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ton futures closed steady.
NEW ORLEANS.

NEW ORLEANS, La, May lit was
a quiet and very narrow session In the
cotton market. prices Of the most ac-
tive months showing range of only
to points. Some Of the dullness was
due to the holidays in Liverpool. In
opening the tone was steady, and
prices were to points down. on the
rains in the eastern half of the belt
Selling was not aggressive, even after
the forecast promising more rains i'm
the east Sunday. was posted At the
highest the most active months were
to points under yesterdays last.
Most of the steadiness late in the
morning was due TO rumors that the
government had made revision in it's
statistics of last years acreage that
would cause a bullish construction to
be placed on many of the private
acreage estimates issued this spring.
The close was steady. at net decline
Of to 4 points. Spot cotton, quiet, un-
changed; middling. IL sis. Sales on
the spot. 2s5 bales; to arrive. SO. Cot
ton to -, futures close close January: 1Ido:
1922: October, 11.Os; December, 11.O7.
The cotton market was quiet and mar
row the week through. The net results
OF the weeks trading were a. loss of to
points. The high prices We're made
Tuesday. and the low prices Friday. AT
the highest the trading months were
over last weeks close: at the low
est they were > to - under. The
range was 81 to % points. The main
features of the week about balanced.
Good crop accounts from some por-
lions of the cotton regions were off,
set by complaints of too little rain and
cold nights from others. After the
middle of the week temperatures all
over the belt displayed a tendency
to warm up. In regard to the old crop.
unfavorable statistics were offset by
talk of bulls demanding actual cotton
for their long July contracts. 10 the
spot department prices advanced II of a
cent, middling closing at 125-16,
against IL 3-16 last week, and IFS this
week last year. Sales on the spot
amounted to LII bales. $40 last week
and 1881 this week last year. Sales
70 arrive amounted to 2,461 bales.
against 500 last week and 1,93a this
week last year.
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CHICAGO GRAIN.

CHICAGO. May 17.-Signs that power
full interests were taking the best offer
ings on every dip caused by weak cables
gave the wheat market today decided
rally. The close was steady at prices
varying from Il under last night to "a
advance. Latest trading left corn . off
to like amount up. oats unchanged to
u higher and provisions with gain Of
pig to 1ja1I12.
Spectators who had been figuring that
some of the wheat in Chicago would be
available for delivery on July contracts
received a jolt from predictions by high
authorities that unless there was gen
eral advance in new crop price every
bushel of the old wheat here would be
advanced to a considerable premium over
July or be entirely sold by July ]. Bull
ish sentiment was increased by the fact
that the May delivery ruled light and
led the upturn which took place in the
last part of the session.
Definite settlement of the draft contro-
versy that has hampered exports to Great
Britain tended further to discourage the
bears. who early in the session seemed
TO have the whiphand owing to ideal
weather in both winter and spring crop
territory. The settlement was by agree
ment on seven-day drafts instead Of
sight.
Seaboard clearances of wheat and flour
.today equaled 1,03s,OO0 bushels; primary
receipts of wheat were 100000 bushels;
a year ago 1893, 600.
Corn traders had the narrowest mar
ket of the week. Doubt to the truth
of talk of large receipts soon from the
west prevented any material setback.
the bearish influence of showers in In
diana and Illinois.
Provisions prices were pushed higher.
Actual transactions though, were few.
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Funeral Honors for a Mare.

