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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-01
COFFEE FUTURES

NEW YORK, June sO.-Coffee futures advanced sharply today on buying by brokers with Brazilian and European connections, and also by local trade interests, accompanied bH reports of a 1irrner spot situation. The opening was ,T to 12 points higher and the market sold S5 to 7S points net higher, Septem- ber touching 14c and March 13.45c Closing Quotatlons: July, 14.49c; Sep tsmber, 14c; October, 1S.s5c; December, 1062o; March, 1S.40c, and May, 13.20c.
 Spot coffee, firm; Rio Is, 16h @15Ac; Santos As, 1873 @19%c. eost-and-freight offers included part Bourbon 3s and 5s ct 1S.25@19,35c. Rio exchange on Lon dons 3-32 pence lower; dollar-buying rate, 140 reisN higher; Rio market, 475 reis higher; Santos, 175 to $50 reis low CT. Brazilian port receipts, 47,OOO; Jun dtahy. 22OO0.
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LIvERpnnI. cnrrnN

LIVERPOOL, June 30.-Spot cotton, fair demand; prices were easier: Good middling, 17.59d; fully middling, 17.04d i; middlins, 15.59d. Sales, 5000 bales, in- cluding $500 American. Receipts, 5000 bales, including 400 American. Futures closed steady: July, 16.32d; September, 16.23d; October, 14.66d; December, 14.27d. Official noon closing: June (1924), 16.49d.
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HUBR ARD BROS. & co,

Members New York Cotton Exchange, New Orleans Cotton Exchange, New Members Liverpool Cotton Association. Orders solicited for the purchase and sale of Cotton and Cotton Seed Oil for future delivery. Special cOnsignmentS of spot cotton for delivery.
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NAVAL STORES

SAVANNAH. Ga, June SO.-Turpen- tine, steady; 7sc. Sales, 200; receipts 475; shipments, 1,262; stock, 9,525.
 Rosln, firm. Sales, 1,752; receipts 1,201 shipments, 13,625; stock, e0,O00.
 Quote: B, $4.35; D, $40; E, $4.50; F, G, H, I, K, M, s4.55; N, $4.75; VIC, $6.65; WINK, $6.22.
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METAL .MARKET

NEW YORK, June SO.-Copper, quiet; eleetrolytic, spot. 121sc; futures, 12h@ 12sSc.
 Tin, firm; spot and futures. $44.26.
 Iron, steady; No. 1 northern, $19.50 @21; No. southern, $20@21.
 Lead, steady; spot, B. Zinc. quiet; East St. Louis, spot and nearby. $5,77@hS0. ,s. .
 Antimony, spot, $40.
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POTATO MARKET

CHICAGO, June sO.-Potatoes, trad ing fair; market slightly weaker. Re- eeipts, new, 139 cars; old, 4 cars; total Unitsd States shipments, Saturday, new, 1,1M cars; old, IS cars; Sunday, new, T2 cars. Oklahoma, Arkansas and Ala baxpa sacked Bliss Triumphs, $2.75@3, poor condition, $2.25@250; Virginia (barreD cobblers, $4.75@4s5; North Carolina (barre) cobblers, $4.50@A65; heated, $494.25.
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MARKET AT GLANCE

NEW YORK, June 3O.-stocks, firm. Bonds, steady. Foreign exchanges, lower. Cotton. lower. Sugar, easy.
 Coffee, higher.
 CHICAGO, June so.-Wheat, steady. Corn, strong. Cattle, steady to strong Hogs, higher.
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LONDON June S0.-Bar silver, 34h pence per ounce; monsy,8% per cent; discount rates, short bills, 3h @3 5-16 per cent; 3-months bills, &.5-16 per cent.
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FOREIGN ExCHANGEs

NEW YORK, June a0.-7ESreisn-. ex- changes were easy; quotationB in cents: Great Britain, demand, $4.31M: cables, $4.82h; 60-day bills on banks, $4.29x. France, demand, 6.27; cables. 5.2s; Ger many (per trillion), .23%; Tokyo, AZ; Montreal. 90 1-22 A# .. a
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sTEET, MARWET

NEW YORK, June 30t--steel prices, f. o.s.b.. Piftsburs, per 100 pounds: vanized sheets, $4.75GD4.80 s6fack sheets. S3.eoQ3.65; steel bars, $21692.25.
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nAIY MnNEY.

