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YORKYILLE ENQUIRER. ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLT. l. k. qeist arsons, Pubiishe^Tl % ^atmlg ftogpaptr: Jfor the fromoiion o| the political, Social, ^grirultural, and (jtommeitrial gittqrijgls of the ftople. j EST A BLISHED t85si 7 YORKVILLE, 8. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1900. . NO. A ROMANCE 0 By FREDERU S N % Copyright, 1900, by Frederick Reddall NINTH DAY. FILLEY EXPOSED. On Wednesday morning John Draper's first Inquiries were directed to the Drovers' bank. There he learned, of course, that Reuben Filley had drawn the $50,000. At the bank doors all trace of the fugitive ceased. He 1 was not at any of the hotels, nor had any of tne president's Denver acquaintances seen him. It was certain that the money had not reached the bonds of Dallon's men and that they had not set eyes on Filley since he left them. # Greatly puzzled and surprised waa Draper at this state of affairs. Two theories presented themselves. Either Filley had met with foul play at the hands of some one who witnessed him draw the money or else he was pursuing some ulterior plan of his own. But among the letters and dispatches waiting for him Droper found the follow* lng telegram, dated New York, Tues* day, from tbes.cashier of tbe^Grain Exchange National bank: | v Notes for fifty thousand drawn by R. K. Filley, favor of Cutting A Cutting, indorsed by you, presented payment. Nq funds FUley*? account. Shall we take upt Anawer. The language of the dispatch was explicit enough?notes drawn by Filley for $50,000. What had he been up to? I To say that Draper was Indignant is to put It very mildly, tie was simply furious. In all bis long business career It had been his proud boast that no commercial paper bearing bis name was ever protested. Even when he was a struggling merchant doing a big business on a small capital his name always stood high, for he had always protected his signature. He knew that at the time he bad no . ,ipaper" out His private means were \ ample, and there was no need for him ' " to raise money in that way. None but Filley could explain the mystery. However, one thing was certain. He, John Draper, had never appended his name to anything of the kind. Suddenly It flashed across his mind that there was % a curious coincidence between the amount of the notes and the sum which Filley had drawn out of the bank. What treachery was afoot he could not tell, but it began to look blact: for Master Reuben. Sek ing a telegraph form, Draper rapIdly indited the following reply to the Grain Exchange bank: Indorsement a forgery. Do not honor. Return New York immediately. The next step was to endeavor to . trace or find Filley. So to keep the L matter from the ordinary police chanW nels the Plnkerton agency was called In and the case placed in its bands, with a full statement of all the facts. And as Reuben Filley will not figure In these pages again It may be stated here that before.leaving Denver John Draper had sufficient evidence to convince him that his trusted secretary was not only a forger and a defaulter, but a treacherous villain. He was traced to the Union depot, thence to San Francisco, where the a trail was lost It was supposed that K he caught an outward bound Pacific mall steamer fop China and Japan, from whence it would be easy for him to reach India or Australia. Where ne ultimately "fetched up" was never def Inltely known. John Draper declined to continue the search, preferring to pocket the loss. Neither the bank nor A Cutting & Cutting cared to prosecute. The money secured on the forged notes for the partnership Interest was re|^H| funded, and hence the matter dropped. a result which the astute FUley probably foresaw. The world of New York |B^^ knew him no more. The failure of President Draper to appear at the meeting of the railroad magnates occasioned no surprise at first, as It was expected that he might arrive at any moment Then came the tidings of the mysterious disappearing of part of the express train, and the wildest conjectures became rife. Every foot of the railroad between Colorado Springs and Denver was searched s. again and again during the daylight hours of Sunday and Monday; but. as we have seen. It was not until Tuesday morning that the forgotten and disused railroad spur was thought of. The news of the rescue was telegraphed luto Denver from Castle Rock, ? and so when Draper appeared at the session of his confreres on Wednesday morning they knew all about his adventure and Its happy termination. Much of the routine business bad been dispatched, and only a few Weightier matters demanding unant^ mous action remained to be acted upon. Consequently by 3 o'clock the conclave adjourned sine die, and Uncle John hurried back to the hotel to announce that he was at tb? service of \ the ladies. % Chester Ives had Improved the opportunltv to chance his clothes, and after ft - % a batlr and a share and a good night's B rest he was none the worse for his nocBJm % turnal adventure. Nor did the ladles show any marked effects of the strain B of the last two days beyond some natuB ral lassitude and nervousness. But a B quiet night went far to repair the j| shock and strain. H I - Draper found all the party assembled 9 In the hotel saloon. It bad originally h been planned that a couple of days H 1 should be spent In sightseeing, but the 9 adventure with James Dallon, Esq., B and their enforced stay at his hostelry fl naturally Interfered with this. "Now, children," said bluff Dncle fl 7 John, speaking to every one in general. w m F THE RAIL. CK REDD ALL. . Illustrations by I. W. Taber. but to Florence