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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
ST|FFER TONE ON
 TALK OF PEACE
New Orleans Close Is Seven to Nine Points Above
 Fridays

New Orleans, May H-After an early decline today the cotton market stiff fened on peace talk and rose to a level to g points above yesterdays final prices and closed at a net advance of 5 to points. It was a typical week. end session, with trading sma'i and the ma jority of traders inclined 10 even up. The only period of activity was toward the close, following the rumored predic- tion of early European peace by a prominent American official abroad.
 Around the opening the market was heavy under the influence of a lower Liverpool than due and what most traders called genuine perfect weather over the cotton country. Early prices were at a decline of to points and the loss was widened to to 7 points by the forecast of fair weather for practi- cally the entire cotton region.
 The large mill takings for the week, 900 bales of American, against 900 this week last year, caused considerable comment, but led to a little buying. A somewhat steadier feeling was noted in the spot department and the market off cally was quoted unchanged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Cotton
 Size of Crop the Pivotal Point

The decline in cotton is attrib- utable to two causes-rains over most of the belt and elimination to a considerable extent of the short interest, leaving the market to tAn influence of demand and crop pros poets.
 Conditions generally seem favor able to the maintenance of approx imately present prices. The mar ket, however, will be very sensitive from this time on to crop reports, as the pivotal point is whether the growing crop will be in excess of last years.
 It is noteworthy that many own CTS of cotton, some of whom have held since 1914, have taken advan-
 tage of recent advances and sold at
 profit. 1 The facilities of this company en- able owners of cotton to carry it conveniently and e o n m a lily
 | through declines and to sell prompt
 | Iy on advances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
New Use of Electricity

From the Ohio State Journal.
 Everybody knows of the feline chorus of the back fence. It is a performance that makes the night hideous. There is no more excruciating music than comes from a cat concert at midnight. There have been many ways to get rid of it and to break up the shrieking duet. In former times, there was a way of stilling the orchestra, and that was by throwing the bootjack at the warblers, but alas, the bootjack has departed with the fathers, and there are no bootjacks in all the land. not even for tne boots, let alone the cats, except one we have sent us by charming lady, which we hold in more esteem than all the relics of Priam's palace, in which remark we em- brace both the lady and the bootjack But that is straying from our topic which is to refer to the modern. scien- tific method for interfering with the cat duet on the back fence We have il from the Popular Science Monthly, SC it is no trifling with serious matter Lav a wire along the top of the back | fence, and connect it with brass strips which thrill cat to the backbone when ! it gets on one They never get on but I once. and then go and tell the other cats to avoid that fence, which they
 do. because there are p'enty of othei
 places beside the back fence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
WEATHER REPORTS
 SEND WHEAT DOWN
Bushes to Sell Begin as Soon as Market Opens-Peace
 Talk a Factor

Chicago, May 27.-Rains in Oklahoma
 and Kansas. turned prices of wheat to- day swiftly down grade. The close, all
 though unsettled, was 23s to 25sq2s4 net lower with July at $1.O91s and September
 at s1.10A. Corn lost 7s to 11ac and oats
 1das to 11ac. In provisions the outcome varied from 1Oc decline to a rise of 15c.
 Bushes to sell wheat began as soon as the market opened. For a while, how ever some leading concerns took the position that at least in Oklahoma the
 rains were apparently not heavy enough to give more than a slight measure of
 Later information, nevertheless. showed 1 that more moisture had been supplied than was indicated by first reports. The consequence was greater impetus to the l downward swing of the market espe- cially in the last hour of the session. | Announcements that 500O00 bushels of wheat to come to Chicago had been pur- chased in Omaha tended further to em- phasze the weakness here.
 1 Peace talk was said by some author Iities to have operated as factor today | on the bear side in wheat. How far, if at all, this was true seemed to be | largely guess work. On the other hand, l there seemed to be little or no doubt | that for the time being the export call | for the United States had been reduced
 to minimum. The total sales to Flu
 rope today were estimated at 25O.o09 bush els, almost wholly from Manitoba.
 1 Corn weakened with wheat and as a | result of the rains in the southwest Sales of S0.000 bushels to exporters helped somewhat to check the decline. Oats | gave way, owing to breaks in the value ! of other grain. The most active selling was in the May delivery and came | chiefly from the recent bull leader.
 l Packers buying of lard and ribs | tended to rally the provisions market 1 after quotations had suffered an early setback. The temporary weakness ap-
 peared to be due in the main to fall | ing off in provisions shipments as com pared with last weeks total.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
What Farmers Wife Must Do

