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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
New York Cotton Futures
Port Cotton Movement

Galveston: Steady; middlng II 3-1sc; net receipts, 2t,s69; gross receipts 2t,- S69; sales. 9s6; stock, s33,s54; France. ee,461; continent, 15,441.
 New Orleans Quiet; middling, 10 15--16c; net receipts, s161i gross re- ceipts. 9700; sales, 1885; stock, 174,91S, France, 6156; coastwlse BOO
 Mobile; Quiet, net receipts, 293s; gross receipts, 2s3s; stock, 36,9sl.
 Savannah; Quiet, middling, 10 13-1eo; net receipts. 14,074, gross receipts, H. 074; sales, 3S41; stock, 1606S9; Great Britain. 73eS; continent, 1900.
 Charleston: Steady; middllng, 10% c; net receipts, 32s2; gross receipts, 32s2, stock, 53,393.
 Wilmington: Steady; net receipts, 3C12; gross receipts, 3612 stock, 29, ,S02, Norfolk: Steady middling, He; net re- ceipts, 1884; gross receipts, 5384; sales, 77s; stock, 46907; coastwise, 500l.
 Baltimore: Nominal; middllng, lie; stock, 5s66,
 New York. Quiet; middling, 1125c; gross receipts, 9946 stock, 123,30S; coastwise. 69T4.
 Boston: Quiet; middling. 11.25c; net receipts, 150, gross receipts, 44s6; stock 4340 Great Britain, 2233.
 Philadelphia: Steady; middllng 11,50c; gross receipts, 80; stock. 7645.
 V tain, i6,510.
 Texas City: Net receipts, 2076; gross receipts. 2076: stock, 62,319
 Aransas Pass Stock, SOP.
 Jacksonville: Net receipts, 1000; gross receipts, 1000, stock, 1032i coast wise. T12.
 Pensacola: Net receipts 9012; gross receipts, 9O12; France, 12; continent, 5000.
 seattle: Net receipts 7si: gross re- eeipts, 73i Japan, 7si.
 Total today, at all ports, net, 73,269; Great Britain, 26,11f. France, 32,&9, continent, 31,741; Japan, 7S1.
 Consolidated. at all ports, net, 73,- 26g; Great Britain. 26.111i France, B. B2s; continent, 31,741; Japan 78l
 Total since September 1, at all ports. net, 2,s1T,6o4; Great Britain, ss8,sss; France. 3li,23e; continent, 7S1,260i Ja- pan, 24,269.
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Live Stock Market

St. Louis October 26.-Cattle Receipts, 1So0, including 800 Texans; market, steady; native shipping and export steers, sSdt f065; dressed and butcher steers, s. 41lJ S.65; calves. s6411 35; Texas and Indian steers, s4 59d7.25; cows and heifers, $3 25 G5.
 Hogs: Receipts, 4000; market, l0c lower; pigs and lights, s6. 75fIS. 40: mixed and butchers, Ss.3euS.5 50; good heavy, sS.iol $50
 Sheep: Receipts, 100: market steady muttons, s4ff4.sO; lambs. s6d7 30.
 Chicago, October 26.-Cattle: Receipts, eco; market, down; beeves, s. 3p011 .05 Texas steers $4 4oa5.7 TO; western steers, 8 5ouS 90; stockers and feeders $4 251p7. 40, cows and heifers. g. 75r7 25; calves, $6. 75Gs 1925.
 Hogs: Receipts. 11,OoO; market, 15q2oc $50; heavy, N.90Gs. 50; rough s7. 90@S 15 pigs s5d7 50; bulk of sales, ss s15dS 45. native, 8. .5Dff4.50; western, $3d6; year. iings. s4 5oa5 s5; lambs, native. s5a7; west ern, s6.5017.
 Kansas City October 26.-Cattle: Re- ceipts, 1000, including 400 southerns; prices, unchanged.
 Hogs: Receipts, 2ooo: market. 5110c down; bulk of sales, $S10ds. 35; heavy, ss .3edS. 70; packers ,and butchers, sS.15m S.35; light, S .9odS .25; pigs, s6 5od7 50.
 Sheep: Receipts. none: prices, omitted.
 Louisville, October 26.-Cattle: Receipts, TOO; good kinds. barely steady; medium and common. down: range 2GS 50.
 Hogs: Receipts, 2SDO; market, steady to 10c down; range, $4 .5GaS .35.
 Sheep and lambs: Receipts, 200; lambs, 5isc down: sheep, Sc down.
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Lixerpool Cotton Market

