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Wilson's Chicago Adviees

CHICAGO. Aug 2f-Wheat--The
opening was strong, with higher Liver
pool cables and with Berlin I NC higher
ON reported foods In Germany. There
was q modest revival in the export
demand, with rs loads reported worked
via the gulf and seaboard and more
working. The reaction at the close
was almost entirely N sympathy with
the closing weakness In corn which
induced small profit taking. We think
the situation a healthy one and advise
being on the Ions side Of the wheat
market.
Corn was frnaer most OF the day.
ruling easy toward the last. Missouri
river points have commenced to I'LL up
with corn on account Of the relatively
high prices prevailing there Mean
while, the cash demand has been mod
crate with sales reported or $4,000
bushels for shipment Offerings from
the interior show a little increase, but
the total is still very small. We feel
that corn is high enough just now and
would let the long side alone and wait
for break.
Oats have not been as strong or
active relatively as corn There was
scattered selling partly for cash con-
Germs, but the general trade was linn
tied.
Provisions have been rather lacking
in interest. One OF the larger shorts
among local packers bought lard and
ribs for January delivery and another
packer sold January and bought Octo-
Der ribs on fair scale.
Chicago Grain and Provfsfon Futures
(Furufsned By j. C. Wilson Co. San francisco.
Member Of the New York Stock Exrharxnl
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Loans. Exehange and silver
Commercial paper -.-----.----5i9I as per cent
LcaHs On zeal estate = fI6tS per cent
Sterling exchange 60 days. ..... at sS1s
Sterling exchange. demand. 49,. -674 sszz
Sterling exchange cables d s-2
New YORK. exchange sight "a 02
New York exchAage. te1egraFhfc "a e5
H0ngkOnz exchange, sight. "a As 50
Hcuzkong exchange. telegrsphie a rs. 3
View York silver, per 0uuce---. q 59h
London silver. per ounea. .-.-. 27 5-I6d
CONTINENTAL,
New York On Paris---.-...-... ........ & 1Sxt
Berlin Londou- .-.-.-..- ....... 20 AZ
Paris on London -.-.----..- . Az
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Ihe Mexican Petroleum company has voted
% sal $1,000 COO q tas stock OF the Petroleum
Trzasport company 70 It's stock holders OF rec
ord Sept eEber at par
Tie Californiz DistiIlf7g company has leased
The plant q the CasSen Chemical company at
Headlock. wash and VIII close the latter down
for vezr
An sseG.0eo trust mortgage Of the Northwest
Electric company OF Portland Ore has been
lied BY the Pftteck Block company with the
Angio-Cs1ifcrnaa Trust company as trustee IRE
I. 1913
For the $4,000. 20M year. 8 per cent serial
bridge bonds Of the city Of Reddfng two bids
we're made By San Francisco bond houses. The
" r Stats company offered 4 premium OF
ST. while y W HaIsey Co. offered
sl.5-4 award has not yet been made
Chico VIII vote September On issuing SO
600 grammar Schooi bonds to run for . years
two $1,000 bonds being redeemahfe each year.
Bids VII Be opened today for the purchase
Of $4,000 Sacramento "a per cent school
bonds
Utah share holders nay De favored with sub
stznEiaI Increase IN dividends which are Tow
50 annually. Utah Copper last month produced
81 the rate Of shsTt I25-e60 600 pounds OF COP
PEI q year and rs earnings On a basis OF &c
copper are running close 70 $50 Annually
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Weather Report
PACIFfC COAST sTATIoys

