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MARKET REPORT New York Cotton *?e?r york, Sept. 24.-Fjoports Ult offering of spot cotton were a aha* easier from certain sections'ot tin belt. ; were confirmed tc ?oms TOM! today by the showing of the market which ore now publishing dally quo tattoos, nnd created an Jmpreseioj here tbat the demand from spo snorts for September shipments ha? been! pretty .yell .supplied. Expbiti ar? Increasing slightly, however, am Pearly all Southern advices lndicat< that farmers- Are atilt holding th? greater pa?* i? their crops. Rather heavy rain's were report? 10 ?entrai sections of th? belt UM .further precipitation was predicted east ol the river, but it ueems roos generally expected that the govern ment report on October 2 will reflect generally favorable conditions during the monti). The conference committee reported tlie liquidation of 200 bales of Dccem. ber through the "ballot late yesterdsj at 9.50 for that position. Liverpool Cotton Liverpool. Sept. 24.-Cotton spot j In moderate demand/ 25 points lower. 4 American middling fair 659; good =f ?iddlis? 611; middling 555; lo - mk? P dllBK 507: Rood ordinary 411: ordi ?4 nary: 347. Sales 3,600 huies, Including 2,700 ' American oar th? ba?!H of ??.f>5d 'for middling. - Ifewsrth 107 bulo?.- aK American. ' IVi Cotton Seed Oil New York, Sept 21.-potion seed 011 waa..Waher early pr. bull tapport, but prie?a Saetea lajer. un \ sure af big local stolen, scattoret? liquidation by tired longs- and lack ol outside ipterest; September closed Uve polhto net lower,, and other months net unchanged. The market clortoft steady: Spot \) 5.60 to ^75?' September: 5.60 to 7.".; aber, 5.CS to 5.6; December, Jsnu 6.05; March, 6.16 to Cl8; April, 6.E0 5 to 6.20. Total sales, T>,700. Dry Goods .New York, Sept. 24.--Cotton goods markets were irregular to?*?, Y?rne wer* firm. Dress goods for. skiing were active. Urarra Weather ba?cur talled trade in heavy .weigh; woolens for immediate delivery. Silk contin ued easy. . Chicago Grain Chicago, 0*p? ?4.rrAeeerHon? thad .-nia. Wnnlrf ha. ?fenlv tri urti!? United E; on In the wheat trade with Europe, had a * iar|sh effect today on prices here. ?rgely in consequence, the market closed heavy at ? 3-8 to 1 3-4 net de cline. Corn 1ral3bed 7-9 to ic last j night, and provisions, Irregular, yary j lng from a setback of 55c t?Jet?tio ? vance of 2 l-2c b?t?k. Call Money .t-??'JS^i Sept- ^-Exchanges 51g;766,782,: Balances', tS,76?,S3?*r^' . Merca&ll?e. 7. Stetflng exchange easy; for cables, 497.25; for demand. ?,S6. Bar silver, 5J. , FINA??cfAh ?^D^riisrwRttiTiT. New York. Sept. 1 bonds. under tho mei ttojts^ recently ancour exchange wer? isrgt *uy time sloe* tho la ila-1 short term aoderate c I from 1 to 'I J*??| , ,, The rarmers Daughter By JOHN Y. LARMEO I %\a* peddling tindara on tho aihs ~ saclmsctLs ccaot, drlvlog a ^alr of t horses* Attacked to a wagoo on which 1 I carried raf merchandise, I Btonped i at a farmhouse at noontime and ex 1 changed mme kitchen utensils .tot a I dinner. Tho farmors wife cooking, and hi? daughter' wslteff' on j tho table. Another stranger beeide? II myself partook of the tneal-?$, aljort, [ thic&set ?nan with a bushy heard. ?J We peddlers are usually gifted with a good deal of talk, which we find es sential in selling our gooda. 1 rattled on at the rarfoer, and, be appearing to oe taciturn. 1 let iiy ut tbs stranger, who sat opposite me, asking where be bad come from, where he was going, what business he followed and other "auostlona usually attributed totheonri ons Mew Englanders. But this idiosyn crasy was esau raed, Z having been born and bred In Maryland. Tba truth ts ! began by asking bim which way be was going, thinking ?bat it his direc tion and .mine were the same ? would ai?? ?il?ii a V'ti tur CT?5??>??jr*w ??kc. He ?sensed +?% >J? .?*-#?....? t(y tching - nie p^^^ movements, und 1 noticed that lng behind bira. On her account 1 pur sued my questions till the man abrupt ly arose and. {eft the table. A few minutes after ibis, looking, through a window, i saw him riding on horse back thc aama way I intended to go. Having ti ol shed my dinner and turn ed over In payment lo fha. farmei'i wff? a washboard and a dozen tin pi? pl?tes, i t?oi ?uiu t?Sf "i*u^?n finft drow ou. About a half hour lifter starting I beard the sound of a hoW'? hoof* b*. hind me and, looking back, saw the farmer's. daughter coming- Hh? wa? so latent.