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Stories for Kiddies
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SOLILOQUY OF MODERN
& EVE. &
Put Up Shallow Conversation as a target Before
Other People’s Ears and the Arrows of Criticism
•, Will Pierce Its Very Heart
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ADELAIDE KEAAEHLT.)
t . 81ft nugget's from the ore of average conversation and! as a usual
„ thing, the ore y^lll bury the few small nuggets. If there are any.
Isn’t it appalling, and amusing, and at times startling, to note the
Way aome folks go rattling, prattling thoughtlessly' on, never giving
Judgment half a chancd to wedge in for a moment.
There are some good listeners In the world and that saves many a
Situation from volcanic eruptions.
Good listeners belong to several classes among which are the
quiet listeners who have the fore sight to know that It would do no good
to venture a remark In the presence of these Indefatigable monolo
gists. They listen to chatter and they listen to gossip; they listen to
small talk with as much ease as they listen to an opera in French or
German, which they do not under stand but enjoy immensely.
Another Specie.
We also have the Intelligent listener who makes his escape from
the chattering kind and listens keenly to the higher order of monologlst
in order that a few scraps of knowledge or an idea may be sifted from
the debris of ruined words. He listens for purely selfish reasons, yet
he Is the best listener of all. 8uch a person usually has a brain full of
good Ideas, gathered from the four corners of the earth, his knowledge
has been blown to him on cyclones and it has slipped In on balmy'breeies,
but the greater part of it was gained by listening and close attention.
galvatlea.
Then there are people whose only salvation lies In the fact that
they have learned to listen much and talk little. Others who have not
learned the value of.alienee and being a good listener, have exposed their
thin veneer of worth t the world, and the world has shot It full of holes.
One man or woman In a thousand, only,. Is a good talker, but to be
a good listener lies within the reach of - every Bane person who isn't
blinded with egotism and marked fvlth a too nimble tongue.
Put up shallow conversation as a target before other people's ears
and the arrows of criticism will pierce Its very heart.
Schools Teach “Culture,”
But They Neglect
• Science Utterly
And as a Result, bays (iarrett / . berviss, an hducat
i > ed” Child Who Knows All the World’s Literature
: v Cannot Even Tell Whu The Moon Has Different
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■Whir la It that at the begln
nlnf of a new month we first see
a fourth of the moon, then, as
tha month goes by, one-half, and
finally the whole moon?—Con
stant Reader, Chicago.”
Such a question ought not to bs
thrown Into the waste basket,
■Imply because It eghibits Ignore -
ance of the most primary facts'
of science. It Is Interesting and
Important as a commentary on the
utter failure of schools H6 pro
duce enlightenment outside of
certain conventional limits.
A pupil -comes out of school
knowing no more of nature than
his untrained senses teach him.
He Is taught to write and to read,
which are admirable and indis
pensable human Inventions, but
he Is not taught to understand
of the simplest. natural
by which he Is to be
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Idea still hang* over ear
tlonal system. In pUee* Of Srdew
and Latin we have “moduta '1- -
erature.” In substitution for . JI&—-,
mer and IVrgll we have the up
to-date spinners of words and
yarns.
The young mind Is taught to
look up to some clever story
writer as a -"great genius,* mad him ■
"craftsmanship” and crude ven
tures in “interpreting life and
character" are set up as models
of Intellectual achievement. The
pupil is made to feel ashamed If
he does not know about the meth
ods and performances of these
"tnaaters," but nobody points the
finger of scorn at him If he can
not tell why the moon changes us .
figure as It travels through the
sky. In truth, I. have reason to
suspect that some of the teach
ers themselves would have diffi
culty In explaining that! !
Children Know Literature Back
ward sad Forward, Bat Are
Ignorant ef Science.
The world Is held back by such
a system of education as this. Lit
erature should be the dessert on'
life's fable; but it Is made the
main dish. I find that my little
girl knows all about Carlyle, Kip
ling, et al, but If she knows any
thing about the sun and the
moon her knowledge is not de
rived from her school teachers.
