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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-10
London Money

London, December 9.-Bar silver, 39Ad per ounce; money, 3%d; dis count rates, short bills, 61h@6Ss per cent; three month bills. 611-16 per cent.
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New York Futures

By AssOcinted Press New York, December 9.-The cotton market closed steady.
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Sugar Market

FfeS6
 New York, December 9-The local mar ket for raw sugar was quiet today, and while DO fresh business was reported, it was bNieved that sugars could be ob- tained at last prices, or on the basis of 5.S2c for centrifugal
 The market for refined continues quiet with prices unchanged at S.75c to Sc for fine granulated. It was said that ou. port refiners are accepting orders at the S.75c level.
 Sugar futures sold into new low ground for the season today under scattered liquidation prompted by reports that con- siderable sugar was arriving here un- sold, which some thought might lead to increase of offerings. Closing prices were at the lowest of the day and to 'l5 points below the previous night S closing level. January closed at 4SSc, March at 4.75c. May at 4S9c, July at 5c.
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Interior Movement

Houston: Middling. 15c; receipts, 12.1oi: shipments, 26,633; sales, 2,553; stock, sos, ,OO6
 Memphis: Middling, 15c; receipts, 1,S23; shipments. 6022 sales; 1,750; stock, 36S,Gi5.
 Augusta: Middling, 15.3Sc; receipts, 2,169; shipments, LIT; sales, 5; stock 147, 715
 St. Louis: Middling. 15c; receipts, 5,267; shipments, 5,489; stock, 1,6So.
 Little Rock: Middling, 15.5oc; receipts, 2.491; shipments, 631; sales. 7oS; stocK' 55 5130.
 Dallas: Middling 14.10c; sales. S,566.
 Montgomery: Middling. 15c.
 Total for day: Receipts, 3O.50i; ship ments 8. .892; stock. S8S, ,611.
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Spot Cotton

By Associated Press
 New Orleans, December 9.--Spot cot- ton steady. Quotations revised. Mid ding c5~ points lower. Sales on the spot, 1,200 bales; to arrive, 425; low
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Metal Market

 New York, December 9.-Copper steady. Electrolytic. spot and nearby. SIS Hq 1425 Iron nominal; No. northern. $3S; No. northern, $35; No. southern. sS5. Tin steady; spot and nearby. sS550Q3c. Oo; futures, $ST0OdS7.25 Anthony. $.I54 5S7. Lead dull: spot. 5. Zinc steady: East St. Louis, spot, $6.25@6.S0f
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New Orleans Futures
By Ass0ciated r

By AseOCIAted Ffesd L New Orleans, December 9.-The cot ton market closed steady at net 1 point up to down net.
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New York Bonds
 By Associated Press

U. s. 2s registered. bid ........ 100 U. & 2, coupon, bid ............ 100 U. S. As, registered. bid ........ 104 U. S. 4s, coupon. bid ,......... 104 Panama 3s, registered, offered... S9 Panama 3s, coupon, offered. 90 American Smelling & Refining 5s 74s American Tel. & Tel. cv. 6s ..... 941. Aichison gen. As ................ 74h
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negotiate a loan for the purpose of sta
 bilizing coffee seemed sto attract little attention, and the possibility of an inn
 port duty was considered without any
 special influence on the, day's market 2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-10
Coffee Market

Dy AsSOCihIcO IFSS6
 New York. December 9.--The market for coffee futures opened at decline of points to an advance of points, December being relatively easy under scattering liquidation. March sold up to 7.25c during the early trading on covering, but business was generally quiet and there were reactions of few points later. owing to Reports of an easier tone in the cost and freight mar ket March closed at 7.17c bid. with the general market net points lower to II higher. Closing bids: December, 6.53c; January, 6.74c; March. 7.17c; May, 7.5Sc; July. 7.S6c; September, S.06c; October, S.16c.
 Spot coffee dull: Rio 7s. 6N@7Mc; Santos As, 10@10hc. Sales of Santos As were reported in the cost and freight market at S.50@S,75 and of Rio IS at $500, American. credits. As yesterday was a holiday in Brazil. there were no official quotations from the Brazilian markets Reports that the government of Sac Paulo had been authorized f"
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Spot. Coffee
Naval Stores

