan. So sOs; to Mexico.
2226S.
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Back From the Woods

With several good teams prepared to do
hauling on short notice; single load or
car load LOTS my personal attention given
all orders. Office. Room 1888 First National
Bank building. Bell phone, 1886. Resi-
dence. Peoples phone 205s.
J. T. RATLIFF.
1-22-15t-eod
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Treasury Statement.

Washington, February 17.-Today's
treasury balances, exclusive of the gold
reserve. shows available cash balance
1929, 37S, 552; gold, 800, III, 800
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Chicago February 17.-War compllca-
lions whirled wheat up 2 cents today for
May July jumped 2ss; May wheat closed
1A@1as higher, and July 1ss up. May corn
was ia; oats, 1h, and provisions, 1914 70
doc higher.
The leading futures ranged. as follows:
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er-October. e1Sd; October-November.
sod.
The cotton exchange will eb closed on
Monday, February %.
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that stocks the first of the month will
show an increase in pork and lard and 1t
might be wise to meet these sales with
profit taking.
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vireinla-caroIina Company.
Bonds.

New York, February 17.-Vifginia-C Caro-
lima Chemical company, 2Sh; do. pfd., 100.
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Chicago 'chanqe.

and No. / foundry southern soft. s1s. 75cD
Id R
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Local Staple Groceries.

LOCdI OtdPEt OTOOCTTSbs
Apples-W evaporated. 7lSc.
Flour-Fnncy patent, $525; half patent
$4s5.
ugar-Granu1ated. 47sc; Y. c., PC
Coffee-Green. S1kG12kc; Arbuckle's,
Porto Rico S10.S0
Meats-Dry sailed ribs, sasc; dry sailed
rib bellies, Sssc; hams, fancy, 1SAe; medi-
UNI, 121sc; extra clear sssc; bacon bel
lies. lie
Lard-Leaf SIC.
Compound Lard-Snowdrift, TIC.
Molasses-Centritueal. i593bc: s,rgar
house, 40c; Georgia cane. &c.
Bears-Navy. s2.65 per bushei; Lima. Go
pound.
Pearl Grts--92 pounds. $1.35.
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SCHEDULES
Louisville and Nashville Railroad.

Showing the arrival and departure OF
passenger trains at the union station.
Birmingham:
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Feed Stuff.

Feed Stuff
Meal-Bolted, s110; water ground, s1.06.
Hay Per ton. timothy No. l. 81:
clover, mixed. $3.50; prairie. s13; John
son grass. $500.
Corn-Mxed. &c; white. 64c.
Cotton Seee Meal-Per ton. feed, s21;
prime $24
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Total Sales he DAN Shares:
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IMMIGRATION TO THE SOUTH.

Henry Stewart in the Country Gentleman
 The communication by MT. McAuliffe on page 745, August IS, is C. great interest to all southern people, for if the whole labor system of the south is to be rev. olutionized in that great national division,
 we here are brought face to face-or soon will be-with a dilemma of monstrous proportions. Nature has made the south the most propitious locality in the whole world for the production of the most val uable variety of cotton. Repeated trials all over the world have failed to dis cover any other so suitable locality for the production of kind of cotton equal in practical value to our ordinary mid dlings as it goes into market and among the manufacturers. The length of the staple and other qualities which are of less importance to tho manufacturer than this paramount distinctive peculiarity. but yet are imperative for the practical value of the raw material, are found in no other country's cotton. This has been proved so often that no one concerned gives and weight to suggestion to the contrary. It may be said in fine that our southern states have an absolute monop- raw cotton known in the trade as mid dlings, of special sub-qualities. The so- called sea island cotton may be imi- tated to some extent by some of the Egyptian varieties, but thess lack the best points of our coast lands products. In short, the American cotton grower has nature for his protector. and I venture to assure your interested readers that all
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they have to do is to protect and develop their birthright, so to speak, and enjoy the safe position in which kind nature has placed them.
 Of course the south will advance In prosperity permanently, but 1t will only be on lines laid down by the aid of scien- tific culture. I know planter In the best part of Mississippi who regularly produces three to five bales of the best kind of cotton to the acre, and his com- mon crop Is 300 bales from 100 acres, one third of his land only being in cotton, the rest going in some rotating crops, so as to retain the wonderful fertility of his river bottom lands. If every cotton grow CT in the south followed this truly eco- nomical and scientific course of culture. our crop might easily be raised to 40000,000 bales year, instead of ten.
 Regarding tho Negroes.
 Now I will say a good word for the negroes, but nothing more than in jus tice is truly deserved. We of the south know what they did for their masters in war times-how they staid at home and supported their masters families while the men and boys fought to retain them in slavery. Many a southern lady, talking of this, have seen burst into tears, sob bing out the faltering words What should we have done had it not been for the dear creatures? We should have starved to death, and we owe our lives to them." And this same feeling of what may be truly called affection still pre- vails among the good negroes, than whom there never will be more apt and useful workers in the world. Northern people need borrow no trouble about them. They are silently working out their destiny. in time, ana If politicians will not interfere, they will make good, useful citizens, shaming a large proportion of the poor whites, a dozen of whom will not do as much work in year as one unspoiled | negro will. The south cannot afford to | discard them. Immigrants to this south- ! ern region may come here and make | homes In perfect safety, and live in com l fort, and trust in all things to the ne-
 groes whom they may employ. A great | fuss is made at times about outrages | perpetrated by the negroes, but there Is
 a somewhat low condition of morality | In some back places which prevails among | the whites, and am very sure that many | of these cases are, like the lynchings of | the west, got up out of the whole cloth | by bad whites for excitement, and car | ried out to the end by blind frenzy. The
 only instance in twenty years residence | in the south of which I have had personal | knowledge was thus made up, for frolic
 by white boys, in fun, as one confessed
 after the innocent negro had been | lynched.
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Trip to Summit.