- op/ her own thoughts ns she passed me t>nt she was not conscious that I had dmod nt ber home- Her galt being faster 'tftah mine, 1. Jogging along behind a polefof horses drawing a heavy load, was aeon loft lu ber rear. Aa I drove on X was thinking about ihb man I had questioned and the girl's Interest In his answers, or want of answers, and 'wondered if her coming had anything to do with him. Tho nnslous look on her face botli in the farmhouse an? on tho road causad me to think that he might be bent on something abe wished h? wouldn't do. I saw nothing more of either of them during the afternoou. I stopped at Oeveral houses, . plying my tradet|?? tab?n t dark, reach ing-& point where Ahe" re*a &?SS-S& within a hundred feet of the, ocean, I esma upon a house JP. which I thought ? wocid Ask for lodg ing during tho night But, unfortu nately. I found it closed. I waa about ta drive .on when it occurred to me to see if I could effect an entrance to tho barn, i pulled ont a rusty, sta pie, thereby opening the barn doo?, and. driving my beam In. unhitched the horses, fed them and went to the i' house. -, * I bad rno more difficulty in getting into the bona? than the bara, ' ? was ?ws?sss^? in tbs ??ronie of the night by a shot I listened and beard another and another, tbs sec ond and third seeming to come from directly above mt Then there wa? 4>?<?ih?r froiij ibe outside. Next I Vieard the sound of a pair of" heavy boots, followed ny ? pair of light onus, rapidly ?eacor.dlng u staircase frost ! bow i tiered CONFESSIONS OF A FOOL B7 Kt .QUAD Copyright, ?J?, by Associated Lit erary I'ness. AB ? boy. born tu tho town of Col ville, of parents In moderate circaUJ stancr*, John - Williams was called dull. When be bad reached his majority be sra? accoouied "light in the hend" Be wig a butt of rtdlcuja for yeera und yeo ra, and no one conk!, crer remember that he resented it. When he waa told, a? wac often tho case, tiwi bo was "uty bair witted'be laughed in a, good na tuivd way. If people laughed ut U.JU be laughed bach, and If tbs joke was on bim it seemed io pleura iii io ns much aa If some one else had boen bit There was only one thing about the town fool which 'was not bs piala ns day. From the tune he was eighteen year? old be kept a diary, lt WUK often wondered what *e wrote down, but no one ever bad a chance' to see. The diary didn't take in dally eve.its, ns was one day discovered? but in the course of twelve, years an abundance of things were Jotted down. At tbe oge it thirty J. u Williams was fatal ly injured by the kick of a horse. When lt was given ont that be bad en?y three oj .?our dnyij io ii? ? tua pub lic had no ?ympatby to waste. Pet baps, f&e trAvn fool didn't expect any. ifrom thur to time tho doctors told bim he wad a doomed mun, and bo tiega u to set hin huuj/e tn order-that la, he .had his diaries brought to his bed and sent for n Justice of tho peace and a-worthy witness, fie bad a few deathbed con fessions to make. No. 1 went beck twelve.years, A sawmill in the town 'md bcea destroyed by fire. Tnwtujtf after tho fire a. than hamed Thompson hod put a rcdb?t cent on ute sidewalk for tbe town fool to pick up. Tho dinfjr /ecviued bsih prenti. The con fession wau tc the effect tbat john William* bad Been Thompson set Aro to the mill. It was written out and sworn to and witnessed, and thun came cor/esslon No. 2. In that same year some one bad stolen three smoked barns from the cellar of * villager. Following close upon tho bsa of tho bama, ns duly, recorded in tbe diary, tho village blacksmith had docked the town fool In his witter tub for-e. Joke. The confesnlon was to th* effect that Williams and the blacksmith Stole the bama arid that the latter wes toe only ono to profit by the thaft. The. two confessions implicated mo who bsd i always been considered upright, mid . the justice felt lt bis duty to ?tay : "John.. this "ls serious, nirsinbss*. Von know j oil have only' three clays to live." . 'V'o^. I trnA\Vi" IWjli?rt J?>h.!l, "hut wa lu;vc fc?rdly begua' yet- i'v to get ; a -whoiecartoad- pf thi.