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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10
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recommended
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10
COTTON-FUTURE GAMBLING

Editor The Atlanta Journal:
read your editorial of December Sd on
Gambling in Cotton Futures" with the
greatest solicitude, but was dismayed
when l found you were running with
the hounds and holding the hare"
l was delighted when you said THE
buying and selling of cotton contracts
with no thought of actual delivery is one
of the readiest means for gambling
known to the science of get rich quick,
and is one of the blights upon the coun-
try" / was dismayed when you classed
hedging as Legitimate Insurance.
L was amazed when you said, mo firm,
however strong, could afford to sell a
thousand bales of cotton for delivery next
January, if they had to take the risk of
rise and fall of cotton in the meantime,
and to avoid this risk buy contracts on
the exchange at a known price for the
distant MONTH"
How does the exchange prevent taking
the risk of fiuctuating prices when max
ing the first sale? The very nature of the
transaction compels some one to take
this risk. Tell me who takes it? Tell me
again If the exchange delivers one thou
sandth part of the cotton actually sold?
Tell me if you think it safe and sane to
leave these exchange gamblers alone to
regulate their mode of gambling, as YOU
suggest?
Tell me why it is more pernicious for
bucketshops to sell future cotton with
out a thought of delivering the cotton, ("
than it is for the exchange to sell with a
thought of delivery. but never deliver the
actual cotton. The New York exchange
had 30 grades of cotton, and compels all
purchasers to take any grade of cotton
they may specify, and the thought of
delivery, they have it." they can compel
all purchasers to pay the marginal diff
ference by offering such low grade that
it is neither spinable or marketable. Let
congress quit hunting for old laws and
pass new law compelling all persons who
sell future cotton to always deliver the
actual cotton at the time and place speci-
fed, and all other farm products as well.
You deplore the criticism of ''the ignor-
ant" upon the Legitimate transactions"
of the exchange. Is it legitimate, or
right, for the exchange to always desig-
nate what grade of cotton the purchaser
shall receive? This the exchange al
ways does, and the purchaser cannot
help himself. OF course the purchaser
pays in proportion to the price of mid
ding, but has no power or say so as to
what grade!
Mr.. Editor, throw off the film from your
mind on this exchange question, and
call "a spade a spade" with your usual
clearness and firmness.
A. ]. SNELSoN.
Bullochville, Ga.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10
ATLANTA. Ca. DEC. s. 1eoe.

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec, 6. 1909
Editor The Journal:
The Journal is my favorite among Geor-
gia papers. 1. therefore. profoundly re-
greet an editorial OF some three days since
bearing upon cotton gambling, in which
you undertook to justify a so-called sys-
tenn of hedging by means of future deals.
1 was tempted to answer this, but at
present 1 am keeping out Of print as
much as possible. concluded, on sec
ond thought, to drop you few lines and
give you some facts that possibly you
are not familiar with.
In your editorial you compare this
hedging with fire insurance and life insur-
ance. AS a matter of fact, there is no
more analogy between the two things com
pared than there is between a brick house
and a round of beef. Some three years
since 1 investigated this whole system.
and every conclusion / then formed has
been justified by the report of the cor
poration commissioner Just now made
public. 1 published the facts then, but
being a small and obscure individual 1t
did but little good, though it did help
in the elimination of certain features of
this future gambling in the southern
states.
( Future dealing was established on the
New York exchange in the early '70s
went back 30 years before the estab-
| lishment of the future board. then / TOOK
the 80 years succeeding the establish
ment of the future board. In my concur
sion left out the four years of the war
because there were no reliable statistics
and prices were abnormal The compar
ison was. therefore. absolutely fair.
found that the average price Of a bale
of cotton for 30 years. under the future
system, was about SIS a bale less than
for the 80 years preceding the establish
! ment of that system. In round numbers
the loss to the cotton belt in those 81
years was s.. 0Oo.O00.0OO-
At the time I made this investigation
1 took into consideration every factor en-
tering into the case. The demand in the
EARLIER period was not so active and in
sistent for the crops THEN grown as IL
was in the later period for the larger
crops THEN grown. But in the earlier
period the trade law absolutely governed
and there was no interference by manipu-
lIators whose interest it was to elevate
OF depress the price for purposes Of spec
ulative profits. AS a matter of fact. the
lso-called cotton exchanges are the great
est iniuuities today existing in our COM
mercial life, finding a parallel only in
the system OF marginal trading
on the stock exchanges. Every panic our
country has ever known was due prinar-
lily and directly to business gambling,
which we politely call speculation. The
newspapers are too often deceived by the
claims of these gamblers, and accept
their ex parte statements without inves-
tigation. If you will go into this matter
as deeply as I have done you will be-
come as bitter an enemy Of the cotton
and stock and grain exchanges as am.
| I believe the day will come when an
other generation will wonder how the
men of this generation ever tolerated, fo<
a moment, such internal iniquities
| Sincerely yours,
| BERNARD SUTTLER
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10
Training Consuls

