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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-06
COTTON SURPRISE
FEW HAD ANTICIPATED A SALE or
 los BALES YESTERDAY.
One of the Brokers Purchased Accumula- tiOn ef Farmers, Hard Pressed
 at Figure of s-1e Cents.

Good middiing .... .... ..., s.......sBc strict middiins '''. ...' '... '''.'.ssnc Strict low middiing .... .... .... ....sNe Low middling ............ ........ ..Shc
 Much to the surprise of both the 'shippers and the factors los bales of cotton were sold in the local market yesterday. at a price based upon the official rate for mid better than midling and brought s-lee, the, purchaser being one of the largest
 The lot had been accommodating for nearly a week and belonged to about q dozen tarm- .n- CTS some of whom were hard-presseo ior cash and others of whom had lost ai, dra aa,s ga in cotton and dId not wish to incur storase costs Following theft instructions. the factor found the best market. which was @ on the snc basis. The facnUr Garranied qIss % bv the present market conditions. He IS eonnsns. rnns. ed that cotton will go up soon ana eAPeeus pst'.s the ginning figuress which show. in his opin- ion, that most of fhe cotton crop was IgsI.,,, gnn ned before Christmas. and that the supply consumption during thae next six months;
 The broker. however. was warranIea .n making the purchase. if the advicss sdi,ed ufetn The wires almost uniformly recommend purchases on a lowering market. -
 With the sale of yesterday and tnat or Thursday. the duiiness of the local market was considerably broken; stiil very n..ie en- couragement for the immediate situation IS felt. =, "a <..
 The New York market was dull and fea- tureless with prices net to ana 7 po,m.Ss ,aS higher. The report that 5000 bales nao been sold to New England brokers. hao very little. effect on the market. .s
 The bulls continue hopeful; in fact. they find new signs for placing confidence m the market. Among the rumors tna. they advertise is that of the small amount or cotton now headed for New York. Tns ,nss figure iA placed at 35.000 bales as agalhSt i5o. 900 estimated to be required for Marcn deliveries. .. As.ana for warns with the market firmer, duoS 70 higher prices and improvement in gooos. s The following is a bit of gossip rom 2 buIlIsh firm in New York: We do not look for any great change in prices Nn Lu. tures1 pending a revival of spot demand for March commitments when much nisner prices are probable. especially IT the .. Wea.n :, er is unfavorable for planting preparations:
 The news regarding planting preparS- ns Y tion is rather favorable to the present mar ket Fertilizer houses west of the Missls. aippl say that the sales are much behind Iast wear because banks and advancing mer- chants are afraid of weeviis ana VIII Sloe let out the money necessary
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-06
Feb. 5.-Splrita turpentine

Wilmington, Feb. 5-spirits turpentine steady 3s%c: receipts 1G.
 Resin steady 2.70; receipts 72.
 Tar firm $1 50; receipts 194.
 Crude turpentine firm $2.0O. s3.o and 800; receipts Is.
 New Orleans. Feb. 5.-Recelpts 112 bat rels rosin: turpentine nones
 Exnorta mona.
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Charleston. Feb. 6.-Turpentine quiet. 39An.
 Resin quiet Quote: ABCD g. 90; E S2. 95 0s3.0 .00: F 33. .o7k; G s3.05Qo7h; H 8 80; $4.1O; K 5.05: M $5.70; N S6.15; WIG $6. .35; wv Se.40.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-06
yuICACo PROyIsIONs AND GRAIN

Chicago, III, Feb. 5.-Heavy ship ments from Argentina and Australia for the week with only a light move ment from America had a depressing effect today on the wheat market nnal quotations being 1-4c. up to l-4c. lower.
 Corn. oats and provisions closed steady.
 The weeks wheat shipments from
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s-RisinG. x-Fallins.
WEATHER CONDTTTONs.

RIVER FORECASTS. The Coosa and the Alabama will remain nearly stationary.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-06
II. &. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
 WEATHER BUREAU.
ITemDeraturelPrclp 
 Min. Max. linches.

