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Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21
Metal Market.

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-METALS-Sta
ard copper lull; spot and futures. SO boa
l240; London market quiet with spot al
f57 . Cd; futures. Isl Us Cd; lake copper
locally, Sl2O0dl3,25; electrolytic, Sl275Gl3 90:
casting, Sl2.5Od1275 Tin. weak; spot ana
futures SSI.S5aSS.25. London, weak; spot
and futures, n73 12s Cd. Lead, dull, 81 55G
455 New York; $L35q44O East St Louis:
London, spot, f1S 5s. Spelter, weak, 81 Goa
$40 New York; S.4OG545 East St Louis
London, spot, "a. Iron, Cleveland warrants
sos in London Locally, dull; No. / foundry
northern, Sl525a162; No. 2 foundry north
ern, N415al6 70; No. southern and No 1
southern soft. SIS. 2dl5.75.
ST LOUIS, Dec. 0.-METALS-Iead
firm, $40; spelter, weak, S5.45.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21
GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKET
Wheat Values Work Higher by Rea-
son Of Strong Support
LARGE INTERESTS BIG BUYERS
Corn Trade e. Mixed ana values very
Bearish-Bears stand on Bearish
COnditions-Receipts Are n
Trine Lighter.


OMAHA. Dec 20. 1910.
Good support in the wheat pit by big
holders. surprised the trade ana Nalues
tone. Interest has become very Indifferent
owing to the small Roadway made by either
bulls or bears during the last month. The
movement at primary points is heavy and
Is expected to continue for some time.
The news on the corn market Is stu
bearish and cash values are weaker, but
the bulge in wheat help steady the mar
ket, which was generally featureless save
for some fair covering by shorts.
The unexpected upturn in wheat was the
result Of good buying by the large interest
that has has been absorbing all offerings.
Some more urgent bull news on the dry
conditions existing in the southwest gave
additional strength Cash conditions are
not strong and values were unchanged to
nc lower
The corn trade was mixed and values
varied Bears stood on the unchanged bear
ish conditions, while some buying resulted
from the upturn in wheat Receipts are a
trifle lighter, but stll OF sufficient volume
TO fill requirements. Cash corn on the
floor was steady to nc higher.
Primary wheat receipts we're 65o,OOO bu.
and shipments were SO6,OO0 bu. against re
ceipts last year OF $4,000 bu. and snip
ments OF 2O6.O 900 bu
Primary corn receipts were l-24s,OOO bu.
and shipments were $4,000 bu Nsiainst re-
ments of $4,000 bu.
liverpool closed unchanged to lsd lower
on wheat and sd higher on corn.
Wheat-No. 2 hard: cars. soc. NO. 4
hard: / car, ssc; 1 car, size; car very
poor, SIC. Rejected: 1 car. SIC. No. mixed:
] car. SOC. No. 3 mixed: Sgkc.
Corn-No. 3 white cars, 4Oc. NO, 4
white: 1 car. 371kc. No 3 yellow: cars,
S9hc, 1 car poor, 39c. No. 4 yellow: car,
SslAc; / car Cpoor), S71zc. No. mixed: 4
cars. S9l4c, cars, SOC. No. mixed; car
SSc; cars very soft, 371zc.
oats-No. 3 white: cars, soc; No
white: 1 car poor, 29hci No. 3 yellow: l
car SQc. No. yellow: l car, 297ac; cars
291lc no grade 2 cars. 29ltc; car, 2sc.
Omaha CAsA s'F1cea.
WHEAT-No. hard sSd91c; No. hard,
s6dgO5kc; No. 4 hard, SlqSSc; rejected hard,
1zQS7c; No. 2 spring. $4,000; No. spring,
SBdS9c.
CORNING. 2 white. 3s1hq4Oc; No. white,
391h6D40c; No. 4 white 39q391c No. yell
low, 3SslGS9hc; No. 3 yellow, 3SAQ39hc; No.
4 yellow, s71aQ3s1zc No. 2, SSAqSsAc; No.
g. 3SAa39Lc; No. 4, 37hq3Sc.
OATS-30Q301sc, standard, 29%u3Okci No.
3 white, 291aqJ0c; No. white, 2S&d29hc;
No. 3 yellow, 29lzq8Oc; No yellow, 2sq
2gJac.
BARLBY-No. 3, 7OG76c; No. 4. 6497Oc;
No. 1 feed, 56Q70c; rejected, 5ia62c.
RYE-No. 2, 7714q7S19c; No. 3, 761RQ7Ihc.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21
Kansas CIty Live Stool Mnrket.