 There Is a grand hotel near by where we were entertained the Bright Angel hotel. I showed the proprietor my let ter of introduction so kindly furnished me by the Age-Herald, and explained to him that l had but a snort time to stay. He ordered a carriage and guide after I had walked around all wanted to, and said to the man: This gentle mans stay is short. Drive him out to the Summit Mound" And turning to me he said: This is the grandest view you can possibly get, and when you leave this spot turn your back upon it all and go away with the impression you get here and you will never forget it." I never expect to. It will always be like an open book to me. While standing here, 7,050 feet, a government tablet giv- ing these figures, the guide called my at tention to what seemed like small blue ribbon wound around among the peaks way down in the bottom of the canyon, and remarked that 1t was the Colorado river, and asked how wide did 1t seem to be. T said or feet" He laughed and said At that point the river is just 250 feet wide," and went on to say it was forty miles to where I saw 1t dis appear around the mountain. He pointed out two little white specks way down in the canyon on the burrow trail, which looked like two white inverted wash bowls, and said: '"Those are tents, and it would take you five hours to walk to them.''
 Standing on or moving from one preci- pice to another Is flirting with death. would say to all my countrymen. if you ever come this way stop and see this wonder. Also stop and see the petrified forest, of which I may nave more to say later.
 This morning when I awoke I looked out of the car window and saw for the first time beautiful California, and like Florida, a land of flowers. We soor reached and passed through Pasadena and on to Los Angeles, where am stop ping tonight. I had one of the longing: of my life satisfied today, that of being permitted to stand on the shores of tht old Pacific. I had ridden on the Atlantic great northern lakes, but this is my first introduction to the grand Pacific Tomorrow morning early will leave herr for a 432 mile trip up the coast line O. the Southern Pacific, and most of thi trip one can view the ocean from th' train l shall visit the great Redwoo' forest and many other places of inter est and will have more to say of Cal | ifornia later. But for fear l may forge | 1t I want to state here that I visited to day a farm of 5,000 acres, all planted fl bush Lima beans. I shall visit the grea seed farms of Santa Clara and San Jose
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PEACH GROWING CONTINUED.

The matter of varieties will depend largely on what the market demands. As most of the peaches grown are for shipment north or to northern and for eign markets 1t is well enough, in fact absolutely necessary, to know the kind of peaches these markets will buy. These markets seem inclined to stick to and de- mand free stone peach and although we have many fine varieties of clings
 yet it would be financial suicide to grow clings to ship for these markets. Of free stones the Elberta has proven the best all round variety to grow for shipment
 The only excuse for growing any other
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The F,In nau4e the company, California Fig Is printed on the front of every package of the
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Notce ,o AronIteo to
 
  companies kwhee Is onew solicit
  Woodward all
  N " ~ CAROLINA PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY.
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More Appropriate.
m inc Chicago News:

From the Chicago News:
 La Montt-Harker is always bragging. He says in Boston even the bath houses are built of brownstone.
 La Moyne-Brownstone? It seems to me they should be built of soapstone.
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Conditions in the West.


 I have recently seen good deal of the west, and noticed the nature of existing conditions. The facts are all in favor of the south, where better lands than those of the west may be procured for less money than the far western wild lands can be bought for, and where makets to sell or to buy In are at ones door, and convenient transportation by the great southern railroad system at very much less cost than western transporta- tion costs; where the climate is all that can be desired, and where the most val uabe special crops may be grown with much greater profit than anywhere else in the world And if any reader is hank ering after a change, or wishes to im- prove his position, or find a place in which to establish a home, my pleasant and satisfactory experience during twen- ty years past all justihes me in bearing wholly disinterested testimony to the ad- vantages existing in the south, where the entire winter is a pleasant working sea- son, and where the labor proposition, as it may be called, is based on solid ground in every way--as to cost, permanence and practical value.
 History, such as that of the ancient Hebrew heglra from Egypt will never b, repeated. Ten millions of people under even more feasible conditions than those of the ancient Hebrews in Egypt. car never make a general migration. The southern negroes are with us forever and 1t is up to us to make position for them but there is nothing in their present en- vironments to stand in the way of their complete absorption In society as needed workers-indeed, indispensable to the | convenience of southern farmers, who will be permanently relieved from the diff | faculties existing elsewhere in the pos- | session of their present facilities. Only good common sense and entire oblivion of every thought of difficulty in the way will put an immigrant to the southern | country in such an enviable position in regard to hired labor as no other em- | ployer in the world occupies.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-06