By Associated Press New York, December 9.-Spot coffee, 7c.
 Naval Stores
 By Associated Press Jacksonville, Fla, December 9.--Tur- pentine. quiet, Tic; sales, 120; receipts, 213; shipments, 255; stock, 24.592. Rosin, nothing doing; sales. none; receipts, 519; shipments, 100; stock. 136,93s. Quote: B, D, F, F. c, H, ], K, M, N, VIC and wv, $11.30.
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East St. Louis Live Stock


 East St. Louis, December e-C.tt1e. Receipts. 2.sOo; steers ZIG lower r,,l,- up ..'..................$ 1Ooo in '.....''............... 7759 g. l5 p,,,,s nuih pest klnd........ 5.25@ 6.15 r,a, u,s, Duik ...............-...... 475GD 5.75 1ani enners .'...-.................. a0OQ 325 veal calves, top. 10 RI iA -. ..'.-................!.. f0.0od1O 50 Hogs: Receipts. 10.5oo. closing active at yesterdays average.
 1op '.....'....... ....,............S 1ole DiA ''..'......-...... .................. 9.6Od1O. U0 Light lights and pigs 15@25c higher: packers sows 25c higher; quality me- dlum to good; pigs showed in light per- centage; good clearance was made Sheep; Receipts, 1,50o, closing active and strong on best lambs; other classes steady.
 Lambs. top 10 sa Duih -..s..-.-................., 950G1O 2S Yeariings up to ............ sD Ewes, top .............. 4M buik '......................... 40o@ A25
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45l,5
 New Orleans, December 9.-Spot cot ton quiet; middling, 16,25c.
 Port Movement
 By Associated Press New Orleans: Middling. 15c; receipts, 13,5e7; exports. 1895; sales, 1925; stock, 455,542..
 Galveston: Middling, 15.75c; receipts, S50, ,942
 Mobile: Middling. n5oc; receipts. 66o; stock. f7.S99. Savannah: Middlng, 16c; receipts, 2,21s; sales, 55; stock. 15O,t92. fCharleston: Receipts, 2g6; stock. 243.6Ja Wilmington Middlins. 15c; receipts, 204; stock, 41,552.
 Texas City: Stock, 46e1. Norfolk: Middling, 15c; receipts, ,S25; sales, 737 stock, s6i,273. Baltimore: Stock. A9i4. Boston Middling. 16.25c; receipts. I'll; stock, 12.700.
 Philadelphia: Middling, 165Oc; receipts, 142; stock, 5,56S.
 New York: Middling. 1625c; exports, 60; stock, 20,590.
 Minor ports: Receipts, 16,75S; exports, 17,134; stock, 4,393.
 Total for day: Receipts, 46,635; exports. 21,7S4; stock, 1,372,920.
 Total for week: Receipts, 179,0S0; ex- ports, 30,520.
 Total for season: Receipts, 9o9,125; ex- ports, 1,9S7 ,092.
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AUTOMOBILES A6T0MOBTLEs FOX SALE
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 This company has been in business for 10 years. We offer for sale only stand ard cars, backed by reliable dealers in this city, who furnish service, without which any automobile is worthless to you. / We are not giving automo- piles away. Nor are we giv- ing or offering something for nothing. We are sell ing really good cars, stand ard makes, at prices which we believe you will find to be invariably lower than asked by any other reliable dealer. For instance: Dodge Brothers roadster, in excellent condition throughout; excellent top, upholstery and tires; runs fine as silk .S775 Dodge Brothers touring car, fine condition; has had excellent care, and shows it; good top, finish and upholstery; fine tires, excellent mechanical con- dition .......,. ..... .SIi5 Dodge Brothers coupe re- painted, new seat covers, fine tires. fine mechanical condition .$1, ,125 Dodge Brothers sedan, re- painted, new seat covers, fine mechanical condition, good tires .$1, ,125 We will take your Ford as part payment if it is in good condition. Terms to reliable people.
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 The Middle Mans Profit Coupe, 1919; electric star ter and lights. Dr. Hub bard, Woodlawn 419-W. Touring car, 1917, s150. R. V. Edwards, 2211s N. 18th St.
 Touring car, good condi- tion. J. D. Roper, Dixiana, Ala.
 Runabout, electric star ter and lights $250. G. w. Hopson & Son. Main 53O1.
 Ton truck, express body, $25O. Guarantee Shoe Ce., 1905 Sd Ave.
 For information on any of these cars call
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 HERE'S WHY Last month the fire in our building damaged our cars to some extent; those that were rendered useless were junked and those that were only slightly dam- aged we are selling for the price they will bring. Some 15 cars too good to be junked and too badly damaged Gas to top and paint) to repair as a whole, are being sold at prices from $75 to s225.
 The tops and upholstering on these cars are burned, but the engine, chassis and vital parts are unscathed. Come in and look this stock over and we'll not haggle over price because we have to clear out these cars in order to repair the building.
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New York Stocks Rx AssncIated Press