She reads Burks “On Concllla
tlon," and “Kim," and the ‘Essay
•ltomanThinksi
seriously over the Question of
motherhood—it used to mean
such agony and aacrlflce, that
I /one could easily overlook the
pleasure and honor of children
in the home—but “Mother’s
Friend” has changed the
▼lews of thousands of women
from that of distress to a
pleasant anticipation of the
happiness of being a mother.
®F wternal application '•Mother’s
Frlead" assists nature In the won
derful transformation of the physical
.TV8 *nd comfort. Oct
Mothers Friend at any druaplst.
An Intensely Interesting booh on
L Mrtherhood will be mafied TrS. tS <
. sD. espertant mothers.. Addre
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but somebody outside the school
has to teaoh her to read nature,
» greater orator, preacher and
romancer than all of the world
weavers put together. We ought*
to count the age as long past
when "learning” was regard«4 as
Identical with the ability to write
:• and scan Latin verse, a la Dr.
•Johnson, but the spirit of that
•age. Is with our educators still.
LT Of course,.. .11 do .not mean to
decry literary education, • kept '
within reasonable bounds, but it
Is not literature that has pushed
mankind *to the point of mastery
over the forces of nature which,
with much labor, and the expen-t
diture of much tlm.e. It has, at
last, reached. Let us be just to
ourselves and to our descendants.
A very few story tellers will
amply aufllce for the world’s needs,
and It Is robbed of Its meed of
real laborers in its teeming and
wattng harvest flelda when thous
ands of young m|nds, in every ed
iicatlonal centre, are Imbued with
tS« netlpji that they may be in
pboatv" literary geniuses.
i ■„ .f* return to the question about
the macr., and this is perhaps the
-Hiukl'ri.'dih time that I have heard
it a»K«d by "educated” persons.
"Hi# visible form of the moon
changed because, first, it shines
by reflecting the light of the sun
and not by giving forth light of
its own, and, second, because it
travels around the earth in such
a way that it is sometimes, be
tween the earth and the sun and
sometimes on the opposite side of
the earth from the sun.
No One Oaght to Bo Mystified by
the Changes in the Moon’s
At the beginning; of the month
(lunar) the moon la between the
earth and the eun, and being an
opaque body, the sunlight cannot
pass through it, so that it. is in
visible to us because the aide of
4, it that receives light from the
sun is turned away from the earth.
As It swings out from the line
between the sun and the earth a
part of that half of the moon
which is Illuminated begins to
come into view from the earth,
and this part has the form of a
crescent, because it la the edge
of a globe or sphere.
You can graphically illustrate
this effect bv taking a globe and
passing it between you and a
lighted lamp. The farther it gets
out of line with the lamp the more
of its illuminated side will become
visible in the shape of a "new
moon.” When the moon has
inched a point at right angles
K the direction of the sue we see
it* Illuminated half sideways, or,
in other words, It appears as a
half-moon. %
As it begins to swing round to
ward the side of the earth oppos
ite to the sun, the visible portion
of its illuminated hemisphere in
creases to a "gibbous," or oblong
shape, and finally when It is ex
actly opposite to the sun. ns seen
from the earth, the whoel of Its
illuminated face is turned to
ward os. and (t appears as a 'Tull
moon.” '
Klementsry as nil this seems, I
have reason to know that it is a
mvstery to thousands, although It
shohld he a mvstery to nobody,
and would not he If astronomy,
“the mother of the sciences.” were
taught in the schools as It ought
to be taught.
. “Fair and Warmer” at The firand
Wednesday. Seats oa sale this morn
ing.
Tuscloosa Ready
For Rate Hearing
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TUSCALOOSA, ALA.. Jan. 7—Ar
rangements are being made by the
transportation committee of the' Tus
caloosa Board of Trade for the en
tertainment of the committee of the
Interstate Commerce Commission which
will visit this city on next Wednes
day for the purpose 6f taking testi
mony in the application of Tuscaloosa
for lower freight^ rates. Examiner G.
S. Gibson is expected , to arrive here
on Tuesday night. A number of prom
inent railroad officials will also be
present at tho hearing.
