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I.ondnn M0neY

London August 24.-Bar silver 67-s per ounce. Money 51-4 per cent discount rates, short bills 1-2 per cent. Three months bills -6 5-S per cent.
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SOUNDS GOOD
By Aseecleted Press

Minneapolis. Minn.. August 24.-- Flour took further drop of 50 cents a barrel at local mills today, quotations for family patents in sS- pound cotton sacks. car load lots being s12.4o to sl3o0.
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Congressman Oliver returned today
 from Washington and will spend a day
 Or so at his home here. Congressman Oliver has been active in behalf of the sawmill industry in this section. and has been to Washington in it's interest. He succeeded through his efforts to get more cars for moving lumber. and hopes later on to get sufficient cars for re- lieving the car shortage.
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unsettled. August, 20 2sd October, IS. 23d January, ls.Ssd; March. 1sd; May. 7.64d July, 17.29d.
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Liverpool Cotton

Liverpol. August ,4.-Spo. cotton unset tied; prices weak good middling 24 SIC: : fully middiing, 2S.72d. middling. g. 47d: low
 niddling. iS.6sd; good ordinary. Is. 22d: or dinary. 14.ccd. Sales. ..ooo bales. includ- ing 1890 American. Receipts. 13.O00 bales. including 7.7W American. Futures ciosen
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Spot Cotton

New Orleans, August 24.-Spot cotton quiet; quotations revised Middling, 90 lower. Sales on the spot, 26s bales; to arrive. none. Low middling, 2o.75: mid ding s1 5o good middling S4.75. Receipts
 442; stock 206,39O.
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New Orleans Futures Rv AasocIated Press

New Orleans, August 24.-The cotton market closed steady at net advances of 122 to 134 points.
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era1 net decline of 10 to 63 points Su- gar interests sold near positions at the raw situation. while Cuban houses gave support to late months.
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The foreign commerce of the twenty Latin American republics last year, az grexated almost $s.000. .o0o.ooe. against Slightly less than $s.000. Oo0. 900 in 1913.
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Rice Market

celpts 40 cars; market stronger; east
 ern eobbles, $5.25 per barrel. Rice Market By Associated Press New Orleans, August 24-Rough rice active sales. Honduras. "A sacks at s.Sa e s.o0c; Early Prolific. s15 sacks at 60 fe Catolina. s.l50 sacks at s.5oc; Edith, ool sacks at 7.50c. Receipts. s,23s; millers receipts,FTS9. Clean rice steady; sales, -2s4 pockets at 3A@7s.c: blue rose, s,lsS pockets at 7sdaxc; Carolina 2,soo at sia q 1OAc. Cash Grain
 Chicago, August .i-cash wheat: No 2 red s2.4S92 41ie; No. ? harc.s ss. s4zz svss. Corn; No. mixed, si .5Stx61 s1 No. I. vel
 low, N .6iiaa1 .65. Oats. No. white. sy1ssT ! 191sc; No. 3 white, csa7oc. Rye: No. ,. isi9. Barley. sl lo11.l5. Timothy seed
 se 6odi.5 Clover sled, s25ds0. Pork nom-
 inal- Lard, sis.lo Ribs, sli.25dls.c c5. 1 St. Louis. August 24.--Cash wheat 2 red winter 24ea2.oo; 5 red winter 24s: De-
 cenbsr 2.se l-2 bid; March 2.sl1-s bid. Corn. 2, white. l,ssnl 50; September l4i, 1 December 1.sl 3-s
 I Oats, ?, white. 70 l-2@71 white 8 t-2st 70; september s' bid, December q l-e bid Produce 1 Chicago. H., August A. Butter un-
 changed Eggs. unsettled. :irsts 47a4sc. Poultry, alive. higher; fowls. sl&ss1Sc: springs. s5c.
 New York, August 24.-Butter. firm:
 creamery firsts,S 5l.4d5sc, Eggs, firm; i fresh gathered firsss. 52dS5c Cheese firmy average run. 2s@27lfc. | St. Louis. August 24.-Poultry, springs
 s2e others unchanged Butter and eggs
 unchanged.
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Interior Movement
Dry Goods Qv Aeenriafed prAss