NEW YORK, June so.-ca1f money, steady; ruling rate, 2 per scent; call loans against acceptances, 1Msper cent; time loans, easy; mixed collateral, 60-90 days, 2%93 per cent. k
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BOND VALUES ' LOSE GROUND Prices Sent Lower By ss General Waning Of
 Interest

NEW YORK, June 30.-Waning in- terest in bond B trading today forcet prices generally lower, although pub, lie utility and a few industrial issues continued to forge ahead. Foreign fiancing virtually monopolized the in terest of investment circles. Bankers announced that the American portion of the Hungarian reconstruction loan amounted to '$7,5O0,OO would be offered on Wednesday. The bonds bearing 71a per cent interest will be sold at STA
 Reports that a $10,000,000 Finland Industrial mortgage loan, guaranteed by the government, would be floated here caused a three-point drop in Fin land 6's to SS, new low price for 1924. Preparations were also reported under way for selling a $2,500000 Norwegian municipal loan.
 New Orleans, Texas and Mexico 6's and Rio Grande and WesternS4's sold at the years top prices. Other changes were mainly unimpOrtant
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SPOT COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, June 3O.-Spot cot ton, steady and unchanged. Sales on the spot, 237 bales; to arrive, 100. Low middling, 25.55c; mIddling, 23S0c; good middling, 29.S2c. Receipts, 3,6S3; stock S1 SIS.
 NEW YORK. June SO.-Spot cotton, quiet; middling, 3O.20c.
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SUGAR .ArARKEr

NEW YORK, June 30.--Raw sugar was firmer today at an advance of 1 1-1ee, to the basis of B.eOe for Cubans, duty paid. Sales reported included so,-
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NEW YORK CURE

:. NEW YORK. June 90.-FOlIowing is the official list Of transactions the New York Curb Exchange giving all stocks and bonds traded in
 INDU9TRIAt9
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RAW SILK
 NEW YORK, June 30.-Raw silk was irregular; prices per pound: Kansai double extra cracks, $5.50G5.65; Kan sal best Io!S 1. $5.2O@5.SO; shinshu No. 1. $6.10@5.20; Canton extras, A." 14-16, $6.10Q6.20; Shanghai, China, steam i'll gold double deer, $5.SOQ5.S5.
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NEW YORK STOCKS

< NEW YORK. June yO.--Followlns are todsy's
 sales. hlsh low and closing prices of stocks listed on the NeN York Stock Exchange:
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RAR sTTVE
LnNDON MONEY

NEW YORK, June SOr-Bar silver. 65%e; Mexican dollars, 50%c.
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MISCELLANEOUS OILS
POULTRY AND PRODUCE

NEW YORK, June 3o-Live poultry was irregular; no freight quotations; express broilers, 30@45c; express fowls, q @26c; express turkeys, 25@26c.
 Dressed poultry was irregular; chick ems, 2S@44c; fowls, 20@30c; old roosters, 16921c; turkeys, 2O@2sc.
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON NEW ORLEANS. La. June 3O,-The following are the opening, highest lowest and closing quota lions on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange:
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ST. LOUIS, Mo, June so.-Hens, 2Oc springs, 35c; turkeys, 25hc; ducks, 1Sc; geese, 15c.
 Butter, 39hc.
 Eggs, 22c.
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KANSAS CITY, June sO.-Eges. un- changed; firsts, 25c; selected, 81c.
 Butter, unchanged; creamery, 43@44c; packing, 26c.
 Poultry, unchanged; hens, roosters, 12c; broilers, 86Q2Sc. .-
 Potatoes, unchanged; western whites. $2Q2.1o.
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FLAX MARKET

DULUTH, Minn., June S0.-Flax elo-eA; F1iyt e2.-9,s SepisUf tr, $2.17h ,; q cletohas S2l2At
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NEW YORK BONDS

NEW YORK, June 3o.-FcllcwinE are todsy's high. low and closing prices Of bonds on the New Work stock Exchange and the total sales of easch bond
 UNITED STATES BONDS
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CHICAGO, June 90.-Butter, lower. Creamery extras, Sshc; standards, 99c; extra firsts, 3T@8sc; firsts, S5h 436hc; seconds, 82@34Mc.
 Eggs, unchanged. Receipts, 21,766 cases. Firsts, 2b@251Sci ordinary firsts. 2334 @24e; storage packed extras, 2sAc; firsts, 26c.
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NEW YORK, June 30.-Flour, steady. Spring patents, $767.50; soft winter straights. s5.4005.75; hard winter straights, $6.50@7. -
 Rye, steady; No. western, 911lc, f. o. b. New York, and S9hc, c. 1. f. ex- port.
 Barley, steady; malting, 9O@s5c, C. 1. f. New York.
 Pork, steady; mess, O2s@27; family. 627@28.
 Lard, barely steady; middle west, S11.35611.45.
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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS
CASH WHEAT