Liverpool, October 26.-Spot cotton dull. prices firm; American middling fair, S.6sd; good middling. 6.46d; mddllng, esd low middling, 6Csd; good ordinary, 5.5sd; ordinary. 5.0sd. Sales, 4000 bales. of which 800 were for speculation and export and included 32oe American. Receipts, 16.- C0 bales, including 100 American. Flu lures opened and closed steady october, e.o61sd; October 6.05d Novem- December. December January, 5.95d; January February, 595xd: February March. 5.9Sd; March-Aprl. 5.esd; April May. 5.9S1sd May-June and June-July. 5. gsd
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Lived After Hanging

From the London Chronicle.
 There are many curious cases of re- suscitatlon after hanging, for instance that of Mine. de Halsham, who, in 12si. having been condemned to death for fiarboring thieves. was left hanging on the galows from clock Monday morn ing until sunrise Thursday but revived on being taken down. Henry III. granted her pardon.
 Another instance of the kind occurred at Oxford in 1s50, when Anna Green. 2 servant girl. hanged for child murder. revived when handed over to the doctors for dissection. Eager inquiries were made of her as to her sensations after suspen- sion. but she remembered nothing, saying ing that her revival was like awakening from deep sleep
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St. Louis Produce

St. Louis, October 2s-Flour higher. Hay steady; timothy. s14.00M1s.o0; prai- rie, s13.O0@1s.50. Whisky, $40. Iron cotton ties. s4c. Bagging, 10 3-1sc. Hemp twine, Sc. Pork unchanged, job ping, $1s.75. Lard unchanged; prime steam. s11.22h q 11.32h. Dry salt meats unchanged; boxed extra shorts, 11A c; clear ribs, II Bc, short clears, 12h C.. Babon unchanged; boxed extra shorts, 11Mc; clear ribs, 12Nc; short clears, 13hc. Receipts: Flour, 11,000; wheat. 143,OO0; corn, 28.000; oats. s7,000. Ship ments Flour 14000; wheat, SS,000; corn, 25,0o0; oats, 89,000.
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Kansas City Grain

Kansas City, October 26-Cash wheat, No. 2 hard. s7i4assc: No. 3. soc; No. 2 red sl .040l1 07is; No 3, s9cdtl.05. Cash corn, No. mixed, 59c: new 571kd59e; No. 3 old. 56c; new. 58c; No white old, 59d COG; new, 5795Sc; No. 3 old 57i1n5Siac; new, 56c. Cash oats. No white, 34d35c. No. mixed. 39Q33zc Wheat futures. December s7i4c: May, 92ssc. Corn futures, December 4s7sc, May 491ac. July 49a@ 4g1xc Oats futures, May 34Nc.
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Elour and Enndsfnffa

Self raising fIoar. S6: Tennessee fIour &.50; Indiana flour, s5.7O; Oklahoma flour s5.25 Michigan flour, $6.65 bolted meal per 96 lbs, sl.S0; No. 2 corn, per bushel soc; pure wheat shorts, sSs; pure wheat bran, s8. c. S. hulls, per ton slo; prime c. $. meal, per ton, $2S; c. s. feed meal, per ton, s26, No. l timothy hay. ner ton, $22; mixed alfalfa and Johnson grass per ton. s2lQ22; corn chops. per i,s lb. sack si.so; alfalfa hay, per ton. sz,. Johnson grass, per ton. SIS; mixed feed per ton, $34d37; oats, 48c bushel.
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READING FOREMOST FEATURE OF MARKET No Small Part of Fridays Loss RecOvered-Stocks
 Are Strong

