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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-27

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Made fresh Saturday.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-02-13

to herself, she pulled one of the roses
from her belt, and twisting a wisp of
long grass, wound it round and round
the dogs neck and thrust the ragged
rose-stem firmly through it. Now"
she said, and pushed him gently from
her, "go back, sir!'
He whined and licked her hand, but
when she repeated the command, he
turned obediently and left her. A lit
tie way from her he halted, with a
sudden perception of mysterious pun
ishment, shrugged, sat down, and tried
to reach the irksome grass-wisp with
his teeth. This failing, he rolled la
boriously in the dirt.
Then he rose, cast a reproachful
glance behind him, and trotted off.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-02-13
CHAPTER v.
On the Red Road.

The green, midway Virginian
afternoon was arched with a sky as
blue as the tiles of the Temple of
Heaven and stepped in a wash of sun
light as yellow as gold. Nothing in all
the springy landscape but looked
warm and o~palescent and inyiting-ex-
cept a tawny bull that from across a
barred fence-corner switched a trucu-
lent tail in silence and glowered sui
lenly at the big motor halted motion
less at the side of the twisting road.
Curled worm-like in the drivers
seat, with his chin on his knees, John
Valiant sat with his eyes upon the
distance. For an hour he had whirred
through that wondrous simmer Of
color with a f1ippant lettering breeze
in his face, sweet from the crimson
clover that poured and rooted over the
roadside.
"Chum, old man." said Valiant, with
his arm about the bulldogs neck, IF
those color-photograph chaps had
shown us this, we simply wouldn't
have believed it. would we? Such
scenery beats the roads we're used to,
what?" He wound his strong fingers
In a choking grip In the scruff Of the
white neck, as a chfpmunk chartered
by on the low stone wall mo. you
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-02-13
she looked BACK momentarlIy.

2AC 00ANa 0a1a 0AOhACAt1A 4
"He-he always follows people he
likes, you see"
THANK you," she said. The tone
had now a hint-small, yet percepti-
ble-of aloofness. I'm not in the least
afraid of dogs And with a little nod,
she swung briskly on up the Red Road.
John Valiant stood staring after her
till she had passed from view around
a curve. "Oh, gloryi" he muttered.
ITO begin by shaking your fist at her
and end by making her wonder If you
aren't trying to be freshl You poor,
profane, f%oundering dolti"
=
The girl walked on up the highway
with a lifting stride, now and then
laughing to herself, or running a few
steps, occasionally stopping by some
hedge to pull a leaf which she rubbed
against her cheek, smelling its keen
new scent, or stopping to gaze out
across the orange-green belts of sun
ny wind-dimpled fields, one hand push
ing back her mutinous hair from her
brow, the other shielding her eyes.
Farther on the highroad Topped around
a strip of young forest, and she struck
into this for a short cut. In the depth
she sat down to rest on the sum
splashed roots of a tree. Leaning back
against the scanned trunk, her felt hat
fallen to the ground. she looked like
some sea-woman emerging from an
earth-hued pool to comb her hair
against a dappled rock.
She drew back against the tree and
caught her breath as a bulldog frisked
over a messy boulder just in front of
her.
A moment more and she had thrown
herself on her knees with both arms
outstretched. "Oh, you splendid crea-
ture!" she cried, you big, lovely
white darling!"
The dog seemed In no way averse to
this sensational proceeding. He re-
sponded instantly not merely with tall
wagging, but with ecstatic grunts and
growls. Where did you come FROM"
she questioned, as his pink tongue
struggled desperately to find a cheek
through the whorl of coppery hair.
why you must be the n l was told
not to be afraid Of"
She petted and fondled the smooth
intelligent muzzle. LAS if any one
could be afraid of you'll Well set your
master right OF that point" Smiling
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-02-13
CHAPTER VI.
Mad Anthony.