university news LelleT-
The school OF commerce and admins
tration at the University Of Chicago,
sometimes termed the consular school
though established less than two years
ago. has a faculty OF - professors and
Instructors. and is growing TO be recog-
mixed as in all essentials as truly pro-
fessionaI as are the law or medical
schools. While as yet no special diploma
Is given. graduates who are candidates
Tor United States consulships viii be GER
titled to the president OF the United
States for appointment The course oc-
cupies two years. and students are not
admitted 70 II until they have completed
TWO years Of undergraduate work The
courses are intended. however. not mere
~ as preparation for the United States
government service. but the larger for
-eign and importing interests OF the coun-
try are concerned. The demand for
young men so equipped r. considerable.
and the object OF the school is 20 turn
out men equipped TO take charge OF the
.roreign relations OF large business
houses.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10
Reflections of a Bachelor
New Yorl praes

New York Press.
Women flirt hoping it will come true;
men, hoping it won't
For the average man a vacation means
escaping from his family.
What pleases a grandmother is how
nobody ever could guess it, she looks so
yong.
The reason a man isn't more of a fool
than he is over a girl is she could make
him more so if she wanted to.
It's romance for a woman to see in a
magazine a picture OF a man that looks
like one she danced with years ago.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10
The Raven Revised

One upon a morning foggy, while I loi-
tered, grouched and groggy,
over biscuits that were soggy and an
egg that was bore,
While 1 dawdled, almost dreaming. and
my coffee ceased from steaming.
Suddenly there came a screaming
screaming never heard before.
''Tis some suffragette," I muttered,
screaming at my outer door;
Just a noise and nothing more"
Chicago Tribune.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10
Friday, December 10, 1909.
BUILDERS

never build a song By day or night,
Or breaking ocean or OF flowing wnin-
But IN some woudr0us unexpected way,
like light upon q read. nay love breaks IN.
EDWIN MARKHAM.
III has It on Us FOr instance:
We never build a Ho1g By day or night.
% sway felix's. or poker themes. or GIN,
6ut In some Wondrous, unexpected way
some agent or tnstallmcut man comes IN.
JOHN ID. WELLS, IN Buffalo News
jeans cot rs skinnedI
We never weave a song By day OF night
Something Ne think VIII make the vnOle
uorld grin.
Rut il some wonGrous. unexpected way.
ne morning paper doesn't hsre Il IN
JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS. IN Houston POST.
Jrdd has rs beaten 70 a rraEElei
We sever try % triu little song
In sanzmer, autumn, winter time. or spring
Bmz = 1xt same old thought -diSpeiIing way,
IL - Telephone begins % ring.
-I tIO0k, IN Birmingham Age-herald.
PmN9 - Is beat q city bIoeki
We newer st cur Muse 20 sing q rhyme
And hGil1 IL up into q little triIl.
But IN fkst same cid well expected way.
Scme fellow pos In 70 collect a bill
Otis N. SJ1
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10
Pointed Paragraphs

chicago News
a spinster never forgives a man for re-
naming a bachelor.
More family scraps should be consigned
% the garbage can.
Men who know the most about things
know the least about women.
IN q matrimonial partnership a woman
Is never the silent partner.
A woman can do one thing no man can
do. she can look pleased when she isn't.
When a man seeks your advice flatter
him and he win go on his way rejoicing
Some men are so poor they can afford
70 refuse the pennies offered them in
rhan-e
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10
A KLNGLY SLEUTH.

delightful tradition the in which the
Raschdhe who dear to the imaginative
chdhoodused wander around the streets of Bagdd
inform himself how his humble subjects
ready redress the which
under his notice.
king Sweden has been reading the Araban Nights
and he has been going about gathering
first hand He has been acting stevedore Down
the sailors who only few guilders week he has
listening the things they have when they think
one is listening except in their class.
The is that he will institute number of reforms
which should have been put into effect long ago.
King of the Woodworking monarchs
European throne and he doing deal hasten the day
of universal democracy.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10
Rabbit Dodges an Eagle
st. Nicholas

st. Nicholas.
On the open plains of MERGED county,
Cal. the jackrabbit is the prey of the
bald eagle. One time a rabbit, pursued
by an eagle, was seen to run among the
cattle. Leaping from COW, to COW, he used
these animals as shelter from the savage
bird.
When the pursuit grew too close the
rabbit broke cover for a barbed wire
fence. AS the eagle swooped down on 1t
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10

here from the left the rabbit moved
few inches to the right, and the eagle
could not reach him through the fence.
When the eagle lifted and came down
on the other side the rabbit moved across
to the left, and this was continued ur-
til the eagle gave up the chase.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10