New York. October 2e-No small part of yesterdays loss was recovered in to- days quiet but strong stock trading The activities were of the usual professional Saturday character, combining further short covering with an evening up of com- mitments undertaken earlier in the week On the surface at least no alarm as to the unfavorabe bank statement was seen. Reading was the foremost feature. both as to volume and strength, with some moderate inquiry for HiIl issues and the southern group. as comprehended by Louisville and Nashville, Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line common and preferred. Union Pacific also was in de- mand at fair advance. Among the in- dustrials United States Steel common and preferred, Amalgamated Copper and American Can preferred were the paddock to gains of l point or over, while American Tobacco, Virginia Carolina, Chemical and Texas Petroleum were con spicuous in the special class Prices shaded slightly towards the close but the undertone remained strong with some be- lated activity in such issues as General i-iee'ic anu Ndtiotldi BiScult. Actual eX- cess cash reserves decreased s5,3s5, ,000 re- oucing the surplus to little over s,5000, 0oo. Cash loss was $s9, 750.00 with a loan contraction of ss,10SO00. In the avera ge statement loans showed marked increase and cash a moderate loss
 News from abroad was meager Stocks there, reflected unsteadiness in London particularly. The bond market lost none of Its recent apathy. Total sales par value, ss40,ooO. United States bonds on call were unchanged during the week.
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Treasury Statement

Washington. october 26-At the begin ming of business today the condition of the United States treasury was: Working balance. $S7s24,5s7; in banks and Philip pine treasury s3l PSI, ,90; total of general fund, Sl44,50O,o4s; receipts yesterday, s2,662, 652 disbursements, s1,s23,359 yesterday; the deficit for fiscal year. s6, ,ss7, ,7s6 against se1 .150,G6l last year. These sums exclude Panama canal and public debt transac- tiOns.
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Weekly Naval Stores

Savannah, october PA net loss of ,sc market the turpentine market for the week, the Saturday closing figures of 3g15c comparing with those of she closing of last Saturday, 4lc. Yet dur ing the week there was steady recov- cry from Mondays closing quotation, 3S4 c 3sc. except for slight weakness on Tuesday.
 The rosin market showed an advance of 5a15c for the best grades. and a decrease of from 7isc to 10c for those below M Sales of spirits for the week wore 357e casks. and of rosin 12,277 barrels. Receipts of spirits for the week were 4557 casks, and for the sea : son, including today. were 1187O0; Of rosin for the week receipts were lb,4sf. and for the season. 470,3o3.
 Shipments of spirits for the week were 5396 casks of rosin 1o,661 barrels; for the season, spirits, 141,075; ros.n, 336072. Stocks are, spirits, 32.19s casks; rosin 1.000,403 barrels. against stocks last year, spirits. ss.12s rosin, SERB; and last week of spirits, sS.o37, and rosin 102,615.
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Frnita and Prnduc.

Apples, new, per barrel, g. 5O4Jf 50;f CaIl- fornia peaches. selected. per crate, sl Oo California oranges, per box s4. oo6f4 Fo. lemons, imported. per box, s6.5o; cabbage per pound, lhc; onions, per pound, 2c Spanish onions, per crate, sl .75; Irish no. tatoes, per bushel, 75Q80c; cantalounes per crate, s1a1 10; Hines, per 100, 75oa,sl . sweet potatoes, per barrel, s2: cali, fornia pears, s3Q3. 25 per crate; Colorado celery, per crate, s4.50.
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New Orleans Cotton Futures

New Orleans, october 26.-Coton spot quiet middling 10 l5-l6c. Sales, iso; to arrive, 1455. Low ordinary, 7asc: ordinary 3-16c; good ordinary, 9%e: strict good or. dinary. 10c; low middling. 10 5-1oc; strict low mddling, 10 11-16c; strict middling II 1-16c; good middllng. 11hc strict good middlng, II 7-1sc: middiing fair liMc; middlng fair to fair. 121sc; fair l2Hc Receipts 9l41, stock, 124,Sl8.
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Montgomery Market

Montgomery. october Especially Middlins cotton was quoted at lOkc in the Montgomery market Saturday. strict middling. old, for 109sc. The market was quiet
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Liverpool Grain

Liverpool, October 2s.-Spot wheat, No 3 Manitoba. ss, Sd; futures firm; october, Is, 10%d; December, Is. 1ol4d; March, Is, 3d. Spot corn easy; new American kiln dried, 7s 11ad; futures firm; October, 5s, 4izd; Deeemberh 5s, sad.
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St. Louis Grain