United states department Of asricuIture-
weather bureau San Francisco, Auz- "a 1918:
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NEW YORK, Aug z1-Narrew hue
tuationS and a small trade character
ICED todays stock market Southern
Pacific was weak, presumably on the
Mexican situation and it's bearing on
the physical condition OF the road, but
the company has been suffering more
or less for a year past from the in
surrecrion and It's present condition is
not new. The traders were bearish on
Reading and Steel The loan crowd de-
veloped large short interest in many
parts OF the list
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DRESSED MEATS
Slaughterers' rates TO dealers and Butchers are
follows.
Bsef-Pr1me steers, 12912Nc: medium do. 10
g lie. heifers, 11G1ftscs cows, StzG1gc-
seal-I04 Ie1ac for heavy. Il&l2c Tor me-
diam and 124l21ac for smau
Mgtton-Wethers ssa GsIze; ewes. ia 9Stse-
fesee
Dressed Pork fper IBl--121s G13c.
LIVESTOCK MARKET
Tie following quotations are for good sound
livestock delivered In San Francisco, gross
weight:
Grass fed ezftle-No. I steers. over ESQ lbs,
n 411se per ID. under $50 lbs, ss1 GTc; second
quality, an weights 6@GE4c; thin, undesirable
steers. 49l5Ac-
No. cows aud heifers. sdezc: second quail.
cows. 3G4c-
Desirable bnrs ard stays. 81 94cs half tat Or
thin balls. 263e-
Caives-Lightweizh ts. per u. 7zG71scs me
diuna- 6GH1ac; heavy 5G514c
g3xc
Sucking Lamhs-5K E7sc
Hogs-Har4 hogs weighing 100 to f5a lbs. Sc:
100 TO $50 lbs, Size: $50 lbs and up, TAG
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Beans frecieaBed- per ets1-Idmas s. 50675 60.
Aanehurfa butter. 81. s5l4: bayos s35O67y IS.
larxe whites. a. s. .65; small whites IS 500
s-50s pink. %. I5133e. Maekeyes 81 a0N7 az:
red. 81. SGT. red kidney S3.1o73.s IS; garyan-
zas, $414-50; horse beans $2a2 Is; cranberry,
nominal.
Seeds-MH~tard. -: tszseed So s56f4 per ctr.
canary. 616Ac per ID; alfalfa. 14d Isc; rape
zM@3lae timothy, nominal; heImp. Sc; millet
Dried Peas-Green. 81. 5as per cfl.
Hops-Callfornfa. 1873 contracts 1890 per
b. as to grade and district, Oregon and Wash
inSfou- 19G7fc-
NEW YORK. Aug. 21.-Hops-Qufet state
common to choice. 1872, fs@1 Zoe; do 1877 f3G
I6c; Pacile coast. 1912 1sG22c; 1911. 1GGIsc.
Hay and Feedsfuffs
FeedstH6s fper toH)-Brau s2B627 for white
and s2Sd Is for red. shorts. S77R2Ss mfddIings
$5od33; rolled barley. s27- Is so. cornrseal
Saga; cracked corn. S4i642: chop feed.
S1S123s evergreen chop feed. SO in car lots and
S23 iObbiBx. oilcake meal. 20 ton lots So 10
too lots $50 So ton lots S33. small Tots $50 50:
eocoanut cake OK meal. ST for 20 and 10 ton
lots. $3.50 for 8 teh lots and $zs for small
IotE: alfalfa meal carload Tots $3.50 1obbSHg
$3.50; Eureka meal. carload lots S22.5o. iobhfng
So. So
Hay fper ton}-Fancy wheat hay light bales.
so 50nz1: No 1 wheat and wheat and cat
f7.5G01s-59: coed 70 choice DO. $4,000 II. SO;
barley. $f2T15. tame cat S15G1e: wild oat-
SAG $50. stock hay. s10Gfa; alfalfa. $I21
straw-soasoc per bale
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- - 60
am@ 49, =.
Prices 1argeiy nominal Cfifornf1 cfuo, y 49,
PEI Ct; norfnern Cub n Iurse{ q 800
1-oo, hasslan rea AJAX - Ioz -Iosus $500 =
n<uestena, $l-seYl6 ~
FUTURES
No quorat1ons
c1ctee fed. $ITH8Ia2h Per cus Nwx
8r2ces, $I-S4d- -
FIIJkES
~ a. M Session -
Decemcer-$l4 f~ opening ana TO-
49, y LoF na81 nht CLOS - -. .. - ..s>a
Ansust new eissea - 49, 49, = 800
2. a. Sessson xt-. a. 4.
Decem0ef-<l-4lE Ief c9tAlE8 ah1 s-s1- go
TOT low ana H-fiM tor tlosHS. -. :. ,stx
August tHewl elosea AZ $3.50 "a
askest- ana May, isi4, AZ $tss1 ssa.
1900 - - - --xSs tx
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kef opened with decline Of 8 to IL pofntz %
easier European eabies and lower cost and
frsight s6efs. Under scattering hqasdntion
night rallies. The msrkst closed Z t. r. polHfs
1rrust. sa.7s: September. ssss: orropef
ss.a1: Decenber, ee.01; ysnnary, 9.I5. March
s.sa Msy, B.zs: Juiy. .ss.sf-
12Ac; Mid duli: cordovs. i5e1sc. nominal.
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BULLS CONTROL
CHICAGO MARKET
Run, Wheat and Corn Uphill
by Using Hard Luck
Crop Reports