On Tuesday night the transporta
j tlon committee of the Board of Trade
will have a meeting with their law
yers and discuss the presentation of
1 the case the next day. The commit
tee In charge of the work for Tus
caloosa Is: Chairman A. C. Cade and
E. B. Nutum, J. L. Shepherd, A. I*
Massa. Luther Maxwell and J. P.
Burchfield.
This asoralag at The Grand Thea
tre. heats on sale for “Pair and
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FAIR DAUGHTER 6f MISSISSIPPI
WILL. CHRISTEN NEWEST BATTLESHIP,
MERIDIAN. HISS., Jan. 7.— Miaa
Camille MacBeth, of thle city, has been
aelected by Governor Bilbo and rati
fied by the secretary of the navy to
christen the new superdreadnaught
“Mississippi” to be launched at New
port News. Virginia, on January ti.
Miss MacBsyi Is one of Mississippi's
beautiful young women, much travel
ed. cultured and highly educated. She
will be accompanied to Newport News
by a large party of Mississippi friends.
Governor Bilbo and members of his
military staff will also attend the
launching of the battleship.
Miss MacBeth Is a daughter of J. M.
MacBeth, of Meridian, president of the
Mississippi State Highway Association
and a prominent man In Mississippi af
fairs.
It Is probable that the superdread
naught Mississippi will visit the Mis
sissippi Centennial exposition during
that event, whch opens on December
14, 1917, and closes six months later.
Authorities of the exposition are now
urging the government) to have this
battleship come to waters near Gulf
port, so that Mississippi, while cele
brating the one hundredth anlversary
of statehood, will, have an opportunity
to inspect the great superdreadnaught |
which bears the name of their‘state.
The silver service used on the old
Mississippi before she was sold by the
government to Greece will be presented
to the new superdreadnaught and prob
ably wilt be augmented by popular sub
scription by the time that the vessel is
ready for service. 1
Low Cost of Living
Breakfast.
Bermuda Cherries
Poached Eggs qn Toast
Coffee. .
Luncheon.
Waffles
Crackers and Cheese
Tea.
Dinner.
Cabbage Soup
Boston Baked Beans
Sweet Pickled Prunes
Curry Salad
Pineapple Mousse.
Breakfast.
Beranda Cherrle*—Drain a can
of cherries, dip them In the whites
of a beaten egg and then In pow
dered sugar. Chill and serve In
small dishes allowing six to each
person.
Luncheon.
Waffles—Mix two cups of flour,
two teaspoons of baking powder,
one cup of milk, and the yolk of
one egg. Add a tablespoon of melt
. ed butter and the white of the egg
beaten to a stiff frothi Fry on a
hot waffle Iron.
Dinner.
Cabbage Soap—Chop fine half a
small cabbage and boll In water to
cover. When tender add a pint of
soup stock and a little more water.
Serve without straining.
Sweet Pickled Prunes—Soak a
pound of prunes overnight In cold
water. Boll five minutes in the
same water, drain, pour over a cup
of vinegar, half a cup of brown
sugar and n teaspoon eac hof whole
cloves and cinnamon. Boll five min
utes longer and seal while hot.
Carry Salad—Cream together..
one cream cheese, one tablespoon
of butter and half a teaspoon of
curry powder. Serve on . lettuce
with a Frebch dressing.
pineapple Mousse—Beat a cup of
cream as stiff as possible. To this
add a cup and a half of shredded *
■ pine apple and a quarter of a cup
' of powdered sugar. Turn Into a
I mould, p*ver with waxed paper.
! pack In ice and salt, and let stand
[ three hours.
Sleepytime Tales
JAMES* Dl'TY.
Once upon a time there was a
• little boy named James. Every
night he would walk down the hill
to the railroad station #o meet
his father coming home fi-om work.
His mother always told him that
it was his daily duty to greet hia
father and keep him company on
the walk from the station to the
house.
There was a fruit stand near the
station and over the bananaa,
oranges and apples, was a high
light, here James used to stay by
the light and near the open door
of the stand because not only was
it brighter, (for It was dark when
James’ father returned from work)
but on cold nights it was warmer.