New York. August e4-Cotton goods were weak in the dry goods market here today. The volume of trading was light and influenced greatly by de- clining cotton markets. Yarns were quiet, and silk sold in moderate ouan- tity. Jobters are doing a light busi- ness, buyers; purchasing in small lots.
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East St. Louis Live Stock


 East St. Louis ILL, August 4.-Cattle; Receipts, 1000 market, native steers, Poe higher Oklahoma steers, steady to 25c lower
 Top steers 16j0 Bulk 9.75@12 50 Good and choice vealers. s......... ls00a1 13 D Feeder steers bulk ..-.......... 9.O0Q 95O Hogs Receipts $500; mar ket closed 15e lower than Mon- days average.
 Early ton ........... 1855 Bulk, light and medium
 weights .....................1 1500015 40 Bulk heavies, ,..................... 1425M14 % Sheep Receipts. 25Oo; mar ket, lambs, f5c higher; sheep 25c, to 50c higher Ton lambs 1925 Bulk .......................... 1o50@12. 5 Top ewes 700 Bulk 65oa roo
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Chicago Futures By Asssclated rress
Potatoes

Potatoes
 By Asseeisted Pres Chicago, August 24.--Potatoes: Re- celpts, go ears; market stronger; east ern cobbles, $525 per barrel
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Port Movement

New Orleans: Middling, S1.5oc; re- ceipts, 442 exports, 1888: sales, 266; stock, 2G6.ss0. Galveston: Middling, s1c;. receipts, 5,s41 ;>sales, 1.5ss; stock. 1o7,43e. Mobile: Middling, s2c; receipts. 100; sales. 14; stock, 2,227. Savannah; Middling. soc; receipts. Ss2; stock, 55,S36. 1 Charleston: Middling, 35c; stock, 2G1,525
 Wilmington: Middling, s1c; stock 27,o53. l Texas City: Stock. 4,904. Norfolk: Middling. 33c; receipts. 24; | stock, 4,539. l Baltimore: Stock 5,o20. Boston: Middling, s2.5ec: receipts 1 430; stock. 11,S00.
 Philadelphia: Middling, ss.75c; stock ! 5.4a4. New York: Middling, ss.5oc receipts i 4ss; stock, 34,o1s. Minor ports Stock, 1896, Total today: Receipts. s,217: exports 1883; stock. 1oS,lSS. Total for week: Receipts. 1S.72l; ex-
 p'lss, Total tor for season. Receipts. O1.oss
 exports, lo4.sss. N Interior Movement l Houston: Middling. soc. receipts s.l71; shipments. 5.s44; sales. 4.5s3 stock, 23,S&S.
 1 Memphis: Middling, 34 soc: receipts sss; shipments. 1906; sales. $50: stock | 2s3 sol.
 l Augusta: Middling, s2c; receipts, 2S ishipments. 42o; sales. 1ss, stock 44s55.
 i St. Louis: Middling. 3%.50c; receipts 1916; shipments. s16; stock. 12.42s. Little Rock: Middling, 32.50c; re- ceipts. ?; shipments, 106; stock. 15,4s3 1 Total today: Receipts. 10,114; ship nents, Se02: stock 5Ss.715.
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The Tuscaloosa district convention of the Knight of Pythias will be held in this city August 2. and fifty delegates from the district, comprising the coun- ties of Tuscaloosa, Pickens. Hale and Bibb, will be here. Grand Chancellor w. H. Wakely, of Huntsville, and M. w. Aldridge, of Montgomery, will deliver addresses to the convention Besides business matters. a picked degree team will put on rank work in the evening. The convention will be opened by the president at 10:30 o'clock
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St. Louis. August 24.-Poultry spring
 s2e: others unchanged Butter and eggs unchanged.
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New York August 24.-Butter, firm creamery firsts.S ol14d56c. Eggs firm fresh gathered firsss. 52dS5c Cheese firmy average run. 266271kc
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TUSCALOOSA

Tuscaloosa, Ala. August A.-(Special)- John Burt, the negro slayer of Deputy Sheriff John Thrower at Kellerman, a mining town twenty-five miles from Tus- caloosa, is still at large despite efforts to capture him Saturday. Burt is said to be heavily armed and is ready to fight any one who attempts to capture him. A reward Of 500 is offered for Burt either dead or alive.
 The Warrior Guards, who have been in camp at Anniston, returned home Sunday night, and while in camp won
 three competitive drills. The company is one of the youngest in the state, but
 has the distinction of having the largest membership. The boys gave parade
 here this afternoon to show the home
 folks what wonderful improvement the
 company has made. The members were
 paid off today, the amount being 5000
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Cash Grain
Produce

