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liverpool Cotton

LIVERPOOL. April IS. Csottom
Good business was done III spots
Prices were steady with sales I'll
5000 bales.
Mids. fair. Sli.45: strictly soct
raids., $10.95; good midse $10.65
strictly unids.. 5000: mids., $10.I
strictly low naids., So $50: low nnidst
So .35: strictly good ord, $7s40, and
Futures opened quiet; May. So -
July, 1919; October, 1921. ana Jan
nary, 1882.
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New York Textiles

NEW YORK, April 20. wide
sheetings were sold on memoran-
dunn today, forecasting q revision
In price later on. Owing to dis
couraging foreign cable advices
.burlap markets continued quiet.
Cotton yarns were dull. Raw, silk
was easier and unchanged, and silk
goods were also reported UNI
changed in light demand. No new
developments are reported In the
dull wooden and Worated markets.
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Chicago Grain Opening

CHICAGO, April 60 ra in 5
opened steady today Wheat was
up NC to sc down; Corn, &c to
nc down, and oats, unchanged to
nc higher.
Wheat May, new, $1.63x OLE;
May, old, s1.62N; July, $1.435k n
1.43%; September, $1.36M 01.S7..
Corn-May. 725sc; July, THO
1850: September, S09s @8O1kc.
Oats--May. 411sc; July, 42Ac:
September, 43Ac.
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New York COTTON

NEW YORK. April 29.-The cot
ton market was fairly steady at the
opening today. with first prices "A
to 5 points lower. May opened at
$1S.56. down 4; July, $1s.11. down
4. and October, $17.20. down 8.
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Local Stocks

FURNISHED by W. B. Hibbs & Coz
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washington Railway & Electric
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washington Gas $3.50 ,000@1O0.
D. C. Paper 6,s. $1,0000S6.
MONEY
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Rubber Market

NEW YORK, April 29.-Crude
rubber market firm. Sellers asked
49c for spot April and May smoked
ribbed sheets: 4Sc for June; Ate for
July and Ate for all future months.
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Oil Stocks

trurntshea b y. 3. Hlse. & COB
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New York Coffee Market

BY lnfernatiOnal News Service
NEW YORK, April 29.--The COT.
fee market opened Q to rs points
higher today May, $17.10. up 90;
July $3.50. up rs, and September.
$16.15. UP 90.
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Foreign Bonds
Canadian Wheat
FURNISHED BY W. B. Hibbs a
By international New. servi,

WINNIPEG. April 29.-Opening
wheat prices were: May, $1.56k q
1.56. down "; July. $1.55A @1.55,
down Il, and October, $1.36, down
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body. If the companion of Sirius,
however, with a mass nearly equal to
that of the sun, has a very much
smaller radiNS-is more compact, in
other words-a large relatively dis
placement might be expected.
Measurements of this displacement
have been made by Dr. Adams at
Mount Wilson, with results which are
in striking agreement with those pre-
dicted by Prof. Eddington. They in
dictate a radius for the star of only
about $4,000 miles. When combined
with the known mass of the star this
requires a mean density about $4,000
times that of water, or nearly $500
times that of the heaviest element
known on the earth.
Under such conditions" said DIR.
Adams, in writing from Mount VII
son of the discovery, matter must
exist in a state which we cannot as
vet initiate in our physical labora-
tories and in which the normal atoms
Of matter are crushed or deleted of
their rings of satellites far beyond our
present experience. BY this same
computation, broadly speaking, II
could be found that a piece Of the
companion star only a cubic inch in
size would weigh ton by our meas
ureS.
But what has all this to do with the
"Millikan rays? Some Of 1t nothing;
possibly none Of It viii ever a6ec4 the
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mel of the Antarctic we'll to the south.
Snow and blow of course still followed
us, but every day saw us farther TO
the east and we began to count the
days that should bring US to our des-
tination.
WE boys were keenly looking for.
w ward to our first foreign port.
We began to feel we had spent all our
lives at sea. At least We had learnt
a lot since we took our last look
at old England. The roaring forties
are a fine training ground for sailor
men; not even the North Atlantic
can beat them in the matter Of gales
and big seas.
We made pretty good time across
the fringe of the great Australian
Blight till we were within 500 miles
of Kangaroo Island. Then the wind
hauled ahead and blew dead
mueller. For eight long days 1t hung
| in the east and constrained US to tack
every two hours. beating every inch
of the remaining way across the
| blight.
Coming at the end of a long pas
sage. 1t disguised everybody. A soil.
tary whale came up and spouted
nearby. remaining in sight a consid
cradle time, while we hurled anath.
| emas at it as the cause Of all our
| trouble.
After about q week Of tack and
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fellows of research, and at the pres
ent time several important tnStitu-
tons are carrying forward investiga-
tions that might" develop some still
more interesting matter in the flu
ture.
An informal introduction to DR.. Mil
| likan Is not improper about this time.
He is one of the best known physi-
ciSts in the world and in 1923 was
awarded the Nobel prize in physics for
isolating and measuring the ultimate
electric unit-the electron. The cleo
iron. of course, is one of the parts of
an atom. 1t might be noticed that his
discovery of the mysterious high fire.
quency cosmic rays brings into play
once again the atom.
AS we have said before. Prof. MILL
kan refuses to theorize about the rays;
he would prefer to wait a little longer,
when, possibly, he will no longer have
to theorize. But the interesting fact
now is the possibility that their origin
is so similar to the condition of mat
ter as 1t seems to prevail on the COM
panion star of Sirius.
Astronomers are already turning
their telescopes on this strange fellow
of the armament and the physicists
are carrying along researches in their
physical laboratories accordingly. The
discoverer OF the rays processes dis
belief that they will ever be dashed
to the service Of mankind.
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hp With Decks Awash Must Fight Desperately to LIVE