CASH WHEAT
 CHICAGO, June 30.-wheat, No. 2 red, &.16@116h; No. ? hard, $116h6 1.19K.
 Corn. No. 2 mixed, 9S1s 699c; No. 2 yellow, $161.01; north No. white, $1; sample grades, 94h@96c.
 Oats, No. 2 white, 56% 06Oc; No. 8 white, 57% @59Kc.
 Rye, nominal.
 Rye, nominal; barely 70@74c. : Timothy seed, $667.70.
 Clover seed, $11611.90.
 Lard, S10.9O.
 Ribsy $10.
 Bellies, $1o.25.
 ST. LOUIS, June 30.-Cash wheat, No. red. $1.20; No. 2 hard, $116. Corn, No. 2 white, $1.o2; No yellow, oats, No. white, soc; No. white, 5S159hc.
 Close-wheat: July, s112A; septem- Der, $1.15N. Corn: July. 97hc Septem- Der. 94%c. Oats: July. b6hc.
 KANSAS CITY, June sO.-Wheat, No. hard, $107Q1.29;. No. 2 red, .$1.1061.12 Corn, No. yellow, 9sQ9shc; No. 2 mixed, SIC Oats, No. 2 white, 57Q57hc.
 Hay, unchanged; No. 1 timothy, $19 020; No. 1 prairie, $11.5001250; clover, mixed light, $1S.5O@19; choice alfalfa, $20@22.
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NEW YORK, June sO.--Butter, un- settled. Receipts, s,eOO. Creamery high CT than extras, 41941&c; creamery ex- tras (92 score), 40h @4o&c; creamery extras, firsts (ss to s1 score), s7% 940c.
 Eggs, firm. Receipts, 12.039 cases. Prices were unchanged.
 Cheese, steady. Receipts, s7,B2s pounds. Prices yere unchanged.
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CHICAGO, June 3O.-Live poultry, higher; fowls, 20@22c; broilers, 310S6c; roosters, 14c.
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FLOuR MARKET

FLOUR MARKET MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 3O.- Flour was unchanged; family patents, 7.3007.50 a barrel. Shipments, 43,375 barrels. Bran, $21.
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PORT NovEMENr
INTERIOR MOVEMENT

Receipts-Week. 11,14l: season. 6,755i2s Exports-Week. 26. 6.4s5; season, 5.442. .229.
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RAW SILK

RICE MARKET NEW ORLEANS, June 30-Rice was
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NEW YORK COTTON NEW YORK, June 30-IThe following are the opening. highest lowest and closing quotations for today on the New York Cotton Exchange:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-09
PROTECT 1NsECT.EATING BIRDS

The forthcoming conference which the conservationists and sportsmen are urged by the state commissioner of game and fisheries to attend at Montgomery in September may mean much more to the farmers, the conservationists and the sportsmen than they are inclined to be- lieve. Commissioner Quinn estimates the damage to gardens, fields and orchards in the state from insects at about twenty million dollars annually. This heavy loss is emphasized by MT. Quinn as an argu- ment for the protection of birds that feed upon insects, which includes most of those in this state. He believes the most effec- tive protection against insects is insec- tivorous birds.
 MT. Quinn says that an encouraging sign is the increased interest which the farmers and hunters are manifesting in the protection of birds throughout the state. It is largely a matter of educa- tion, and the outlook in this movement is steadily becoming more reassuring. The sportsmen who realize the value of bird life are doing much to advance the move ment. It is believed that the conference to be held in Montgomery will impress sively set forth the value of wild life in the state not only from recreational VlGW, DuCJ HnOEO important SClll, III us economic aspect. Alabama should be a fishermen's and hunters paradise. It has all the cover, feeding conditions and climatic advantages for the propagation of game and fish. And while this is being considered, it were we'll to devise ways and means for proper protection of the birds which are of large economic value to the farmers. Cooperation by the to the farmers.
 As the Mobile Register says: "The wild life of Alabama is we'll worth conserving for the sake of the sport, and for the greater reason that it confers economic benefits on the people. It would be i'm possible to calculate, for instance, just how much the consumption of insects by birds saves the farmers every year." The knowledge that the birds are his faithful allies should enlist the farmer in theil systematic protection.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-09
Though

never turned a thought away that seemed
 to bring the light only hate them when they're gray and when
 they bring the night. I would not miss for anything their varied
 gifts of being {. The eyes through which the living soul can
 do it's farthest seeing. I've often met them here and there, in stress
 and storm and strife, Or in the quiet places where the best things
 come to life. I welcome all and look them OCT, and pick
 and choose at will Lord God, forgive me if I choose sometimes
 so poor and i'll! Oh, happy thought, you have your place; and
 yet cannot say Unto the hard, unhappy thought that it shall
 go away. For, somehow, in my heart seem to want
 to harbor those That might sometime in song or chime be
 turned into rosel
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OF INTEREST TO BIRMINGHAM