Chicago. H., August A. Butter. un.
 changed. Eggs unsettled. :irsts. 47a4sc Poultry, alive. higher; fowls. sl&ss,sc springs. 35c.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
Zofany's 5
Golden Days

He rose rapidly into solid repute.
Once in Garrick's good books, he soon
knew everybody. There are friendly
"reminiscences of him in the diverting
pages o. Angelo. He met Johnson, of
course. and one of his most delight
full pictures is of the Sage taking tea
with the Garricks at their Chiswck
villa. The King commissioned from him
a full dress state portrait of himself
and the Queen with their children Wal
pole sneered it aside as "ridiculous"
The pompous canvas preserved at
Windsor, though hardly deserving so
bitter an epithet, is not by any means
masterpiece. Walpole was right in
preferring Zoffany's theatrical compo-
sitions to his purely formal portrait.
He called him "this genius" when he
exhibited his picture of Garrick as
Abel Drugger in "The Alchymist." But
the Kings good will was invaluable
to the artist, extending his vogue, if
not in the highest court circles, at all
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Of the connoiseur alongside such cata-
logues as those of the Johnson collec-
ton in Philadelphia, the Jarves collec-
ion in New Haven and the colection
Of pictures gathered together for the
HudsonFulton celebration in 1909 a..
the Metropolitan Museum
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By Royal Cortissoz

o,s effect of the revival of interest
wang modern collectors in the eigh-
...nth century British school has been
II. preparation of divers important BIZ
..-snhies. The first in the series, we
ss,;eve, was the sumptuous folio on
c,;nsborough, by Sir Walter Arm
..roug, which the Scribners published
:, 1898. Then followed his companion
.ork on Reynolds, and later there
anne similar memoirs from his hand
=, from others on Raeburn, Hoppner
.rs Romney. We have also definitive
..udies of Hogarth, Constable and Tur-
-ar. All this literature has placed full
formation and catalogues, with an
abundance of illuminating plates, at
the disposal OF the amateur, and it had
seemed as If there were nothing left
"a he done. Yet in books of reference
II his kind there has been one serious
omission, and every collector interested
in the subject will rejoice that it has
st last been repaired. Under the title
of "John ZofYany, R. A, His Life and
Works" the John Lane Company has
brought out an imperial quarto by
LADY Victoria Manners and DR.. G. C.
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specialists, here and abroad, who can
not see the museum are nevertheless
bound to profit by this publication. 1t
will take proud place on the shelf
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however, generous and wise donors
have appeared. The print collection is
second only to that of the Boston Mu-
scum. Notable loans and gifts of mar
bles and paintings have been made and
funds have been accumulated permit
ting very desirable purchases. In
twenty years positively phenomenal
advance has been made. Mr.. Forbes
and his assistant, Mr.. Paul J. Sachs,
now administer one of the leading ar
tlstic trusts in the country. In the
present catalogue they have the salts
action of seeing such a memorial as
BELTS the treasures in their care.
They are treasures indicative Of the
scholarship and taste by which tho
Museum has been served. They begin
with number Of Byzantine pictures.
Following these are illustrations Of
the early Florentine School, embracing
works by Bernardo Daddi, the school
OF Orcagna, Spinello Aretino--who is
particularly we'll represented-and
then later men, as late as Albertinell.
There is really imposing group of
the Sienese Primitives, group making
the Fogg Museum shrine for the stu
dent, and the collection is also modest
ly but we'll provided with characteris-
tic Umbrian, North Italian and Vene-
tlan pieces. 1t has specimen of
hfteenth century Spanish painting in
an "Annunciation" by Juan de Burgos,
and there are examples of the German,
French, Flemish and English schools.
The cataloguers have been exhaustive
IN their treatment. Prefixing to their
work some useful passages on proc
esses and terminology, they introduce
each group of pictures with a hstori-
cal essay and add fulls biographical
notes. The book is more than gener-
ously supplied with photographers, and
1T has an exceptionally good index, as
we'll as a list of artists and titles. 1t
stimulates the leader to make Jour
ney to Cambridge, but so well has the
task of compilation been executed that
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The Fogg
Art Museum