Atlanta .... .... .... 46 64 '0o Augusta .... ....J 70 6S .OO Charleston .... 20 6S 'OV Corpus Christi ....l g. I4 .OO Fort Smith ..... AS b4 .e5 Galveston bE o6 .OV Jacksonville .. 46 6S 'O0 Key West '. 6Z 6S 'OV Knoxville co. 4b ! eE 'OV Macon .''''' OS "
 Memphis zee. co. .... 22 6S 't6 M Meridian .''' 9S ~ A Mobile ''.. 1t e4 'ou Nashville ..l 9O % 's6 New Orleans .... o6 Iz 'VU Norfolk ss.. % oO 'VUO Palestine .''s '' ot e5 SSo Savannah ''I 70 es 'VU Nicksburg .... eS eH .a Washington =. 54 70 'VV Wilmington '-l A Se 'VV
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THE WEATHER.

United States Department of Agriculture, weather Bureau. Local Observation
 (Central Time.)
 Montgomery, Feb s, 1909.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-06
NEW nRLEANR COTTON OH

New Orleans, Feb. 5.-Cotton Seed oIIi prime refined in barrels per pound S.5O
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NEW YORK COTTON.

Futures on the New York Cotton Ex. change today ranged as follows:
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Daily Cotton Market.
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SHIPMENTS TO- lretaIrscthl lRrtnl ltinent wise pan
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-06

lwindl Rain State of Weather l1oethsl of wind
  aDm. s5 ss 50 cioudy-s.w Maximum temperature for day. ss deg. Minimum temperature for day 52 deg Normal temperature for day, 60 Geg Average temperature for day. 50 degS Accumul excess since Jan. l, 16O deg. Av. relative humid. for day, SS per ct. Total rainfall since Jan. l, 2.72 inches.
 RIVER BULLETIN.
 FloodI Gage lCh'ng.l Rain
 lStage ReadsI 24 2A STATIONS. 7&m.l hrs. hrs E:::::::., E;:: ; i 5; $
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CLOSING STOCK LlsE.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-06

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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07

No one but the emperor and his
household live in the Forbidden City.
Outside it is a space known as the i'm
, perial city. which is largely occupied
by the officials and princes, and still
farther out is the vast collection of
low gray houses where the Manchus
and Chinese live. A large proportion
Of this city is Manchu.
The other city. on the south of the
wall, is known as the Chinese city.
This has the chief business streets of
eking It has thousands of stores
and the chief Chinese banks. 1t is
the place in which the most of the
commercial business Is done, although
there are many shops in the Tartar
city as we'll.
Looking over the Chinese city. as
we stand on the wall, we can see some
great temples with circular roofs OF
blue tile at its extreme southern end.
Those on our left belong to the Tenn
pie of Heaven, where, on a great cir
| cular altar Of the DuTest white marble
the emperor kneels and prays for shls
people. The little baby is
too young to kEeel now, and until he
grows older, the nation will be prayed
for by proxy
Just opposite the Temple Of Heaven
on the other sid of the wide roadway,
is the temple of Agriculture, where
his majesty starts the spring plowlng
for the nation, and away up at the
north, outside the walls, is q temple
de-oted to Old Mother Earth. This
temple is square, while the others are
round. The Chinese school readers
of the old civilization state that the
earth has four corners, and hence the
shape Of the temple.
The Legation City.
Now, let US look at foreign Picking.
It lies light under US, in the very heart
of the capital, hugging the wall be-
tween the Tartar and Chinese cities.
It fronts the venue along which the
goes in his cart on his way
to his prayers at the Temple Of Rea-
ell, ard the northwest corner of it ad-
joins the imperial city itself. By ali
rights, it should be the most valuable
property in Picking, and the ground
which it stands Is worth NIL /
This city Is / judge about a !
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07

roofs being upheld by many red pill
lars. 1t cost, / am told, $500, 900 in
gold. 1t is on the lines OF the wall,
and in perfect harmony with them.
II shows how the old and new are go
ing along hand in hand.
Picking in 1903.
But come with me to the top of the
wall and take a loo at Picking as it
lies out here on the northern edge of
the Great Plain of China in this year
of our Lord, 1909. Those hills at the
back fade away into the Mountains of
Mongolia, and the level lands in front
stretch on and on to the Yellow river,
and thence down to the Iangtse
Kiang. We can see villages here and
there spotting the landscape. The
country is sWarming with people and
there are tens Of millions within a
days ride by train. The soil surround
ing Us is some Of the best in the world
and for ages it has supported a vast
population.
Now drop your eyes to the city it
self. These walls divide it into two
great divisions, forming two separate
cities. The one at the north is a
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07