In particular, "what shall we do and where shall we go? I see that some cards have already been left by several people, and I have no doubt they will do all In their power to entertain you charmingly." "For my part" said Mrs. Hurst "I don't feel like entertaining or being entertained. I'm a perfect wreck, and you'U never catch me so far west of New York again." "Oh, you don't know the west yet, my dear," replied her brother. "This has been an unfortunate trip, but you mustn't blame the country for our exceptionally trying experience." "I like the country well enough," was the response. "The scenery Is magnificent and the climate is superb, but I pust confess I don't admire some of its products?the Dallon gang, for Instance," she concluded, laughing. "Well, I can't blame you for that, only I had hoped to show you something of the west at Its best before we turned our faces toward the rising sun again. What do the girls say?" "The girls say, 'Stand not upon the order of your going, but go quickly,'" said saucy Madge. "Flo and I have settled everything. We don't wqnt any more adventures. We've seen enough of the country, and the people can wait We want to go home!" and she put her knuckles in her eyes and pretended to boo-hoo like a spoiled child. Draper turned to Florence for confirmation, who said: "I don't want to seem ungrateful, but I should like to get back to New York." "Well, Ives, ray boy," said their host "you and I evidently have no option in thp mnttpr. but as a mere matter of politeness I should like to hear your wishes." "Oh, I'm for New York," was the unblushing reply. "You know my leave expires tomorrow." But the rogue had taken his cue from Madge. If she had said, "Stay." he would have found means to square the office for a few days longer. "That settles It!" said Oncle John. "I'm in a hopeless minority, and, to be frank "with you, I want to get back myself." And then be told them of FUley's disappearance with the money Intended for their ransom. "The wretch!" hissed Florence Grannlss, her usually pale face white with indignation. "We might have been murdered for all he cared! I always disliked him. but 1 almost came to bate him on this trip. So there!" And she subsided into a chair, all quivering with the unwonted excitement Mrs. Hurst beheld this little outburst < with quiet satisfaction. If nothing else had been accomplished, FiMey had put himself out of the running, and the danger was past That Florence ever regarded the man seriously she bad never been quite able to credit Now It was John Draper's turn, and he should have his innings before New York was reached. 'Then it was Ches?Mr. Ives?who really saved us after all?" said Madge. "What should we hove done without you?" she said. The words were simple and commonplace enough, but the tone auu xne giuuce wuicli ucuuujpanled them were eloquent of honest admiration and maidenly liking. Mrs. Hurst saw and in that instant submitted to the Inevitable. "Yes; we certainly owe our safety to Chester," said Uncle John. "I should never have thought of the little river as a means of escape, and if 1 bad I'm too fat to wriggle along like an eel in a water pipe. Ah. Ches, my boy, It's you youngsters who capture all the best things in life after all, and we old fellows have to put up with what is left" sighed Uncle John In mock dismay. But Florence would none of this and came to the rescue. "Why, Mr. Draper, what would we poor women have done if you had left us?" "Yes," chimed In Ives, modestly anxious to change the direction of the conversation; "it needed more courage and fortitude to stay behind in that den of thieves than It did to cut and run. The only cur in the purty vanished, and we can thank our stars that be did us none of the mischief he intended." So saying he rose and went to the window where Madge was gazing down at the busy life of the Queen City of the Plains, and we will not disturb them. "How soon can we start John?" queried Mrs. Hurst "Tills very evening," was cne repiy. "We can go east wltb the flier at 6 o'clock. Is it agreed?" "Oh, yes! Let us get away," begged Florence, and thus It was settled. TO BE CONTINUED. A Jait Rebuke. A young and newly married couple were entertaining their friends, and among the guests was one whose continued rudeness made him extremely objectionable to the rest of the company. His conduct, although most unbearable. was put up with for some time, until at supper he held up on his fork a piece of meat which had been served to him. and In a vein of intended humor he looked round and remarked: "Is this pig?" This immediately drew forth the remark from a quiet looking Individual sitting at the other end of tire table: "Which end of the fork do you refer to?"?Spare Moments. pisceltanrous feadiug. FOUR FAMOUS FORTUNES. The lien Who Built Them Started Without a Dollar. Cincinnati Enquirer. Who are the builders of great fortunes? In what fashion did they first begin to roll the little ball of savings that finally resulted in mountains of wealth? If you will consider you will find that the richest men in America began life as peddlers. A long leap?from the estate of wandering tradesmen to that of the supreme arbiter of millions, of destinies and of men. Yet Millionaire Collls P. Huntington, who died the other day, made such a leap; so did the first John Jacob Astor, and Jay Gould and Russell Sage. Not one of these great fortune builders began life with a dollar?which is a common lot. Probably not one of them ever wasted a dollar that he earned?which is less common. Not one had any other than himself to thank for his success. Equipped with marvelous shrewdness and acquisitive power, each contrived to seize for himself a position of more than princely dominion. The genius of bargaining was born in these boys, into whose hands passed, like filings to the magnet, the greatest fortunes of the new world. The boy Astor, with his flutes and furs; Jay Gould with his mouse traps; Huntington with his clocks; Russell Sage with his country store "notions"?was any man wise enough to read in their eager faces the power and sagacity that were to make them money kings? GOULD PEDDLED MOUSE TRAPS. 