St Louis. October 26--Cash wheat, No. 2 red. $l.0sd11 Il; No. 2 hard, 921kd95c. Cash corn No. 2. e4c; No. 2 white, ei1sc. Cash oats, No ?. 3sg33i4c; No. 2 white, s41kc. Wheat futures, December S.4c; May ssssc Corn futures December, 5i4c; May. 5lMc. Oats futures. December, 32ssc; May, 34asG34l5c.
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LOCAL QUOTATIONS
Pig Iron
Local Cotton
Meat

Lard, 1319c; compound, 9%c; D. S. short ribs. 1S.20c; bellies, 14c; ham butts 171zc; Boston butts. 17c; pork Joins. 1ac' spare ribs, Be: breakfast bacon. 25G,27c. smoked bacon, 16c: regular ham lS1sc; skinned ham, 1SAc.
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Creamery Products

Country butter. Zo9Oc; fresh cream- cry butter, S41zc; process butter. 3llAc. daisy cheese, 1sc; imported Swi., cheese. age, German brick cheese. 2oo: limburger cheese. Ice; imported rooue. fort, SIC; Neufchatel cheese, per dozen. 45c; Pimonto cheese. per dozen, sl.4O.
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Grain Receipts and Shipments

Kansas City, October 26.-Receipts: Wheat, is5,ooo, corn, 150U; oats. 5000. Shipments Wheat. 1520oo; corn, 1e,ooo. oats, 4000
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Poultry and Eco.

Hens. 35@50c: live, per pound. 1sc. large flyers. oc; medium flyers, ssc, small flyers, 22c; ducks, aoa4oc: gum live turkeys. i6a1sc; eggs. fresh. case candled, 25c. extra graded candIed eKgs 2Sc
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New York Money

New York, October 26.-Money on call unchanged; time loans, steady; 50 days, 5A@6 per cent; 90 days, per cent; six months, 5l2a5a4 per cent; prime mercan- tile paper, per cent sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers hills. $4.s2 for 60 day bills, and s4.S5. 80 for demand; commercial bills, Asi1l, bar silver, 631sc; Mexican dollars. 4sAe gov- ernment bonds, steady; railroad bonds, steady.
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Fish and Sea Foods

Red snapper, 10c in bbl. lots; 11c in small lots: groupers. 6c; Spanish mack erel. 15c; speckled sea trout. l2lac; carp, roughs ec white perch. Ice: speckled perch, 1oc: mulet. 6i5c; sun perch or bream, 1oc: pompano. 2oc; mixed fish, i1zc in barrel lots: 7c in small lots: crock CTS, 61zc.
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New Orleans Rice

New Orleans. october 2s.--Rough rice was firm and clean rice steady today.
 Receipts: Rough, 4256; millers, 4l23; clean, 2s25 Sales: Rough. 69s Honduras at 2. .75fi3. Soc; 1001 Japan at 2.60u3. 75c: elena. 4675 Honduras at 2ttd4%c; 745 Japan at : 1-16W3tsc Quotations: Rough, norni-
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HUBBARD BROS. & co.

cetton Merehants, Hanover Square, N. Y Members New York Cotton Ex- change, New Orleans Cotton ExchaHge, Kew York Produce Exchange. Assos tlate Members Liverpool Cotton Asso. skaiS and sale 0f Cotton and Cotton vee4 oil for future delivery. Special at. oentlen and liberal terms glyea for co.
 EaHsnsss ssssses Ss spiRt pi1vls sHss0n f'r esnvssys
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Metal Market

New York, October 26.-Practically nc change in metals; lake and electrolytic copper. s16. 721eda0. STE; casting, s17 26a 17.37h.
 Iron, unchanged.
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Interior Cotton Movement

Houston: Quiet; middling. 11hc; net receipts, 22, 5ss; gross receipts, 2, ,5sS; ship menis, 2i s92; sales, 4299; stock, 1B,7os
 Augusta. Strong middlins. 1lc; net re- ceipts, 34O7; gross receipts, 30T7; shipments, 1539; sales 1520; stock, 5s,6n.
 Memphis: Strong: midding, 11c; net re- ceipts, 4isS gross receipts, 574S; ship ments. 457s: sales. 900; stock. 72, 46s
 St Louis Quiet; middling. 11hc; net receipts. COG; gross receipts, 2227; ship ments, ls4s: stock, 55C9.
 Cincinnati: Net receipts 1179; gross re- cepts, llT9 shipments 5S7; sales, 400; stock, 16,500.
 Little Rock: Steady; middling. 11c net receipts, 27Ol; gross receipts, AOi; ship ments 1025; stock, 34,115.
 Total today: Net receipts, 34,669; gross receipts. ss,l55: shipments, 3l667; sales, io, 11e stock 3g6 OaO
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Bank Statement