In the June Woman'S Home Compan- ion is an article by farmers wife who resents the pity that Is bestowed upon farmers wives throughout the United States. In it she says: T don't pretend to say that I think farm life is easy. Farm life means hard work for the man and hard work for the woman.
 "Of course. she's got her house to take care of. and three meals day to cook, put on the table and clear up aft CT. You don't telephone to the butcher and the green grocer for your supplies. You kill and dress your chicken your. self. or you go out to the smokehouse and take a ham off the hook and cut a slice off with your own hands. If it's winter, the vegetables must be brought from own-cellar. If it's summer they must be brought right out of the field. If you want sweet corn, you go down to the sweet corn patch, pull all you need, bring it up alongside the COW pound, husk 1t. throw the husks over into the pound, then carry your baske ct of corn up to the kitchen. where it must be silked before it's ready for the kettle. And if you want potatoes, very likely you've got to get a hoe and go down to the patch and dig them. To- matoes have got to be picked, and so have lima beans and string beans and okra and egg plant. and any other gar dan sass that figures on your menu. And it's just the same way with fruit.
 Besides the meal getting, there's the washing. both ironing and sewing and cleaning, both inside the house and out this last, for the most of us like to brush up the yard around the house once or twice week, and in the fall the leaves must be raked and carried off Maybe the men folks will find time to cut the grass-and then again, may be they won't. Don't count on 1t.
 And then there's the milking. We have five cows, and many a time it's who milk them night and morning. be- cause we can't get hired man who will. Once the milk's in the bucket. it's got to be taken care of and if there is anything that has to be surgically clean it is the pans and crooks and buckets and strainers and churn,'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
WEEKEND SESSION
 IN STOCKS HEAVY
Emphatic Language Used to Allies Is Excuse for
 Sluggish Market

New York May 27.-The emphatic lan- guage employed by the state department in it's protest over mail seizures to Great Britain and France afforded an excuse, If not an actual reason for the heavness of the weekend session on the ex- change, 9
 Important rails broke to 2lA points, war issues and affiliated shares, includ- ing motors and metals, were lower by to almost , points, with substantial re- sessions in Mexicans Mercantile Ma rne, Unite Fruit and miscellaneous de- sofiptions.
 Reading not, only effaced all It's 10- point advance of the early week, but at the minimum of 1Ooas showed a net less for, that period of almost 3 points. Of all the old-time fayortes and specu- lative leaders United States Steel was the only issue to maintain some sem blances of steadiness, yielding only fraction.
 General news advices were of a more conservative tenor, including the reports of the Mercantile agencies, which indi- cated a reaction from the recent high pressure in many lines of industry. Ca bles from neutral sources, reiterating ru- mors of early peace, and the detailsd " April trade reports of imports and ex- ports constituted the other market fac tors. Total sales of stocks amounted to 2l500C shares.
 For the sixth consecutive week the clearing house statement disclosed fur ther contraction of reserves. this weeks decrease of virtually $12,000O00 drawing the total actual excess reserves down to about s65,00O,00G. This compares with a !, total of s126,000,000 the latter part of March, $145,00OC00 the first week of the year and s220,o0O,000 the middle of last September. This weeks statement also showed loan expansion of almost $23,- 0o0,00O and a cash loss of approximately s1o,000,000. These wide changes reflected recent syndicate operations connected with new financing.
 7 Today's bond market was irregular on nominal dealings with total sales, par value, of $1,710.0O0.
 ,s The general trend of government issues during the week was lower, declines on cali extending from A to A of 1 per cent but with little actual trading
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
A Whipping Machine

From the Popular Science MonthfS.
 It is considered beneficial to be whipped or spanked" provided it is, done mechanically. In the mechano- therapy departments of up-to-date in- stitutions the whipping post" a me chanical device for therapeutic padding, is an accredited healing machine. You are whipped by straps of heavy cloth or leather attached to two rapidly revolving posts. When you take the treatment you step backward into the flying whips and receive their blows upon your legs, back, abdomen or chest. depending upon the malady from which you are suffering. The impact of the straps is just sufficient to set the blood in free circulation. There is no smart ing, stinging sensation, because the straps are broad enough to eliminate any possibility of a. cutting blow. You are padded rather than dashed. The whip ping post is valuable in many types of nervousness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Hubbard Bros. & Co.'s Letter