From the Chicago Post.
Betty Green, a trotting mare destroyed
in a fire at Belleville, ILL.,. Was given flu
neral honors in keeping with her record
of 30 and with the affectionate regard
of her owner, William l.. Reichert. The
body was drawn to the grave. on the
Walnut Grove stock farm, by six blooded
youngsters, and was lowered by stable
boys. The coffin was rose lined. Mr.
fReichert pronounced eulosy after re-
counting the mares track achievements.
Perhaps Betty Green's terrible form of
death aroused MIR. Reichert's sympathies
the more keenly, but the intense love of
a great race horse by an owner is a pri
mary sentiment. Maud S. had more
friends than any horse in history. being
approa enable. inquisitive and fond of con-
tact with the many whom Robert Bonner
delighted in taking to her paddock.
James r. Keene mourned Sysonby as
he would one of his family. This superb
runner had the admiration of the east
without the popIrlari of Maud s.. trot-
ter and record breaker in times when
trotting was the consuming passion. Mr..
keene, who never bet on the races. was
to have Sysonby's remains preserved. but
his only monument is his unique position
among American thoroughbreds.
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for their alleged "stinginess' is that if
the public learns OF the enormous profits
on gas and electricity the legislature will
frame up a raid in the form of a law
for the reduction of the price of .gas to
10 or 40 cents. Consolidated Gas has
long been in the control of Standard Oil
capital
Office Space Drug.
Office space in the immediate Wal,
street district is a drug on the market.
and new skyscrapers are in varying
staRec of construction sufficient to ac-
commodate thousands of additional ten
ants. Rents have gone down, broker
are reducing Office space, discharging
clerks and curtailing expenses in every
conceivable way. Probably not one COM
Germ in five is more than paying it's way
out Of current profits and it has been
costs. Many hundreds of clerks are out
Of jobs. and to this class of wage-earners
the skies are very black
Rental returns in the financial region
do rot pay per cent on the investment
in many conspicuous cases The de-
preston is felt to be only temporary, but
it hurts while it is on.
Fortunately for the office situation. the
new twenty hve-StOry Equitable building
with it's base area of an entire block, will
not be completed for two years. New
York real estate is I'm the dumps at all
points within the outer boundaries, vet
dence and business quarter at rapid
rate. The real estate situation is trying
to insurance. trust companies and saw
ings banks.
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MANY Are Color Blind.
he Strand MAGAZINE

From the Strand Magazine.
The various tests for color blindness
have come into practical use in the ex-
like where the ability to distinguish col
ors is necessary. so that these tests are
no longer peculiar to the laboratory. But
il is not generally known outside the
laboratory that everybody is partially
color blnd-that is. in certain parts OF
the field of vision. The most normal in
dividual can see all the colors only when
he looks directly at them IL looked AT
from an angle of about fifteen degrees
red and green can no longer be seen.
but i'm their places will appear shades OF
yellow or blue. This region of the eyes
is known as the yellow-blue zone. IL the
color be moved still farther to the side
the yellow and blue will disappear and
only gray can be seen. This region Is
known as the zone of complete color
blindness. An interesting theory i'm
gard TO these zones is that every nor
NAL eve represents three stages of evolu-
ton. The zone of complete color blind
ness is the lowest stage, and appears
in such animals as the frog, whose vision
is known as shadow vision. The blue
yellow zone is one step higher In the
scale, although not clearly marked of in
the animal kingdom. And the appear
ance of the red-green zone marks the
highest stage Of evolution. Cases OF col
or blindness are, according to this the
ory a lack of development beyond the
early stage of individual life.
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The Railroad Came.

From the London Chronicle.
Thaxted Do you know Thaxted. with
its glorious church and its splendid iso-
lation from the railway? Its pride was
being in Essex and seven miles from a
railway. The nearest station was EIsen-
ham. and you had to get cart Of some
kind to get you to Thaxted from Elsen-
ham. But Sir Walter Gilbey has broken
down the tradition by getting light rail-
way built between EIsenham and Thax-
ted, And the oldest part of it is that
Sir Walter Gilbey. lover of horses, has
not Travelled by railway for many years.
He travels by motor car when on the
journey from Essex to France with an
interval between Dover and Calais).
Thus he has skipped a generation of in
vention.
There is a certain triumph in the re-
fusal to recognize Inventions and there
are many people who keep their eyes on
the ground and never see aeroplanes.
Only a few years ago I knew a couple
of old ladies who lived near Henley and
always visited Oxford each summer
Blu. they did not recognize the Great
Western railway. Thexfamily carriage
was set behind the family horses, and
the ladies were driven by road. 1t was
matter of courtesy to refrain from
allusion to railways when those dear old
ladies asked you TO dinner.
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COTTON MARKETS.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, May 17.-Reports Of bene-
fetal showers or rains throughout the
droughty sections of the eastern belt
failed to stimulate much fresh selling
in the cotton market today. and the close
was steady net two points lower to two
points higher.
The market opened steady at I'M
changed prices to decline of four
points; generally three to four points
DOVER under liquidation and some local
pressure encouraged by indications that
the droughty conditions recently com
planned of east of the river had been
fully relieved Numerous private reports
were received indicating that precipita-
ton had been more or less general and
there were also more favorable reports
concerning the new crop outlook. The
outlook for continued showers was con-
sidered favorable, as tending to re-
move all doubt as to rainfall sufficient
for the time being, but there did not seem
to be much cotton for sale, and prices
soon steadied on covering for over the
week end and scattered trade buying.
October rallied to the closing price Of last
night, while July and winter months sold
point or two above Yesterdays final
figures. and closing prices We're within
a point or two of the best.
Cotton-Spot closed quiet: middling up
lands, 100; do, gulf. 1875. Sales, 100
bales.
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Nettle Porridge.