'Jay Gould's Juvenile energies had been employed in the production of a mouse, trap. When he went to New York in 1853, he took the little machine with him, incased in a mahogany box. Without introduction orv guidance he tramped the city until he sold it. The money he got for it was the nucleus of the colossal Gould fortune of more than $70,000,000, which is even now being employed in so many remarkable ways?In the philanthropic pursuits of Helen Gould, in the pretty and costly fancies of Count Boni de Castellane, in the railroad schemes of George Gould, and in the social schemes of three beautiful women in New York. Many persons have professed to see something prophetic in that .first venture of Jay Gould's, and to declare that all his later schemes were but glorified "traps," and the genius that operated them that of the "great mouse catcher of America." Another early scheme of Jay Gould was equally successful. He w^s a country boy, brought up on a farm. It did not appear to him, however, th8:t there was a fortune in farming. So he learned something of surveying and then started penniless to make his way through the Catskill mountains. At every farm house he found the farmer's wife anxious for a "noon mark" on her porch. A noon mark was a species of dial showing the arrival of the noon hour. The ooy was ame to make these marks and get 75 cents for each one. He was, therefore, able to arrive quite comfortably at his destination. HUNTINGTON HAWKED CLOCKS ABOUT. It was a curiously accurate power of divination that led Collls P. Huntington to select watches and clocks as his first stock of merchandise. He was, likewise, a poor country lad, one of a Connecticut family of nine children. As with Astor and Gould, even the boy's schooling was of a fragmentary sort. At 15 he got employment In a country store, where he spent a year In learning the art of bargaining. With the lesson well learned, he started out the next year for New York, to undertake at 16 his first independent business venture, tyfost boys would have thought themselves fortunate to get a small salaried position. Huntington looked around for an "opening." He found it in a supply of watch and clock findings which he bought cheap and believed he could sell at a profit, which he industriously set himself to do, peddling faithfully and on foot until he disposed of them. Fortune, or his own shrewdness, favored the boy. In a few months he had realized well from his venture and was able to meet the bills he had incurred during the meantime. With the profits he took a large number of what were known as "clock notes" for collection. Again he was successful. In a year he was established In his career as a merchant. Never afterward did he meet with a serious reverse. And not many days ago he died leaving a fortune of $82,000,000. ASTOR BEGAN WITH FURS. Nothing could be humbler than the fashion which the famous John Jacob Astor?whose grandson is now an-exile from two nations?began his career. A German peasant, the son of a butcher, he could hardly have dreamed of the brilliant future that actually awaited him. At 17 he left home?the little village of Waldorf, in Germany? with his wardrobe in a bundle slung over his shoulder on a stick, and $2 In his pocket. Honesty was his watchword from the outset, and self-denial his cardinal principle of living. In two years he was able to sail from London to New York, having spent the money that he had earned in the interval for seven German' flutes? a slender weapon with which to wrench from the world its secret of commercial prosperity. But it is not recorded that Astor ever made a mistake. The seven flutes which he later so patiently peddled in New York brought good prices. And thus the foundation for one famous fortune was laid. But. as young Astor could not be altogether sure that fortune had intended him for a merchant prince, the voyage over was rather an anxious one. He had come on a steerage ticket, for which he had paid five guineas, and he brought with him a "Sunday" suit of clothes, which, during a violent storm, he amazed his companions by putting on. "But we are likely to be wrecked," they said to him, aghast. "Precisely," he replied, "and if we are wrecked and rescued I wish to have on my best suit since I cannot well take another with me; while if we are wrecked and not rescued, it will make no difference what I wear." MADE A FORTUNE AT IT. This logic was irrefutable. On the journey Astor made the acquaintance of another young German who had already achieved a business success in America. This young man bought furs from the Indians in exchange for toys and trinkets, and had found that the profit of reselling the furs was considerable. He persuaded (hot he eonld not do better than to take up the same business. Everybody knows how faithfully this advice was followed, how patiently the boy learned the details of the fur trade in New York, how bravely he started out to traffic alone with the Indians, how they found him the sharpest bargainer they had ever traded with, and how eventually he built up a great fur business, of which he stood at the head. Astor did not invent his flute; but the toy which