At a time when the great anniversary
exhibition at the Metropolitan makes
the work of such institutions a subject
of peculiar interest it is opposite to
cite recent publication issuing from
the Harvard University Press. This
is the catalogue of the Medieval and
Renaissance paintings in the Fogg Art
Museum at Cambridge. The handsome
volume, which is fully illustrated by
excellent plates, is work of collabo-
ration in which Mr.. Edward W. Forbes.
Director of the Museum, and his staff
have worked with several members Of
the Harvard faculty. The introduction
depicts the really extraordinary prog
ress made since Mrs. William Hayes
Fogg gave in 1891, in memory. of her
husband, the money ard objects with
which Harvard started the project.
When the late Richard NJ. Hunt
planned the building opened in 1895
there was comparatively little to put
in it, and the ambitions of the museum
were small. AS time has gone en-,
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no hurt to his popularity. He con-
lnued to enjoy wide favor in Eng
land. He went on painting and ex-
tracing enough happiness out Of life,
q tall, lean, not unhandsome man,
adored by the young wife who was one
OF his Italian trophies. The tradition
Of his family credited him with being
"a generous soul" All his life long he
spoke with pronounced German ac-
cent, but years before he died, in the
winter Of 1910, and was buried at Kew,
not far from the tomb of Gainsbor-
ough, he had been taken with all the
cordiality in the world into English
life. 1t Is his distinction to have pre-
served the atmosphere Of English life
in his works.
That Is at bottom the reason
why Lady Victoria Manners and DR..
Williamson have been we'll advised in
recovering the facts Of his career.
They have done this in thorough
going and most interesting manner.
The biography before US gives in
great fullness and clarity the fruits
Of industrious research; appended to it
there is an invaluable catalogue. and
tho many plates in color, in photo
gravure and in half tone round out
the practical usefulness Of bcauti
fully printed volume. AS we said at
the outset, it ought to give Zoffany
new lease of life. Above all, we COM
mend it to collectors. From its text
and plates they may gather, perhaps,
new sense of the painters value,
learning how worth while his pictures
are. Most of them, we judge, are in
private houses from which they are
not likely soon to emerge. However.
examples occasionally stray into the
market. There was beautiful Zof-
fany in the Hearn collection, sold here
in 1918, the PORTRAIT of 8 Lady"
which we reproduce. 1t fetched s4.-
$40. The Enrich gallery has given
caleful attention to this painter and
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An Alien Artist
In London