Andrew Carnegie. arrested for speeding
MS automobile. didn't have the amount
Of his nne. The inference isn't clear.
Was the fine 50 larger Has the iron
master given away an his money, or is
she cost OF the machine too heavy?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10
His Self-Denial


Youth companion.
When Mr.. D., known TO be misery, but
not believed to be a miser. was approach
ed delicateIy for contribution to the or
gan fund. he shook his head courteously,
but with an air OF finality.
Charity" he said. lis pleasure one
must do without"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10

Plated skirts are to retain their popu-
Iarity for street and walking, but are
likely to become too common to be ac-
cepted by the best dressers. Princess
and Grecian gowns for house and evening
wear are to continue in favor.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10

In Texas u has been decided that at
best there is no prohibition against
women acting as notaries. Texas is
gradually swinging into the suffra gette
coiumn
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10

Authority says IL won't be respectable
n nve years TO be sick But he doesn't
reckon on people whose vanity is tickIed
~ appendicitis.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10
The Touch of Fortune

What do you think. my dear? Such
hucki We leave for Paris I'm an hour"
Really
Yes. we're going 20 Pasteur's. Ny hus-
band has Just been bitten BY a mad
COS"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10

II Mrs. o'Leary's COW didn't start the
Chicago FIRE. we can believe nothing. not
even that Aldrich discovered the tariff.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10

This kind OF weather makes a man
forget his hook worm.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10

The state OF Oklahoma has forced a
reduction OF Pullman car rates. The tip.
however. remains the same.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10

who gets the profits out OF high
priced meats2" an editor asks. Certainly
not the eater thereof.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10

The weather cut up regular insur-
gent capers in the middle west
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10

In any event. Roosevelt will be home
next June. Aldrich won't dare go too
far.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10

After all. II is probably Poet Watson's
artistic temperament that is to blame
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-26
HIS WELL MARKED FACE.

Uncle Winfield, the worthy old sex
ton OF the brick church on the corner,
and one Of the most amiable and Iowa
BILE of men, came home from a stroll
one day in high state of pleasurable
excitement.
"a little while ago." he said, "a slim,
long-haired fellow stopped me on the
street. and asked me If l had any OBJ
lection to his sketching me. He said
he was an artist, and was illustrating
a story for a pictorial publication, and
my face had so much character in 1t
that he'd like to make what he called
a study of it, and Use it in the story.
II told him to go ahead. He opened
up little camp-stool, stuck up a three
cOrnered frame in front of him, put a
sheet Of cardboard on it, and in five
minutes he made picture that looked
exactly like me. l saw It,"
Did he try to get you to buy it?"
asked Unc'e Winfield's wife, suspic-
iously.
mo, no." he answered. "He thanked
me, ana, more than that, he gave me q
silver dollar. Said it was worth that
to him. Here's the dollar. It's the
best pay ever got for FIVE minutes of
my time"
But his wife was still unconvinced.
at may be all right" she said, "but
he'll come back at you in some way.
You see II he doesn't"
A few weeks later one Of his grand
children came running into the house
in great glee, with copy of an illus
trated magazine in her hand.
Grandpa" said the little girl, ave
found a picture of you In this maya
zine! Here it is. Look at it,
He looked. 1t was one of the illus
tratlons in a story of a pirate ship
and he was the pirate captain.
"Hmph!' calculated Uncle Winfield
drawing a long breath. 81 think I'd
like to meet that artist fellow again
some day. IBID give him back his
dollar"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-26
SHARPENING A PENCIL.