From the London Chronicle.
Mr. Pepys was RECALLED with nettle
porridge at the house of a friend and
found it very good" The same deli
cacy is referred to by Evelyn. The
nettle, in fact, which the ignorant dis
miss as an unpleasant weed. is capable
of doing all sorts of things for man. a
Scot was able to boast that he had eaten
nettles, slept i'm nettle sheets and dined
off nettle tablecloth. And ii is at
this TIME of the year that We should take
our dose of nettles. Spring nettle tops
boiled in pottage. according TO old author
ity, consume the phlegmatic superfui-
ties i'm the body of many that the cold
ness and moisture of the winter leave be-
hind.
The nettle is not the only vegetable
delicacy enjoyed by country folk which
never finds its way to the townsman's
table. In Kent. at this season, the early
shoots of the wild hop are cooked and
eaten as something superior to aspara-
gus. The plant needs searching for amid
the hedges but that, no doubt, adds to
it's piquancy. Hop hunters, however, have
always to remember that the taking Of
the cultivated plant is a felony.
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New York Bank Statement.

NEW YORK, May 1.-THE statement
Of the actual condition of the clearing
house banks and trust companies for
the week shows that they hold $3.50, 100
reserve in excess of legal requirements.
This is. an increase of s5.776.s00 from last
week.
The statemer. follows: :.
Actual conditions
Loans, s1,9l7, 800, 600; decrease. s3.c3S,-
OOO
Specie, $33S 63s. 600: increase. 81. ia. 900.
Legal tenders. Ss4,616,O0o; increase. e.
664,OO0.
Net deposits, 81. zee. 32s 600: increase. S5.-
100000
Circulation. s4s, So. 900: increase. sol, oOo
Banks cash reserve in vault. $3.50. S93.
CO.,
Trust companies cash reserve i'm vault.
Stu. 361 600. ~
Aggregate cash reserve, $40. o54.ooo.
Excess lawful reserve. S25.519, 400; in
crease. $5.776.SC0.
Trust companies reserve with clear
ing house members carrying % per
cent cash reserve, $54324.000.
Summary of state banks and trust
companies in Greater New York. not
included in clearing house statement:
Loans, s571.914,S00; increase. $1,000
800
Specie, sss.s7s, 4Oe: increase. s5ls. 100.
Legal tenders, ss.l1o,3oo; decrease,
Total deposits. ss4zsso.soo; increase,
SS35, 600.
Money on call nominal: no loans.
Time loans steady; sixty and ninety
days. per cent; six months, AZ per
cent.
Prime mercantile paper. 5Aa5Is per
cent: sterling exchange steady with
actual business in bankers bills at
1920 for sixty-day bills and 1876. 40 for
demand: commercial bills 4S2la: bar
silver 6OA: Mexican dollars. As; gov
eminent bonds steady; railroad bonds
steady.
The Financier says this week:
The clearing house banks OF New
YQak made very favorable statement
foP the week ending May IL. The
movement of currency to this center
was reflected in the gain of S6,399,000
reports. was somewhat larger than had
been anticipated The dizziness of local
exchange conditions reflected in
the decrease of S3.23S, 500 in loans. Net
deposits, principally because of re-
ceipts of cash. rose S5,390.000. and the
result of the changes noted was to in
crease reserve by s5.776.800. bringing
the present reserve above the 25 per
cent minimum to s25.579, 400. The re-
averages. stands at S24547, 400, the in
crease for the current week having
been $7.606,900. 1t is worthy of COM
ment that the trust companies are
strengthening their cash position the
gain in specie and legals for the week
by those institutions having been near
ly four and one-third millions Their
reserve a this time is somewhat high
er than for number of weeks past.
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NEW LOW RECORDS
IN STOCK MARKET
Effect of Days Trading on
Quoted Values, However,
Is Slight.
CANADIAN PACIFIC AGAIN
BREAKS UNDER PRESSURE
Actual Cash Gain by Banks During
Week Is Approximately
Sc, 400 900.