^^att. my nitT'd before I go," No. 3 dated buck eleven yciys. A horse had been stolen fruni a^nenrby former, hod about the same.date u village painter'' named 8Wayne liad painted the town fool's bouts n nri^bt red by way.ol'0 Joke. The wnfiHwrton solemnly confessed that the painter and Williams hod Stolen the homing turned him ow* to a stranger to ho run out oi' iowa nnd soi?. Mnny i??e dc?ailfl-were put down. and. ns it was sotemrJy ? worn to, the justice bea ved a sigh over the deceit und wickedness of a tuan who had al ways beeb lobbed up to ns full" of integrity. Confession >,'o. 4 went 'bflek ten years. "A. church edifice belo?gfnjr tu the Methodists bad been sst! en fire ? of trnrapi no one ha<' Persona) y :.-i Mrs. C. F. Roa* ?nd children hu* iuvned from a n?oiith'i at?y wit friends ?nd reliai?*? In Virginia. i'. Flckling, Columbia, among tiie .visitor? to spend ycsier day In the tfty. W. Ii. Edgar, oj .Colupililn, waa Anderson yesterday loria few hour on buB'nca. . W. A. Roberta, of Ca aeavli is spending a few tfaya hi the city. _ ?, V. Hammond, of Spartanburg, WA.. I rx jkn^fiiwnn In ?.^ * *U?i!* Of tba n?tel Choguola. LeRoy Campbell lett yesterday for Chicago, whore he will ro?ume hi? duties St the University of Chi .Hs was accompanied hy Miou Jalla Campbell, who wtll also study in Ghi* Henry Harper han rei urned from Augusta, Qa., whare he ?pent s vaca tion or two "weeks. j W. H. Cochran h&s rei urned to t t city-niter s fortnight^ vacation whtoi ho spent in Bristol.. Tenn. ?aSa* -4' jjflHHH E C. Evnnn, of pendleton, spent a part f f yesterday m. the city on busi ness. T. ll. 'Curtis, i-oitiuocrcinl agent thc ;0. tc W. C. railroad, hos gone Augusf?, Ga., on a buelneri trip. lohn A. Horton, of Bolton. Wt i among the "isitors v Mn the-city. rs A. Abrams,' of S??rr, sp?Ai n Tv w ? hours In the city yesterday bri bt?tf j , ness. J. M. Lonrc mid Vy/?. ifauldln, well known planters ot the Brushy Creek section, were !? the city yesterday. | Jesao T. Drake, Of Martin Township, spent a few hours ia the city yfester . ?day on.bfisiness. : f^^S^' .Watson, of Hunter's Spring,, ?vi asl ta.'the cit> yesterday ior a few j hourn. Suss? Elisabeth < Harrison has .e-j tarried from Savannah, wh ero sh o has] been visiting frioncln. R<4 Mr. McCall, of Clemson' cob legn. ?pent a few hours in ths city] rda* on business. w. temw'St chicago, is! $t*v w?^?rft-iB?ir."J?>?vo< ?aar^hnrct?'&fo?t. I the gnost: O^ Mrs Ji Booth 0Waln " fitreet, will return to her ri bal Mr?. Llislc Sullivan, who luis been siting Mr. and Mra. Wm. B. Sullivan,. , 'Asheville. hSs' v returned tc her j ?nfa on.OPRwt Franklin Btreet. ?ACING R&SL'l/TS Crand Rapids, Mich.. Sept, 21.-Tly defeating Dl'^ctum I., In threfc straight heats today. William -became the world's champion paeor. Each heat oi tbe match race, which wa? .;. e of $6,000,-wan a real eon test Directum broke at tho start of Cue . .and William . too1 rrauT morning, Sept. 25, 1914 f No Wise Woman Will Fit Her . Because styles are different. The Basque, Redingate and Moy enage styles make for new lines and a new foundation must be pro- I vided. I GOSS ARD CORSETS J Provide this foundation. | The Gossard designer spent the early summer in Paris watching (| j the developrhent of the new fashions. These Corsets are the result i I - the fit hand in glove with the new fashions. s I fir5 Go?sar? Week j m WS/r This is Gossard. week all over the United States. 1 if] r^^N. Come, select your model while stocks are complete I ' \\ JL>* \ be sure to have our Expert fit you with the exact jg \V(X5^^"^ model which your figure ?j^s? ^^^^^^^ jg i |^ nii^ ?o^ and ^ ^ i ******* J* * *?*.*.? * * * ***** ****** : ? : y < . .. ..- * ^fefolng tb die tc win," ia one of the * ?fei^^j^ to M?? hzzvLvz&-z* Its? not fis?isy? nor fair. You rnuat die, and * w?iy hot win?'* * * * * * * * *t * * * .'. * * *,* * * * * M.M.Matti?on, CW.Web^ J. J. Trowbridge* i - - _ . -Bf tttw i tajeen Pi/^fffr, and ar* novesurroundingOe?icatcssec VV!K :e the worst 'jv ^e?*h Kg^^^'rt?.'lt?e;iSwfe* Cheese is shot fui? of hole*. Jh di. t.ie Russian Caviar ?ee? ihe French Pastry, it may otar?a Swiss mo/cr tfori? for a rnix?p,; and rf the Home Preserve? are called out rind sr "j tho Germern .Noodle?, they may Ke'?? L ; I Qy the Brtiaacl? kproot?. fiftt?ft tlnttf wrackst t?tTMiamtftf? rnai