ing it to it's foundations. 1 could hear no sound from the interior, but, as I shook the structure, saw three or four shadowy forms shooting outward through the water beneath the ice. Of course these were the rats, and man. aged to keep my eye on one of them as he naused close to a fallen white birch log, close to the under surface of the ice. He had been there perhaps minute, when the idea of timing him occurred to me, and I pulled out my watch For three minutes there was not a sign of movement, and then a few bubbles arose to the ice. About minute later, some more bubbles came up, and then the animal himself fioated up against the ice At five minutes from the time I took out the watch, the rat lay without a sign Cf life, and I began to be anxious for his safety So I stamped my foot upon the ice, and like black streak he diyed and was gone. He had been under water at least six minutes, and by the way he f1ived and swan away afterv ards he seemed little the worse for the experi ence
 Tn the spring the freshets came, and the surface of the lake rose until the muskrat house was almost submerged. Then, one morning, it was washed from it's foundations and the lighter parts of it floated far away Then the muskrats took to the banks, and they dug long tunnels in the soft soil. Many of the tunnels had two openings, one at the top or side of the bank and the other down under the water. The last was the one they usually used when entering or leaving their home; the other served not only as 8 doorway oc' casionally, but as an air shaft to yertil- ate the burTow.
 Tn the burrows in the banks, the young muskrats are born. and I have seen these little fellows at many stages of their immaturity. At first they, are blind and hairless, with very blunt noses, and with short sturdy limbs ard thickset bodies. When they begin to get their fur. they are pretty little creatures. and soon learn to follow their mother out of the burrow. and even accompany her in excursions across the lake or stream near which they live Sometimes have seen sev- eral of them sitting together on a log or stone near the water, into which they would scramble like turtles at the first sign of danger By the fall they are practically full grown, and no doubt many of them help to gather turf and sticks and leaves with which to make winter home
 ER NFGT H R0ID HAYNES,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-06
\ MUSKRAT HOME
The Naturalist Pays Visit to One
 in the Winter Time.
one Animal nisplays Great Endur- ance in Remaiming Under the Water-How the Young Are
 Reared.

Last winter l . was walking along the shore of a frozen, snoW-coYered lake, when came epon a muskrat house--a dark, dome-shaped mass of leaves. and turf, rising some two feet above the surrounding ice, and capped with snow. Scarce three feet away there ran line of fox tracks, and 20 yards from the shore these were crossedsby the trail of the ruffied grouse, who, for some reason, had been walking across the lake. The fox had not even stopped to sniff at the muskrat house, for perhaps no one knew better than he what waste of time it would have been.
 Fifty yards further on, l came to a iit- tie creek, at the side of WhicEt a darh spot showed where the ice vas very thin, this was the spot which tue musk rats kept open, and where they left and Teentered the water every night From tae dark spot in the ice there was a well-beaten path through the snow leading to the top of the bank, where it divided into several paths less well de- fined. Here the character of a musk rats trail could be observed; the marks of the small fore feet, the large partly webbed hind feet, and between them all single dine, made by the sharp edged, almost hairless tail as it had trailed on the ground behind. A single trail led up to clump of old apple trees, but the animal which made it had evidently been on literally fruit less quest, for there was no sign of his having found anything eatable. Phe other trails led to corn field nearly quarter of mile from the water. and here the snow presented the appearance of railway map, with lines crossing and recrossing each other in every direction.
 A few days afterwards, we had some warm weather, and the snow and ice melted from the surface of the lake After that there came some clear, frosty nights. and again the lake was frozen over, this time with strong transparent ice. I went to visit the muskrat house, and when I came near ran out upon the ice and leaped upon the dome of the little dwelling, shak-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-06

X Waterbury horseman writes to urge the new mayor to make the trol- lev company quit the practice, fol- lowed during the Kilduff administra- ton, of using salt on the streets Hartford Post.
 ssWouldn't that jar you?' Fol lowed during the Kilduff administra- tion.'' Is there anything else on your mind concerning the Kilduff adminis- tration. If so. heave it off at once. It is a we'll known fact that Mayor Kilduff used every endeavor to make the trolley company use the city de cent, and it is also pretty we'll known that some Of the present party in power didn't raise much of howl in trying to assist him in the work. A little of the salt used by tue trolley company could be used by some other people to good advantage.