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 2O.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts. 5000 head including 100 southerns;
market, steady to 1Oc higher; dressed beef
and export steers, $5.6515.75; fair to good,
A.75d5.60; western steers, $45Oa5.7O; stock
ers and feeders, S3.75Q5.45; southern steers,
tive cows, S2.SGC50O: native heifers, $1,000
600; bulls, S3.4OQ4.75; calves, $4.O0a82.
HOGS-Receipts, 10000 head; market
steady TO strong; bulk Of sales, S755Gp7 s.;
heavy, $760a7. 671s; packers and butchers,
H.559765; lights, $7.55GD7. 62I5.
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Receipts, 5000
head; market strong to l5c higher; lambs,
$5.25d64O 40; yearlings. 4.35d55O; wethers,
S4.OOQ42; ewes. $3.25q3.75; stockers and
feeders, $2SOa3.5O.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET
Demand for Cattle and sheep Strong
Hogs Active,

CHICAGO, Dec. 20.-CATTLE-Receip
5000 head; market strong; beeves $56d
7.25; Texas steers, $i.2OGI5. 30; western steers.
A.104590; stockers and feeders 81 4O05 80;
925.
HOGS-Receipts, 5000 head; market
active at early prices about yesterday s
average; light, F,35G770; mixed, S. 4Oa7. 10;
heavy, $7.S5q775; rough, $7.S5a7. 10; good to
choice heavy, s7.456I7.75; pigs, S690a7. 70;
bulk of sales, $7.5597.70
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Receipts, 10000
head; market strong; natives, $25Od4 30;
western, S2.65143O; yearlings, "a. 4O6l5. 70; ma
tive lambs, A.254665; western lambs, $475
q6,65.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21

NEW YORK. Dec. 2O-MONEY-On call
steady, SAQSh per cent; ruling rate, 80
per cent: closing bid, Sh per cent; offered
at 81 per cent. Time loans, dull; sixty
days and ninety days, 39ta4 per cent six
months, 3AQ4 per cent
STERLING EXCHANGE-Stead with
actual business in bankers bills at "a. $500
1880 for sixty day bills and at t4S555 for
per cent.
SILVER-Bar, 54iko; Mexican dollars, 45c.
,BONDS-Government, steady; railroad
firm.
Closing quotations on bonds today were
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21

no time very active. there was a fair move
ment and everything In sight sold In very
fair season.
As will be noted from the sales tho light
and medium weights sold az S45dI6O. and
on up as high as S7.65 for the best light and
butcher trade. Heavy hogs with quality
and not too much weight sold largely at
SS5d7t0 with a few scattering loads up as
high as t745. The heavier loads and those
on the rougher order sold around N25 and
under.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21
Minneapolis Grain Market.

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec a0-WHEAT-De-
cember, $1.OOhi May, S1.03is; July, NO45sQ
1.O49s Cash: No. / hard, Si03; No 1
northern, S1.Olhq1.O2iE; No. northern, 9S%c
QSi0l; No. g. 97l2G99c
FLAX-ClOsed at $2.82h.
CORN-No. 8 yellow, 4l4q42c.
OATS-No. white, S0d30hc.
RYE-No 2. 761T7e.
BRAN-In 1O0-lb sacks, 81. OOG2l.5O.
FLOUR-First patents, A65q5.l5; second
patents, A.55q505; first clears, SS1O93. 49,
second clears, $2O5q265.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21
Months. open. High Low. Close. Yes'y
Dry Goods Market.