One night James was waiting
there when a little dog ran by
wagging hia fall. He was so aw
fully cute that James called to him
and then followed him. The dog
stopped, turned and then trotted
along with him.
After they had gone a little way
the dog Jumped over a fence and
ran out of sight. James wa» sor
ry he couldn’t get him to take
home for a pet but he couldn't get
over the fence. So back he walked
to the fruit stand to wait for his
father. . ...
He waited and waited but ^ils
daddy didn’t come. At last. James
became frightened and looked all
over the station but his father
was nowhere to be seen.
About an hour later, his father
came up hurriedly and taking
James up in his arms he carried
him home.
’’Where were you? he asked.
*’Wy train came in and 1 didn't see
you so I thought you hadn’t come
and so I went home, then I found
out that vou had gone down to
meet me and so I came right back.”
Then James told him about the
dog and how he had chased It and
that the train must have come in
while he was gone.
’’James." said his father, “you
must remember that whenever you
have something to do. a duty to
perform, you must do it, and never
let anything else interfere.
James prtAnised he would always
do his duty and his father gave him
a big kiss—and a box of candy.
MRS. VAUGHN’S j
RECIPE
Potato Hnta
Boil six medlum-alied potatoes
and when thoroughly cooked, run
through ricer, add N>ne-half tea
spoon .melted butter and yolk of
egg. Salt and pepper to taste. Put
in pastry bag. Arrange potatoes on
chop dish and put In oven to brown.
Fill with green prfas when ready
to serve.
Potato Balls.
Peel large potatoes and with a
potato scoop make balls, reserving
balance of potato for soup or
mashed potatoes. Boll the balls in
water, to which add one table
spoon salt, until they are tender,
then drain and pour white sauce
over them.
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Ml«a Camille MacBeatk.
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ROSE! STAHL.
Thera are few actors on the stage
today more highly educated and wide
ly traveled than j£dward Fielding, who
has the leading role opposite Rose
Stahl in "Ours Mrs. McChesney.” Mr.
Fielding Is a New Yorker and fitted
himself for the law. With an education
gained at Adelphl Academy, Yale, the
Pennsylvania Law School and the
New York Law 8chool, Mr. Fielding
set out to travel and for two and
one-half years did so extensively
throughout Europe. It was while In
Europe that the stage lured him and
he made his first appearance* In Lon
don in the Drury Lane drama, ‘The
Great Ruby." Mr. Fielding then Join
ed Tree at His Majesty's, where for
three seasons he played In Shake
spearean repertoire. Engaegments
with Lewis Waller and Charles Haw
trey followed and then for three and
a half years Mr. Fielding was lead
ing man for Olga Nethersole. He also
had one • season with Granville Bar
ker. On hts return to New York he
played the reporter In "A Woman's
Way” in such a manner that he was
engaged by the late Charles Frohman
to play the "society souse” in "Your
Humble Servant." with Otis Skinner,
and the critics credited him with a
big hit in the role. Three seasons
with Naxifaova followed and then
came a short engagement with Ethel
Bkrryitaore. Last season Mr. Fielding
was with William Gillette playing the
role of Dr. Watson in "Sherlock
Holmes." Seats on sale Friday, Jan
uary 12th, » a. m.
. “FAIR AND WARMER."
"Fair and Warmer” is the piquant
title of Avery Hopwod's latest and
finest farce, which has run' for one
year at the Kltlnge Theatre, New
York, with unparalleled success, and
which Selwyn and Company,* having
put it on teur in response to univer
sal demand, will present at the Qrand
Theatre one night only, on Wednes
day, January 10. Mr. Hopwood's farce
tells a merry tale of how two highly
respectable and more than averagely
domesticated persons, discovering that
their respective errant spouses had
taxed their patience t^l it has ceased
to be a virtue, rose in their righteous
wrath and tried to be wicked. Hav
ing little.or no practice in wickedness
and being hindered rather than helped
by what they knew of it by hearsay,
they involved themselves in terrible
catamites, while the former naughty
members of their families had the
righteous indignation all to them
selves.