Beyond the selyage Of the sleepy
ieaf-sheltered village a cherry Dor
dered lane met the Red Road. On its
beyond this an orchard, bounded by a
tall hedge of close-clipped box which
separated it from a broad yard where
the gray-weathered roof of Rosewood
showed above a group of tulip and
catalpa trees. On the sunny steps a
lop-eared puppy was playing with a
mottled cat.
The front door was open, showing a
hall where stood a grandfather's clock
and a spindle-legged table holding a
bowl of potpourri. The timepiece had
landed from a sailing vessel at James
town wharf with the household goods
of that English Garland who had
adopted the old Middle Plantation
when Dunmore was royal governor I'M
der George III. Framed portraits and
engravings lent tints of furnished sill
yer, old-rose and sunset-golds-colors
time-toned and reminiscent, carrying a
charming sense Of peaceful content, Of
g~entleness and long tradition. The
dark polished stairway had at its turn
a square dormer-window which looked
out upon one of the rose-arbors.
Down this stair, somewhat later that
afternoon, came Shirley cambridge,
booted and spurred, the rebellious
whorls of her russell hair now az close
ly flleted as a Greek boys, in a short
divided skirt of yew-green and a cool
white blouse and swinging by its rib
bon a green hat whose rolling brim
was caught up at one side by a crisp
bIue-b!ack hawks feather. She stopped
to peer out Of the dormer-window to
where. under the latticed Of
bloom beside a round iron table hold
ing a hoop of embroidery and a book
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-02-13
CHAPTER ~.
A Valiant of Virginia.

For a long time John Valiant sat
m~otionless, the opened letter in his
hand, staring at nothing. He had the
sensation, spiritually, of a traveller
awakened with a rude shock amid
wholly unfamiliar surroundings.
He was trying to remember-to put
two and two together. His father had
been Southern-born; yes, he had
known that. But he had known moth
ing whatever of his fathers early days,
or of his forebears; since he had been
old enough to wonder about such
things, he had had no one to ask
questions of.
Phrases of the letter. ran through
his mind: Sometime, perhaps, you
will know why you are John Valiant
of New York instead of John Valiant
of Damory Court . l cannot
tell you myself" There was some
tragedy, then, that had blighted the
place, some melancholy story" as the
clipping put it.
He bent over the deed spread out
upon the table, following with his fin
ger the long line of transfers: ITO
John Valyante,,' he muttered; what
odd spelling! Robert Valyant-with-
out the e. Here, in 1870, the " be-
gins to be T." There was something
strenuous and appealing in the long
line of dates. valiant. Always a Va
liant. How they held on to it, There's
never a break"
A curious pride, newborn and self
conscious, was dawning in him. He
was descended from ancestors who
had been no weaklings. A Valiant had
settled on those acres under a royal
governor, before the old frontier
fighting was over and the Indians
had sullenly retired to the westward.
The sons of those who had braved
sea and savages had bowed their
strong bodies and their stronger hearts
to raze the forests and turn the
primeval jungles into golden planta-
lions.
There stole into his mood an eery
suggestion of intention. Why should
the date assigned for that deeds de-
livery have been the very day on
which he had elected poverty? Here
was a foreordination as pointed as the
in%dex-tinger of a g~uide-post. Every
man carries his fate,'" he repeated,
"'on a riband about his neck Chum,
do you believe in fate?'
For answer the bulldog, cooking an
alert eye on his master, discontinued
his occupation-a conscientious If un-
successful mastication of the flattish
packet that had fallen from the folded
deed-and with much solicitous tail
wagging, brought the sodden thing in
his mouth and put it into the out
stretched hand.
His master unrolled the pulpy w.-d
and extricated the object it had en-
closed-an old-fashioned iron door-key.
. y =
After a time Valiant thrust the key
into his pocket, and rising, went to a
trunk that lay against the wall.
Searching in a portfolio, he took out
a small old-fashioned photograph,
much battered and soiled. 1t had been
cut from a larger group and the name
VI Iuo uotoSIdpner udu peeu eidseu
from the back. He set it upright on
the desk, and bending forward, looked
long at the face it disclosed. 1t was
the only picture he had ever possessed
of his father.
He turned and looked into the glass
above the dresser. The features were
the same. eyes, brow, lips, and strong
waving hair. But for it's time-stains.
the photograph might have been one
Of himself, taken yesterday.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-02-13
C9Ho
MLIANTSdWRGINA
% HALLH IRT1INn RIVIS pS sTS Sazar)
HrUSTRAITD 81 LAUREN STOUT
w1sning-House !