NEW YORK, May 1.-THE effect OF
today's trading on quoted values Of
stocks was slight. Speculative interest
was barely sufficient to preserve the
semblance of life in the dealings The
narrow movements of the leading stocks
were irregular, with a lower tendency.
After opening at a small decline, prices
moved above yesterdays close. but later
eased off again on the appearance Of
some selling orders. Not a few Of the
not appear on the tape today. 1t was
the second day in which there were no
transactions in Lehigh Valley.
Canadian Pacific Breaks.
list and moved widely. Canadian Pa
citic was again under pressure and broke
nearly 3 points. There was further pro-
nounced weakness among the Rock
Island and the ST. Louis and San Fran
cisco securities, selling of which was a
conspicuous feature Of yesterdays trad
ing.
No authoritative explanation was Of
fered of the weakness of these issues. de-
clines among which ran from 11a to near
ly , points. st. Louis and San Francisco
COIlIuOIl anu SeCOHO pTeloTTeu, 0cifcF
and Rio Grande preferred, Baltimore and
Ohio preferred and Seaboard preferred
made new low records for the year.
Gain in Cash by Banks.
Predictions of a substantial gain in
cash by the banks as a result OF the
weeks operations were fully borne out by
the bank statement. The actual cash
gain amounted to approximately So 4OO,-
600. Changes in loans and deposits were
small and $5.776,OCO was added to the
surplus reserve.
Mercantile agencies in their weekly re-
views reported the continuance of a fair
ly good volume OF general business, with
some conservatism in buying for the fu-
ture, influenced by prospective tariff
changes
The general bond market held well in
face of the weakness of some speculative
issues. Total sales (par vaiue), $4,000.
United State IS and Panama :ss ad
vanced a and United States IS registered
declined Il on call on the week.
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NEW YORK PRODUCE.

NEW YORK. May 7.-Flour-ouiet
and without change.
Rye f1our-Quiet.
Cornmeal-Quiet.
Rye-Steady
Barley-Steady.
Wheat-Spot barely steady: No. 2 red
nominal; No. ! northern Duluth. /. 0OI.
T. o. D. afoat Futures were easy early
on the cables and favorable weather.
put rallied with outside markets. Nav.
80; July, 96A; September. 95Is.
Corn-Spot steady; export, 81 t. O. b..
afioat. =
Oats-Spot steady
realistically.
Hay-Steady.
Hops-Easy: state. 1912 15a2a:
Pacific coast. 1912. 15a2O
Hides-Steady.
Leather-Firin
Pork-Steady
Beef+Quiet
Cut meats-QIiet
Lard-Steady, refined oliet. com
pound quiet.
Tallow-Quiei
Cottonseed oil-Firm: prime summer
yellow spot, 6.aOa7.05; MAY. SOS. July.
6.9s: September 7.0s.
Petroleum-Sieady
Wool-Steady
Rosin-Quiet
Turpentine-Steady
Rice-Steady
Molasses-Steady.
Raw sugar-Steady. muscoyado 277a
2S0; centrifugal 32ia33O; fnolasses,
252a2.55; refined steady
Potatoes, cabbages freigbts and
peanuts steady and unchanged.
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COFFEE FUTURES.

NEW YORK. May 17.-Coffee futures
opened steady at unchanged prices TO
a decline of two points under scattered
liquidation. There seemed nothing in
the days news to create fresh senti-
ment, but the market eased off an
other two or three points in the alb
sence Of support, and closed dull, net
two to six points lower. Sales, 1920 bags.
May. Ills. July. 1120; October and
December, 11.39; January. 11.i0; March,
11.42.
Spot coffee-Quiet; Rio No, !, Is ,
Santos No. 4. 13ba135s. Mild coffee
dull Cordova, l412a17. nominal.
Havre was Il franc net higher. Ham
burg 4 pig. lower to "a higher Rio
unchanged. Santos unchanged Rio
exchange on London, Lad higher at
16 3-16d Brazilian port receipts.
1000 bags. against 10000 last year.
Jundiahy receipts. 1000 bags. against
5000 last year.
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C0TToNsEED OIL.

NEW YORK. May 17.-Cottonseed oil
was quiet but firmer on scattered profess
sional buying induced by the firmness in
lard and absence of pressure. Closing
prices were generally to points net
higher. Sales, $500 barrels. Tenders. 500
barrels. Prime crude. 5.9ia6.00: prime
summer yellow. 6.90a7.05: May, 695;
June, 6.96: July. Cos: August, 7.07: Sep
TENDER. los: October. CTS: November
o. 45: December. $50. Prime winter yellow
7.GO bid; prime summer white. 40 bid
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CONDITION OF TREASURY,

The condition of the United States
Treasury at the beginning of business
yesterday was: Working balance, $61 TJg, :
,92: in banks and Philippine treasury, $40
13o.3Ji: total of general fund. $l32 $40
063: receipts Yesterday. $s.03t. 422 dis
si,5I2.2Io The surplus this
fiscal year is Sf326. 2O2, as against a
detici; of $l2.s.,3. 74J last year The fig
ures for receipts, disbursements, surplus
and deficit exclude Panama canal and
public debt transactions.
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The Drummer's Tender Heart.