New York. May 27.-(Special.)- )-Liver- pool was adversely affected by the good weather conditions in the south. Our market opened lower on these advices and the continuance of the liquidation in July deliveries. These offerings were taken by the local traders, who are bull fish on the belief that the outside north ern public, who are long, will become large buyers if peace negotiations are commenced. After other wars such as the Russian-Japanese war and our own civil war, the poverty of the combatants disappointed the expectations of sellers of cotton goods. Nevertheless the senti- ment in favor of higher prices in case of pease is very strong and prevents de- cline in prices. Many spinners, however. are beginning to question where they will have the same demand for goods after the war as now on account of for eign competition. The close was very steady,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
H. F. Bachmman & Co.'s Letter

New York, May N.-Our Watkins bu- reau estimates the condition of the cot ton crop at TIA per cent, compared with 7s7 per cent at this date last year and 73.1 per cent in 1914: SIS per cent in 1913. and the 10-year average of 79S per cent. The area planted in cotton has been in- creased 93 per cent over last year Our report of May 10 made the increase in acreage 9.4 per cent; since this date some abandonment has occurred in southwest Texas due to prolonged drought
 The first report issued by the govern ment last year showed a condition of So3 per cent. Using the government method of calculating the yield, the pres ent condition of TIA indicates a crop of 12. 900, 900 bales. As indicated in a pre- vlous report of statistics the world will be practically bare of cotton on Septem- Der 1, next so that the mills of the world are entirely dependent upon the growing crop for next years require ments. Should the war continue Amer ican mills will require SOoO,0O0 bales at the lowest calculation, while Europe will demand fully 6,0O0,00O.
 In the event of peace fully 17,00o. 900 bales would be needed including 100000 for export and 100000 for American mills. In our judgment serious concern as to where the necessary supply of cotton Is to come from in order to meet either of these contingencies will be felt before the end of this year and we, therefore. advise the purchase of cot ton for future delivery at existing prices.
 H. F. BACHMAN & co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Fruits and Produce

(WholeSale QuotationS.) Apples-Fancy Winesap. box g .2o@2.5o. Oranges-Florida, per box, S4Q4.50. Oranges-California, $3.5o43.75. Grapefruit-F Florida, per box, $3.5Nd4. Cranberries-Per box, $250; barrel, $9.oO. Bananas-Per bunch, $1.50Q2. Lemons-Fancy imported, box, $3.75; fancy California. S3.5O. irish Potatoes-Micbigan White. bushel, $1.50.
 Sweet Potatoes-Dooleys, bushel, s0@85c. Onions-White, per crate. g; Yellow per crate, g.
 begas--Canada, 154c pound. Cabbage-Florida, per crate, s3.25. Cucumb ers-Hamper, $2.50 Tomatoes-Fancy Florida, per crate, $3 50; choice, per crate, $2.75. Reans--Fresh Florida, per crate, $2.7S. New Potatoes-Hamper, $1.75. Celery-Fresh Florida. per crate, s2.5o . Lettuce-Per hamper, $1.50. Suuash-Per Crate $2.50 Strawberries-South Alabama, d.50@2. Limes-Per 100. S1.50.
 Peas-English, per hamper. S2. Pineapples-$3 a crate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Spot Cotton
Pig Iron
The Gentlest Bullet

From the Popular Science Monthly.
 A cat may be killed by shooting. but the use of choloroform is generally con- sidered more humane. Shooting has it's merciful side also and during the period of the present war, much has been said regarding the most humane bullet. The bullet used by the French infantry can not be said to be desirable. yet 1t is per haps the least painful and produces the fewest bad effects of any now In use. It's swiftness enables it to pass right through the body and to cut a very small, clean hole, without tearing the surround ing tissue. The chance of escaping inn portant nerve centers is thus greatly in creased.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

Alabaam was bullsh. stating that tenn peratures had been too low. resulting in bad stands and necessitating much re- planting. The report for Mississippi. however. was favorable. Advlces from tho latter state indicate the boil weevil is making its appearance several weeks earlier than last year.
 Spots were unchanged with no pressure to sell.
 There seems little cotton for sale at the present level and any favorable po- litIcal or unfavorable weather develop ments would start shorts to covering and attract a good class of buying.
 I continue of the opinion that cotton is a good purchase around these prices.
 C. F. AVERY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
An Improvised Flour Bin

From the Popular Sclence Monthly.
 In the absence of kitchen cabinet a convenient flour sitter can be made by using an ordinary bag and placing a sitter in the opening, after securely fastening 1t with a heavy string The bag is inverted and hung from a nail, conveniently placed above the work table by running heavy string through the bottom. At first the flour will sift out as it shifts into position, but it will soon settle in the bowl of the sitter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Atlanta Bank Statement