By Frank G. Carpenter.

der they are! Those which now sur
round the city were constructed by an
emperor who reigned se~venty-three
years before tried to find a
new world. There are about twenty
five miles OF them; and they are so
high that they can be seen for a long
distance outside Peking. They are as
tall as a four-story house and as wide
at IA top as a country road You
could drive five wagon loads of hay
abreast upon their tops without
crowding, and, throughout, they are as
solid as stone. They consist of two
wallis, of gray bricks of twenty Or thir-
ty pounds each, laid in mortar, which
has outlasted the centuries. These
two walls are parallel. and within
them has been packed a mass OF stone
and earth, which the ages have ce-
mented to granite.
These walls were first erected al
most 500 years ago. They have been
kept in good order from that time to
this, and the Chinese are repairing
them today. While they were build
ing their electric light plant n lay
ing the tracks for their railroads, they
re-erected the great gate Of Chen
Men, which was badly injured at the
time Of the siege. Right next the sta
ton, this massive structure Of red,
blue and gold has gone up, and it now
forms a port Of the old wall. 1t is of
brick and wood beautifully carved. its
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07

steam whistle Of the railway cars din
ming our ears, and the new electric
plant turning the silVery drops into
diamonds, while we think Of the past
and try to realize where we are. We
shall have to shut our eyes and turn
our minds back into the ages. We are
on a spot where men were living I'M
der a municipal government five cen
turtles before Romulus and RemuS
were sucking at the teats of the wolf
to grow up and found Rome. There
was a town here when the great pyra-
mid was building and when the Israel
ties worked under their task1nasters
IL the valley of the Nile. That town
fell into ruinS and was rebuilt and de-
stroyed again. eleven hundred and
twenty years before Christ, its place
was taken by the city of Chi; and,
during the days of NebuchadneZZar, 1t
VAS the capital Of the state Of Yen
At the time of the crusade, 1t was the
chief city of the Kin Tartars and to-
day vestiges Of the Kins are still to be
seen.
The Walls Of Picking.
The walls CT Picking! What a Won
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07

half mile long and perhaps two-thirds
as wide. 1t is walled on the south by
the great structure which Yung Lo
Built, and on the other three sides by
walls which have been put up since
the siege. Inside those walls are the
homes of the foreign legations. The
most OF them are mansions of brick
and stone, bailt European ashton.
each collection of buildings being sur
rounded by a wall OF its own
This city has its own police and it's
own soldiers. Each legation has a
can see almost every uniform known
TO Europe, as he walks through the
streets Inside the compounds are
barracks. and o. some of their walls
the soldiers march up and down. The
whole is more like an armed camp
than a city, and the ministers live like
feudal lords in their castles. with their
retainerS about them.
The legation city is divided up by
wide streets. 1t is lighted by cleo
tricity and is kept as clean as a pin. II
represent the great world outside
China, INK is one of the most Strik-
ing parts of the Picking of 1909.
An orderly City.
1 knew the old feking we'll. i visit
ed it when President Cleveland was
still in his first term at the White
House, and / saw it again just before
the Japan-Chila war. At those times
the streets were crowded; there was
no order whatever, and a stranger
could hardly max his way through.
The streets were the sewers. They
were wide, miry and unpayed: and I
saw Chinese carts which were so stuck
in the mud that the silk-gowned man
dErins within them had to be carried
out on the backs of coolies before they
could reach solid ground.
Today Picking is as Well policed as
New York and Chicago. The street
traffic is better managed. and the vast
mass of yellow humanity is andled
with but little exhibition of force and
with little noise. The chief streets
have policemen in the middle of the
roadway at every few feet, and the
endless streams of Acknowledged NOR
tails, which are always moving this
way and that, are not allowed to flow
Out of their proper courses. Main
tanning such order is far more diff
cult than in America, for the traffic is
much more diverse. 1t is
of every sort of vehicle, from the
~wheelbarrow, hauled by donkey and
with and footraan in livery
and retainers on horseback in front
and hin 1t comprises hundreds
of donkeys and ponies loaded with
got DIS; of caIneiS, ridden ~
Mongo1ians, or led along
Nils = In w. IN
thrust through the thick flesh of the
animals nose. There are j~inrikishaS
h number which have come
here since the Boxer rebellion, and
there are men and women dressed in
silks and cotton on foot. The people
are from all parts of the Chinese-em-
pire. Half of them cannot under
the language of the others, but
nevertheless these policemen keep
order, with their broom
clubs.
The New Streets Of Picking.
Within the past five years, the
streets of Picking have been remade.
The main avenues have been divided
up into sidewalks and
Granite cutters now run along on each
side the main streets. and trees have
been planted throughout the whole
city. The ~roadways have been level-
ed and built up with macadam, so
they are as solid as those of any
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07