another famous pilgrim relied on when going to New York to seek his fortune was of his own invention. It was also in a country store that the astonishing financial genius of Russell Sage, the actual extent of whose great fortune is unknown, was first developed. Until he was 12 the boy worked on hijp father's farm in Durhamville, N. Y. At 12 this independent young mail left home and became an errand boy. in his brother's grocery store at Troy.: But when a boy has the thrift and business ambition of Russell Sage, it does not take him long to grasp the principles ui uuymg unu selling gru- ? cerles, farm produce and notions? r which in those days were all sold in 1 the same shop. , c RUSSELL sloE'S EARLY THRIFT. t So while a lean stripling, Russel Sage 0 took his ^ages as errandboy, bought ' cautiouslv such goods as he believed r were easiest and most profitable to sell r and canvassed Troy. Probable there was no shrewder merchant in the city. At all events the boy was astonishingly'successful. and .at 21 becameMhe H partner of another brother, also in the grocer's business. This brother he shortly "bought . out." ' Stephen Girard, the great benefactor a of Philadelphia.-was born in Bordeaux, ^ was left an orphan at 10 and put on a a ship as cabin boy. That was his first 8 trip to America. He could not read 0 nor write, but he worked hard to make a up deficiencies in early training and c soon set up a> shop in Walker street, f New York. Here he married Polly i Lum, the daughter of a calker, against a her father's wish. The marriage proved r unhappy and Girard went to sea again, ^ before," at 40, he found his real vocation as a merchant in Philadelphia. v When in 1793 yellow fever broke out in e the city Girard proved himself a true t hero and organized the public hospl- a tal. His magnificent bequest to the city a is famous the! world over. In one , room are kept his boxes and'his book- r ca3e, some of hjs papers, his clothing? j a pair of homply old knitted braces, v bespeaking his plain and frugal habits. POLITICS AND RELIGION. \ The Famous Georgia Evangelist Says They * Are Unmixed and Unmixabie. t Atlanta Journal, Sept. 22. 8 They are unmixed and unmixabie. t Pure and undeflled religion is to visit 8 the widow and orphan in their affile- a tion and keep yqurself unspotted from j( the world. Politics with - its whisky ^ domination, makes widows and orphans and keeps its gang very spotted y before the world. The more religion a r man has got the less he can mix with t politics and political parties of the day: <] the more politics a man has got the a less he will mix with religion and t righteousness. I will never go to the e legislature or a congress to hunt a con- t science nor hunt among politicians for r an illustration of what the ten com- * mandments canj do in elevating: man- v kind. Religion purifies, politics putri- i fles; religion elevates, politics degene- t rates mankind. - I have been in Georgia for 10 days rwift reading the South-- em dallies. It looks like Bryan is going to get it. I do not blame the t Southern people and those who take f Democratic papers for their faith in . and enthusiasm for Bryan and his * election: but when a fellow gets up ' North and reads only Republican pa- ? pers, he thinks Bryan has no more . chance for election than Georgia cot- ^ ton has a chance of going at 6 cents v this winter. I am not" a Democrat nor ' am I a Republican. I keep saying it: i. I am a Prohibitionist. I care no more * as to who is elected. Bryan or McKin- ^ ley, than I care whether the liberal party carries the day In England at their * next election; but I say it from a S knowledge of this country which con- 1 stant travel only can give a man, that 8 we are today enjoying the most solid, J| substantial prosperity that I have J3 ever known. There is not a nook nor corner of this country that is not pros- 0 pering. America as a nation never 8 prospered and never came to the front as she has in the last four years, not 0 only in all her manufacturing and com- 0 mercial interests and with the balance 8 of trade millions and millions in her favor, and for the first time in our his- J tory we are the money lenders to the 0 imperial countries beyond the waters. c Confidence is the basis of prosperity. ' This is true of an individual. Business 1 is done on confidence and confidence is a not something.that is manufactured to r order like shoes or mowing machines: 8 but it grows out as a condition of J things. A man may have plenty of 3 money, but if nobody has confidence in 8 him he has got a hard Job in this coun- 0 try. I care not what capital a man 0 may have, however small, if he has the 8 unbounded confidence of the commu- 1 nity and the banks he has got some- 11 thing better than money. I have known * some rich fellows to "bust" because of the lack of confidence in them; I have known some poor fellows to do a big 0 V./\rtn?ioA 4-Viaxp ho/1 11*1. 