NEW YORK, Dec 20.-DRY GOODS
Some small export business with China,
aggregating 5000 bales at the outside. Is re-
for the day was better. Yarns rule quiet
sample piece orders are being given on
mems wear for the new season.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21
st. Joseph Live stock Market.

ST. JOSEPH, Dec. 0,-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts Loo head; market strong to 1Oc
higher. steers, $450a6. Is; cows and hefers
s. 75a5.5O; calves, S3OOdS.25.
HOGS-Receipts 700 head market slow;
top, S65; bulk of sales, S7.55d7G0
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Receipts $500
head; market steady; lambs, A5OaG25.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21
Ixankna City Grnin and ProvIHions.

NHmHN8 NIIs WauIH "IlW 70 Y I'lUIls'
lures, December, 9OlsqAc; May. 9llsa94l4c;
July, 9O3sc Cash, unchanged to re higher;
No. 2 hard, 9ld93c; No. g. s4d93c; No. 2
red SEC; No. 3, soc.
CORN-Futures, December 4Sbc; May,
A5sk6p452tc; July, 461k0469s Cash, unchanged
TO &c higher; No 2 mixed 43c; No. 3. 42c;
No white, 43c; No 8, 42c
OATS-Unchanged No. white, 321sc;
No. mixed Slq32c.
BUTTER-Creamery, 2sc; firsts, 25ci sec
onds, 23c; packing stock. 19c.
EGGS-EXtras, 3O1sc; firsts, 2S1hc; seconds,
191ac
HAY-Unchanged; choice timothy, Sl4.OO
Il4. 80; choice prairie, Sl2,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21

PEORIA. Dec 0--CORN-steady; No 81
white, tSac. No. yellow, f8iac; No. yell
low &c; No. 4 mixed. nAc; No. Q mixed
oATs-steady; No. white. S2Ac: No.
white, u&QSic; No. white. SIC.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21
NIiIwnukee Grain Market.

MILWAUKEE,, Dec 20.-FLOUR-Dull.
WHEAT-No. 1 northern, N.64l,06; No. 2
northern, SLO3nl.N; May, S616Q9oAc.
OATS-32i4c.
BARLEY-Samples, &qS5c.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21
nnInth Grnin NInrket.

DULUTH, Dec. 2O-WHEAT-Decembe
SlOlM; May, Sl.O5ls; No 1 northern, Sl02Rs
No. 2 northern, 995scG$i00Ss-
OATS-3lc.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21

CHICAGO. Dec. 2O-The Chicago Board
Of Trade will remain open Saturday, De
cember a, as usual but Will be closed
Monday, December 20 This was decided
at a special meeting Of the directors late
today
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21

New York cotton market, as furnished
by Logan a. Bryan, members New York
Cotton exchange, Sl5 South Sixteenth street,
Omaha:
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21
Sugar Market.

NEW YORK Dec. 9.-SUGAR-Raw
steady: muscOvado. SO test 34skc; centrif-
ugal Sc test 39Shc. Moasses sugar, So
test, s.231zc. Refined, steady.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21
liverpool Grain Market.

LINERPOOI. Dec e0-WHEAT-Spot
firm firm No. Z red western winter, g % fg-
llbd. May, O. liSsd.
cORN-sp0t. quiet; American mixed. s.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21
SUNDAY.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Receipts and disposition of live stock az
the Union stock yards, South Omaha, Tor
twenty-four hours ending at p. m. yes
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21

SAD. futures. dull; January. a. SD; Feb
ruary, 4s 3isd.
CORN-Spot, quiet; American mixed, IS
Sad. futures, dulli January, ls SID; Feb
ruary, As Sad.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21
Lnnhnn StncI, MnrIet.