CHICAGO. Aug s1.-BuIls were In
control OF both the wheat and corn
pits today until near the close. when
there was . general easing Wheat
ended 1T = net 4dvance OF kc to sc.
but corn was irregular. closing he
lower TO 1sc higher. Oats finished M
changed to nc to y lower and pro-
visions were INC lower to 21zc higher
Corn claimed attention today to a
greater extent than wheat the market
approaching In nervous activity the re-
cent prolonged bull campaign- The
weather map seemed to be the domi-
mating influence. dry, hot conditions
prevailing in the southwest and most
OF the remainder Of the corn belt. Re-
ports OF beneficial rains in parts Of
Illinois did not check the upward tend
ency OF prices. and December again
reached roc Leading longs added
largely to their holdings and the mar
ket remained nrm and active for the
greater part Of the day weakness
was manifest At the close On q number
OF profit taking sales Western Iowa
reported corn selling there 1c higher
than wheat
Fears Of frost In the Canadian north
In the upIift given wheat Strength
Of corn also helped the wheat bulls.
An oversJId condition added sttmu-
lation and shorts covered freely. Bull
fish cables formed an additional lit
to prices. limited Offers OF new wheat
at European centers being an interest
ing feature Of the days news Expert
opinion was that there has been too
much rain IN the northwest. and the
fear Of damage from this source was
one OF the days huIlish Influences.
and prices weakened with the easing
of other grain.
Trade IN provisions was not large,
and price fluctuations were narrow.
Selling OF October ribs by . leading
house was the chief feature OF the
market
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DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN GRAIN


NEW YORK, AuK- 21--EIour-Qufet but drm
wheat-Spot. steady, No. 2 red 94zc: No. i
northern Duluth. $1-oo%; September, 96 T-iec;
December, a67zc-
Northwestern wheat Market
WASHINGTON
TACOMA. Aug observation-disclosures. SIC:
forty fold Sic: club, Soc. red afe. soc Gar
rcceipts-Wheat -. barley 2, corn 1. oats l.
SEATTLE Aug. 21.-Wbeat-Bluestrn s4c
forty fold sec; club, TIC: ffa. 7sc; red Russian
tie. Car recefpts-Wh<at I. oats s, hay 7,
oHB8oN
PORTLAND. Aus. Observation-Disclosures
Car receipts-wheat ~. barley 9, four 5, oats /.
hay 10.
Cash Grain and Prov7sa0ns
CHICAGO, Aux 21---cash--Coru-No. q 78@
7s44c; No. 2 white, 7e7zc: No. yellow f88
7s1lc; No q 7s@TSkc; No. white. 7s7lc; Ne.
yellow, 7S@7@4c-
Rye-Nc. q csc.
Ber1ey-56H1Tec
Tmothy-H 50U5.f0
Clovcr-$Iof7f4
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Prices fper Ib1-Salmsn. lie: half1ut. Zoe,
chicken kaIibut, -, Goldfish. Sc. red rock Zoe;
black rock Ics barracuda. &c. sand dabs. &c;
soies. SCI kfngfsA. &c: carp. A. smelts -;
behring's &c. tomcods, Sc, small striped bass,
I5es large do. 1z11e; sea bass, f0cs shad, Sc;
catfish. 191se. crawfsh, 25c~
The above quotations represent {. .. b. prices
Tor cleaned lisa. iced ana boxed
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BANK cLEARTNGs FoR MEEK

San Francisco bank cIearings for the
7sS45 as COMPARED with s5s. go or. X
for the corresponding week last year
Clearings for the day were S7ss12.507-2S
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sues commission
BUT ASKS FAVORs
Southern Pacific Applies for
Order to Alter Discount
Rate on Bonds

