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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
Kitchener Is Remorseless

kitcheners merit Is for organization rather than for battle. He is not a great warrior, but. like Carnot or Moltke, q great organizer of victory, says the Wash ington Post.
 Some men say that he Is cruel. But he Is only cruel in the sense that he Is en- gagged in cruel game which has no place for the humanities. You cannot af- ford to have kind heart whom you go out to kill men. He believes in Lord Fishers Three R's of War"-ruthless, relentless, remorseless. Roberts, failure after Paardeberg was due to his horror at tho sacrifice of life, and his determina- ton to wait for surrender rather than shed more blood.
 kitchener's message to poor Hannay of Paardeberg had the same quality of ruth lessness that Stonewall Jackson displayed when one of his officers pointed out that 8 certain instruction meant the total an- initiation Of his mon. and he replied. "Colonel, l always make 1t a rule to at- tend to my wounded and bury my dead. You have heard the instructions Go.'s With Grant at the Bloody Angle he would have lit another cigar and poured more men into that pit of carnage. If he could not have beaten Lee by generalship he would have beaten him as Grant beat him, by sheer destruction of life.
 He Is not cruel, but he is without conn passion. He keeps his eye on the end and steels his heart against the tugs of pity. To him soldering is<not a profession: 1t is religion. Solitary, without homo ties. living his life in strange lands, he vea rs himself the hair shirt not of the mystic. but of the martinet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
FIRST REAL SHOW
 OF STRENGTH MADE Active Months 10 to 12 Points Up-Shorts Cover
 In Volume

New Orleans, November a.-Cotton to- day made It's first real show of strength since the future market was reopened. With the census returns on ginning unex- pectedly heavy and pointing to a record crop. the market opened at the advance and kept rising until the active months were 10 to 12 points up. Shorts were confused and covered in volume.
 The real reason for the advance ap- peared to be the operations of large inter- ests which control the long end of con tracts. According to the gossip of the floor these interests have during the last day or so been exerting pressure on the short side with the result that Liverpool holders of American short contracts have commenced to get uneasy. Private cable messages from the English market this morning stated that these shorts were covering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
Mexican Rebel Leaders

Newspaper correspondents and oth- CTS who have recently heen upon the scene of tho fighting Tn Mexico say that in this country there has been an overemphasis of the importance of vil- Ia, says the Review of Reviews. He is man of great energy. undoubtedly of considerable executive ability, and of unusual military skill. He is, more over. spectacular and picturesque. and is Just the sort of leader to get on the front pages of the newspapers. There are. however, other constitution alist leaders. both civil and military, of a very high type, much higher than Villa. With the exception of the lat ter. these leaders are men of educa- tion. Carranza himself was governor of coahilla under the Madero regime He Is surrounded by other men Of his own high standing and education Prominent among these, we are told. are Gen. Filipe Angeles. assistant sec retary of war and chief of artillery. . man of high character and noted as a friend of the United States and Gen Alvaro Ohregon. who has had as un< broken series of successes as Villa. and Is a statesman as well as a mill itary leader The victor of Monterey also n man of promise and there arc many others-not forgetting the doughty Zapata, who, though by report bandit, has evinced n good deal of military capacity. and has been en- deavoring to adjust the land question in the territory he has made his own Guadalaiara and other large towns in the south and southwest were be- sieged hy General Ohregon and other constitntionalist leaders and by the middle of last month. seemed to ba tot tering to their fall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
Carries Satchel of Germs