8 UU91IICH9 UCtOUOC mcj iiuu v?v v? ? bounded confidence of all classes. There * are business houses In Atlanta whose 1 capital stock may not be large, but e they are doing a large business. Capl- ? tal has confidence In the status of 1 things as they are today. I don'f v know whether or not with a change of 3 political parties this confidence will abide. If it does Bryan and his administration will be as good for the country as McKinley. I don't believe . that he has got any more backbone 1 than McKinley, and this ifjn't saying much for him. It does not take backbone to clamor for free silver or against imperialism; but it takes a ? thundering sight more backbone than Bryan or McKinley either nas got for n them to give us their dead square hon- 1 est views on the whisky question. Mc- c Kinley broke his neck with lots of good ? men in this country on the army can- 0 teen question, and Bryan knows it: but J' Bryan will shoot at every exposed place in McKinley's administration; but he ? is not going to shoot in at that hole, p He had rather risk the chances of say- a ing nothing than to arouse the liquor devil and the vote it controls against a him. It takes more courage in a poll- h tician to utter one sentence against the liquor traffic than it does to cham- * pion all the isms that Bryan champions ? and denounce all the isms that he denounces, and the same is true of Mc- v Kinley. I am hunting for a genuine, c first-class Christian who Is whooping P for either Bryan or McKinley. There s are losts of Methodists. Bantists and ? Presbyterians, no doubt, who are do- ? Ing so; but I have more confidence In d a plain, old-fashioned sinner getting to heaven, who is an uncompromising tl prohibitionist, than I have for any w member of the church in this country s getting to heaven who is not a prohi- a bltionist. I am sure this sounds like s. fanticism and reads like I was a fool; r but if whisky is God's worst enemy 1> and the devil's best friend, and if there n are a hundred thousand drunken hus- P bands and fathers and sons toppling in- r' to drunkard's graves, and twelve hun- 11 dred millions of hard-earned money ex- ? pended in this debauchery, then I am a * ' fool and a fanatic on the right side, 8 and still believe that the man who v votes one way and prays another is not ri a Christian; but that he is a fool or a r; rascal one, and frequently both. I ^ have not studied up the phase and a cast of our next Georgia legislature; c but without looking over the roll of (H members or worrying myself about an 11 inalysis of the crowd, I just want to w jay here's one fellow not fool enough to go down there and ask for ar>y tem- ol >erance legislation. The preachers and w the pious old deacons have been asleep ri md the Liquor Dealers' association IS lave seen to it that they have a good, y< vholesome majority either In the house $3 >r the senate, one or the other or both, Pi o kill any temperance legislation in 8l Georgia to further abridge the traffic. y< am not much, either, on white prima- a* 1es. I used to believe that if the Ne- w rro was eliminated from the ballot in y< Georgia we would elect only good men tl <* the legislature; but I have seen the e? >ottom knocked out of that illusion al- w eady. I won't have to go a hundred a( niles in any direction to And that the in ourt house rings are still at their of vork, and they pitch the tune by which 12 he gang sings, and I am going to keep th in talking this way and writing this vay until my tongue is paralyzed, my lght hand loses its cunning or until eformation comes. Sam P. Jones. p? be ve TRYIN6 TO DODGE DEATH. th be low Some Rich People Spend Miserable w Lives. co . pr a man who, while poor, Is not more Lfraid to die than most people, often 00 levelops a haunting terror of death er ifter he has made a big fortune, and be pends an unhappy life and huge sums ye if money to avoid the coming fate, freluently hurrying himself Into a pre- a^ nature grave through sheer worry and uj ear. This passion has turned the In trains of a good many wealthy people fr nd made monomaniacs of them. They ell esort to the most childish expelients to keep death from their doors. You remember Kippllng's character vho had his chair slung on ropes from l beam that the world might spin Pr tnder him instead of carrying him ilong to grow older, There was an ictual case like this a few years ago, vhen John Islip, an Englishman, gl nade a huge fortune out of silver In hi -lexlco, drove himself mad through ai vorrying about his death. th After exhausting all the safeguards st London could offer, he bought a small ea ocky island called Brychil, on the S< vest Irish coast taking with him one Tl aithful servitor. Here, in feverish su taste, he had four stone pillars raised bi .nd a small one-storied cabin, with ec hree rooms, rather like a house boat, T< lung on cnairs from iron -girders that di rossed the pillars and swung clear tl< 0 the ground. Once inside this he er hut himself up, with some books and th 1 pet jackdaw for company, and never ai eft his swinging house until his P> leath. w The attendant, who lived in a small louse close by, used to row to the o\ nainland?a mile and a half?when th he weather permitted for provisions, as [*he master spent his time in reading Tl .nd in looking over the Atlantic from Tft he cabin windows. His brain had giv- er in way? of course, and he Imagined cr hat his life stood still while the earth w. evolved under him. He had no rela- ti< Ives to insist on his entering a prl- ty ate asylum, and he died three years n< ater in the cabin, worried out of life tn >y the fear of death. His hair was w now white, though he was only 43. " Ahother" wealthy man, JgtfirTngTe-** n 4Vt ail r?Vi Via Vt a <4 *vi a /4 a a #aw4???ia lo ant, 111uu511 lit; iiau uiauc tx iui luiic i ?y shrewd speculation, also gave way nt o dread of death. He conceived the 'n dea that all movement and effort "? rasted the tissues of the body, and this lotion sunk so deeply into his mind that " le went to bed in a quiet country louse and hardly moved hand nor foot ce or years; if he even stirred a finger Pr le did it with dread, believing that he *? ised up his vitality and shortened his gc Ife by so much time. He spoke as lit- As le as possible, sometimes not opening bi lis lips for days, and was fed by at- P? endants, with spoons. All his food to onsisted of "slops," to save him the atal exertion