The' innocents, meanwhile, having
even less knowledge of how to get
out of trouble than of how to get
into it, saw their plight Increase till
It all but obliterated them. It is
precisely the sort of idea which Av
ery Hopwood knows best how to put
through its paces, getting its finest
farcical flavor, and giving It his deft
est characterization and satirical com
edy. One scene, now famous as the
Cocktail Scene, was described by the
reviewers as the best, in the whole
history of farce. , *
"Fair and Warmer” begins In the
early evening, stays up all night, and
concludes by noon of the following
day, having in that time disrupted
and re-assorted two households, de
vastated a "tame robin” and brought
wisdom and repentance to saints and
siners alike. It has not a moment be
tween Its curtains when its humor
flags or its situations slacken. Sel
wyn and Company will present It here
with a cast fully designed to give Its
comic values. Seats on sale this morn
ing at 9 o’coqH
seats oa sale tala nonlBff at Tae
Grand for “Fair a ad Warner.^
STRENGTH IN SPOTS
CAUSES •RISE IN
COTTON MARKET
Active Futures at Close of
Week Show Net
Gain
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NEW OKLEANS. LA.* Jan. 7.—A
sudden development of strength in the
spot department caused-a rise of more
than a t ent a pound In. the price of cot
ton last week, active futures closing
at a net gain of 108 to 123 points. The
lowest prices were made on the open
ing session Of the week and the 'high
est prices on the closing session.
Less interest was taken In political
news and more interest was taken In
thf statistical position aVid In the sit
uation In the spot department. A con
stant demand for actual cotton at
steadily rising prices stimulated the
demand for contracts. Market gossip
was that the best buying of futurei
came from spinners and spot houses.
Comparatively little speculative In
terest was aroused by the advancing
tendency of the market, and while a
fairly large volume of business was
done, on the whole, at no time was the
market very active.
This week the market will not open
until Tuesday, owing to the observ
ance Monday of the anniversary of the
battle of New Orleang. Tuesday morn
|! Say Skull' Measurements
Can Reveal Hidden.
Vocal Talents , .
But There Are Many Other Secrets of the "Human
' Voice, Garrett P. Serviss Declares, Which Will
Never Be Discovered Me rely by Calculations Based
on the Size of the Reson ating Cavities of the Head
(BY GARRETT P. IBETIH.)
Somebody has* been "measuring
the human voice with a tapeline";
so, at least. 1 read. The method
employed*la to ascertain the sise
and form of the resonating, or re
sounding, cavities that occupy the
lower part of the skull, and that
Impart to the voice many of Its
most Important qualities.
' Skull Measurements, It la SaM,
Reveal Hidden Talents For
Singing.
Besides measurements on skulls
in museums, 12,000 living persona
have been subjected to this scien
tific probe. Including many famous
singers, and It Is claimed that
some remarkable discoveries of un
developed voices of great power and
excellence, possessed by persons
who had never suspected their en
dowment, have thus been made.
In such cases. It would appear, the
owners of tlje unused resonating
cavities had remained ignorant of
nature's gift simply because they
had never tried their voices ex
cept in ordinary conversation.
. It is averred that the measure
ment method will detect the pe
culiar qualities of a voice in ad
vance of any effort to train it, and
will afford scientific guidance In
the process of training. It will
show in advance what the possl-.
buttles of a voice are, and In what
direction It will best reward the
efforts of the trainer.
This la a subject of far greater
importance than most persons are
likely to suppose. The voice is
the basis of - intellectual inter
course. Many animals have voices,
but man alone has a voice which
naturally lends itself to the pro
duction of speech, I. e., Of artic
ulate sound through which the
mind expresses Ideas. A parrot
can be taught to produce articulate
gounds, but in this cane they are
not expressive of Independent
Ideas. The parrot cannot combine
sounds to make new sentences con
veying other meanings.
Bat These Cavities Da Net Create
Vocal Sound—They Oaly
Magalfy It.'