Sales. High. LOW. Close Am. Beet Sugar 500 53 62 SzA Am. Car & F.. 46o0 125A 124 125 A,o lIide <, I.
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middling. 10c; middling. 15c; good mid ding, 17.25c; receipts, 1S,567; shipm ents, 451,542.
 New Orleans, December 9.-Spot cot ton quiet; middling, 16,25c.
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MISCELLANEOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-17
All On Purpose

with the devil. Already he snfffed the smoke of battle from afnr.
 He gathered his 'tthinSs" hurriedly into g pasteboard suitcase and craw1ed into the seat with Hennery. Next morning Mother Appletree announced that she would stay another month. or "as long as the meetfn' lasts"
 The reg1dnEtty of the widows az tendance at ths meetings put to shame her fellow-sectarians.
 Sometimes there was mere hand ful of attendants to tho exhortations of the revtvalist, and that handful those faithful ones who needed the e1horta- tons to dee from the wrath to come the least. Sometimes the room was packed to suffocatton with sain and world11ng alike, and the enthus1asm stzzled round the bofnngpoint, but all ways the little pensioner with her coarse wisps of gray hair straying from under her black poke-bonnet was in the front pew.
 She led the singing, and no matter how loud tue boys in the back row might below forth the verses Of Some Have Neighbors Over Yonder, ]" you could distinguish her thin but not unpleasant voice in the strain.
 The schoofhouse was a half-mfle from Hennery's if you went by "the path" If you went by 'the road" it was farther. When the attendance from the Appletree family was confin- ed to the minister and the widow, the path was used They were near the same age. They walked together.
 T don't know how we could get along without your mother" the Rev erend" would say unctuously at the breakfast-table
 I'm a gettin' great bfessfn'. Broth CT Slattery," she would reply, and Hennery, wise as serpents," forbore to contradict her, although he was
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-17

master Jonathan Carney, had reared their modest rooftree beside the clear waters of Spider river.
 Mrs. Appletree "helped" the family she lived with. Thirty-six dollars per quarter means pretty nice "helpings" under some circumstances. In thIs case it meant that the particular fam fly with whom she sojourned had bis cult once day instead of an undev1at- ing fare of cornbread. It meant the temporary punishment of wild onions from the bill of fare, it meant more fat in the gravy and more gravy on the potatoes.
 While the widow tried to divide her stays evenly into three-month periods, she was bound by no tronclad rules. She wasn't proof against any special reason which might develop for pro- longing a sojourn. She might have her oilcloth-covered box in the buggy ready to drive away from Hennry's when the opportune discovery of a "bee-tree" would cause her to change her mind. The killing of deer by Jonathan Carney the day before she was due to make hegira Hennery- wards worked Q like result
 Such little ruses were common enough, but when Mary Jane contrived to break limb" one summer under suspicious circumstances, when the limbs" put in three full months "kntt- ting" three months during which Hen nery's home knew not his mother, be felt that he had been unjustly dealt with.
 .~She done 1t a-purpose, I know she busted 1t a-purpose," he told his wife.
 After such chicanery he felt that any means, however questionable, that he might use in turn, would be permis- sible. Even to the p1aying-up of re- ligion, as it developed.
 Hennery was on his way home from HaFrtsville, where he had been mar
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-17
By Joe Busche