LONDON, Dec. 2O-American securities
opened a fraction hi S6sr today. Later
realizing carried the leaders below parity.
At noon the market was quiet and from
u higher to Is lower than yesterdays New
York closing.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21

Bigger, Better Busler-That Is what
advertising in The Bee Will DO for your
business.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21
hosting stock quotations:

sILVER-Bar, steady at Esd per ounce,
MONEY-2%d3 per cent.
The rate OF discount in the open market
for short bills is 31443 sic per cent; for
three months bills. 80 per cent.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21

NEW YORK, Dec. 20-COTrON-Spot
lands, ijl5c: middling gulf, 1910. Sales
/, 100.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. O.-COTTON-Dull; mid
ding Is l-l6c. sales, none; receipts, 800
bales. shipments. 4.50S bales; stock, 1852
bales. ...
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21
New You'd curb Markell.

The following quotations are furnished by
Logan e. Bryan, members New York Stock
exchange. S15 South Sixteenth street
Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21
New York AIininE stocks.
Local Securities.

Quotations furnished by Burns, Brinker
ing:
Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-21
stncI. In sIrht.

Receipts OF live stock at the five principal
| western markets Yesterday:
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-13
10 the Buyers Give the Cotton Plant.
or Square Deal?

Messrs. Editors: / notice your mr.
ticie In late issue advising the put
ting on of heavy hagging. and TO the
tuii weight of the tare deducted In
Europe, and wish TO say that farm
ers OF this section have been taking
your advice. but the cotton BUYERS
nave all adopted rule dcdneting so
cents per bale for all excess of bag
ging and are enforcing the rule here.
what are we TO do about it, They
attempted last season TO put on this
rule and farmers meeting was held
concerning II In unmeasured terms
aud resolving not TO submit 10 IT,
me rule was abandoned. but | am
informed that they cut the prices of
cotton sufficiently to make n loss of
sl.25 on each bale in retaliation.
we thought here that we had an
arrangement whereby real. healthy
competition was secured TO our mar
ket. and farmers and merchants
cotton exchange was organized which
CANNED to be in sympathy with the
planter; but this competitive agency
demands the extra fifty cents tare IA
well as the others. on the alleged
ground that 1t cannot afford 10 lose
IL In exporting the cotton.
The only real permanent remedy
that presents Itself TO my view is for
the cotton farmer to become more
independent by planting grain, rails
ing nay and live stock. and making
cotton the surplus crop only. This.
! am glad TO know, In the idea for
which you are ably contending. The
truth travels slowly. but II surely
travels and Will arrive in time to
make the South what It's resources
demand that IL should be-the great
est agricultural country In the
world SUBSCRIBER.
Marlboro Co.. s. c.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-13
Atlanta. Ca

corn. and other such farm plants the
individual is the result OF male and
female parents The male and fe-
male elements may originate In the
same plant. but intermingling of tho
male and female elements of differ
ent plants is common.
Difference in seed can not he held
responsible for all the differences in
plants, even when grown near each
other and on land exactly similar so
Tar as the human eye can detect
mere are so many factors involved
In the development of a plant-and
every other living thing-and so
many OF these factors are unknown
quantities, that II is impossible In
definitely assign with certainty my
particular effect TO one certain and
DEFINITE cause. Even two plants
from the same boil OF cotton. grown
a:--- as near identical conditions az
IL is possible TO obtain. will vary
greatly owing to the slight d,0er-
ehces In soil and other conditions. at
Jacks OF insects and various plant dis
eases. and numerous other known
and unknown influences. This &c
well illustrated by the fact that mo
Two individuals in nature are ever
exactly alike. the two eyes In a mans
head being different.
While 1t Is certain that one seed I,
given boil is frequently better than
another In the same boil, IL does not
follow that the position of the seed
In the boil or any regularly occur
ring factor or recognizable condition
regularly determines this difference
in quality.
me breeding Of plants and the pro-
duction OF the best seed, therefore
can not be brought up to an exact
science, or the results determined he
lore hand; but this does not I'm anv
way argue against the best efforts
which can be made for the production
OF better seed for 1t Is demonstrated
beyond doubt that the yield of our
crops can be materially increased nv
the intelligent breeding OF plants and
the careful selection OF seed.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-13
No ginning outfit is SO
economical and efficient as this