Of special interest to Birmingham and this district is the extensive work of improving the Central of Georgia Railway between Birmingham and Co., lumbus, Georgia. This interest arises not only because of the benefits to this district in providing better shipping fa- cilities over this route to and from Flor ida, but because the vast materials re- quired for the improvements will be fur nished almost entirely by this district. The cost of the improvements is esti- mated at eight million dollars, and the time required to complete the project will be eighteen months.
 That most of the materials-steel rails, ties and structural steel for the new trestles-will come from this district not only will prove beneficial to the Bir- mingham industries, but represents due appreciation of the generous patronage which the Central of Georgia and its pa rent company, the Illinois Central, have long received from the shippers of this section. Both systems have been pro- gressive and have manifested interest in the development of this district. They have shown spirit of cooperation in its expansion, and have profited by their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-09
THE RAW.MILK CONTROVERSY

If the statement of the raw-milk pro- ducers in Sundays Age-Herald is fully and accurately reflective of their atti- tude, it is difficult to understand why there should be inability to come to some mutually agreeable understanding with the health department. For the city commission to enact any ordinance not endorsed by the health board would be unwise, unless there is proof that the health board has been in error, something difficult of proof, to say the least. Therefore, it would be far more in con- formity with public polity for both the raw-milk producers and the health au- thorities to seek such an understanding
 Although the raw-milk producers de- clare that the health department is re- sponsive to suggestions from the pasteur- ized milk producers adversely affecting the business of the raw-milk producers, the health authorities deny such allega- tion. The health department does take the position, however, that unless raw milk conforms to the requirements it will have to be sterilized. All we'll and good But the raw-milk producers publicly de- clare that they seek no reduction in the standards and that they already possess certificates proving that they are produc- ing milk within the requirements.
 1t appears that there must be some origin of disagreement apart from the actual milk requirements. There is strong suggestion of some personal feel ing. That ought not to exist. The peo- pie deprecate any such situation. The people want only square deal to all concerned, including themselves. That square deal includes the right of selling raw milk within the city in accordance with health requirements. Producers have a right to sell pure raw milk, and those who prefer pure raw milk have a right to such service.
 It is evidently the duty of the health department, not to force raw-milk pro- ducers out of business, as it is alleged is in process, but to see to it that the raw milk thus sold is within the requirements. The public has full confidence that the health department is protecting the pub- lie health; but the public would also like to be informed that there is no injustice in the premises as alleged by, the pro- ducers. It would be triumph for the health department if this question could be settled outside of the municipal com mission.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-09
Forum Of The People
Warns Colored Men Against The North

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 About two years ago a Northern corpora tion got in touch with me and through my help they fooled three hundred men to the states of Pennsylvania and Ohio, offered big inducements and we did not get as much per day as we got here. Living conditions and everything were so much higher than they are here. Then we had to contribute to the union at least 9 per cent. of our wages. will say and can prove that the offers made by those Northern concerns are joke and fraud. Take workingman's advice, stay in Birmingham, land of plenty and prosperity and among corporations that will help you in time of need a land of civiliza- tion. All the best jobs are held by for egners Pollacks and Slavics and others. Please take my advice and stay away from there Below, for the benefit and welfare of the colored man, will give you a few names of a few colored men you can write that will also tell you and yours to stay away from there. You can write them as follows:
 J. Perry 112 Mill street, Duguesne, Pa. Earlie Perry, 502 Mill street, Duquesne, Pa, l and Howard, same address Julius Kurch, 100 Mill street, Duquesne, Pa; Lee Smith, 43O Mill street. Duquesne, Pa; Charlie Green, 506 River avenue, Duquesne, Pa. and another truthful old negro, old Joe Wiley, Alpine, Ala, route 2. Box IS. If I had space could give you names and addresses of three hundred or more that will gladly give you the same advice. As a last word. will say, stay in a land of plenty to eat and a country where the corporations take interest in your welfare and treatment in time of need. Don't be misled by Northern inducements. It is all false.
 GEORGE w. HANSON.
 Morris Ala
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Watching The Parade
FEW weeks ago I met a young wini,
By JOHN PILGRIM