Fro mthe Chicago Tribune
 pr. simon Flexner. of the Rockefeller institute, left for New York tonight with suit case filled with germs of the foot and mouth disease in six large tubes.
 T would like to find" he said. some small animal to whom could convey the infection and then watch developments. "
 On top Of instructions from Washing ton to Dr. s. E. Bennett. in charge of the federal inspectors here, to kill only in- fected animals in herds, there came an- other order today continuing the inspectors to the use of only s2oo herd. The veter- inarians thus are permitted to kill cattle whose approxicate value is this amount This limits them to two or three cows to the herd. To exceed this number the in spectors must seek special dispensaton from Washington.
 A. C. Leonard. president of the Union Stock Yards. said:
 Such an order will nperil the entire live stock industry. There Is no reason why the government cannot eompensa te the farmers. It is necessary to rid the country of this dsea se.'
 Owners of the st.o0o0Oo herd of infected rrize cattle have appealed to the Illinois
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
RECORDS BROKEN IN COTTON G|NNED
No Material Selling Pres sure Brought to Bear
 Against N. Y. Market

New York, November 21,--The cen- sus bureau report today broke all rec ords both In the amount of cotton gin- ned for the first tJo weeks of Novem- Der and in the total for the season up to November IA. It had been quite generally anticipated in local trade cir cies that the ginnirg would be slightly In excess of 11,o00.000 bales, but few had looked for such large showing as 11,624.70S bales, against 1o.444.52o last year and 11,313,2s6 in the big crop year of 1911 There has now been another week of ginning operations added to this total, while up ts the close of bust ness last night only 4.o6S,714 bales had been brought into sight. but neither this evidence of an unprecedentedly big supply already available in the south nor the strengthening of maxi mum crop estimates appeared to brins any material selling pressure against the local market.
 The opening was steady at an ad- vance of 1 point to decline of 1 point and the market advanced sharply dur ing the early trading on renewed GOV ering by December shorts who found very few sellers around the ring unti the price had worked up to TAO or 2l points net higher, and 55 points above the 10 wlevel of Wednesday. Later de liveries. meanwhile. were evidently in 1uenced by the strength of the near DO. sition with January selling 21 points and the spring and summea months some Il to 13 points above yesterday's closing.
 At tho highest of the morning prices were within 15 points of the levels al which the market reopened Monday The close was at net gain for the day of l to points. offerings inereas- ing during the last few minutes of trad ing with the result that the advance was pared down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
II: exports. n.sss; sales. 100; stock. .lA.-

If: exports. 14.sss; sales. 100; stock, 4lA- $50
 Charleston: Middllns, 7Hc: receipts S7o5: exports. 100: stock. s2.755.
 Wilmlngton: Middling. T,sc; receipts 1142; stock, Sf,725.
 Texas City. Receipts. 1851.
 Norfolk: Middlng. 5-16c: receipts. &eii sales, 129s; stock, 4S,2l6.
 Baltimore: NJ ddling. Ike; stock. 464S Boston: Middling, 7.6oc; receipts, l5o stock, S0.100.
 Philadelphia: Middling Sc; receipts, lo exports, 490: stock. 59S7
 New York: Middllng, 7.75c; stock, 75,i5e Minor ports: Receipts, 16S2; exports, 12,' 566: stock. s6, ,ss9.
 Total today: Receipts. 52. .42s: exports Se.S49; stock, l,i14374.
 Total for week.- Receipts, b2.i2S; ex' ports, 8, 34a.
 Total for season: Receipts, s,444.s4i; ex- boris 1.O50 90e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
What s. 0. s. Me,ns

From the Ocean Wireless News.
 In talking with the wireless operator many ship passengers ask the meaning of the three letters used in the distress signal, IS. o. S." There seems to be Q general opinion that the letters are the abbrevation of three separate words with a definite meaning. Persons of an imaginative trend will tell you that the letters stand for save our ship" "send out succor," "sink or swim or some such meaning. The letters signify nothing but that ship Is in distress N'-@ Tn need of assistance. The call is used by all nations as universal code, so that any wireless operator, regard
 sss of the language he speaks. can inn mediately intercept the call of distress. In"smnch as the call Is in use by all countries, it can be seen that the sigr al
 u, meaning in any language. The character of the code makes it call that can be picked out easily from other signals, being composed of three dotG thras dnshes, three dotA.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22