since leaving Newcastle. There was
nothing unusual in that. for little
troubled by the fleets of commerce are
these wild heights of the Midpacif1c.
Only a wandering wind TANNER like
ourselves seeks their Businesses, and
no scrap of land breaks the mighty
expanse of ocean between Macquarie
Island and the horn.
On these wilId-swept fields Of In
f1nity the sight of a vessel Is pleasant
experience to eyes long accustomed to
the empty ring of the horizon
In addition to that grace of line and
motion, which receives its most per-
feet expression in a sailing ship, par.
ticularly when running under full sail
to a quartering wind, there Is a sense
of companionship, flavor of romance,
in the proximity of another little
world, similar to ones own, yet mex
orably sundered, that rises for a brief
space out of the blue to fade therein
again like an apparition from eternity
A few days later, to a three or four
knot breeze, we stood in for the land
and made the island of San Lorenzo,
at the mouth of Callao Bay. just be-
fore noon. 1t was dark before we
passed the weSternmost end OF the
island, and, drifting very slowly, came
to an anchor in the roads an hour or
two later, on our fifty-flrst day out
from Newcastle-not a bad passage
considering the days we had lost in
the Cook Straits and our slow drift up
the American coast.
After several weeks spent at Callao
In unloading our cargo and at Santa
Rosa, where we shipped a cargo Of
guano, we set sail for home and Eng
land. This involved the treacherous
passage of Cape Horn, dreaded by all
mariners.
Copyright. 1920
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It happened one night. had laid
aloft to furl the main t'gallant .stays'l
and, as our custom was, had thrown
my leg across 1t to ride 1t down. Be
ing pitch dark, the head downhaul
had not been hauled properly taut
and. before l could get a turn with
gasket, the head shot up the stay
the sail gave a flap. and l was
knocked of
Instinctively as / fell threw up
my hands and, by what was little
short of a miracle, grabbed hold Of
the lower footrope and held it. The
jerk almost pulled my arms out, but
/ managed to hang on and. twisting
my legs round the staysl sheet, slid
down to the fiferail and so stepped
on deck.
It was about the closest shave one
could have had. All that night my
body seemed on fire, and though I was
allowed to stay in my bunk, sleep !
couldn't. Lucifer himself never fell so
far as. all night long. kept doing in
sudden Ats and starts. I turned out
next morning, but the wrench had
made my shoulders black and blue,
and for a few days / was as weak as
a kitten and kept on feeling horrible
jerks at the back Of my head.
RE1NG Wintertime. we not only had
the cold to put up with. but dark
ness as we'll, and Of the two, the lat
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was swept off his feet and hurled
against the crabwinch. He got mas
t. cash on the head that stunned him
and Burton, an apprentice, and the
| steward carried him along to the
fok's'le. The rest of US got the wedges
driven home. The immediate danger
| was over, and we started to secure
the hatch more thoroughly.
An old mooring-line was brought
along from orard under the mate s
| orders. With this we took a number
| Of turns round and round the hatch
| coamings, sweating each turn tight
with the handy billy" and trapping
the whole lot together. This served
to protect the wedges, but it was q
| long job, waistdeep in the pouring
| seas.
| Eight bells came and went; the gal
| ley-fire was out; there was no coffee
for anybody and the work went on. II
was near midday before the job was
| finished and the order given for the
watch to go below.
| All that day and night the storm
| lasted. Throughout the whole time
the old man scarcely left the deck.
| Occasionally he went below to take a
| look at the barometer, or shelter him
| self for few moments in the com.
panion to drink cup of coffee
brought him by the steward. For the
rest of the time he stood near the
weather rail and watched the sea and
the ship. He hardly spoke, and when
| he did. Il was simply to give an order
to the officer on watch.
| Our masterful old skipper, I always
| thought. appeared at his best in
| heavy weather. Personally 1 always
felt more comfortable when he was on
| the poop, and 1t seemed to me the
bark herself behaved better under the
| direct eye of her commander.
He handled her wonderfully Often,
| looking at our tiny sea-swept hull,
with its towering fabric Of spar and
| cordage, I marveled how a man could
| drive that contrivance of steel and
| ocean and find his way to a particular
| cluster of human habitations on the
| other side Of the globe.
A seaman, and master one, was
| Capt. West. Skilled in sea lore and
| limbed like a Viking, he was no I'M
worthy descendant OF the Devon sea
| dogs of old. His powers of endurance
were extraordinary. When necessity
| arose he seemed able to do without
food or sleep indefinitely.
Grim and gray of face, with
drenched side-blown whiskers and in.
| domitable eyes, he would stand for
hour after hour through day and night
| by weather-rail or helmsman, sole
| master of his ship and crew and, TAX.
ing counsel of none, beat the storm
| tiend at his own game.
On this occasion he kept the deck
| for 36 hours. II was the morning of
| the second day before the weather
moderated sufficiently to enable US to
| make sail, and he went below and
left the deck to the mate.
This was the worst spell of bad
weather we had during the passage.
| We did not sight the misty tops Of
Kerguelen. but edged a little to the
north ard and left that lonely senti-
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tack we sighted the low shores of
Kangaroo Island right ahead late
one afternoon. 1t was our ninety
seventh day out, and delighted we
were to see brown earth after SO long
of endless salt water.
AS though 1t realized we had won
through, the wind came fair and we
ran in just close enough to distinguish
the low white cliffs of the island and
make sure of our position, then stood
away on the opposite tack to round
Cape Borda, the headland at it's west
ern extremity.
We passed the latter during the
night, ran up the Investigator Strait
and. when morning broke. found our
selves we'll into the St. Vincent
Gulf and In sight of a small island
crowned by a lighthouse and signal
station
We spoke the latter, reporting our
name and port Of departure. and at
three in the afternoon sighted a low
sandy shore right ahead, with a sig
nal station and a few scattered houses
in the background. 1t was Port AIDE
laide, Australia
After more than two months here
and at Newcastle. In New South
Wales. unloading part of our cargo
and overhauling and cleaning the
ship, we set forth for the west coast
Of South America, setting out in q
southerly direction.
AS we drove farther to the south
we approached realms where it is as
rare, as It is pleasant. a thing to be-
hold the sun. We passed Chatham
Island and soon after met with sue
cession of gales that chased up right
across the breadth Of the Pacific.
Right roaring forties" weather
came down on us with a swoop. |
nearly missed experiencing it or any
thing else beneath the glimpse of the
moon. for in the first blow that
caught US l had very narrow
escape.
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Last week Mr. Clements re-
counted his introduction, as an APP
prentice seaman, to life aboard
ship and to the violence of the
sea. His account dealt with tho
passage of the bark Arethusa-
one of the comparatively few deep
water sailing vessels then afioat
from London to the region of
the Cape Of Good Hope, in a voy-
age around the world.
Many were the dangers encoun-
tered by the Arethusa and her
crew, first In the Bay of Biscay,
noted for It's storms. and later In
the South Atlantic, the realm of
gales and heavy seas. Here, in a
mighty wind. while the crew was
washed about in swirling, waist
deep water in an effort to furl the
mainSail, that canvas was torn to
ribbons and blown into the sea.
Eventually the sail was recov-
e." and the ship prepared for
further battles in still more dan
gerous regions. These are de-
scrtbed in the present article, the
second OF a series of three.
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study of these powerful beams. But
1t Is interesting to make some COM
PARSONS and then consider what
might result. The scientist, of course,
will never hazard a guess He viii
theoriZe about some things, but ask
him to predict what practical APP
plication a new discovery will have.
and he will Immediately begin to talk
about the weather, provided it isn't
the weather you have asked him
about. Via carefully selected detours,
however, 1t is occasionally possible to
pilfer some of the thoughts that are
running through his mind.
In the first place. SO far as it is
known. no person is yet sure just
what "Millikan rays" are or whence
they come. DR.. Millikan discovered
them possibly a year ago and an
nounced them to the world for the
first time in a paper read before the
annual meeting of the American
Academy of Sciences at Madison.
Wis, early last November. Their
announcement created a sensation
among scientists.
DIR. Millikan described them as high
frequency rays of cosmic origin.
From somewhere out in the great
spaces of the universe they bonn
bard the earth easelessly-invisible.
yet a thousand times more powerful
than the X-ray, SO strong that they
can pierce s feet of solid lead. SO it
can be seen that what these cosmic
projectiles might do bewilders the
Imagination, if man succeeds in har-
Messing them to his uses as he has the
X-ray.
" X
A T the best, these wandering of the
imagination are long way from
"home," and 1t must never be forgot
ten that all are we'll insulated with
that indefinite word might" The dis
coverer Of the rays will not even go so
far as to say what might" come of
his discovery. but he has at least ex-
cited tremendous interest among his
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Science Finds Density of Sirius Mate;
Studies New, Powerful COsmic Rays