--wlsn1ng-tIouse! w1snIng-HouseI
Where are your
And this old parchment deed will
answer
Here I am, Master; here I ami
"Ah, we are only children. after all,
playing out our plays. I have had
many toys, but o John, John! The
ones l treasure most are all in the
Never-Never Land!"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-02-13

don't you canniball He's a jolly lit
tie beggar. and he doesn't deserve be
ing eateni"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-07
LIVE STOCK MARKET,

CHICAGO, Feb. Hogs - Receipts
$4,000. Market shade lower. Mixed and
butchers, S.40QS.70; good heavy, SS5S
8.55; ugh heavy. s.6OQS7O; light, Sax
$3.50. pigs, 6.909s.0O; bulk, S56QS.65,
Cattle--Receipts 200. Market steady.
Beeves. 6.75Q9.40; cows and heifers 3 *
QS.25; stockers and feeders, 6.0OG7 90,
Texans. 6.50@8.00; calves, S75Q1O9S
Sheep-Receipts 1000. Market steady.
Native and Western. s.5O9590 lambs lambs,
5.S5QS.00.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 7.-Cattle-Rece,p,s
$50, including 100 Southerns. Market
steady. Native beef steers, s7.50G9 rs:
cows and heifers, s4.25@8.50; stockers
and feedrs, s5,00Q7.50; calves, $1,000
11.75; Texas steers, s5.759S 90; cows and
heifers, s403@600.
Hogs-Receipts 5000, Market steady
g g lG goeG M5sa ana 9StsssFs @
heavy, ss.35@S.40; lights, sS60GST0;
pigs, s7.00@S 40; bulk, S. 609875.
Sheep-Receipts noe. Market steady
Muttons, s5.O065. so; yearlings, $500
7.15; lambs. s7.00@7.65.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-07
ATLANTA LIVE STOCK MAsk
tBy w. H. White, Jr., of the Whit 8.

VISION COD -
Cattle receipts were normal d,,u,-
the Week, with the market stead iLg
unchanged. There was a fair as and
ment in yards, with prospects a afSs 'aI
tlnueo moderate receipts Of rntye5 Gon-
lot stock for the next few weeks Ch leed
cattle continue scarce, with tbe ~Hpoice
grades selling at good prerninr, a oesv
other grades. over
Hogs are not so plentiful. With =,
pest grades selling at considersbIs =. ne
vance over a week ago. az
Ihe Following represents ruling nil.
OF good quality beef cattle. Intav les
grades and dairy types selling Iowsr!! lot
Good to choice steers, 1000 IN ,co
s625g6.60; good steers. 800 to .660 Il *
462S; medium to good steers. FAX S0 W
Good to choice beef COWS, 900 - IA.
90 2595.5o; medium to good cows, SO6 ~ ~
Good to choice heifers, 750 to AN uoo
45.o0; medium to good heifers AK f~v ~
$50, $450@5.00 0oV 10
Medium to COMMON steers, II fat ooo
to 300. s5.3505.75; mixed to cornr1 "%s
cows. If fat, 700 to 500, s466M5 Nn
mixed P1ii C. co Rn sa.26T4Oo good butcher
Prime hogs, 100 to 200, ss.boas A.
good butcher hogs. 140 to 80 II az
s. 40; good butcher pigs, 100 to l40' II X
!qS.25; light pigs, SO to 100, sT2SSTT'1isso,
heavy and rough hogs. 200 to 300 TSSC
Above quotations apply to corn.tsa
hogs; mast and peanrr fattened, 10 IN
112c under, u
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-07