In This Act You May Read Name
Character.
No woman should marry a man till
she has seen him sharpen a lead pen
ell. She can tell by the way he does
it whether he is suited to her or not.
Here are a few infallible rules for
her guidance In the matter:
The man who holds the point to
ward him and close up against his
shirt front is slow and likes to have
secrets. Re Is the kind Of man who,
when the dearest girl in the world
finds out that there are "Others" and
asks him who they are and what he
means by calling on them, will assume
an air Of excessive dignity.
The man who holds the pencil out
at arms length and whites away at
it, hit or miss, Is impulsive, jolly,
good-natured and generous.
He who leaves blunt point Is dull
and plodding, and will never amount
to much. He is really good natured,
but finds his chief pleasures in the
lhAhSo vi AAAOO
He who sharpens his pencil an inch
or more from the point Is high strung
and imaginative and subject to exu-
berant flights of fancy. He will al
ways be seeking to mount upward and
accomplish things in the higher re-
gions Of business and art, and his
wife's greatest trouble will be to hold
him down to earth and prevent his
flying off altogether on a tangent.
The man who sharpens his pencil
all around smoothly and evenly, as
though 1t was planed of In an auto
matte sharpener, is systematic and
slow to anger, but he is so undertaking
from a fixed principle that he would
drive a woman with sensitive tenn
permanent to distraction in less than
six months. On the contrary, he who
jumps in and leaves the sharpened
wood as jagged as saw teeth around
the top has a nasty temper and will
spank the baby on the slightest provo
cation.
The man who doesn't stop to polish
the point Of lead once the wood Is cut
away has a streak Of coarseness In his
nature.
He who shaves of the lead till the
point IL like a needle is refined, deli
cate and sensitive. He will not be
likely to accomplish SO much as his
more common brother, but he will
never shock you, and is without doubt
a good man to tie to.-New York Press.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-26
RUSSIAN RAILROAD STORY.
How a Student Thought to Reliev
tho Tedtum of Travel.

How a Student Thought to Relieve
the Tedium of Travel.
The tedium of railroad travelling In
Russia was relieved the other day in
an unexpected manner, says the Lon
don Globe. In compartment Of the
train going from Kursk to Kiev sat q
beautiful young lady next to a rhatty
priest. with whom she held an animated
conversation. Opposite sat a student
who envled the priest the causerie he
was enjoying.
AZ the evening came on the girl fell
asleep and the priest nodded his head
In slumber. That was an opportunity
which no self-respecting Joker could
AFFORD to let slip. Bending forward
the student kissed the sleeping damsel
and spraug back into his seat.
The salute awakened the girl, who,
thinking that It was her 1eighbor, the
priest, who had dared to kiss her,
jumped up and gave him a sounding
box on the ears. The student rejoIced
greatly. There was a commOtion, the
policeman accompanying the train was
summoned, AID he at once drew up 9
protocol against the wronged priest
while the student offered to appear al
4 witness in the law court at KieV.
But at the last moment a young Jew
ess who had been sitting in a darl
corner unobserved by anybody steppet
forward, exonerated the poor prizes
from the terrible accusati ton. and theI
It was the students turn to feel mIser
able.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-26

He was allowing her to walk forward to
her end, this beautiful creature whose
courage was more than a man'sl
Her fingers were upon his sleeve, pulling
him forward. She had no need of words
from him now. Life remained in her to
reach the place ahead. She did not want
more life, if the dead were there.
wait, ma'am!" he pleaded.
"No, mol l cannot wait"
EUR ould Dinny!'
II thank you both. You have been very
brave and kind; but, Denny, don't keep
me back-not now p
LET me go frsht ~ he implored, har-
boring the mad idea that he might put
something out of her sight.
mo" she screamed breaking from
him, and rushing forward through the
fallen gate.
Her cry brought an answer-a mufled
answer, the voice from a pit. Macready
and Ernst plucked at the charred boards
in the circle of ruin.
peter, King Peter! Where are you.
Great-heart?" she called, laughing, cry
ing, picking at her hands.
I'm the cistern-in the old cistern,"
came the answer. "Why-did-they-let
-you-come-hereW
Didn't tell you 'twud take more than
a split av a mountain t SINCE hair av
him, ma'am2" Macready yelled, dancing
about the rim. "Are you hurried, sorrf
Tell me, are you hurted?"
He was pushed away, and the woman
knelt at the rim, bending far down.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-26

black now. The circle Of the oriHce was
sharply lit with gray.
''They will come from the ship to res
cue us soon. Please-please turn your
face to the light-soI Yes, that
will dol"
"Did you not know that l am blind,
boy2 How big you seeml
should think you would put me down and
rest your arms"
Her face had been turned upward in
the descent of the chain He steeled him
self to speak steadily. There was
cumulative harshness in that her face,
above all others, so fragile, of purest line,
should meet the coarse element, burning
dirt. Furies leaped upon him that he
had not saved her.
1.-THE water is still hot in the bottom OF
the cistern,' he said. "My arms are not
in the least tired"
An interminable interval passed before
he heard the voice again, slower, fainter:
"And so you came back for me-and you
knew Pelee-better No, the
burns do not hurt terribly. My-face-
feels-dead. You were not burned-soT'
This was the moment of dreadful mem
ory. Her body, her face, arms, throat,
had covered him, as the rusty chain slip
ped through his hand. The molten stuff
had not cracked his flesh because she had
stood between.
al tried to save you-you know that
but you kept the fire from me"
His voice was broken with rebellion
Then out of a sigh came the words thai
lived with him always: :
neutrality-suspicious.
la Montague Pelee-is-artistic !"
Ito be contlnued.)