AslaTlous between the Southern Pa
c1fic company and the California rail-
road commission are peculiar The
company no sooner begins action In
the courts to en5oin the commission
from interfering with the issuance of
bonds tor rolling stock than the plain
TIL applies 70 the defendant for per-
mission 70 change the discount rate Of
rolling stock bonds
Has the commission got the South
err Pacific cowed like it has most other
corporations IN the slater was a aues-
ton asked IN various forms yesterday
Al the executive Offices of the South
EN- Psclnc 1t was said the court action
mad been begun TO test the Jurisdiction
OF the commission over q carrier en-
Saged IN interstate traffic That action
Wo1io drag along, as such proceedin gs
usually DO. but in the meantime the
need OF funds for adding to the rollins
stock IS Imperative.
Without Affecting the issue at stake.
tnereIore, the southern Pacific applied
70 the commission yesterday 10 be al
lowed 70 issue the balance OF it's So
1zVr8V8 equipment trust certificates at
discount OF. 5 per cent instead OF 4 per
cent, as originally allowed when the
loan was approved April IL 1919
The railroad pleads the tight con-
oltIon OF the money market It's attor-
neys state that the condition OF the
money market is such that the South
ern Pacific company will probably not
be aole 70 market the remaining GER
rlncaIeS on as advantageous terms as
heretofore The market conditions are
so constantly changing that Il viii be
necessary to have an additional margin
OF per cent IN order that conditions
The certificates viii provide funds for
steel coaches. diners, baggage and
postal cars and observation cars. as
well as locomotive equipment About
half Of them have already been sold
It IS asserted that recent threatened
reductions IN freight and passenger
rates and continual advances In wage
payments have made investors chary of
buying railroad securities and that
fore1gn capital is not 50 ready as here
toIors 10 purchase the bonds Of COM
mon carriers. This. it IS claimed. has
resulted IN money stringency that
has made it difficult for an American
transportation company 70 float loans.
TO CHANGE FORM OF STOCK
In a hearing before Commissioner
Loveland yesterday the Pitt River
cancel 1895 shareS OF capital stock as
common stock andsto issue 1.225 shares
OF preferred stock IN lieu thereof The
company also asked permission 70 sup
ply electricity in the northern portion
OF Shasta, Modoc and Lassen counties.
NEW OFFICES OPENED
John W. Gum. Pacific coast manager
e4-O ---fC q E0CA anu ACA0OA anu G10De
insurance company, yesterday well
coined friends and patrons OF the fnsti-
tuition to it's handsome new home AT 444
California street. The building. Of
Tennessee marble. in the style OF the
Italian renaissance, was much admired
BANK CLEARINGs FOR WEEK
San Francisco bank cIearings for the
week ended yesterday were s52240,-
IsS-45, as compared with S53. G29, 217.57
Tor the corresponding week last year.
Cle7rtngs for the day were $7,S12.507.2S-
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FURNISHED De J. C. Wilson Co.. San francisco
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CHICAGO. Anx. 1.-THE leading future,
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NEW oFFTCEs oPENED

John W. Gum, Pacific coast manager
OF the Liverpool and London and Globe
Insurance company, yesterday well
coined friends and patrons OF the fnsti-
tuition to it's handsome new home at 444
california street The building. Of
Tennessee marble. in the style OF the
Italian renaissance, was much admired
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08

servers Viewpoint. Everybody with
sense enough to write nowadays is re.
forming or preaching or spreading II
cult We have no genius who can take
lifelike picture OF what the inimitable
Twain always called "the darned human
race" The inimitable Twain used "a
stronger word. by the way
If any man doubts that tho great
humorist had an antiseptic effect on
his generation, let him get hold of tho
complete works. Tho very preface is
soothing. He cannot discover really
true reason for the publication of IL
uniform edition, save that he would
like to see one. He thinks a cat might
give the same reason for her kittens.
Plain. honest humility like that is rare
now.
Just few short years have passed
since the master died. but think what
Il harvest OF tonic fun he could get out
of the present generation. The wo-
mems movement would be helped by
having an understanding mind point
out its foolish eXcrcsences and cross
eyed hyperboles. The various medical
that picked to pieces Christian Science
and showed where it was right ana
helped. and where ii was wrong and
hindered. War surely. would have
been tho theme for an epic satire had
Twain lived to learn from the peace
movement and to have laughed at the
European extravaganza in armaments
butcher.
All the fal<ery of art and the art
cults he laughed at for years. lie sent
ripples of mirth through the universe
with his crtiques on the old masters
Can there be dream of greater joy
than a futurist story by NJ r? Read
what he did to Fenimore Cooper and
Paul Bourget, and think of the Erilling
OF our novelists stuck on the spit of his
scorn
OF course. there are thousand
themes he might attack. Yet he never
hit the mere foibles of humanity like
clothes or customs or money His
arrows were directed beneath the skin.
He would have found rich material in
much OF our modern education. IIo
would have measured it up against life.
and then let the contrast howl down
the centuries. He might have at
tempted politics though here again no
regarded politics as symptom, not
cause
We wish Mark Twain believed in re-
incarnation and would bring us back
joke from William James We need
salt for freshness.
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AccordIns to unclc Ahncr.