mighty rectangle, perhaps thirteen
miles round It contains the Tartar
city, in which are the great govern
ment buildings, the foreign legations
and also the Forbidden City, where,
surrounded by thousands Of eunuchs,
the emperor ives. You can make out
his home by following the lines of
those temple-like gates which rise
high over the walls which surround it.
His palaces are huge one-story struc-
lures with throne rooms and other
great halls. The roofs are of yellow
tiles, a color which is reserved for his
majesty alone.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
HOW TY4E OLD CHINESE CAPT.
TAI is CHANGING WITH THE
MODERN CIVILIZATION,

Macadanlized Streets, Electric Lights
and a Better Police Than Chicago
New Government Buildings Erected
by Observation-Disclosures Houses
PrOpOSed-Tfhe Legation CITY
Something About the Walls Which
Are Being Repaired.
(Copyright, 1909, by Frank G.Carpen-
teri
PEKING, 1909.
Come with me this bright Sunday
morning and take a look at the new
capital Of the new Chinese empire.
We are in the ganglionic nerve center
Of n Of the greatest movements of
history. Old China, with it's vast pop
ulation of one-fourth Of the human
race, is being reborn, and Picking is
~throbbing with the young blood of the
new civilization From it are trick
ling the streams which are starting
these mighty provinces into action.
They are daily increasing in volume,
and promise to form a tidal wave
which will engulf the whole world.
Picking is the fountain Of the reyolu-
ton, and it is already spouting sky
high
Old Peking.
Let US sit in its spray with the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-26

IN part, that the readers of the Com
gressional Record, who are quite
numerous the country over, may have
the facts at hand. This pleases men
who come here to fight for higher duties
or for lower duties on plate glass.
lumber, hides, coal, woolens and dozen
other big items. Some of them had
briefs printed in the Ways and Means
hearings and some of them also gave
testimony before that body, but there
was always additional correspondence
and other additional material pro and
con. by the time the bill reached the
Senate. In certain eases, Senators.
knowing they are fighting hopeless
battle for some constituent, content
themselves with making a few remarks
and putting the constituent s letter or
brief into the Congressional Record.
But every Senator, who has made a
Eset speech" has bolstered up his plea
or his defense with much documentary
evidence. He has written the Treasury
Department for information, ransacked
the Congressional Library, and worried
the lives out of official heads of statisti-
cal and kindred bureaus in Washington.
All this has proceeded on a scale never
Congress. Much of the material is abb
soluteiy worthless. Some of it is so old
as to be out of date. Some of il ia
presented with almost an open purpose
to throw dust in the eyes Of people who
can not be expected to understand tariff
and economical subjects. But some of
it possesses value
Before many weeks the mails to the
libraries of the country and to favored
(?) constituents will be weighted with
packages weighing 800 or 400 pounds
each. These will be the bound volumes
of the Record-the complete and mex
purgated edition of the tariff story from
early March to the end of the extra ses-
sion when the signature of William Fl.
Taft was put 10 the bulky parchment
which, thereby, is made the new tariff
law
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-26