of chewing, and his one th musement was being read to by the ? iour together, for he would not hold a dc 100k or turn the pages. Even the read- Wi ng he did away with toward Jhe close is' f his life, believing that listening on hortened his existence. ni One of the queerest cases was that to f a Mrs. Holmes, a very wealthy wld- v? w. who had a terrible fear of germs T1 nd bacilli of all kinds. She had stud- W1 ed the subject deeply and it affected ar ler reason, to all appearances. The P1 Iread of death seized her and she was ar onvinced that she would die by some flr casting disease inspired by microbes. knowing that cold is fatal to the aver- P'; .ge germ, she had two rooms fitted as *' efrigerators and kept constantly at 01 , temperature of about 30 degrees, or *u ust below freezing point. One would oc uppose this to be more trying than ?f .ny quantity of microbes; but the k wner was happy in her consciousness co f freedom from germ diseases. Winter nd summer the rooms were kept at Pc he same temperature, and the adjoin- 8e j v.~ii m "K rUUIlIB ?1X111 XlCLli WCIC aiou ac|/v vwi) hat no current of warm air might iring bacilli In. This lady lived clad In furs through- th ut the hottest days that blazed outIde, and her attendants and servants H /ere obljged to constantly- disinfect ?r hemselves before entering her pres- J1* nee. They lived In a perpetual air of th arbollc acid, and their mistress had se 0 pay very high wages to Induce ser- sa ants to stay with her.?London An- . wers. ^ t m t ar FEWER POUNDS, MORE MONEY. he Cash Value of Thia Crop Greater Than Any Previoua Crop. in Bankers in the country towns of the louth come in close contact with their ? jcal agricultural, industrial and busless interests, and are in a position, herefore, to judge accurately of these onditions, and to reflect the sentiment f their respective communities. Recgnlzing that fact and believing that _ List at present conditions are most in- Ke eresting in the South, The Manufactuer's Record recently sent a letter to a ank in every county seat in the South, sking for information as to present i acts and as to the outlook for the fall B< nd winter. In reply many letters bo ave been received and are published w< 1 last week's issue. The majority of T1 hem, coming from the cotton-growing on ections, point out that while the crop pr i short, the very high prices now pre- ba ailing will more than offset the small ap rop and give to the farmers greater jo] roflts on cotton than for many years. se< n' lattacci fmm nthor nnrtlOTlS PT f the South are less hopeful by reason sp f the small corn crop due to the severe mi rought. to In connection with the cotton sltua- hli Ion It seems probable that the crop Cs rill be at least 9,000,000 bales, and pos- sp Ibly more, though some able experts Bi ntieipate that the yield will be con- So iderably less. Even should the crop wi each 9,500,000 bales the great shortage lai i the world's supply will probably ga maintain prices at not much below the of resent level of about 10 cents a pound, Bi oughly speaking, say $50 a bale, and pli ' it should fall below this figure prices toi ught to correspondingly advance. On tw he basis of 9,500,000 bales, this would as ive a valuation of $475,000,000, which co rould be by far the most valuable crop Ca aised in this country. That of 1865-66, ge aised lust after the close of the war, Sp rhen cotton was commanding an aver- th< ge of nearly $200 a bale, and when the mi rop was 2,200,000 bales, yielded $432,- sti )0,000, and the next was the crop of g< 190-91, of 8,600,000 bales, which was orth $430,000,000. The average value of the cotton crop bc f the six years from 1893-94 to 1898-99 ei as $300,000,000, the lowest in that pe- cc od being $282,000,000 for the crop of G .98-99, which was 11,274,000 bales. Last is sar's crop of 9,400,000 bales yielded pi 163,000,000, or $81,000,000 more than the hi receding crop. On the basis of a pos- n< ble valuation of $475,000,000 for this rl jar's crop, the difference to the South, A 3 compared with the crop of 1898-99, M ould be over $190,000,000. Taking last st ;ar s crop and this crop together, and ie total valuation on the basis of an w itlmate of $475,000,0(10 for this year's P* ill be $838,000,000 for the two years ly gainst $602,000,000 for the two preced- S< g years, showing a difference in favor lo the cotton planters of the South of 36,000,000 for two small crops against be te two preceding crops, each of which T1 :ceeded 11,000,000 bales. ! ar It Is, of course, possible that the at eld will not only fall below 9,500,000 cI) lies, but below 9,000,000; but, If this ( true, the price would probably ad- w mce to a price sufficient to make up Pr e difference. But with even 9,000,000 W1 lies at the present selling price of $60 n bale the value would be $450,000,000 *ni hich would still be the most valuable Pr >tton crop which the South has ever au oduced. fr< With a probable valuation of $450,000,- ac 0 this year, and possibly a still highvalue, the South will doubtless be in Hfi >tter financial shape than for many co In 1890-91 a crop of 8,650,000 bales, the rerage price per pound of middling )lands in New York for the year be- g 9.03 cents, brought $450,000,000; and s om this figure there was a rapid deIne to $284,000,000 in 1892-93. A GREAT COTTON COMBINATION. ed ne oposed Organization of Plantora and 0th- ^ era In tbo South. st The organization of cotton planters, !V nners and bankers in the cotton belt, is assumed unexpected proportions ? id is spreading with such rapidity iat within a few months every cotton ate will be thoroughly organized, it is 2?. :pected,, says a Columbia dispatch of * iptember 22 to the New York Sun. J*; he scheme originated in Georgia this immer and already that state, Alaima and South Carolina are organlz- r* 1, while work in the Gulf states and '2 exas is being pushed. Harvey S. Jorin, president of the Georgia associaan, was delegated to organise the oth- r* states and he is, temporarily at least, r? ie chief officer in the organization, id the nature and scope of the work oposed can best be given in his own ords. {J "We will secure," he said, "for our vn information and the protection of ft ie producers, correct statistics such r.2 1 have never been secured before. ' his work will begin in early spring, jv re will know the acreage and fertiliz- J, s used, and then the condition of the op each week until harvest. This 111 be obtained through sub-associa- ? 