The father of Zoffany was b.
hemian jew who followed the craft of
cabinet maker and decorator at PRAGUE.
he was an ambitious man, who earned
his graduation into the architectural
profession. and seems to have risen in
it high enough to serve in court CA
pacity at Ratishon. There his son
johann, or John, as he came later to be
called, has hitherto been believed to
nave hrst seen the light in 1888, but
MS present biographers state that he
was born two years later, at Frankfort
on-Msin. He was precocious drafts
man, and his father soon placed him in
the studio of Michael Spesr, whose
brushes and palettes he kept in order.
before he was twelve Zoffany was rem
dering even better service to his mas
ter, working On the draperies and ac-
cessories in the latter's pictures. But
he was not satisfied with this. While
still in his teens he raided his fathers
sJrong-box and ran away with his
pockets full of money. His flight took
hlm first to Vienna, but we. presently
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oobienz an unhappy marriage. His
wife had some money, and on her mod
est fortune he came to London "With
thl''" he once said. ~ commenced
'Maccaroni,' bought a suit a la mode. a
gold watch and gold-headed cane"
This was about 1851, at the heart of a
great period in British painting. II
took time for zoffany to establish him
self in anything like a prosperous re-
lation to the school. At first he was
only too glad to work for Stephen Rim
bault, the clockmaker, painting the lit
tie scenery on clock faces which were
then much in vogue. But he painted
IN those days portrait Of Rmbault
which. as the reproduction in this VOL
ume clearly shows, was we'll calculated
to give an impetus to his career. A.
ter some hardshps he won recognition.
and, after not too long probation. laid
the substantial foundations of genuine
celebrity.
The nature of his initiation into the
wider artistic life of London bears
strongly upon the whole question of
his art. While still an obscure work
er on draperies and backgrounds in
the studio of Benjamin Wilson, a me-
diocre painter of portraits, he devel-
oped affiliations with the theater, and
these brought him into intimate con-
tact with Garrick and his circle. He
painted the actors wife in a charming
canvas which is reproduced in this
book as in the collection of the late
Asher Wertheimer. Obviously, onlv a
man of talent could have painted it. 1t
points, among other things, to his hav-
ing entered with natural facility into
understanding of the current English
tradition of portraiture. We may note
IN passing that he was never accom-
plished enough to make himself SO far
a master of that tradition in design.
in style or in the nuances of tech
nique as to become serious rival of
Reynolds and the other canonical lead
ers. But to say this is not, as it hap
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lhere is another and perhaps more
famous group which Zoffany painted in
the following year, a picture represent
ing Garrick and Mrs. Cibber in "Ven
ice Preserved" but the earlier work
constitutes the better touchstone for
appreciation Of Zofany's art 1t was
an art founded upon the study of char
acter, and in the simple types of "The
Farmers Return" his portraiture. not
only as regards the faces, but in the
matter of gesture and movement GEN
orally, allies him with the sincere
method of Chardin and even with that
OF the earlier paintings done in Seville
by Nelasquez. Zoffany was not. as a
matter of fact, the consistent disciple
Of such masters. He recalls Chardin
in "The Farmers Return" and in his
picture of an old optician at work with
his assistant in their laboratory. He
recalls Nelasquez in the realistic heads
of his Concert of Wandering Min
strels" at Parma. Just once, by some
mysterious tour de force, ne made in
The Minuet' picture which for grace
and for certain quality of painting
might have come from the brush of
vatican. But these are only rare in
cidents in the mass of his work. In
his wontcd habit there was nothing. to
recall the magicians of either French
or Spanish painting. There was, in
stead, kind of dry competence. His
color was sound. lie was accurate in
his delineation Of form. There is sure
and fluent if not exactly supple or dis
tingushed line in his work. He was.
IN short, uninspired as a technician
but adequate, and craftsman we'll
above the average. And with his ex-
cellcnt equipment he proceeded to do
What genius in That era was often dis
Inclined to do. Not only did he cele-
orate the humors Of the stage with a
raciness unrivaled by his contempo-
raries, but he carried over into all the
PICTURES and portraits he painted the
feeling for those merely human traits
which he observed, paradoxically,
through the Fictitious glamour of the
footlights. He loved to paint vaga-
bonds, and his realistic skill was of
so high an order that it secured him
the notice of George III, who patron
lied him and nominated him one Of
the original members of the Royal
Academy.
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Barry Faulkner 8
School Decorations

Several years ago, acting through the
Municipal Art Society, Mrs. Z. II. HaI
riman offered memorable gift to the
Continued on page 3
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pens, to disparage him. He had some
thing else up his sleeve, and this as
we have said, is quality brought out
by his theatrical friendships. He ex-
hibited in 1852 his picture of Garrick
and Mrs. Cibber in "The Farmers Re-
turn" Horace Walpole applauded it.
"Good," he said, "like the actors-and
the whole better than Hogarth's.n
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His Character Studies
In English Portraiture

Williamson, which does full Justice to
an unaccountably neglected man.
zoifany remains, it is true. a minor
master, but he has merits giving him
an honorable place Of his own. Some
connoisseurs have shown apprecia-
tion Of him and he has firured resnect-
ably In the sale room. We shall be
surprised If new and livelier com.
petition for his works does not date
from the appearance of this admirable
monograph.
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The Portrait of Lady
rom the Painting by Zoany formerly in the Hearn Collection

has acquired more than one of his
works, among them ga Group Of Sport
ing Gentlemen" and "The Hunt Break
fast" Both of these canvases are now
in the collection of Mrs. Papne Whit
ney. Zoffany has not yet been made
really familiar in the United States,
but these instances suggest that he
has not been wholly neglected. Thanks
to the influence of the book we have
traversed he may ultimately become
known here--and admired-in a meas
ure determined by his merits.