ing slugs in response to the quiet touch
ing of the keyboards.
The Indifference of the newspapers
to the ordinary features of the debate
has spurred the Senators to unusual
activity in preparing as good "news"
speeches as possible and also to exercise
their ingenuity in delivering those
speeches when they are likely to get
the most space. Never before were so
many Senate speeches s'set up" in adj
vance that the proofs might be furnish
ed days ahead of time to the Washing
ton correspondents. Never before were
proofs so generously distributed or sent
around with so many polite senatorial
notes to the Offices of the correspond
ents. Never before were so many re-
quests made to tlook over speech and
to E'make as good an abstract of it as
your time will allow Never before
were so many Senatorial speeches print
ed in pamphlet form, after their de-
hvery-which costs a Senator real
money out Of his own poeket--to be
distributed in big manila envelopes,
franked, to his constituents and TO all
others who may or may not be interest
ed. These speeches are going out by
the thousands daily to all parts of the
country. Many, many thousands more
copies are being piled up in committee
rooms against future demands or for
further distribution.
A Senator must actually deliver his
speech. He can not get 'fleave to
print" as may be done in the House
When he first came TO the Senate. Mr..
Dick, of Ohio. once asked leave to print,
thinking he certainly would have the
same privilege there he had long enjoy
ed at the other end of the Capitol. The
request, instead of being looked upon
with merriment, seemed even to shock
the sensibilities of the older Senators,
who promptly informed him that his
request was impossible.
However, enormous quantities of
material on the tariff are being inserted
in the Congressional Record by the Sen
ate The Thousand and one campaigns,
big and little. that have been under
way in this city for the last six months
for and aginst tariff items. can be I'M
derstood next year when the election
is approaching, or a hundred years from
now, by anyone who cares TO open the
broad books into which the Congress
sional Record is bound. The newspapers
may ignore the great bulk of the tariff
debating, but the politicians expect to
promote a mighty revival of protection
and revenue literature in the course Of
a twelvemonth.
The extensive "inserts' are made,
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adopted. The Finance Committee could
probably have defeated the amendment.
1t has been able thus far to carry or
defeat any proposition that came. up.
The appearance would have been little
unseemly, probably, had the Finance
Committee defeated an amendment
which it had once favored.
So the good stiff duty on pumice
stone for the benefit of Nebraska de-
posts went through kiting and Senator
Brown has been pluming himself on his
success. Nevertheless, it remains to
be seen what will become of pumice
stone in conference. 1t is no secret
that a word from Senator Aldrich, who
viii be the leading conferee, will cause
that good stiff duty to be dropped like
a hot potato. Without much difficulty
one can imagine Senator Brown dancing
attendance upon the conferees, waiting
outside the committee room and asking
for the latest word as to what has hap
pened to pumice stone.
Day after day, there are also evil
dences in progress for the balancing of
duties, which will come in conference.
The heavy tariff cannonading of near
ly week had to do in the main with
imposing specific duties on certain high
grades of cotton, especially mercerized
goods Those duties were probably an
increase, although that was holly de-
MED, Just as it was holly asserted.
In the same cotton schedules. the
House voted an increase of duty upon
certain kinds of knit goods. which are
now brought into this country in enor.
nous quantities. The Senate Finance
Committee cut those duties on knit
goods down to the rates imposed by the
Dingley law Senator Aldrich gritted
his teeth and stood without flinching
through the vehement grilling that
members of his own party gave him for
those increases on high grade dress
goods. The outcome in conference IS
not difficult to understand or to fore
cast. There will be Senator Aldrich on
one side of the table saying that the
higher duties on ladies dress goods can
not be Welded and Representative
Serene Pavne on the other side of the
table saying that the higher duties on
certain grades of underwear and OF
stockings can not be yielded.
"Wen, I will give you the higher
protection on knit goods if you will
give me the higher rate on dress
goods,'' Senator Aldrich will say:
|sDone' responds Chairman Payne
and there will he another step forward
toward an agreement.
One might think the tariff debate
could not be faster or more furious than