dealers q Satisfactory ITdO6.
The local potato market is showing
decided weakness. Receipts are heavy
with only a moderate demand. Several
cal. loads were unloaded during the week
and retailed at S2,75 per bag, which con-
tains two and one-half bushels.
Mcmillan Seed Company report
heavy demand for all kinds Of garden
seeds, such as tomatoes, onions. turnips,
peas, early beans. early corn, hot bed
peppers, eggplant and Irish. potatoes.
plants an i is steady " About ZOO cabbage
plants are sold weekly. Friday E. 4.
farmers in the county. bought 1900 cab
bage plants. Orders were booked
several months ago for heavy shipment
of this plant to North Carolina, Florida
and Alabama as well as Georgia.
w. n. Galloher, of the above concern.
anticipates an early crop of Georgia
vegetables, on account of the warm
weather, whic hhas enabled the garden
er TO prepare his land several weeks
earlier than usual
Considerable weakness is characteriz-
ing the cabbage market, car lots selling
on range Of s1.756200 per crate. This
Thursdays quotation. Florida cabbage
has started TO arrive here in heavy lots.
The stock Is showing sound hard heads,
which usually at this time of the year
sells at good prices, but the warm
weather has promoted rapid maturing
OF the plant and the supply Is unsea-
sonably heavy.
z. F. Bell is some forecaster.
Yesterday he predicted rs cents for
eggs by Saturday, but his prediction
market was quoted at 27l cents
dozen, but slumped 2M cents to rs cents
Friday morning on continued large re-
ceipts with no increase in demand. Mr..
Bell. as well as other produce men, an
Some Of the more bold predict 20 cents
next week.
There is little life to the market for
lemons. Although offerings were rath--
er liberal, buyers did not take hold
and prices remained unchanged. The
demand for lines continues heavy, SELL
Ing at 81 per 100.
Receipts are liberal both in fruits and
vegetables, according to Fidelity Fruit
and Produce Company, and all are meet
ing with a ready demand, keeping the
market in good shape and prices firm.
Apples are moving well, mostly New
is short; dealers holding for higher
prices at shipping points.
Oranges are in limited supply and
meet with ready absorption at good
prices. However. dealers claim there
are plenty in Florida yet and are not
expected to show any advance soon.
Vegetable receipts of lettuce, pepper,
squash, caulifiower, tomatoes, eggplant,
snap beans and English peas are very
light, and they are being bought by the
local trade as fast as they arrive, but
price changes were of minor Importance.
White onions sold well, but red and yell
low were in less demand Beets and
carrots ruled firm. There was an &C
tive demand for celery. Fancy shailots
and leeks steady. peas scarce, firm and
higher. tomatoes show wide range IN
quality and selling value.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-07
COTTON GOSSIP