But we must get rid of the Im
pression, which the praise of the
new method of voice measurement
is likely to convey, that the re
sonating cavities oft the head have
anything to do with the production
of either voice or speech. Their
name alone shows the nature of
^thelr service to us—they are like
sounding-boards, or like the vibrat
ing belly of a violin. They mag
nify, project, and modify the quali
ty , of the sounds, but the real
organ of voice Is the larynx. With
Its delicately adjustable vocal
chord, which may be likened to
the strings of the violin, while the
source of the sound Is In the lungs,
whose action, together with that of,
the muscles associated with them,
resembles the work of the bow
gliding over the strings and set
ting them Into vibration.
And the thought .of the violin
and the marvellous effects which
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tri produced by alight difference*
not only In the form but In the
quality of the material of which Its
Mounding box la made ahowa that
too much reliance ahould not ba
placed upon simple measurement*. _
It la not merely the-Internal shape
of our mouth* and noaea that af
fect* the power and quality of our
voices, but the condition of their
•urfacea. Everybody know* the
effects' of eolda, coughs, hoarse
neaa and catarrh upon the voice.
Chronic troublea of thla kind may,'
and do, ruin, may a naturally fine
alnging or apeaking vole*.
Btft we may ' go further than
that, and aaaert the probability
that there are qualltlea of texture,
affecting both the vocal chorda
and the reaonatlng cavities. which
cannot be revealed by any ayatem
of measurement. How otherwlae
caii we account for the voice, for
Instance, of Jenny Lind, which all
contemporary testimony ahowa was
Incomparable and Inimitable to a
degree almoat beyoiid belief?
Mere deacrlptlon of Ita muaical
rang* afforded no conception of Ita
marvellous* quality. To aay that
It waa a aoprana. with a range of
two and a half octave*; tell* noth’,
lng of Ita real secret George Wil
liam Curtla wrote of her: “There
waa the unquestionable quality In
her song which madeeMendelsaohn
aay that auch a musician appeared
only once In a century." ,
Perhaps there la no direction In
which human physical Improvement
could go farther than in the de
velopment of as yet unattalned
heights and depths of vocal melody.
The voice still lingers far behind
the ear. What I mean by that is
that while the ear can follow the
waves of sound wver a range of
about eleven octaves, the utmost
reach of the voice, as shown by
combining the limits attained by
the greatest singers, some In the
upper and others Id the lower ga
mut. covers less than six octaves.
Voices May Berne Day Be Developed
*• Height* New Undreamed Of.
What undreamed of possibilities
of vocal splendor and delight may
lie, undeveloped. In those five oc
tave* not yet touched by the hu
man voice? Gaspard Forster, a
wonderful basso, reached within
ten runga of the bottom of the
ladder of perceptible Bound when
he sang the note “fa” of the first
octave which has forty-two vibra
tion* to the second, but1 the high
est rung reached, by Lucresla AJu
garl, “do” of the sixth octave, with
a vibratory rate of Z048 to the
second. Is mom than 30.000 steps
below the top It the ladder which
terminates in the tenth octave,
with 33,7(3 vibrations per second.
It Is said that the singing of
Jenny Lind once spurred a bird
perched In a tree to aing in at
tempted rivalry: perhaps a canta
trlce whp could sing in the tenth
octave wopld bring forth a con
cert of voices from the crickets
and katydids, while lifting her hu
man hearers Into a new heaven of
harmony: \
| FIBRE OF CHARACTER
The test of a man's character Is,
the measure of his adherence to his
standards of Ideals when surround
ed by the Inslduous, constant sug
gestions of an adverse environ
ment.
Will he reslst'the attractions of
conditions which do not measure
up to his standards? Standards
which his intelligence had selected
as very desirable to achieve, and
well worth the strife, and labor to*
attain!
To every ono—during the buoy
ant optimistic period of growing
youth—comes visions of their life's
possibilities, at times when they
strategically select their standards
and Ideals, and when each one
plans his life's endeavor.
The man with character care
fully and deliberately chooses his
cause, then perseveringly plans ind
works to achieve the desired re
suit; and—although circumstances
repeatedly and persistently—with
seeming purpose to test the metal
of his character—like a shopman
trying to persuade a customer to ,
accept inferior goods—surrounds
him with the lower attraction as a
substitute for his ideals.