A FEW weeks ago met a young Willie A Harrington for the first time. Round.
 faced, kindly, we'll dressed, entertain. ing, well informed. I thought he would go far in life. This conviction was sustained when a little later l heard some of his busi. ness associates talk of him.
 "A good sport" they said Good business man, too. Smart"
 A little later listened to a group of the hard-boiled discuss young Willie. They are men with well-lined faces, impenetrable eyes cold manners. Maybe they are a bit toe much of the Broadway sort, but they are al least reputable business men who play square
 "Young Harrington is sap," they said "He won't do. Find some one else"
 Come to think about it, that is precisely what Harrington is. He is too willing tC oblige. He wants to please overly much He is in danger of becoming a yes-man, ii he is not one now. He began life with every item in his favor, and he is throwing his ad vantages away because of a weak and puerill desire to be well liked.
 And no man can be well liked, anywhere who lacks courage to say no and stick to it
 The man who apologizes for saying nC when he knows that he is right has weak ness inside that he should buttress No should be all the answer necessary. Jus ''no''-asssuming that the case has beer fully stated. "No" covers the ground. is the most valuable little word in the world And it isn't used half enough.
 Willie Harrington never says "no'' if ht can by any possibility say "yes." When h. does he almost grovels, he's so sorry. Willie is a sap.
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The House And Soul
By JOHN CARLYLE

Irene Judy is dead. For nineteen years she lay in bed, helpless but not hope less cripple.
 Toward the end of her life the bodily eyes of this girl were sightless and her hands were still. She could not even move. But the soul of her was not blind and it was not still It travelled into far spiritual cities and climbed delectable mountains.
 The soul of Irene Judy, little Kansas crippled girl went marching on. And today and always it will go marching on and marching on.
 Many years ago this bed-ridden girl, who was p when she died the other day, organ ized the girls of Garnett, Kansas, into the Merry Mercy Maidens.
 The work of these girls, inspired and fos- tered, kept alive and built up by Irene Judy, was to care for the sick and crippled children of this Kansas town and to raise money for the little ones in Mercy hospital, Kansas City.
 They have dedicated monument to Irene in Garnett But her enduring monu- ment-beside which marble shall decay and laurel wither-is her Great Gift to Others of life and good works.
 Said physician from the Kansas hospital :
 Her soul was the most noble ever knew, though the house it dwelt in long before had broken down."
 How are you today?" asked a friend of the old John Quincy Adams as he strode along a Boston street.
 "I am exceedingly well," said the aged man, though the house in which dwell is about worn out.'
 What wondrous thing it is to come to the realization that there is an eternal quail ity in our lives an enduring, always-g growing, ever-climbing self that is imperviOus to the storms of life that beat down and destroy i the house we live in.
 So may we all go marching on-exceed, | ingly well.
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Brief Nature Studies
THEN summer fishermen at Bay Point,
By J. OTIS SWIFT.

w THEN summer fishermen at Bay Point, w Me, come in from deep-sea trips out
 beyond Seguin and clean their fish on the rocks, the gulls gather in an expectant. talkative flock on the tide over the clamflats. The head of a pollack is thrown to them. There is a scramble and one of the biggest gulls> >swims away with it, tearing it to pieces on the surface. An envious flotilla follows, screaming. t..
 Then from the spruce-Covered jagged rocks up on Clark's Island tn cola bald eagle that has been waiting launches on broad wings his white head and tail glittering in the morn ing light. In a moment he is above the quarrelling gulls and screaming terms, cir cling, tense and magnificent The younger gulls rise to depart in cloud. The one with the head stays, swallowing a last morsel Down swoops the eagle, screaming, and the trophy is dropped in the shallow tide-water
 His great talons clutching the fish-head Haliaetus rises and flaps lazily away to 6 rock appearing in the retreating waters uE the estuary. The disappointed gulls return to the fishermen, complaining. But no ont follows the eagle.
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Ipicion asit is for guilty man to be con Ivicted Whenever there is any suspicion cast upon the record of a man conscious of his own integrity his first impulse is to demand a full investigation into the facts. The first impulse of man con scious of guilt is just the opposite.
 It is not possible for the public to form any reliable opinion regarding the guilt or innocence of those whose names have been involved in the various municipal shortages. Of one thing, however, the public is convinced. The capacity of those who have been administering the city's cash is totally inadequate. Of an- other thing the public is convinced. That is that the city commission has not been properly responsive to its public trust in regard to the financial records, and that the commission delayed far too long in proceeding to take over the shortage probes when the commissioner in charge of finances revealed himself as incompetent and irresolute. As soon as the commissioner in charge of finances failed to probe the shortages, that mo- ment the duty fell upon the rest of the commission to do so. When the com mission hesitated, it at once became recrcant to its duty and a participant in the public censure.