very large ginning report brought selling orders from the south, which checked the improvement due to the buying of the De- eember shorts. who could not be tempted te cover earlier in the week. The feeling in the trade Is undoubtedly bearish; one hears on all sides that there Is nothing in the immediate situation to cause an ad- vance, and that idea seems to prevail in the south. judging from the selling orders coming to hand. Against these views and actions there Is only slow investment demand. principally from the north, which seems to absorb the offerings on all de- elines. Their ideas are based on an ex- treme long range view of the outlook so they pay little attention to ginning returns, buying apparently on tho belief that a surplus of 5.0oo.o00 bales will have to be carried over anyhow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
Thackeray's Puns

E. Chosby Heath has invited attention to the cleverness of Thackeray's puns,
 with particular reference to his great faculty for choosing names suitable to h,s characters. says the Washington Star. It appears that the novelist had a unique gift for coining or choosing names that convey whimsical idea without actually expressing it by a definite pun, an extraordinary talent for hitting upon names that appear natural and artless with them as a juggler losses balls in the air.
 There is Miss Billing, to take an ex- ample at random, who Is referred to quite casually as having tried to win Colonel Newcome's affections with her | music. We imagine the cooing at once, embodied In her songs. There are the Misses Levison. daughters of q professor of dancing, mentioned only en passant, but bringing to mind a thought of the levitating qualities of their fathers art. Professor Quartz and Baron Hammer stein, the celebrated German geologists- one may say these are too transparent. Perhaps they are, but is not their Brit sh confrere, Sir Robert Craxton, deliciously unexpected continuation of the pun? The subject of dancing, by the way was rot exhausted by the Levisons. for, 1t will be remembered, Walsingham Hely was "a most amiable, agile and excellent partner" and made Charlotte Baynes very happy at a ball.
 Thackeray never openly ridicules his characters by the.r names; the pun is always sub rosa, as it were The cring- ing chaplain is Tufton Hunt, not Tuft-
 hunter. as Trollope would have called
 him; a couple of heavy drinkers, those
 friends of Dr. F1rmn who proposed Philip
 at the Megatherium club, are yelled as
 Lord Bottley and Baron Mumpsher. Ob-
 serve the delicate hint conveyed in the
 fuddled last syllable of the baron's name. One is not surprised that Frank Berry married Angelica Catacomb. Whichever
 name was first conceived made the other inevitable, but it is rather we'll done to call Angelica's father Sir George Cata- comb, apothecary to his late majesty George III. He naturally buried his royal patient This way of carrying pun to quite unlooked-for and hilarious fin ish is distinctly Thackerayan. Bob Gull lender. for instance, is unobtrusive; his country, place, Sievely Hall, is amusing. and the further information that he iran through seven thousand a year before he was 30 years od' is q consistent cli- max in Bobs case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
Clearing House Statement

New York, November 21.-The state ment of the average condition of clear Ing house banks and trust companies for the week shows that they hold sl76,SS0.540 reserve in excess of legal requirements. This is due to the new federal reserve banking law. The bank statement follows=Average condition: Loans. etc, s2,146.1S9.0O0. Reserve in own vaults, s35o. .462,000. Reserve in federal reserve bank, $96.060,O00. Re- serve in other Repositories, $64,424, ,000 Net demand deposits, .s91, 1,932,000. Cir culation, s92,652.00o. Aggregate re- serve. $510, ,946,000. Excess reserve, f17G,S30,540. Summary of state banks and trust companies in Greater New York not included in clearing house statement: Loans etc, s561.1 il, 100; in- crease, S732,60Q.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
Dry Goods Market