The mart of character holds true,
and although circumstances placed
him-la an adverse environment, he
may be In it, yet he Is not of it.
whereas—one lacking strength of
character—succumbs to the lower
attractions whichever assails; he
accepts the substitute, his Ideals
fade, his standards shrink to the
level of his surroundings, and the
once aspiring man Is engulfed by
his environment, a plastic charac
ter, without fiber; hence the' ob
vious truth In that statement of
wisdom: "A man’s environment. Is
a test of his ability to dominate.’*
“A MONTQOMERIAN."
tng the census bureau report on cotton
ginned to the end of December will be
Issued. The trade seems to expect
rather small returns and to think a
private bureau forecast of 11,040,000
bales. Issued toward ‘the end of last
week, about correct. Thlh would mean
only 194,000 bales were ginned this last
period against 939,000 during the same
period last year. Probably anything
under ll.10p.000 bales will be called
bullish whjUe anything over' will be
called bearish.
After the ginning report Is out of
the way the attention of the trade will
be attracted to the spot situation un
less important political developments
arise. The position of the market Is
such, however, that It will take ex
tremely Important events to overcome
the dominating influence of actual cot
ton.
Foreign Events Are
Again Potent Factor
(Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—Practically the
same Influences that operated to de
press stock market values In the final
weeks of last year were again effective
last week though in moderate degree.
Dealings lacked the initiative of pub
lic interest and traders continued to
sell the active list at almost every mar
ket advance.
The trend of foreign events was
again the most potent factor. In keep
ing with December .markets, however,
price changes were often paradoxical
and confusing, so-called peace stocks
falling on renewal of peace rumors,
while war shares as often lost ground
on developments favorable to these Is
sues in the bull markets of last fall.
No Marked Investment Demand.
Absence of any marked Investment
demand thus far this year Is the most
disappointing feature to conservative
financial interests. This condition Is
ascribed to a natural hesitation grow
ing out of current peace negotiations
and the probability of another large
foreign undertaking by our bankers.
Ralls were less active than at any
recent period and the mixed state
ments of earnings for November offer
ed a contrast to the general gains of
the preceding months. Industrial con
ditions lost none- of last year's fa
vorable aspects, but estimates dealing
with the earnings of the United States
Steel Corporation for the last quarter
of 191# were somewhat modified.
Metals Are Irregular.
Metals were Irregular, partly In con
sequence of the belief that {preign de
si
mand reached Its crest some weeks
ago. Price concessions for high grade
copper served to strengthen this be
lief. The more distinctive equipment^
and munitions were obviously affected
by rumors which suggested an increas
ing disposition by foreigners to patron
ise home markets.
All forms of foreign remittances,
sterling excepted, ware Irregular or
heavy on nominal dealings. Signs
point to further large gold Imports
from London with Paris and Petrograd
as probable participants in the move
ments.
•eats ss sale this manias at The
Grand fnr “Fair and Warmer.”
Plan to Mine Coal
on Land of Alabama
(•pedal to The Advertiser.)
TUSCALOOSA, ALA., Jan. 7—The
Alabama Insaqe Hospital will begin
to mine the coal used as fuel from a
mine to le started at the very door of
the boiler room should plans of some
of the trustees be carried out.
It seems that on account of the de
mand for coal the price has been rais
ed on the Institution to nearly ft per
ton for run-of-the-mlne coal and by
spending about $7,500 a shaft can be
opened and a saving of more than this
amount be made in one year. These
Bullock Hpsiery
Hakes, its appeal to women
jf discernment throngli its
-merits alone.
Its quality has von for it
juite an enviable reputation.
lentlwim flsure that they an mine
the coal from their property which la.'
directly under .ba la-rse hospital. for
about tl-SO .per ton. The jnoveraentwtll'.
be probably be taken up in the near ,.
future.
Hot Drinks
Everybody pronounees-the
hot drinks served at our.
founts as delicibu*. Try
them. ••
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