The efficiency OF a ginner's
plant is what brings him his
busineSS-its economy in opera
ton is what gives him his profit.
No ginning outfit turns out
such a perfect sample as the
Munger SyStem-nor does any
other gin cost so little 10 operate
or require SO little repairs.
The Munger System uses a
suiallerfan than any Others system
of equal capacity and this one
fan both elevates the cotton and
blows the seed. The continu-
Gus suction gives steady load
TO the power instead of the
jerky load OF other outfits.
The Munger System will
handle cotton perfectly under all
conditions, having a greater
cleaning and drying capacity
than any other gin. Having a
cleaner section in the Lint F1ue
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-13
The Selection of Seed From Rest
Stalks.

Messrs. Editors: Perhaps there
has not been year since cotton has
been cultivated in the South that
stalks in favorable places have not
made phenomenal yield. The ques-
ton naturally arises: why not every
stalk in the field as good as the
best one?"
There is no effect without a cause.
Either the seed is not as good, or the
soil on which they grow is wanting
In depth and plant food. 1t can not
altogether be the latter; for many
stalks, just as favorably situated, fail
to yield satisfactory returns. This
forces us to charge it to the seed.
hence the necessity of planting the
best seeds obtainable.
How they are to be had is a vital
question.
BY actual test, during the past
year, there was slight difference in
the yield and size of holds from seed
all out of the same boil. This led
me TO conclude that seed in certain
part OF lock of cotton were better
han in different part. I submit
this thought for your comment.
Alderman, Miss. H.. ID
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-13
OUR ALL-IMPORTANT PROBLEM IS THE SAVING OF
THE SOIL.
Terraces Erosion and They
should Flowing. and Live
BY PM. {, l. Newman.

ment than is convalescent typhoid
fever patient capable of eating a
hearty meal and following the pillow
for 10 hours. If, however, an ideal
soil treatment would enable all the
rain water to enter the soil and thus
reduce erosion to zero, how many
farmers would practice the ideal? 1t
is a deplorable fact that many, many
farmers make the most feeble or
even no effort to prevent surfce
washing. They are but poorly
equipped for it and do not realize
that every rain is making their land
poorer. On the other hand, ii is
most gratifying to see that over
considerable area of the cotton grow
ing territory there is an unprece
dented activity in terrace making;
and terracing is the first and most
necessary step towards the revival of
our exhausted sloping lands. Prop
erly constructed terraces do not in.
terfere with deep blowing nor with
the maintenance of a covering OF
vegetation. They are an aid to the
latter. Since it is impossible on a
large proportion Of our lands to in
duce the rain water to enter the
soils, the terrace is the immediate
means of doing the next best thing,
and that is, to convey the surplus
water from the field slowly, so that
it will do the least damage. There
are some lands where terracing may
be dispensed with. There are others
where terracing is necessary, and
still others representing every grade
between.
II every terrace in the cotton
growing States should be destroyed
now, there would be a material in
crease in farm mortgages before the
1910 crop is planted. If every culti-
waited field planted to cotton in 1909
had been properly terraced, the in
creased yield with sustained cotton
prices) would pay the fertilizer bills
for the current year. To save your
land, first of all terrace, then plow
deep, then pillow deeper, and yet
deeper; then plan and follow a rota-
ton system; then double the number
of live stock on the farm, later dou-
bic them again. Having done these
things your talents will have return
ed you usurious rates interest in har-
visits.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-13