New York, November 21.-Condltions in the cotton cloth markets are becoming more settled. but there is still sub-nor- mal volume of business going on Duck mills are more active than they were two months ago and they are being helped by the volume of export business on duck for war purposes. Print cloths and con- vertibles are quiet with prices holding barely steady. Brown sheetings for the manufacturing and jobbing trades have been bought In slightly increased quanti- ties. but at prices that are considered too low by many mills that refuse to trade.
 Prints. ginghams and many other col ored cottons are stlll being sold In a very careful way and subject to receipts of dyestuffs or the ability of mills to fur nish the particular colors required. Some dyestuffs have come to hand and others are being supplied to take the place of cer- tain patented dyestuffs have been used, but as general proposition the colored goods mills are not trading freely and cannot do so until permanent relief to the dye shortage Is provided
 Fine and fancy cottons are being or dered sparingly and prices on many of them are easier. Cooler weather has helped the demand for underwear and hosiery, as wel~as blankets.
 Prices are nominal. and are quoted as follows: Print cloths, 2S-inoh 64x64s, Sc: 64x60s. 2%c; sslS-inch 64x64s 4c; brown sheetings, southern standards. 6s4d7c; denims, oz., 1Si!c; ticlSIngs. oz., 1Sc; standard prints, 5lsc; staple ginghams. 6Ac dress ginghams. 9Ac.
 Hubbard Bros.'s Letter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
Live Stock Market

Chicago, November 21.--Hogs: Receipts, 1000; market unsettled. Bulk. T25G7.5e; light, s6.90@7.50;' mixed s7.15d7.s0; heavy, FaM760; rough, $7I15; pigs, s4.5od675.
 Cattle: Receipts. 2000: market steady. Reeves, s575@1050: steers, $5.40619; COWS and heifers. $se0@9.2o: calves. ss50a11.5o.
 Sheep: Receipts, 1000 market weak. Sheep, $5.4oG6; yearlings, s625Ql7. 60; lambs, s6.50d9.
 St. Louis. November 21.-Hogs: Receipts. 1000; market lower. Pigs and lights, $6. 9 D7.40; good heavy. $7.3017.50.
 Cattle: Receipts, HOO; market steady. Native steers, s75oQ1o75; COWS and heifers. s5@925.
 Sheep: Receipts, none; market steady. . Native muttons, 5.50T6 25; lambs, $S@9 Kansas City, November 21.-Hogs: Re- reipts, 5000; market higher. Bulk, q 7om Fs5; heavy. s7.75d7so: light, s7.6597 90; pigs. 6.750D7.5o.
 Catti~. Receipts, 500: market steady. Prime fed steers. s10d10S5; dressed beef steers,v s77569 75 southern steers, s5.5oa r.5o; cows, s4.50d7: heifers. $6 25Ns. .25.
 Sheep: Receipts. none; market steady. Lambs, $1 5e19.10; yearlines. SC. .5O67 5o. vethers, $5.75q6.50; ewes. $5Q5.T.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
Hubbard Bros. N Co.

.:oston Merchnnts, HaH0yer Sgnsre. N New Orleans Cotton Exchange. New York Produce Exchange. Associate
 fembers Liverpool Cotton Association. Orders solicited for the purchase and
 a.e of Cotton and Cotton Seed Oil for
 uture delivery. Special attention and
 pot cotton. for delivery. Cosrespond-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22

spot coffee was quiet and steady with Rio 7's quoted at 61l and Santos As at 10c. Sales of 3250 bags were reported through the liquidating committee. with December quoted at 5.S2Q5 40c; March, 571@5.7 79c; May, 5.s1@5 s9c; July. s716s.sOc There were coptinued reports that Europe was buying coffee for shipment from New York and European shipments from Brazil are now said to be running about one-half normal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
Produce Market

Chicago, November 21.-Butter lower; creamery. 2iasl15c. Eggs unchanged; re- ceipts, Sos5. Potatoes unchanged; re- ceipts, 20 Poultry. live higher; springs, 12c; fowls, lie; turkeys, 1Sc
 New York, November 2l-Butter steady and unchanged receipts. 2S1s Cheese steady and unchanged; receipts, 10o4 Eggs steady and unchanged; receipts, 540a, Live poultry dun and weak; western chickens. 1f12@2619c fowls, 13G15c; turkeys, 1s1l9c; dressed poultry firm western roasting chickens. 1Sa2ol9c; fresh fowls, 1Sd1s1ac; frozen turkeys lSd22c.
 Kansas City, November 21--Butter, eggs and poultry unchanged
 Elefn, H.. November 21.-Butter 32c
 St. Louis, November 21.-Butter and poultry unchanged Eggs, 81hc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
Interior Cotton Movement