These rays are SO minute" he ex-
planned to an interviewer. that it
does not seem probable that they
ever can be controlled or directed for
any useful purpose. The conception
to which this find leads is almost too
powerful a stimulus to the magma
ton. / have no doubt but that the
physicists will be explaining all kinds
of telepathies with it's aid.
Let that be as 1t may; am merely
presenting the simple, experimental
facts"
1t is believed that the "Millikan
rays" result from the capture of the
negative electrons of an atom by the
positive nucleus of the same atom.
Every one knows, Of course, that an
atom consists of a positive nucleus
with number of negative electrons
circling around it. 1t is somewhat
like a miniature reproduction of our
solar system. Just as the planets
are ctrcling around the sun, so the
electrons circle around the nucleus.
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were necessarily difficult because of
the intense brightness of Sirius and
the nearnesS of the two stars, and for
these reasons the famous 100inch re-
f1ecting telescope at Mount Wilson
has been found to be the most sue
cessful instrument for the investiga-
ton.
THE similarity of the spectra of
Sirius and it's companion" astrono-
mers decided, necessarily implies
nearly the same temperature and sur
face brightness. If the surface bright
ness of the companion, however, ap-
proaches that of Sirius we can ac-
count for the relative faintness of
the star only by assuming a very
small size, and this, in turn, must
necessitate extraordinarily high den
sity for the material composing the
star, since we know that it's masS-its
weights large"
The only alternative to this view,
it seemed, appeared to be that a
star can give a spectrum similar to
that of a star of high temperature
and great surface brightness and yet
be relatively cool. Astronomers have
never found any good reasons to be-
lieve that such stars exist, however.
Immediately the remarkable alterna-
tive explanations here enumerated
raised the question in the mind of an
English astronomer Eddington,
whether the theory of general rela-
tivity would not provide a means for
deciding between the two.
X + X
IN accordance with the theory Of
general relatively a large mass of
matter like the sun or star should
produce a slight displacement of the
lines in the spectrum which it ra-
dates. This displacement is di-
rectly proportional to the mass of the
star and inversely proportional to
it's radius. So in the case of the sun
the displacement Is very small because
the sun is a comparatively large
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Legislator Abroad.
Continued from Third Page.)