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The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-13


farmer of America each year
digs a Panama Canal with his
little pillow. Each year he digs
out the heart of his little 40, so
or 160 acres of land and block
of dirt really bigger than the
entire cut of the whole Panama
Canal. The riches of his farm
take wings. He did not see them
go. He does not understand he
is literally blowing his farm into
the mighty ocean. Not only do
we waste, but that waste accel-
crates each year. That is the
horrible feature of all these re-
source wastes-they increase
geometrically with awful swift
ness. The buffalo went "all at
once" The trees, the fish, the
ore, will go "all at once"
When axe and plow work to-
gether as agents of destruction
and not as creative influences,
then We are not using good bust
ness sense. Yet that is what we
have done.-ripped the covering
from the soil, and then ripped
off the soil itself. The average
American has let a few men
steal him blind, and now he is
stealing himself blind. The soil
is the connecting link between
organic and inorganic life. 1t
is the foundation of organized
society and of all civilization. 1t
is not only our bank account,
but mOre-it is the place where
all the bank accounts come
from"
The upper portion Of the cottol
ection of the United States repre-
tents more destruction by erosion
han any other equal area within on
1ast country, and the checking O
his erosion is the most serious AM
problem now confront
ng the Southern farmer.
The theoretical and ideal solution
II this problem lies in deep plowin,
Ind well-chosen rotation in which
he soil surface will be completed,
covered with dense vegetation TO
! fourth or e half of the rotation
period. But neither deep plowin,
nor the covering of vegetation will
prevent or even materially lessen tn,
erosion on the soils most in need O
special treatment for this purpose
The surface has become so thorough
ly denuded Of soil proper, has becom
30 irresponsible to treatment, so poor
as to make it impossible to secure
covering sufficiently dense for tn
protection desired. Again, the mea
ger quantity Of vegetable matter Il
the soil, together with the natura
tendency of the soil to run togeth
er" or "bake." would require tina
the deep blowing be repeated afte
each rain. Otherwise it would be
physical impossibility for the soil T.
take up or hold the amounts of wa
ter that are thrown upon it by GU
torrential rains. A large proportion
OF our even moderately sloping field
throughout the South would requir
years OF the most ideal treatment t
enable them to Withstand without dis
strous washing the rainfall to wbicI
49, are annually exposed; and it
oou+r IN If the more steep fields cal
$500 brought to that ideal condi
orr oxnarng able to take up all tn
~ e ling upon them.
~. .,,a.oro n field is no more ca
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-13

System Outfit

il also cleans the cotton after 1t leaves the gin.
Our double drive distributor makes II possible
to successfully run six gins in a battery with
only one condenser and press. And At any
time one or more OF the gins may be cut Out
without stopping the others.
We have prepared and copyrighted splcu.
didly illustrated book which gives full details O,
the Munger System in its diiicrcn, combinations
II has cost us considerable 10 produce this book
out we will be pleased 10 send free copy 10 all
who are interested in cotton ginning
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-13

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-09
AN OCCULT DEMONSTRATE
BY Robert Hilliard

Of all professions in the world none per-
~ haps is SO full of superstition as that of
player ok.
l shall never forget an experience had
in the Blue Jeans Company many years
ago. We were out West playing one-night
stands and sleeping for the most part on
trains which gave us little time for rest be-
tween stations. 1t was with one of those
transforming trips that this story has to
deal One Of the men playing small part
in the cast had been acting queer for sew
eral days. He was gloomy and had the
willies for fair. He had no love affair that
anybody knew about, and his salary was
paid regularly every week; so there was alb
solutely no apparent reason why he should
have been seized with foreboding.
When asked by one of the members of the
company what was the matter with him he
replied, II think am behaving pretty we'll
for a man who knows he has only seven
more days to live"
The only solace he could get from the
company was an invitation to take a drink
and forget that the Black Hand was in ex-
istence. His gloom continued to deepen,
until this night of all nights, when suddenly
he cheered up and began to sing. 1t was
Sunday night. and the company sat round
an open crate where some hickory logs were