New York. October 26-The statement of the actual condition or clearing house banks and trust companies for the week shows that today they hold s4024,000 re- serve in excess of legal requirements. This Is d decrease of s5.3S4950 from last week.
 The statement in detail is Daily aver age loans, $l,942, 331 eco. increase ss537. 900; specie. $S21.s56,C00, decrease s4,494,000; legal tenders. $S2,451 600. increase s6l5,00; net deposits. $,777, ,3l5.099 increase $2,7s1, ,000 circulation. s4S.222.0O0, decrease ss0.0C1; trust companies cash reserve in vault, s67 ,27s, 900; aggregate cash reserve. si04.- 307, coo; excess lawful reserve, $4.77s,05O, decrease $3.H4.90. Trust companies re- serve with clearing house members carry ing 25 per cent cash reserve, s5l.97O.Ol6.
 Actual condition: Loans l,932, 6sS, ,c0r, decrease sS.loS,0Oo; spec:e, s371,2ss,c0o. de-
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Dry Goods

New York. October 26.-Cotton goods ruled steady. with business fairly active for the season today. Linens we're very firm. Burlaps were high ard easy. Knit
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Cotton seed OiI

New York, October 2s.-The cotton seed oil market was weak today under heavy liquidation and stop loss selling resulting z iron. tenders on October contracts and on the decline in lard as well as liberal of ferings of crude. The close was to 1S points net lower Prime crude, 474a4 Ste: l: prime summer yellow, 5.7017 .sb: October. 5.71c: November. 5.74c; December. 5.7sc; January. 5.92c: February. 5s6c: March. 5 s.93c: April, 5g5c; May. 6.O2c; prime win ter yellow. 6dsc; prime summer white. 5 .7517 5cc. Total sales. 93o0.
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crease $10374,000; legal tenders, $s3 600. increase s1,4l5,000; net deposits s1, 766 76O,- GOO, decrease s13 3735,O0; circulation, s6S,- 554,O0o. increase sls4,000. Banks cash re- serve in vault, 34,309, 900; trust com panies' cash reserve in vault, s66,6s9 900; aggregate cash reserve, s4Oo 99S,000; excess lawful reserve, A024,OcO decrease s5.Ss4,- 950 trust companies reserve with clearing house members carrying 25 per cent cash reserve, Sis,97S,O0o.
 Summary of state banks and trust com panies in Greater New York not included in clearing house statement: Loans. s592,- 549,000, decrease $2,094,100; specie, s63352, 100, decrease s515 400; legal tenders, ss,250,- 400, decrease s105, 100. Total deposits, ss43,- TABOO, decrease s7.332. 4OO.
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Coffee and suear

Coffee--Arbuckles, $25.05 per hum dred pounds; Luzanne, 27c per pound; Sugar. standard granulated. SIC per 00,s0d
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The Einannier will $


 The statement of the clearing house banks of New York for the week end ing October 20 showed the effect of cur rent heavy withdrawals of funds for crop and other purposes, the cash loss due to these causes having been epproxi- mately s9o000o0. Loans were contracted to the extent of &, ,1oS000 and there was a shrinkage of $13735,0o0 in net deposits The effect of the operations was to de- crease excess reserve by s5.34s,950, leav- ing the surplus above the 25 per cent minimum at s4024,000 The above figures are based on the exhibit of actual condi- tions. The statement figured according to the system of daily averages varied widely from the actual condition report. loans having increased s6, 537,00o while the cash decrease was under s4,000,009 The present surplus reported on the average system is s4.77s050. Of this surplus the banks hold s4,6es,75O and the trust com panies s7s.300.
 The tide of the money is still toward the interior. but the banks will prob ably be able to continue the policy of reducing loans and thereby maintaining a safe reserve position. If rates should go higher, relief will follow automatical- ly through the placing of loans here by banks in other centers.
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Naval Stores