went West with the rifle and the AK"
a missionary told Senator Howell, but
the Englishmen come out here with
the tennis racket and the golf club"
At Nairobi, for example, the Senator
found 5000 white residents mostly
living in the hills, and convenient TO
two excellent hotels were five tennis
and other sport clubs and two well
maintained golf links.
When the Howells dropped down to
Portuguese East Africa they went to
Rhodesia, and to johannesburg in the
Transvaal and TO the famous Kimber-
ley mines. All through this section
were the gold and diamond mines.
They were amazed at the huge piles
of ''tailings" mountain high-just a
big ledge of rock sloping down at an
angle of about 40 degrees. Five bill
lions of dollars were taken out and
there is estimated to be more than as
much yet to come.
4 ND now we come to the other
phase of Senator Howell's trip.
Actuated by desire to learn what
Americas shipping venture looks like
through foreign eyes and to get a
closeup, personal impression of the
merchant marine opportunities ahead
of the United States, the Senator and
Mrs. Howell travelled in Italian,
Dutch, English and American cargo
ships.
Summarizing his observations and
conclusions, Senator Howell says: THE
Shipping Board here is not an isolated
example of shipping losing money.
They have been making no money any
where throughout the world-it has
been a struggle. English shipping has
been for a long time. For instance,
7,500ton. very ordinary specification
freighter, cost in London during the
war about S140 per lightweight ton.
and last July we could buy that
freighter for $3S a ton. And we sold
all of those Is ships plying between
here and the Mediterranean for about
$3.50 a ton. providing that % per cent
should be paid down and 10 per cent
of the balance every year. So now
we have them paying about 81 cents
| per ton a year on account. while the
depreciation is 81 per ton a year.
Congress has refused to bonus
these shipping companies. but the add
ministration is doing It by saying:
Here is a ship worth $40 a ton. We
will give it to you for $3.50 and pay
us 81 cents a year-we will not even
ask you to pay the cost of depreci-
alton
my whole impression is that we
are not making a real endeavor to
establish a real shipping business. We
are running 1t just about as you
would expect a corps of officials to
run department store which was in
the hands of a receiver and about TO
! be closed out.
What i wanted to do was to go
on these cargo boats, sit around the
| table with the officers and talk shop
In our nearly 10000 miles. we made
| most of the distance on shipboard and
spent about 100 days aboard.
MY conclusions are this: We are
running this shipping business as IL
we wanted to get out. We are not
| running it with the idea of building
We are simply pulling the bricks out
of the wall, instead of putting them
in the wall. And you know what sort
Of effect that has-how long a business
is likely to last under such conditions"
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Light Is Air Gauge.