9ns in every township in every coun- ,lt Under present conditions we can- * )t tell the size of one year's crop till ie next is being harvested; but we t ill get this information by the first of ich December, which is the end of the _ himg BtJLHUii.?every giimer win De ng to our organization?I have the imes and address of 10,000 of them .J South Carolina, Georgia and Alaima-and each Saturday night' they f" 111 report on cards furnished the num- fi sr of bales ginned that week. "We propose during this time to asrtaln as accurately as possible the tj~ obable consumption of American cotn for the next year and the prices of lj} tods. With this information we can c a fair price ,for cotton. To make the ei, Iyer give our figures we must be inde- , indent of immediate sale; be enabled hold the raw material and limit the hC ipply to urgent demand. It is here ty at our bankers come in, and, thank W] 3d, we of the South, are now able to ce > most of our financiering. Bonded m, arehouses are being built by capital- tll ts all over the organized states; built Qf i specifications by insurance compa- fe es, they can insure and store cotton w] r 2 per cent, per annum, and will ad- ^ mce money at the rate of 4 per cent. ou le receipt for cotton from a bonded tJ( arehouse, is gilt-edged collateral in ly bank in the country. Independent anters can hold their cotton at home, id those who are forced to sell will id a strong market. "Southern cotton mills favor this an and it should be acceptable everyhere. We have been forcing mills to ly within a few weeks stocks for a 11 year. It is often inconvenient to N< ? so; they have to borrow money, and ; course, they allow for a lower mar- ti< it for their goods and pay less than Sh tton is worth.' th "Our members will receive weekly re- iz< irts from headquarters during the up lling season and will have true infor- ty atlon of the situation as to cotton." hi President Jordan went on to say that ge e association would begin Its work at pa e best time, when the crop was short 1 id the demand must continue high, fo: e commented on the difference In he ice between the raw cotton and the in lished fabric. The farmer buying W1 read pays $4.80 for what he sold last op ason for 8 cents. Concluding, he aa id: th "The members of our association will ' ! as fully Informed as the spinners, Wj id will be In a position intelligently to W1 arket the crop for Its true value. The ha ovement is spreading very rapidly." ei< The cotton bel will probably be dl- ? Jed Into three departments, the South to :lantic, the Gulf states and Texas, tei order that reports at headquarters n be received and handled with po eater expedition. Five hundred thou- re] nd farmers, bankers and gjnners are bu pected in the membership. thi 1 ^ t ' ggj TILLMAN IN WISCONSIN. to 8t? ge publicans Think It Will Prove a Booms- tni rang. te! liladelphla Ledger. Is 3enator Spooner, of Wisconsin, and ?n Tillman, of South Carolina, are lyth friends. Damon and Pythias g0>, >ufd hardly make a shadow to them, leir friendship in the senate is not ? ( ly private and public, it permeates , etty much everything they do. They ck each other up in legislation and no pointments, lunch together, swap J kes, log roll in committees and play W cond gentleman to each other in ev- ai) y debate. If Spooner is to make a big eech Tillman interrupts him syste- ye atically for days at a time, in order ra^ nerve the Wisconsin senator up to k s best fighting key. When the South Ml irolinian takes the floor In a set eech the little statesman from the Xj* idger state returns the compliment. J* metlmes they get pretty ugly to- h,? irds each other and a good deal of *n nguage that In the old times was rerded as preliminary to an exchange shots at Bladensburg, is Indulged In. it the galleries discount the word- 1 ly, because everybody in Washing- col n is in the secret and knows that the an o senators are as fond of each other lnf two 16-year-old lovers. On the Wis- oil nsin senator's playful dare the South va irolina senator has gone to the Bad- th< r state to stump for Bryan. He told yei ooner last winter that he was going be ere. "I'll nail your hide," said Till- W in to Spooner, "to the biggest pine 10. imp I can find in the state. We are lot Ding to make Wisconsin give Bryan 1,000 majority." # From all accounts Tiliman will be >rely disappointed. He, with the oth Democratic leaders, have been mnting on a grand defection of the erman-American vote. . Already this being safely discounted by the Reiblican managers in the state, who ive felt of every county from the 1111iis line to the shores of Lake Supeor. They say that the Germanmerican vote can be counted on for cKinley to very nearly its usual rength. If the Germans do anything ferse to the support of McKlnley it ill simply be to stay away from the tils. Sending Tillman up there is liketo