Savannah, Ga, october 26.-Turpeptine firm. 391zc; sales. 267; receipts. TIP, ship ments, 275s: stock, 32,19S. Rosin firm; sales. 1900: receipts, 3246 shipments, 1883; stock, l07, 4ss. Quote: A, B. s6-25; D. s6.3o; F, s6s5: F. G, H and I, ss.40; K. e6.421z M. s6.ss; N, s7.To; VIC. ss.3o; wv. IS 50.
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Resin and Turpentine

New Orleans. October 26-Receipts: Rosn 2e7; turpentine, 67. Exports none nal: clean Honduras at 4d6c Japsn at 3ss94c
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goods were still in active demand. Wool ems. with worsteds, were in active call for immediate delivery In small quan- t{tfae
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Discount Rate Raised

Vienna, Austria. October 26-The dis count rate was raised today from to 51a per cent by the Imperial Bank of Vienna.
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Exports for Week

New Orleans, October 2s.---Wheat, ESQ., afr1valof cofEee: Brazilian, 743o0 saehs.
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LOCAL SECURITIES
Sales. High. Low Close.

Total sales for the day, 24s9oo shares.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-02-25
The Battle of Zama
BY Rev, Thomas B, Gregory.
"HE Battle Of Zama, one of

"IlE Battle Of Zama, one Of
the mo"' memorable con-
Hict i'll all the annals OF
war. was fought 2lli years
ago in The valley of the Bogra'
clus. near what is now kof, in the
African province of Tunis.
The Romans were commanded by
the jllustrous Scipio Africanus,
while tho Carthagenians were led by
tho great Hannibal, who had just
been recalled from Italy, whore
with next to no assistance from the
Carthagcnian government he had
by his mighty genius alone main
tanned himself for seventeen years
during which long period be had
killed 100000 Romans, defeated
them in many pitched battles, and
more than once brought them TO
the very brink of national extinc'
lion.
But tho Romans were virile
breed, aS courageous as they were
tough. and the way they ''came
back - at Hannibal has no duplicate
in history. With n heroism that
was literally born Of despair, the
Romans held grimly ou after tho
great disaster of Caunae-2l6 Il.
worried the invaders with their
Fabian policy, grew STEADILY strong
er rs the enemy grew weaker, and
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-02-25
A RICH MANS SON
THE RIGHT WAY.
And the Way I Wish I'd Gone,
By THOMAS TAPER

it over again. This daily practice con-
tinued into the wears OF his man
hood.
II is said that RusIsin taught him
self to read by copying print. and
thereby mastering his letters. Despite
popular discussion. there ara mora
than twenty famous men in the world.
and they all show US one common
quality. That is. PERSISTENCE;
keeping at the thing they want to
do, wether they are rich or Door.
In his childhood Ruskin began IN
write, and he wrote all his life long.
lie wrote his first letter at the asa
of four.
AT the sge of seven he began 70
write original works, ano TO nlustrats
them with pictures Of his own draw
ing,
IIe wrote from seven years Of age
and throughout his childhood thou-
sands of lines OF poetry describing
what he saw as he travelled by coach
with his father. who sold vino TO the
merchants throughout Great Erit-
ain.
At the age of ten he wrote a play
In two acts, entitled ''The Battle OF
waterloo" But two years before he
had writton poem of this charac-
ter:
These dropping waters that come
And many 8 hole, like the haunt Of
fox:
Thai silvery stream that runs bab-
bling along, :,
Making a murmurlngi dancing song"
And so on. until he was eighty
years of age.
Money and things never troubled
him. He troubled them He learned
their value and did not mistake It,
but he did not. on the other hand,
ovcrrate II. In his scheme of doing
things the one principal fact ever
before him-as it ought TO be before
you--was TO get the best out OF John
Ruskn. Not out Of money or a
string OF pearls. but out Of HIM
self.
The greatest fortune a young man
can possess is TO know that there Is
something in him of use to himself
and to other people. When he knows
this. he begins TO express himself,
that is, TO press himself out, that
is, again. to press the power In him
self out into the open for others To
see.
Now youth doing the town with
a liberal allowance, is expressing
himself. sure enough. But he is ex-
pressing Cor pressing ouD not what
the Creator put in him, but what tho
lights and glamor OF the town put In
him, 1T makes nll the difference in
the world whether you are trying TO
get nt yourself or at what seem 70
be the Joys OF tho street