Houston: Middling, l1-16c; receipts, 10, IA; shipments, 1s,oSl: sales, s769; stock, 140, ,74i.
 Memphis Middling, sAc; receipts, Ioel; shipments, 5S27; sales s100: stock, 22a.l17.
 Augusta. Middling. Ti4o: receipts, So0e; shipments, 1946; sales, 694: stock, 146.SlO
 St. Louis: Middling. Tsse; receipts, 2022 shipments, 2oo5; stock. 2s.6s4. Cincinnati: Receipts, 6Si; shipments, s22 stock, 40o3. Little Rock: Middling, sac: receipts li50; shipments. 1240; stock, 4o,62o. Dallas: Middling, 7tsc: sales, sl61. Total today: Receipts, ss,oo7; shipments g. .5o1: stock. se0. 4SS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
ARGENTINA WHEAT REDUCES PRICES Chance That Harvest Might Be More Bearish Than
 Expected the Cause

Chicago, November 21.-Chanees that the wheat harvest in Argentina might turn out more bearish than had been expected. served as ground today to pull down quotations here. Tho market, although steady at the close was E cent under last night. Corn lost Ac to szd5sc net; oats finished lsc to 1s9slc up and provi- sions unchanged to 12ls9l5c down.
 Attention of wheat traders centered on conditions in Argentina. Early advices that quotations at Rosario and Buenos Aires had suffered a sharp break on bet ter weather reports led to q decline ir the market here, but the effect was mod erated by later dispatches that the amount and quality of the Argentine yield might yet prove to be relatively small.
 Large offerings from Iowa, Nebrasks and South Dakota had a depressing influ- ence on corn. Fine weather counted also against the bulls. Active buying by ex. porters made oats firm despite the weak ness of other grain.
 Assertions that the embargo on hog shipments from Iowa might be removed on Monday eased provisions.
 Future quotations were as follows
 Wheat Open High Low Close
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
A Wrestling Match

From the Kansas City Star.
 At cafe in this town one of the pat rons was much annoyed by the vulgar manner in which his neighbor at the table ate. He tried to take no notice of the offending one, but after watching him pick bone in an extremely primitive fashion he could not control his feelings any longer, and, leaning over. said:
 Pardon me. but don't you think you'd be more comfortable if you took that bono out on the mat?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
San Antonio Meet

Riders from all over the United States will bc asked to participate in the big mo- torcycle meet which is to be pulled off by the San Antonio Motorcycle club.
 About 76 members of the club were pres ent at an enthusiastic meeting to make arrangements for the event, which will probably be held the latter part of No- vembcr. number Of contests both for singles and twin machines will be staged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
Montgomery Market

Montgomery, November 2f.-(Speeial) ) Spot cotton quoted here today as follows: Good middling, 7sse: strict middling. 1se. niiddling. 67sc; strict low middling, 6lsc; low middlng. 57se. Market steady.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22

live stock commission for permission to remove the cattle to a farm in the eoun- try. They hold that exercise and air would assist In cure. The commission Is said to he favorable. but the federal in- spectcrs oppose the plan. The commis- sion has the police powers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
Coffee Market

New York, November 21.-While today's tables reported decline of isd in the rate If Rio exchange on London and the San los market was 100 reis lower. no in- creased cost and freight offerings were reported here and the local market for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
Once and Only Once

FToIn IOnuOn Opinion.
 t7ndine-They feed us jolly well at Nut view. don't you think? We never have the same dish twice.
 Pereivnl-That's Just what thinks so rottenl could always do n second "go"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
New Orleans Rice