give Spooner the last laugh. The >uth Carolina senator can't draw a ng breath In a speech until he has inounced the fact that the Negro has en entirely disfranchised in his state, tie. abuse of the black man is meat id drink to him, and he can't keep ill about It anywhere. If there is a us of voters anywhere to resent this is the German-American element of isconsln. . Germans everywhere are oud of their share of service in the ir to free the Negro and they have iver dissented from the policy of giver the black man a vote. Tillman's esence before a German-American idience in Wisconsin, Republicans 3m that state declare, is bound to ret in McKinley's favor and the Reibllcan leaders in that state are derhted at the idea of having Tillman me to see them. OUR PRIMARY SYSTEM. e Changes Must Be Made Before Another Eleotion. Spartanburg Herald: It Is to be hopi the discussion now going on in the iwspapers relative to the defects in ir primary system will bring forth reilts. Our election laws must be more t ringent, our rules more specific, and must be provided that no man who >lds office or who is a candidate for flee, shall be on the executive comlttee. upartanburg Free Lance: Before the eeting of the last county convention tie Free Lance insisted that no man ho was a candidate for office should i elected county chafrman. We are ad that other papers in the state are king up tne matter and we trust here another election the constitution the Democratic party will be amendI so that a candidate for office will ; ineligible either for the position of unty chairman or executive commitemen. Sumter Item: Fraud in the Demo- , atic primaries has become so frelent that there is a growing demand r a reform or the abolition of the " rstem. For some years it has been ie custom to speak of such frauds as Regularities," and to gloss over the irruption that has crept in. But at st a great many men have grown red of the existing abuses and are deanding that the primaries be honestly nducted. * * Greenwood Journal: In the recent polcal campaign in this county there sre three candidates for office who e members of the executive commite. This should not be allowed, and the absence of any rule debarring a ndidate, it is the proper thing for a ember of the executive committee hen he becomes a candidate, to resign s place on thfe committee. It is far it of the way of the fitness of things r a man to sit as a juror on his own use. The man who is fairminded and aires nothing1 that is not Just to himlf and his friends, should see at once e impropriety, at least, of his position such a case and should not suffer mself to be entangled by any such lationBhip between himself and the >ctors. Columbia Record: Tne Greenville sws makes the point that the purely norary places in the Democratic parare too much filled Dy Democrats ho have been placed In profitable offls by their party. The point Is well ade. The practice should be disconlued. There should be no congestion / honors and profits in the hands of a w. They should be distributed. Those ho have the profits should leave the mors to others. Candidates for office ght to be made to resign party posiins. CROKER BETS ON BRYAN. fflmany Chief, Gets Odds of 2 1-2 to I, and Thinks He Is s Sure Winner. ?w York Herald 20th. Richard Croker's wagers on the elec>n of Bryan now aggregate $100,000. lould the Democratic candidate win, e leader of Tammany Hall will reali at least $260,000 of McKinley money on his risk. While the great majoriof his wagers have been placed by m at a rate of 1 to 2|, he succeeded in tting some bel? early in the camign at 1 to 3. Mr. Croker has not only staked a rtune upon the success of Bryan but has Informed all his intimate friends Tammany that Bryan is certain to n and has advised them to follow his rn example. As a rule they are less nguine than their chief and few of em have as yet taken his advice. Though the amount of Mr. Croker's Lgers is an open secret, he himself 11 not admit for publication that he s bet a dollar on tlie, result of the sction. ? 'Is it true that your bets now amount $100,000?" Mr. Croker was asked yes?day. 'There are a great many more imrtant things than betting going on," plied Mr. Croker smiling. "I am too sy to keep answering all the reports at are brought to me. Why, they Id a little while ago that I was going give $1,000,000 to the Democratic ite campaign fund. They want to t me to answer all sorts of foolish Ings. That is Just what they are af- i \ I haven't time to do it." 'But you think that 1 to 2| on Bryan a good bet, do you not?" *Vao T A/\ 99 aoM Mn to? * uv? ocn\* lui. V/i unci puouivc"I think even money would be a od bet. Bryan is going to win." Some of the Republicans say that >st of the bets reported are 'wash' ts." It was suggested. 'What are they?" said Mr. Croker lncently. it was explained that "wash" bets re dummy wagers, made for effect d not Involving actual risk. 'I don't think there has been much ttlng In this campaign, anyway, so r." remarked Mr. Croker. Some of the men who have received \ Croker's tip to bet on Bryan re;mber that he gave them similar ad e two years ago In regard to Van yck. Tnose who pinned their faith to i Judgment at that time lost heavily, d they are now cautious about folvlng his lead. 3rice op Cotton Seed.?The price of tton seed went to 251 cents per bushd the farmers are slow about sellf. .Competition between the local mill seems to be causing the adnce In the market. Charlotte had i only mills In this section several ars ago; but now Concord, Monroe, ividson and Gastonla have one each. Ith seed at 251 cents and cotton at 75 the farmers will not suffer.?Charte Observer, Tuesday.