NEW YORK, Feb. 7-Gwathmey and
Parrot were the best sellers on the
cal, whcih was thought to have been
for McFadden.
schills free Offering was evidently
done with view OF depressing the list
further, then take on cotton, because
he sold very little.
The buying came from commission
houses and scattered short covering.
Sentiment continues against an ad-
vance.
No spot weakness here and advices
from Interior towns show spots well held
with only some hedged cotton selling on
future basis
Official weights for season average at
close Of January 52l73, against 525 93
pounds last year: Texas 586 %. against
b39 10, Louisiana SGT 80. against 525.s7:
Alabama 52736, against 533.77. Georgia
500 80, aga Inst 50s.33. South Carolina 497,
against 497; North Carolina 494, against
~ tennessee sse 10 527o2 against $3.50
Louis 500. against 5i1 pounds
The New Orleans Times Democrat
says. The cotton market seems to
have paused for further Information. af-
Ter decline OF some so points The
trade want to see whether receipts at
ports and interior towns are to continue
on the scale which has raised doubts
concerning the size Of the crop though
the census figures make II certain that
no decisive error can have occurred
Then, again. II is important to know
whether spinners tak.ngs are to fall off
or remain big enough to absorb the
remnant, on any reasonable theory Of
the yield. As regards spinners' takings,
II Is probable that comparisons will
henceforth be much less bearish than
they were yesterday, nor IL II likely that
the South will rush the remnant for
ward, Irrespective OF prices Stories from
the fields will soon begin to occupy the
rings and will exert an ever increasing
Influence on values.
There is already a good deal Of talk
about bad seed, and a prolonged spell
OF wet weather might bring tales OF de-
layed blowing. But these matters Will
keep for the immediate future. A
month hence the acreage may logically
be made bone OF contention BY that
time another million bales OF the old
crop will have passed the spindles. and
the stage will thus have been set for an
up-to- date version OF A Midsummer
Nights Dream >
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-07
bEAR|SH RUMORS
PUT N.y.C.LOWER
Sale Pressure Also Directed To-
ward Rock Island Issue-0ther
Changes Small.
BY CHARLES W. STORM.

NEW YORK, Feb. The action Of
Rock Island issues exerted an unset
tllng influence upon the speculative sit
uation at the opening OF the stock
market to-day Rock Island common,
which had closed Friday at s%, sold
down to in the first few minutes of
trading and the tone was weak. The
preferred. after opening at 1874 for a
loss Of q. made further decline. The
per cent bonds were heavy and under
pressure.
Most OF the important issues opened
lower, but strength was shown by some
OF the specialties.
Bearish rumors directed toward New
York Central caused a further decline
in that issue, the price going to 81 for
loss OF y.
Among the other declines were: United
Railways investment Y. Amalgamated
Copper Il. American Can y, Missouri
Pacific u, United States Rubber Is.
Third Avenue Traction h, Union Pa
Railway y. Reading ing 4, NqTsolk and nd
Hartford Il Mexican Petroleum u, Lee
high c Valley Eyo1b.T Kansss Gy
Goodrich q, General Motors y. Chesa
peake and Ohio X, California Petro-
feum II. American Cotton Oil H.
At the end OF half an hour a flrmer
tone prevailed. American Cotton OIL
made gain to 46, while General Mo
tors recovered and advanced. Canadian
Pacific responded to the strength IN Lon
don, advancing Y. Virginia Carolina
Chemical rose u. United States Steel
common began unchanged at 65b. The
curb was quiet
Americans in London were firm.
The market closed dull.
Government bonds unchanged. Other
bonds steady
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-07
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Feb Petroleum firm;
Turpentine easier, 491a 660.
Rosin steady; common, 4.40.
Wool flrmer; domestic fleece, 2252 92I:
pulled, secured basis, 34@50; Texas.
secured basis, 40952.
Hides quiet: native steers, 1871 OF;
branded steers, 16.
Coffee steady; options opened to 4
points higher; Rio, No. Z, on spot, 91z.
Rice steady; domestic. ordinary to
prime, 3A @5k.
Molasses steady; New Orleans open
kettle, 35Q55
Sugar. raw, quiet; centrifugal, 3.4S;
muscovado, 29S; rnolasses sugar, 2T3
Sugar. refined, dull; fine granulated,
4.000i0.00; cuot loaf, sos; crushed, 455 !;
Mold A, 40; cubes. 4S0@4S5 pow
dered, 4.15Q4.20; Diamond A. 40; con-
fectioners' A, 3.eo@4 400; softs, No. /,
3.sOQa.s5. ono. ais s points lower than
No /, and Nos. 8 to n are each points
lower than the preceding grade.)
Potatoes weak; white nearby, 2f26
AIS; sweets, 1.5o92Go
Beans dull; Marrow, choice. 4656 $40:
pea, choice. 525@360; red kidney,
choice, 4.95@5.06.
Dried fruits steady; apricots. choice
prime to fancy, 81 old; prunes, s1s to
Sos, sA OH; COS to zoos, 51l 9s%; peach
es. choice to fancy, SOS; seeded rafsfYfs,
choice to fancy. 697.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-07
HAYWARD & cGARK's
DAILY COTTON LETTER