New Orleans, November o1.-The strong tone continued on rice today. Rough Honduras, 2.6O@4c; Japan 2.50df3 soc; clean Honduras and Japan unchanged. Polished md bran unchanged. Receipts, rough 6123; miller 55s1; clean, 2254. Sales, 4e7 sacks rough Honduras 3.50d4c; 26 sacks Japan at 3.S5c S199 pockets clean Hon duras at 2ss@5t; 2565 pockets Japan at B1sn35sc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
Port Cotton Movement

New Orleans: Middling, 7ssc; receipts, 1923: exports, 3527; sales. 1125; stock, 1ee, 5so
 Mobile: M'ddlins, 7ssc receipts 645; sales, 150; stock. 341SS.
 Savannah Middling, 7lsc; receipts, S324; exports 1900; sales, 2565; stock, 166, 147.
 Galveston; Middling, TAG; receipts, 24-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
FIour and Breadstuffs

Seif-ris n, flour. $6.25 Tennessee flour. s5.70; Michigan -four, $6.S5; Idaho flour, s5.95; Indiana flour. 36; spring wheat fcur. s6. 70; hard winter wheat flour, S5. 1e shorts, S32: pure wheat bran $2S; c. S. meal. 71s per cent. $25; Cremo meal. Der ton, $22; c. s. hulls, $s ton; No. timothy hay. per tor. s24; mixed alfalfa and Jchn- son grass. per ton. sl9: pea green alft fla. western. $2o; mixed feed, per ton. $S4; oats. per bushel. Csc; corn, per bushel, 8Sc; cornmeal, $1.75 per 96 pounds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
Cotton Seed OH

New York, November 2.-The cotton ,eed oil market was active and firmer with more confident buying owing to evi-. itnces of improvement in the consuming demand both for domestic use and for ,xport but the forward months reacted iharply near the close under aggressive ieling by refiners. Final prices were 15 joints higher to net lower. Sales, 21,- na barrels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
Chicago Grain

Chicago, November 2I.--Wheat, No. red, $1,159115fs; No. 2 hard, s115Qp1. .15ss Corn, No. ? yellow, new, 66%c. Oats standard. 50%@51c. Rye, No. 2, S1.061a@ LOT. Barley, 61aS0c. Timothy, s375d5. 25 Clover, s106l4. Pork, Sl75O. Lard, s1O.52 Ribs, So 75@f0.75.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
> Mercantile Paper

New York, November 21.-Closing: Mer- camille paper, 5G51a per cent; sterling ex- change steady; 60-day bills, %.s5.25; for cables, $4.sS.S5; for demand, s4 4.sS %. Bar silver, 49c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
Naval Stores

Savannah. November a1.--rurpentius firm. 44%c; no sales; receiuts. 2s4: shipments. 2os; stocks, s2,ss5. Rosin firm; sales, 132: receipts. 1907; ship ments, 174 stocks. 121.2s5. Quote: A, B. c. D, E, F, ss.45; c. Ss50; H, Ss55; IT. $s.70: K. $4.15: M. -$L75; N, s5.45;. VIC. $5.70; wv, $5.95.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-22
St. Louis Grain

St. Louis, November al.Wheat, No. 2 red, s1.12G1.131s; No. hard. s1.1Sq114. Corn, No. 2. 65c; No. 2 white. 611sQ67c. Oats, No. 2, 47lya4sc; No. 9 white, 5oc.
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Hides and TallaM

Green salt hides. 14G15c; green salt (fresh). 12d1sc; dry flint hides. 2eQ27c. dry salt hides. 24a25c; damaged hides. half price: sheep skins. 25Q60c, horse hides. $2g3 sherlings. 15G25c; goat skins, s0q35c; kid skins, 1oc: tallow, 5Ql6c: bees wax, PIC 2Sc; washed wool, 25@27c; clear uuwashed wool. 17@ 200; burry wool, 1nqt12c; ginseng, A.0O16.O0.