gry because of the lonely evenings spent alone before the library fire, and had finally spent his time at restau- rants and the club, seldom had any thing to tell her, and now that baby was old enough to leave, he never once thought of asking her to go anywhere. but he just sat reading the old news paper when he did stay at home.
 q know, dear, know" spoke Maude soothingly. "But were you ever real sweet, and asked him to go anywhere? And did you ask him to have some of his friends in to dinner? Thought he would say mo-" anyway7 Oh. no. he wouldn't Molly. You ask him tonight to go somewhere-to the theater. or oh, anywhere, and I'll stay with baby"
 So finally after much talking and
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of his youth was small, that is to say, 1t would have been considered small by a Rockefeller or a Carnegie.
 But such things should be weighed according to their relative value, and in Limestone county, that portion of the Ozark mountain country where Mrs. Appletree sojourned. th1rtysix dollars per quarter is a tidy sum.
 The Limestone county soil is rough and thin, and yields but a meager re- turn to the unremitting efforts of it's population. The opportunities of achieving competence are rare, and it Is only by being strangers to luxury. and by living life of almost primor- dial simplicity, that your Limestone countyan is able to make ends meet at all.
 A pension therefore sets Limestone countyan apart If man fs its pos sessor, he is entitled to run for the state legislature in the fall or for the county judgeshtp in the spring If a woman, she Is entitled to take turns living with her children.
 Mrs. Appletree, after the death oi her husband, lived alternately with her two children, Hennery and Mary Jane
 If there was another forty-acre patch in all Limestone county with thinner soil and sleeper side hills than the forty where Hennery's "hewed- log" house drowned down on Dry Creek. 1t must have been the forty where Mary Jane and her lord and
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-17
Ii !
By Annette Angert

"she wouldn't have missed that wind. up for nothin'"
 Must have" admitted tho wffe, each time.
 At last the house was in sight. He threw the lines to one side and dashed through the door. The house was de serted. The fire in the fireplace had gone out
 He looked for the little of1clotn GOV cred box in which his mother carried her things. It was gone. He looked for the parsons pesteboard suitcase. Gonei
 Then his wife called his attention to a piece of paper pinned above the fire place. He spread it against the wall to decfpher. Methodist Steward as he was, he swore.
 For the note read:
 Dear Hennery:-when this you sec jeremia an I will hev gon on ouer hunniemoon- we wuz merried just out side the soulhouse this mornin' by the rev mister sinsabau whil the fokes in side was singtn' the opentn hym. we will spend month with jeremias sis ter in springfield an then we will set up for ouer selvs at his old bachelor quarters.
 "I kinder hate to give up the pen shun but then as jeremfa sez the lord will provide.
 you may think it odd for. us to run away thissaway but like yung feaks we felt kind uv bashful1 about facin you-a11 so student like.
 '-youer new pap sends 1uv to you an mary jane. cum up an see us soon as we git settled. MA"
 "Goshl" Hennery said. eff that wouldn't bang Bannagher!" And then, man-like, he passed the blame on. to a woman. eff she hadn't a broke her leg a-purpose, 1t wouldn't have hap pened!"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-17

explasn1ng, questtoning and tears on Mol1y's part, it was arranged as Maude had suggested
 That night, when Bert came up the street, a little vision in white awaited him at the door, with sparkling eyes, and a yellow rose in her pretty hair.
 .WhoS thatf Ohi hello honey" and he drew her close in his big arms
 At dinner Bert would not have 1t but that Molly should sit close beside him, and once, when he caught her looking w1stfully at him, be asked softly.
 What did 1t, dear?"
 "A magic. Bert" she answered. slip ping her hand into his and looking up with dewy eyes inte his face. 'that ia called-Lcve."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-17
B The Magic Of Love


changed countenance You don't look like the same girl. Why, your roses have all jaded. and" she stopped short, for the note of tenderness and love was too much for poor Molly's burdened heart, and she rested her head on her fresh young sisters ahoul- der, and sobbed as if her heart would break.
 After few moments, Maude said softly.
 "Is 1t Bert, dear? Tell me all about it."
 Slowly and between many tears, Maude- heard the little story. How Molly had busted herself with the baby, and how she didn't have time to go out in the evenings with Bert any more, of how he had grown tired and then an-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-17