Atlanta, May 27.-(Special.)-Th week ly statement of resources and liabilities or the Atlanta reserve bank follows
 Resources-Gold com and certificates Gold settlement fund, $,714,000; held by the bank, $6,961 028.1O; legal tender notes, etc, S42,341.2 20. Total cash reserves SIP. e17,S69.3O. Due from feceral reserve banks, net, s240,2799S; federal reserve notes. $1, ,4021S0. Bills discounted: Com mercial paper, s4,26e 99s.s9 investments: United States bonds, s2.O3400O all other resources, $1,o10.0267. Total, zo,s7os54. Ss
 Liablities-Capital paid in, $2,46S, $50 deposits, treasurer of United States S, 4S9, 620.63; reserve deposits, net, $10,s67, 42S,02; profit and loss, sS2,674.64; all other liabilities, $62,5S 1.10 Total s20,97O,S54 39
 Federal reserve notes outstanding, S14, 432, 350; gold deposited with federal re- serve agent, $14. 432, $50; federal reserve notes in hands of bank, $1,402,1S0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Flour and Feedstuffs

Colorado patent S6.3o; self-rising flour, se. 75; Tennessee flour, $6.55; Michigan fleur, $7.e5: Idaho flour s665; hard winter wheat flour. $6.25; Minnesota spring wheat $6s0; pure wheat shorts. $32@S4; brown shorts. $32; pure wheat bran, $29: c. s. meal, 71a per cent, S33; Cremo meal, $27; c $. hulls, $21 per ton; No. timothy hay, SPA per ton; new pea green alfalfa $23; southern alfalfa, $21; mixed feeds, per ton, $33@37; oats. per bushel. No. white, 61c; corn. per bushel, s1; corn meal, $1 .S2 per 2-bushel sack; chops $1. .9O poultry food, s1.90 per sack; dairy food, $3O; Johnson grass hay. $15.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Sugar and Cereals

Granulated sugar. s cwt.. f. 0. b. Bir- mingh ham. Market firm at $7.65 New Or leans.
 Choice Rice-$5.50 per cwt. Fancy Rice-$6 per cwt Extra Fancy-s6.5O per cwt. Grits-$2.25 96-lb bag.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Dry Goods Market

New York, May 27.-Fruit of the loom A bleached goods will be ad- vanced Monday morning to a basis of 9hc, one-fourth cent a yard up and it Is expected that other bleached goods lines will soon follow. Tickings ruled firm today at the recent advance of one-half cent a yard. Knit goods were active and burlaps were in steady demand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
If You Are Interested In
 Cotton

We shall be glad to send request the reports Issued by Watkins Bureau covering acreage. fer tlizer. crop conditions and yield. These reports are compiled after the careful and scientific nvesti gation They published weeks from the beg inning of the planting until the cror is made and are issued few days in advance of the United States Government reports upon the same subjects Careful attention given to all orders for purchase sale of cotton for future delivery.
 H. E. BAcHMAN q CO. Bankers
 Estabilshsd 1868
 i% Wall Street New York
 Memhers New York Cotton Exchange New York Stock Exchange New York Coffee Exchange. Philadelphia Stock Ex- change Chicaso Board of Trade. Associate Mem bers Liverpool Cotton Asseciatian,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
MEAT QUOTATIONS
 ARE GETTING LOWER
Strawberries and Poultry Almost Cleaned Out on
 Morris Ave. Yesterday

Aside from some severe cuts in meat quotations, business closed on Morris avenue yesterday with prices running steady. A decline of b-cent on extra ribs, bellies and pure lard was noted. After ascending to one of the highest marks noted for sometime, meats and lard began gradual decline this week, and probably will come back to former level.
 Business was especially good on the avenue yesterday up to closing time Strawberries and poultry were almost cleaned out while vegetables were sell ing we'll The fish market went up early in the forenoon, leaving a large demand unsupplied.
 Today's quotations follow:
 Poultry and Eggs (Commission Merchants Price) Fryers-30c. Hens-15c. Guineas-35c. Roosters-10c per ID. Fresh Country Eggs-20c; graded, PC. Turkeys-Live, 22c; dressed, 24c. Geese-75c, or 13c pound.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Future quotations were as follows:
Chicago Grain

Chicago. May 27.-Wheat No red, SLIP; red, s1.o3k @1.oe; No. ? hard, $1.O9A 1.10: No. 3 hard, $1.05@ @1.05A low, e6k @ 67c. Oats, No. white, 3s@ 4oc; standard, 4o1s @4oa4c. Rye, nom inal barley. 500 7ec; timothy $6@s, clover, s750@15. Pork. s22.75 @23.25; lard, $12.62; ribs, $12.10@12.so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Hides and Tallow