MO longer is it necessary for the
y motorist, getting free air" at
the gas station, to disconnect the air
hose from the tire valve frequently
to test the pressure in the tire.
An automatic air-meter is the latest
device for the gas station, says Pop
ular Science Monthly. The motorist
sets the dial at the exact pressure
he desires in the tires.
When the dial is set, a light. TO
which the indicator is pointing, comes
on. All that is necessary now Is to
attach the hose to the tire. When
the tire is filled to the pressure indi-
Gated, the light goes off.
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Sailing Vessel Encounters Diabolical
Winds and Bursting Seas In the Roaring
Forties of the Indian Ocean-A Noble
Craft, an Indomitable Captain and
Brave Crew-Passing the Dreaded Cape
of Storms-Hit by a "Rip-Snorter."
Struggling With Frozen Canvas on Icy
Workmanship Appalling Scream Out
of the Darkness.
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Why Shoulders Ache.
TYPISTS and musicians often

TYPISTS and musicians often get
pains in their shoulders. which
they diagnose as neuritis.
DIR. John b. Carnett. professor of
surgery at the University of Pennsyl-
vania, says the pain is caused by
deposit of lime salts that accumulates
between the shoulders and arm bone
on account of constant friction.
Once this deposit is located, declares
DR.. Garrett, the curative treatment u
found to be extremely simNls.