From the Manchester Guardian.
The commercial traveller had just fin
ished a story of a disastrous fire.
And what did you do when you heard
of IL on your journey" inquired his
friend.
"Oh. | sent the governor a long teie-
gram of sympathy. He likes that kino
OF thing. Cost me half a crown,
.Half CROWN exclaimed the other
incredulously- -
ION / charged IL to my expenses. OF
course" explained the traveller.
Kindly feeling and thoughfful econ
ony could so no further.
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LIVE STOCK MARKET.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, May 11.-Beeves-Re-
ceipts 400 head: none on sale. Feeling
unchanged. Dressed beef slow at IL to
Is cents per pound for native sides. Ex-
ports. pa cattle.
Calves-Receipts. 1879 head; steady.
Veals sold at 1910 per 100. pounds: culls.
100; city dressed veals. Ii TO Is per
pound; country dressed do, III to 1877.
Sheep and lambs-Receipts. 4.464 head
dull and fraction lower No prime
handy weights offered. Sheep sold at 5.4O
to $50 per 1G0 pounds: lambs, ID to
80
Hoss-Receipts. 2.3Ol head steady.
Prime state hogs sold at $40 per 100
mounds.
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LONDON STOCK MARKET
New issues Monopolized At
tention on Stock Exchange.
During Week.

LONDON, May 11.-New issues monopo-
lized the attention of traders on the stock
exchange during the week. The large
Brazilian loan, though well secured. sold
at / per cent discount. while the Chinese
issue, which is expected Tuesday and IS
being extensively advertised. changed
hands at l per cent premium. These ana
other capital requirements are gradually
absorbing the spare cash in the market
and have already caused appreclable
advance in short loans and discounts and
little ease is expected until continental
monetary conditions are relaxed with the
circulation of the money boarded there
The markets have developed much ir-
regularity since the holidays. The Brit
ish section hardened under investment
buying, but securities in which the con-
tinent is interested developed weakness
and declining tendency.
Diamond Shares Firm.
Berlin sold Canadian Pacific freely and
French houses reduced their commit
ments in the mining section owing to the
stringent monetary conditions and the
rather less favorable Balkan situation.
diamond shares being the only firm excep-
ton Guatemalan bonds rose sharply on
the announcement that satisfactory ar
rangements had been made for the re-
sumption of the payment of interest on
the Guatemalan foreign debt. which is
largely held in England.
American securities had an uninterest-
ing week In the absence of favorable
Wall street prices stocks moved irregu-
larry and closed from ] point higher to
4 lower.
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DRY GOODS MARKET.

NEW YORK. May l7.-Cotton goods
markets are generally quiet, woolens
and worsteds being purchased from hand
to mouth. Production at mill centers Is
being cnrtailed and this is having ma
terial effect on limited accumula tons az
merchandise, Yarns easy.
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Flat Stories.

From the Atehson Globe.
Most OF the fiat stories we hear start
out like this: "Now, | don't know how
this will appeal to you, but it struck me
as being funny"
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KANSAS CITY.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-. May 17-CattIe-
Receipts. 600 head, including 100 south
ems; steady: dressed beef and export
steers. 7.S6aS.60; fair to good, 725a7. II;
southern steers. 6.09a7.50: southern cows
4.5oa7.G0; bulls, 5.75a7.J0; calves, 650a
1000.
Hogs-Receipts, eco head: steady; bulk
S.35aS.4J; heavy, S.i0aS40 packers and
butchers. S.35aS.45: light, S40aS. 40; pigs,
8. 50a7.o0
Sheep-Receipts. none; steady to Zoe
lower; Colorado lambs. 6.15aS.25: year.
lings. 5.o0a7 90: wethers, 4.40a6.50: ewes,
4O0af31
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FRUIT MARKET.

NEW YORK, May 1I.-Evaporateu APP
ples-Steadier; fancy, 711aSh; choice. ia
attn; prime, 5lsa3%. Prunes and april
cots-Flrm. Peaches-Steady. Raisins-
Quiet
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WEEKS RANGE OF PRICES
Corrected to the Close of Business May ~ at the
New York Stock Exchange.

table AND osas sehange
1912 the year