(Dealers' Buying Offer) Green Salt Hides--1SG19c. Green Salt Hides-HGlf cured, 17@1Sc Green Hides-Fresh, 16@17c. Dry Flint Hides--31@32c. Dry Salt Hides-29630c. Damaged Hides-HaIf price. Sheep Skins-25c@1. .25. Horse Hides-$1@4.5 50. Sherlings-15@25c Goat Skins-25G55c Kid Skins-10c. Tallow-51aGS1ac. Beeswax-27@2Sc. Washed Wool--40Q42c. Clear Unwashed Wool--30@32c Bury Wool-20622c. Ginseng, Wild--$5@6.50 50
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
New Orleans Cotton Futures
New Orleans Cotton

New Orleans, May 27.-Spot cotton quiet. unchanged Sales on the spot, 315; to arrive, 215. Good ordinary, Il. 1.15c 1; strict good ordinary, 11.64c; low middling, 12.13c; strict low midding, I2.3Sc; mid ding, 12.62c; strict mddling, 12.sSc; good middling, 1313c; strict good middling, ,3Sc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
St. Louis Grain

St. Louis, May 27.--Wheat. No. 2 red, $1.t0@1.13;, No. $ 2 lard.a $110soa eMay, $1.04A :sTJuly, 7$1 .05& @1.06. Corn,S No. 2, 71@7f1sc; No. white, 70a Co 71 1a e; May, 6S1zc; July, CSC. Oats, No, 2, -S9A @39Kc; No. 2 white, nominal May, 39Nc; July. 39Ac.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Kansas City Grain

Kansas City, May 27.-wheat. No. 2 hard, $1.03@1.0S; No. 2 red. $103 @ 1.07. Corn, No. mixed. 661a @67c; No. 2 white, 671a @69c No. 2 yellow, 6S@ 6S1hc Oats. No. white, 44@45c; No. ? mixed 4O@41c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
His Aim in Life

From the Detroit Free Press That's the second untruth you have
 told me today Why do you persist in
 telling lies this way?" II don't know, ma, unless it's because
 I'm practicing to be diplomat when I grow up.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Hubbard Bros. & Co.

CottOu Merchants, Hanover square, N, change, New Orleans Cotton Exchange
 New York Produce Exchange. Associate Orders solicited for the purchase and sale of Cotton and Cotton Seed oil for future delivery speciai attention and liberal terms given for consignments 0l epot cotton for delivexy. Correapcn1s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Bonds
Mercantile Paper

New York. May 27.-Mercantile pa per, 3A sterling 60-day bills. 4.72s4
 demand, 4.755s; cables, 4.16ss francs demand, 5,93; cables, 5.92A marks. ce- mand 76ls; cables( 765s; kronen. de mand. 13& cables. 13ss guilders. de mand, 41A; cables, 41h fires. demand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
were inclined to hold off until after tn holidays

holidays. In refined there was fair business reported, owing to the continued favor able weather. and prices were steadily held at recent levels of 7.65c to 7.75c for
 fine granulated.
 in the way of evening up, closing prices ranging from 1 point advance to 8 points decline July sold from 547c to 5.45c, closing at 545c; September. 5.5ec to 5.49c,
 closing at 5.4Sc; December. 5.10c to 5.0Sc.
 closing at 5.07c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Coffee Market

New York May 27.-There was re- newal of liquidation in the market for coffee futures here this morning which was probably promoted by the sharp break reported in milreis prices at Rio. The selling was not as active as it was earlier in the week, however. while it also seemed to be coming from other sources, and after opening at d decline of to 9 points with September selling at S.55c and December at S7Oc, prices rallied slightly on covering and revival of peace ru- mors September sold at S57c and De- cember at S.71c in the later trading, with the market closing to points net lower. Sales 2S.250 May. s.34c; June, 839c; July, S.44c August, S52c; September, S.60c; Cc- tober, s.64c; November. 86Sc: December. S.72c; January, sire; February, Ss2c; March, S.SSc; April, S93c
 Spot coffee quiet; Riol 7's. 9s4; Santos As, 10%. No fresh cost and freight offers were reported. The official cable re- ported a decline of 275 reis at Rio and 5-S2d in the rate of Rio exchange on Lon don. Santos was unchanged. Brazilian port reports l10OO, Jundiahy 1000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

6.3e; cables. 6.35; rubles, demand, 31ss ; cables, 31 B bar silver, 71bc; Mexican dollars, 54%c; government bonds steady; railroad bonds irregular.