\ hundred years from now neon,e
WI TOOK back and wonder how we got
along without any OF the modern i'm
proponents that they enjoy.
When n Teller flashes n bank roll in
a saloon 1T is purity nigh IA cinch that
it is all that he has got.
y leiler who kin FUSS with n tr,lkv
oatmobile for two hours without get
IN sore at 1t amt goin to make n
lure of anything he attempts to do
In this world. RI.
Ansc Tfbbitts is takin' correspond
ence school course in How to Make
Loke and Get Rich Quick and he cx-
poets to grab off an heiress i'm the very
near future.
There is some disappointment In our
midst. Our new Democrat pustmas-
ter amt improved the taste of tho
bit. ''"
Uncle Ezra Harkins bought a pus-
tlSe stamp last November intcndin'
to write to his brother out in Arizonv
but his brother was hanged for his
steaiin that same week and Uncle
Ezra never had no use fer the stanp
lie tried TO sell Il back to the pust-
master the other day. but the latter
wouldn't take it, as Uncle Ezra had
carried 1t around In his pocket so
burned long that all the stickum was
wore OFF.
One of tho first things baseball
pI'cher mas 10 learn Is to chaw to-
hacker.
Mrs. Lem Purdy says it is a burned
lie that no man kin come back Her
husband has come back to her three
times.
Deacon Prngle is experimenting
with stringless bean which he thinks
is going to revolutionize the bean in
dustry in this country, and when he
gets through with that he has in mind
inventing noseless celery that will
not drown out the orchestras in the
city cafes.
Nothin' ever seems to interfere with
the June bride crop.
Anse Frisby has got q 1916 model
oatmobile. but ii will be out of style
In about two weeks, and then he will
have to trade 1t in and git a 1917
model.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ansel Higgins have
sold their cook stove to buy gasoline
for their oatmobile. Anse says II Is
all right for his wife doesn't stay homo
long enough to cook ANYHOW
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-08

Gallon. father Of engenles. found
that among Europeans about half the
entire number OF the most eminent
men have been closely related TO other
persons Of more or less cmlnence The
showing thus made in respect OF her
ediia"y advantage was not of course
conclusive. for Cation did not sutfi-
GENTLY discount the performances re-
corded OF the scores or superior OPP
portunity, education and social nilu-
ence. But the same condition pre-
walls in this country, with its free and
domestic institutions, according 10 3
study made for the Popular Science
Monthly by Frederick Adams Wood.
N. D.. OF Boston.
DR.. Wood has based his inquiry
upon comparison OF the forty-s.x
preemincnt Americans honored by
commemoraton in the Hall OF Fame
upon tho Hudson with the $500 emil
nent Americana represented In two
current authoritative compilations,
Jameson's Dictionary OF United States
History" and Lippincotts ''Blographi-
cal Dictionary Of the World" His in
vestigations reveal rather startling
set of facts In elucidation of Cations
findings Suppose" he says, "the
average man or woman to have as
many as twenty close relatlves--as
near as an uncle or grandson There
can be thcn only about. one person in
$40 who can claim close relationship
TO all eminent" man Those whose
names are in the above dictionaries
are, on the contrary, related to each
other to the extent of about one in
five. -. Nearly all of the great names,
or at least more than half, are closely
associated by blood with those of
similar stamp. About half OF all the
greatest rulers Oho world ovcrl have
been the descendants OF comparatively
mediocre ancestors the other half
have been the direct and immediate
descendants OF those AS great or near
~ rs great as themselves. In other
words. tie vast horde (say 90 per
cent OF the whole) is no more likely
to produce man of genius than is
tho per cent Cor less than per
cent? which from the standpoint OF
eugenics we rightly call the creme do
III creme"
Interesting data have been assem-
bled by DR.. Wood with reference TO
the number of eminent men produced
by certain great American families.
Some Of the examples are classic. Ono
ediatcly thinks In This connection
OF the Lees, OF Virginia; the Living
stons, of New York: the Adams's, Quin-
cys and Lowclls Of Massachusetts, and
especially OF Jonathan Edwards, the
great philosopher OF Puritan New
England. from whom have been d.
rcctly descended no less than 400 SUI
pcrior Americans. including thirteen
college presidents, siXty-u-e professors
and many principals Of important acade-
mics THE Edwards blood" says DR..
wood, has produced more than 100 law
yers, thirty judges and some sixty more
have attained distinction in authorship