She could see her husband had pre- pared his breakfast, a loaf of bread on the table with a butcher knife laid across it, and the coffee pot resting on one of her best china plates. Different boxes were strewn around giving an air of untidiness and wild hurry to the room. With sigh Molly swallowed a cup of the tasteless 1uke-warm coffee, and tears dropping as she worked, cleared away the last evidence of the disgraceful meal.
 To think that her husband ever had to get his own breakfast!
 Well, she wouldn't get 1t at all when he treated her as he did. He never kissed her any more, nor joked with her as he used to. Why, it was long time now since they had spoken more
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-17

brands from the burning. There fs all ways supply of backsliders ready to be won anew to the path The Rev erend slattery won a goodly share ox all three.
 All things must end, however. Even successful meetings.
 Three more days" the revfval1st an nounced one Friday at the breakfast table, "and we'll wind things up. Brother Sinsabaugh will preach the final sermon and admit the converts to the church on Sunday mornin'."
 When that day arrived 1t found the whole Hennery family ready to attend the meeting en masse.
 Your mother and will walk by the path" the parson said.
 The old couple had not yet put in their appearance when the wagon ar rived at the schoolhouse. Nor yet when the meeting was half over.
 Funniest thing I ever heard of," Hennery said to his wife.
 The sermonizing of the Reverend Sinsabaugh was wonderfully dull. The ceremonies of admission were likewise dull. Hennery found himself looking up at the clock many times, also look ing at the door for the missing pair.
 Funniest thing ever heard of" he said again. to Reverend 6insabaugh, the meeting having closed, "what be- come of the parson and my mother"
 Sinsabaugh wagged his head sagely but noncommtttal1y.
 Strange. it is, but doubtless there are reasons"
 Perhaps Mary Jane had driven up and abducted the mother. A sense ot foreboding settled down on Hennery's spirit. He whipped the team into a trot, slthough the roughness of the road all but threw the family bodily from the wagon.
 "Sometbfn' must have happened to Ma," he said to his wife repeatedly
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white nightte. was trying her best to climb over the side of the crib, when Mo11y caught her in her arms and smothered her face with kisses.
 '<Muvers little darling pet" she cooed, and golden and auburn r1nglets were mingled together as the mother pressed her child to her aching breast
 "Baby hear auntyi" gurgled the youngster httle later, and ran to the top of the stairs to where Mo1!y's younger sister was standing. Come up, Maude, I'm just dying to see you, ]" cried Molly, and soon they were talk ing together as only sisters can after a long absence.
 Molly, dear, what's the troub1e?" Maude was holding her hister at arms lsnEth. and gazing steadily at her
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narrated with much detail the circum- stances of his death by fever. Accord fngly his will had been probated and hts estate settled. and Eleanor Hep burn was already laying aside both the insignia and the attitude of mourn ing.
 Everyone expected her to wait reasonable time and then marry Jack Macarthur, and every one welcomed the prospects as most felicitous. The mafriage had not proved a happy one. and nobody knew this better than Mac arthur.
 There had been friction from the first, an unconscious naggtng on her part and an arbftrar1ness on his, with a minimum of forbearance on both sides. It was this lack of domestic happiness which had sent Hepburn to Africa. and doubtless was what had kept him there for two years.
 Tn the meantime Macarthur came in- to intimate relations with Mrs. Hep btirn. As her lawyer he was called up- on to advise and to execute for her; it was he who brought the news of Hep burns death; and the settlement of the estate had been in his hands.
 Macarthur himself had waited de- cent six months out of respect to his friends memory; but when a year had passed he and Mrs Hepburn were seen much together.
 This was the situation when Hep burn emerged at Benguela in Portu- guese, West Africa. He had gone in trim and clean shaven; he came forth bearded to the eyes and clad in tat terR-
 Yet fever and starvation and the all but fatal struggle against long odcs had been the making of him, and in place of the rather sshallow-nfnded