NEW ORLEA Ms. Feb. while spot
prices in Liverpool advanced 3 points
with sales Of 5000 bales. futures did not
follow the rolly IN our markets yester-
day afternoon. This difference in the
tendency between the markets, which
could be seen for the past three days, is
fully explained by the liquidation Of
strsddle engagements Now that We are
approaching the period for a more rap
Id decrease in stocks on our side,
shriukaEe in the movement and other
bullish statistical developments which
may prove an incentive for bull specula-
ton. there is probably more disposi-
ton to reduce short interest of any kind
in our markets.
The liquidation Of these straddle com
while IN progress-is Of
course. against the markets. and we
must be prepared for further easiness in
Liverpool for a while
There was no further news about the
rumored short time in certain English
spinning district, which is thought to
be due rather TO local conditions there
than TO the general trade situation,
which. according to all advices, is sat
isfactory.
The official weight statement shows
the average weight for the belt at the
close Of January of sci 10 pounds
our market to-day was perfectly logical
and requires no special elucidation. Sell
ing on the lower Liverpool caused de-
cline to IL 3s for May, The selling was
taken by straddle shorts. which caused
the market 10 steady in the second
hour, but the purchases will be used to
liquidate straddle long interest in Liv-
erpool on Monday. and a disappointing
market there will not be at ali surpris-
ing The present markets are plain
reading for the initiated. and indicate
decidedly bullish anticipations and prep
Rrations for the future. There Is no
spot weakness here and interior reports
show cotton well held, with only scat
tered lots or hedged cotton meeting the
drop in futures. The resting attitude OF
spot holders is both encoura ging and OF
particular Importance at the moment
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-07
FUTURES SHOW
SLIGHT DECLINE
March Held Rather Steady by
Short Covering-Big Spot
House Cuts Long Lines,

NEW YORK, Feb. 7.-Buying Of
March by commission and wire houses
was the chief feature OF the cotton mar
ket at the opening to-day. However
first prices were 3 10 points lower
than Fridays close, but this was bet
Ter than had been expected in the face
y the Liverpool cables, which were
weak. Shorts took advantage Of the
low levels and covered This. however,
failed TO stimulate prices 10 any extent
and the best the market could do was to
hold steady for brief breathing spell
Then the lis, responded to general sell
ing. led by some brokers closely identi-
fed with spot interests on the break,
May touched l1Ts and July 1885, but
March displayed a rather firm under
tone, declining only points from the
opening
The buying Of March was conservative
and confined principally to covering OF
short lines by professional traders
At the close the market was steady,
with prices at a net decline Of TO S
points from the final quotations of Fri
nay
Estimated cotton receipts:
Monday. 1919.
New Orleans 5000 to 5000 2.7l1
Galveston 1880 to 1880 1866
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-07
RANCE IN NEW oRLEAN. Furuess
Closed steady.
SPOT COTTON MARKET

Atlanta, nominal; middllng 1sc.
Athens, steady; middling 1917
Macon. steady; middling 13M.
New Orleans, steady; middling
IL 11-fe.
New York, quiet. middling 1855.
Philadelphia. easy: middling 1890.
Boston, quiet; middling 1855.
Liverpool, easier: middling 699d.
Savannah. steady; middling 1874.
Augusta, steady; middling 1871
Charleston. steady; middling 1871.
Norfolk. quiet; middling l2A.
Galveston. steady middiing 1874.
Mobile, steady; middling IL 7-Is.
Little Rock quiet: middling 13c.
Baltimore, nominal; middliug 12&.
ST. Louis. quiet; middling 1874.
Memphis steady; middling 1914.
Houston. quiet. middling 12&.
Louisville, Arm: middling 12M.
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET.