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I XSSU1D UKI-VEEKL^ l. m. grist's sons, Publishers. J % ^arnilg geirspper: 4?r the |ront<ilioit of (he fjalitital, ?otiaI, Agricultural, and Communal Jnluests of the jgeoptt. jm*micAmf""' Esi^BLlSHED~i855^ YORKVILLE, S. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 19Q3. ]STO. 78. By WILL N. Hi Copyright, 1902, by Harper Bros. AJ1 CHAPTER XXIX?Continued. The bouse shook with the applause that greeted this speech. Even the opposition seemed to be wavering. Only Bartell kept a rigid countenance. He rose and In a low voice Invited his group to repair with him to one of the jury rooms. They got up and followed him out. As he was about to close the door after them he nodded to Miller. "We'll take a vote on it an* let you know," he said coldly. CTrtintr tn tflllr tn thpm." said O feViujj ?v F Miller aloud to Wilson. "Mr. Daniel's speech almost shook them out of their boots, and he saw he was losing ground. It looks squally." "You are right," said Wilson gloomily. "Our chances are very sliin." Miller caught Adele's eye and went to her. "I'm bound to say the outlook is not so favorable," he 6aid. "If we could have put it to a vote just after your uncle spoke, we would have clinched them, but Bartell thinks his election depends on beating us today, and, being the chief landowner, he has influence." "It will break my heart," said the girl tremulously. "Poor father and mother! They look as if they were on trial for their lives. Oh. I had so much hope as we drove over here this morning, but now"? "I can't bear to see you take it that way," said Miller tenderly. "I did not intend to speak to you so soon about another matter, but I can't put it off. You have become very, very dear to me, little girl. In fact, I never dreamed there was such a thing as genuine, unselfish love till I knew you. It seems to me that you were actually created for me. I want you to be my wife. Somehow I feel that you care for me at least a little, and I believe when you realize how much I love you and how devoted I shall be you will love me as I do you." .To his surprise she averted her face and said nothing, though he remarked that she had paled a little and com pressed her lips. He waited a moment, then said anxiously: "Haven't you something to say, Adele? Perhaps I have misread you all along and really have no right to hope. Oh, that would be hard to bear!" "It is not that," she said, her breast heaving suddenly. "It is not that." "Not that?" be repeated, his wondering eyes fixed on hers. Then she turned to him. "Alan has told me of some of your talks to him about love, and"? "Oh, he has!" Miller laughed out uneasily. "But surely you wouldn't hold anything against me that I said before I met you in Atlanta and fell heels over head in love with you. Besides, I was simply stretching my imagination to save him from making a serious mistake. But I know what it is to care for a girl now, and I have wanted to tell him so, but simply could not face him with my confession?when?when his own sister was in question." "I have tried to believe." Adele hesitated, "that you had changed in your Ideas of love since?since we learned to know each other, and I confess I succeeded to some extent, but there was one thing that simply sticks and refuses to be eradicated. It sticks more right now than ever. I mean this morning, since"? "Now you do surprise me," declared Miller. "Please explain. Don't you see I'-m simply dying with impatience?" "You pressed the point in one of those talks with brother," said Adele quite firmly, "that it was impossible for two people of unequal fortune to be happy together, and"? "Now, you wouldn't surely hurl that rubbish at me." broke in Miller. "I , ne/er would have dreamed of saying such a thing if I had not thought Alan was about to butt his head against a stone wall in the hostility of Colonel Barclay. If he had been fairly well off and she had been without money, I'd have said sail in and take her, but I knew what a mercenary old man Barclay is. and I thought I could save the boy from a good many heartaches." "That?even as you now put itwould he hard for a girl in my position to forget." Adele told him. ".for if this enterprise fails today I shall?just think of it!?I shall not only be penniless. but my father will owe you a large amount of money that he never will be able to pay. Oh. 1 could not bear to go to you under such circumstances! I have always wanted my independence, and this grates on my very soul." Their eyes met in a long, steady stare. "Oh. you must?you really must not see it that way." floundered the young man. "You will make me very miserable. I can't live without you. Adele. Besides. I shall not lose by the loan I made to your father. The laud will bring the money back sooner or later, and what will it matter? You will be ray wife, and your parents will be my rvflrontfl Alrpnrlv 1 Invp flipm ns mV "--J - " * ' own. Oh, darling, don't turn me down this way! Really I can't help the turn matters have taken, and if you care for me you ought not to wreck our happiness for a silly whim like this." She sat unmoved for a moment, avoiding the fervid glow of his passion filled eyes. "If this thing fails I shall be very unhappy," she finally said. "Its success would not make me rich, but it would remove a debt that has nearly killed me. I have never mentioned it, but it has been like a sword hanging over my happiness." "Then it shall not fail." he told her. Bjjfia \RBEN, rights reserved. I "It shall not fall! If those blockheads I vntp npuinst it. I'll buv the right of way if it takes the last cent I've got" This forced a smile to Adele's lips. "Then we'd be as deep in the mud as we now are in the mire," she said. Just then Pole Baker came to Miller. "I don't want to make no break," he said, "but I've got a idea I'd like to work on them hill Billies in the jury room if you hain't no objections. I hain't got time to tell you about it but as you are a-runnin' the shebang I thought I'd ax permission." "Go and do what you think best, Pole." said Miller recklessly. "We can trust to your head, and anything is better than uothing just now. I really think it's gone by the board." "All right, thanky'," said Pole as he shuffled away. He marched straight to the jury room and without rapping opened the door and went in, closing the door after him. He found the men all discussing the matter and was delighted to find that the strength of the Opposition now rested chiefly in Bartell and a f< w men who seemed afraid to pull away from him. Pole slid up to Bartell and said as he drew him to one side, "Say, Mr. Bartell, what on earth have you got agin Alafe Bishop?" "Why, nothin', Pole, as I know of," said Bartell rather sheepishly. "Nothin' as I know of." "Well, it looks to me like you got a mighty pore way o' showin' good will. Why, he's the best friend you got, Mr. Bartell, an' totes more votes in his vest pocket rer you tnnn any man in ims county." "Huh! You don't say!" grunted Bartell in slow surprise. "Well, he never told me about It." "Beca'se you hain't announced yorese'f yet." said Pole, with a steady eye and a set face. "Why, he said t'other day to several of us at the log rollin'? you remember you rid by on yore bay, lcadin' a milk cow by a rope. Well, after you passed Alan Bishop said: 'Boys, tlmr goes the only man in this county that has convictions an' the courage to stand by 'em. They say he's goiu' to run fer the legislatur'. an' ef he does I'll do all I kin to elect 'im. He'll make the best representative that we ever had. HeTfgot brains, he has.' " "You don't say!" Bartell's face beamed, his eye kindled and flashed. "That's jest what!" "I hadn't the least idea he was fer me." said Kartell, drawing a deep breath. ' In fact, I 'lowed he would be agin anjoody but a town man." "Alan never talks much," said Pole In a tone of conviction; "he acts when the time comes fer it. But, la me, Mr. Bartell, this is a-goin' to break him all to pieces. He's in love with old Barclay's gat, an' she is with him. Ef he puts this road through today he'll git his daddy out o' debt an' Barclay will withdraw his opposition. I don't know how you feel, but I'd hate like smoke to bu'st a man all to flinders that thought as much o' me as Alan does o' you." "I never knowed he was fer me," was Bartell's next tottering step in the right direction. "Well, vote fer the right o' way, an' you kin ride to an' from Atlanta durin' session all rail. Me an' Alan will pull fer you like a yoke o' steers?me with the moonshiners, an' my mountain clan that ain't dead yet, an' him with his gang. What you say? Put up or shet up." "I'll do what I kin," said Bartell, a new light on his face as he turned to the others. "Gentlemen," he began, "listen to me a minute. I see a good muny of you was affected by Ab Daniel's speech an' sort o' want the road anyway, so ef"? "I don't exactly like them specks," broke in a fat, middle aged man at a window. "By gum! I believe old Ab had us down about right. Ef we kin git sort o' opened up along with the rest o' creation, 1 say le's git in the game. Huh!"?the man finished, with a laughing shrug?"! don't like them flyspecks one bit." "Me nuther," said a man beside him. "Nur me!" came from some one else. "Well. I'm willin' ef the rest are." announced Bartell. "All in favor hold up 1 yore hands." Pole Baker grinned broadly as he counted them. "All up?the last one," i he said, then he sprang for the door and f stood before the expectant audience, i "Toot, toot!" he cried, imitating the whistle of a locomotive. "All aboard! The road's a settled thing. They say they don't want no specks, and they ain't a-goin' to have 'em. Hooray!" The audience was electrified by the announcement. For an instant there was a pause of incredulous astonishment. and then the floor resounded ? .wl ?1n/1 rum lilt; em tier ui icci, uiiu giau suuuio I filled the air. Alan, his face ablaze with startled i triumph, came toward Adele and Miller. "Pole worked the rabbit foot ou them back there," he said. "I don't know what he did, but he did sornei thins." "He told me he had e card left," hashed Miller. "I'll bet lie had it up his sleeve. There he is now. Oh, Pole, come hero!" The man thus addressed slouched down the aisle to them, his l?ip brown eyes flashing merrily under his heavy i brows, his sun browned face dark with the flush of triumph. "Kf you don't back me in it, I'm a ; pone dog." said Pole to Alan. "All I want you to do is to vote for Kartell ef you kin possibly swallow the dose." A light broke ou the two men. "I'll Ifrr J Dolly stopped before Alan. do It If you say so, role," said Alan. hNot only that, but I'll work for him if you wish it." Pole looked down and pulled at his heavy mustache. "Well," he smiled, "I reckon he won't harm us any more in the legislatur' than the road '11 do us good, so you'd better support 'im. I seed the bars down a minute ago, an' I didn't have no time to consult you. I'd 'a' told a bigger lie 'an that to clinch this thing." Abner Daniel Joined them, smiling hmn/llv hlc oroc turlnbllnp liirnnslv The old jester stroked his face and swung his long body back and forth in the wind of his content "I've always argued." said he. "that what is to be will be, an' it will be a sight sooner 'n most of us count on ef we'll jest keep our sperlts up." The others moved on, leaving Adele and Miller together. "Oh, just look at mamma and papa," she said in the round, full voice indicative of deep emotion. "They are so glad they are about to cry." "What a dear, dear girl you are!" said Miller softly. "There Is nothing to separate us now, is there?" For a moment they met in a full look into each others eyes. Adele's" voice shook when she replied, "I believe I'm the happiest, proudest girl in all the world." "Then you love me?" "I believe I've loved you from the very minute I met you in Atlanta last summer." Alan saw Dolly looking at him and waving her handkerchief, her face warm and flushed. He was tempted to go to her, but she still sat by her father and mother, and that fact checked him. Mrs. Barclay caught his eye and, rising suddenly, came through the crowd to him. She extended her gloved hand. "You and Dolly must stop your foolishness," she said. "I've been thinking or a pian ro neip you iwu oul. h i were you I wouldn't say a word to her now, but next Sunday night come and take her to church just like you used to. I'll attend to Colonel Barclay. U;. is just tickled to death over this thing, and he won't make any fuss. He is as stubborn as a mule, though, and when he has to give in it's better not to let him think you are gloating over him. He won't bother you any more. I'll see to that." Alan thanked her. He was so full of happiness that he was afraid to trust his voice to utterance. As Mrs. Barclay was going back to her husband and daughter Pole Baker passed. Alan grasped him by the hand. "Say, Pole," he said, his voice full and quavering, "I want to tell you that I think more of you than I do of any man alive." "Well, Alan," said Pole awkwardly, yet with an eye that did not waver, "I kin shore return the compliment. Ef it hadn't been fer you an' yore advice, I'd 'a' been in hell long ago, an' as it is I feel more like livin' a straight, honest life than ever I did. You never axed me but one thing that I didn't grant, an' that was to give up whisky. I don't know whether I ever will be able to do it or not, but by the great God above I'm goin' to keep on tryin', fer I know you want it jest fer my good. I don'* want a dram today, fer a wonder, an' m.'ivliA in tinip T'll pit nvnr mv thirst " As Alan was about to get into bis buggy with bis uncle, tbe colonel and bis wife and daughter passed. With a sheepish look on bis face tbe old man bowed to tbe two men, but Dolly stopped before Alan and held out her band. "You were going away without even speaking to me," she said, a catch in her voice. "Think of it, today of all days to be treated like that!" "But your mother told me"? "Didn't I tell you she couldn't be relied on?" broke in Dolly, with a smile. "I have more influence with papa than she has. I know what she told you. I made her confess it just now. Are you going to town today?" "Yes," he informed her; "we shall complete the arrangements there." "Then come right down to see me as soon as you possibly can," Dolly said. "I'm dying to see you, to talk with you. Ak 4lnn T>.? /-v osx knnnttl" VJU, Aiau, 1 LLl DW DU UU[jpj i '"So am I," he told her as he pressed her hand tenderly. "Then I shall see you again today." "Yes, today sure," she said, and she moved on. "She's all right," said Abner Daniel as Alan climbed in the buggy beside him. "She's all wool an' a yard wide." "I reckon you are satisfied with the way it come out, Uncle Ab," said his nephew, flushing over the compliment to Dolly. "Jest want one thing more," said the old man, "an' I can't make out whether it's a sin or not. I want to face Perkins an' Abe Tompkins. I'd give my right arm to meet 'em an' watch the'r faces when they heer about the railroad an' the price yore pa'g land fetched." THE END. ptottiittam# parting. THE WAREHOUSE PROJECT. Col. Orr Tells What the Plan Means to This Section. In the current issue of the Dixie Magazine, Col. James L. Orr, president of the Piedmont Manufacturing Co., describes the new warehouse project, which is printed uijder the head of "The Warehouse in the Cotton Field," What Col. Orr says is of particular interest just at this time, in view of the big undertaking here and elsewhere in the south. The article is as follows: The custom of warehousing and advancing money on cotton has confined such operations almost exclusively to European markets and the north for the reason that the mills in those sections eventually Used all our cotton. Although the southern mills now use about two and one-quarter million bales, which is 25 per cent of our average crop, the former custom still prevails and very little cotton is stored in the south, except by the mills themselves, for the simple reason that money is not advanced at as low rate of interest on cotton as it is done in the north and particularly in Europe. It requires time to change commercial customs, but every interest of the south?the mills, the cotton merchants and the farmers?are vitally interested in securing cheap money on cotton, and several communities are moving in this direction. The most important consideration is getting the money, and it is strange that the bankers of this country though so much ahead of those in Europe in enterprise, are woefully behind in the matter of advancing money on cotton. Here the rate is high, and investment not sought whereas in Bremen, Paris, Liverpool and London it is regarded as the safest security on earth, and commands money at the very lowest rate. Cotton, in a reputably managed standard warehouses, fully protected by insurance, is the best sec urity in the world. These warehouses should be built and managed in the south, and will not only give fair returns for the investment, but prove of inestimable value? First. To the farmer, for It will enable him to hold such part of his crop as he does not wish to sell at small cost, and free from danger of Are or deterioration. Thousands upon thousands of dollars are lost annually by farmers who keep their cotton exposed until warm rains of May come and rot or discolor them. Should the farmer need money to pay for making the crop ?as most of theAido?instead of pressing his cotton on the market as fast as it is gathered, he can put it in one of these warehouses, obtain a receipt for it, giving number of pounds, grades and insurance clause, at a cost of say 20 cents per bale per month; take that to the nearest bank and borrow say 80 per cent of the value of the cotton. That relieves him of his obligations to the merchant, avoids forcing his cotton on the market when it is most abundant, and enables him to sell when his judgment dictates. Second. To the merchant; for under the present system; he must sell it immediately to pay the man who has advanced to him; or, if he buys for cash, to pay for the cotton itself; for, if he undertakes to ship it for storage he finds few safe warehouses, has to pay two tocai ireignts tto ana irom warehouses) and a very heavy rate of insurance, for very few of public warehouses in the south are standard slowburning constructions, equipped with modern fire protection. With the same facilities for shipping, etc., given by the railroads to the compresses and northern mills, every town with a cotton business of 20,000 bales and every mill center, could have one of these warehouses, which would be patronized both by local merchants and cotton merchants who sell spot cotton for future delivery. Without these facilities, as to freight rates, small insurance and ability to borrow money on the stored cotton, these merchants can and do sell New England mills, one thousand miles from the field, cotton for spring delivery for less money than they sell the southern mills. It is all wrong?contrary to the natural laws of trade? injurious to both the merchant and manufacturer; but it is easier to run in the old road, though the grades are steep and the ruts deep than to survey and cut out a level new road. Third. To the manufacturers these warehouses would be of great advantage, and to the smaller mills, proportionately, the greatest. Now they must build warehouses for nine months' supply of cotton, and either buy the cotton before it is shipped out of their territory or pay about one cent per pound premium for delivery in the spring, or take the chances of shipping it from points of concentration, almost all of which are at the ports, where they incur heavy freight charges and competition with all the world. If they would build these warehouses, borrow the money, and carry it themselves, they must sell at any price their goods will bring when these notes mature. At Anderson, S. C., a warehouse has been in successful operation for three years, has paid 10 per cent dividends and been of great value to the mills, the banks, the merchants and farmers. At Greenville, S. C., one on a larger scale is building, and promises to benefit all interests, as the three counties of Greenville, Andersan and Spartanburg probably manufacture 150,000 bales of cotton more than they produce. The banks and railroads must recognize the changed conditions, that whereas the south formerly raised the cotton and shipped it north and to Europe in the raw state, now it manufactures one-fourth of it, and must have facilities for holding and storing the stjinle. And the mill men. merchants ami farmers must build the warehouses, manage them properly, see that any breach of trust is severely punished and that absolute security is given for money advanced.?Anderson Daily Mail. i t' At a recent dinner of the Author's club in Dondon the bishop of Worcester referred to what he called the one event in his literary career. He had once been accused of wrongly using a verb, and on turning up the word in the new English distionary, he found himself confronted by the very quotation in question from one of his books ?a standing rebuke to him for his bad grammar, as it was the only known instance of that particular use of the word. BULGARIA VS. TURKEY. Relative Fighting Strength of the Two Countries. War in the Balkans, so long talked about, seems near at hand at last. Bulgaria, Macedonia's elder blood brother, has said all along, in response to Macedonia's cry for assistance, "We will not take the initiative. We will abide by the decision of the powers, who have given their word that the promised reforms shall be carried out." Turkey says one thing and, as usual, does the opposite. She declares she rinea nnt Intend tr? ern tn war. hut meanwhile feverishly hastens to mobl- f llze her troops, calling out 90,000 ir- j regulars, the Circassians, Kurds, Bas- t ni-Bazouks, Albanians, etc., to sup- i plement the regular army, levying ad- r tlonal taxes, and forgetting the usual t Turkish dictum that "Haste Is devil- \ lsh," proceeds with unprecedented e vigor to get everything on a war foot- f ing. r The Macedonian insurgents, dls- t couraged at the apathy of the powers, t say nothing, but keep on with their a guerilla warfare. The powers stand c aloof and virtually say, "Fight It out I alone," while Bulgaria and Turkey, t with lowered heads, take each other's a measure and prepare for the conflict, c The question that now arises is: What is the relative strength of the principal combatants?Bulgaria and Turkey?what their weight and stay- ( ing qualities, and who their backers. In times of peace Bulgaria has a standing army of 35,000 soldiers, while 1 In case of war 200,000 stand ready to t be called upon, quite as brave, all of p them, as those who, under the leader- t ship of Prince Alexander, wrested vie- c tory from the Servians on the field of t Slivnitza. Though so much smaller \ numerically than the Turks, the qual- c Ity of the Bulgarian army Is equal, if f not superior, for the Bulgarians inherit t the fighting blood of their Thracian a and Illyrian forbears, concerning a whom Herodotus said: "If they could i only agree among themselves they t would be the greatest of all nations." \ Even five hundred years of vassalage \ to Turkey has failed to extinguish p their national bravery. c Furthermore, both officers and the t rank and file of the army are of a \ much higher order of intelligence than t the Ottomans. Since their emanci- t pation a fine public school system has f provided education for the masses, r while the higher official element have c all been educated in Austria, Germany, France or Robert College, our own r American institution, on the Bos- r phorus. Until 1892 Russian prestige t was paramount, the army being c drilled by Russians and Russian of- i ficials dominating the court; but the t Bulgarians are most Independent of t people and, resenting too much out- a side interference, sent the Russians g about their own business. Since then a Bulgaria has stood for Bulgaria alone t in church, state and army. Under r their own officers today (for Sofia has i a fine military school and asks odds r of no one regarding instruction) the I Bulgarian army is admirably trained r and equipped with all the modern ap- s pliances for war, even to a bicycle t corps, which could do good service \ over the superb government roads of c Bulgaria, though they would be ob- t viouly at a disadvantage in the mountain passes of Macedonia. At least t one-fifth of the regular Bulgarian ^ army is made up of Macedonians ea- ( ger to get the fine military training, ^ even at the modest stipend of a dollar 1 a month and "found." It was in this \ way that Sarafoff and his principal as- i sociates received the training that has t stood them in such good stead, even s though the tactics are distinctly dif- 1 ferent from those necessary to guer- ? rilla warfare. It is these white-capped t Macedonian troops, well drilled and i scattered among all the principal cities i of Bulgaria, that have served to keep the sentiment of Macedonian freedom < alive among Bulgarians. On their re- ( turn to their own homes these whilom < soldiers have left their uniforms be- ? mna ana assumea tneir peasant gam; t but the lessons they have learned In 1 the methods of modern warfare are not I forgotten, and are speedily put In 1 practice for the discomfiture of the < Turks. i In every Bulgarian hamlet, after i the hard day's work Is done, the boys i and old men congregate In the village s square, while the returned soldier pro- c ceeds to drill his neighbors according t to Bulgar tactics. Sometimes the drill is given with a real gun, which every t Macedonian keeps hidden in a corner of his garden, or again a stick or one of his crude agricultural implomnts t is made to answer the same purpose, c In villages, where Turks form a part of c the population, this drill has to take f place under cover of the night, the j participants stealing forth one by one, x to some woodland covert out of sight j of their prying neighbors. It is from s among these men that the Macedo- e nian committee has been largely re- r cruited. i It is this experience in border war- t fare that has given the Bulgars the ? same hardy endurance that is usually t attributed to the Turkish troops and r it is upon this capital that they pro- j pose to trade in the months to come, d -J ?. t.rlll I ciu \ amagc iiiai mcj ?? m i have over the Turks is that they can fc stand the rigors of a winter's cam- g paign in their own land far better than r the Turks, who are largely recruited r from the warmer climate of South- \ ern Asia. This, indeed, is one of the ( reasons why Bulgaria is delaying the outbreak of general hostilities as long as possible. The insurgents now have 3 nearly two thousand men armed with 1 rifles in Eastern Macedonia, while ' thousands of peasants are ready to c join their forces as soon as a general r rising shall be proclaimed. Another 1 reason why the revolutionists welcome 1 delay is the fact that an ordered sup- s ply of rifles, cartridges and dynamite c has not yet been received, while the a Bulgarian government protests against e Austria's action in intercepting 10,100,000 cartridges ordered in Hungary, 'or which Bulgarian money has been Daid to the. contractors. The Turkish regular army, already 100,000 strong in Macedonia, is estinated to contain at least 800,000 fairly irilled, well armed, strong and hardy nen, known as Nizam. Behind these stand the Redifs, or reserves; the Hustahflz, or veterans, over 2,000,000 >f them, who have passed through the anks?beside a horde of barbaric irregulars, who no man attempts to lumber. Military service is compuliory on all able-bodied Mohammedans or six years in regular army, eight ears in the reserve and six years in he veteran service. All Turks residing n Constantinople and its suburb are eleased; those who are infirm, who are he sole support of their families, or vho for any special reason may claim exception are required to go through rom six to nine months' drill in the egular battalion in the first year of heir service, and thirty days' drill at heir homes every subsequent year, md are also liable on emergency to be :alled to join the regular army. Nondoslems are prohibited from entering he military service, but, Instead, pay in exemption tax, which is levied alike m males of all ages.?Brooklyn Eagle. COTTON AND FROST. aov. Hampton 8aid to Have Subscribed to Calhoun's Diotum. A correspondent writes to the Charotte Observer: Some days ago, a pary of Mississippi and Louisiana cotton )lanters at the Hot Springs, N. C., hoel were discussing the cotton problem ?f the south and whether the agltaion about raising the staple In Africa vould ever seriously affect the markets >f the world. A successful planter rom Texas parish, In Louisiana, hought that Africa could not make my material increase in the yield, for, aid he, "John C. Calhoun and Gen. lampton were both of the opinion hat cotton could not be produced vhere the frost never fell, and I agree vith them that frost is necessary to >repare the conditions for a healthy :otton growth." Continuing, he said hat the sugar lands of Louisiana vere the richest in the south, and yet hey could not successfully grow coton. The question about frost and ruition of the plant was a new one to r.ost of the listeners and they did not :ombat the assertion. A very large and wealthy sugar )lanter from New Orleans, and who low is also the owner of extensive racts of land in Cuba, on being told >f the discussion, attached but little mportance to the proposition about he fall of frost. On one of his planatTons, Cuba, was a cotton tree~severil years old. and the women had been fathering the cotton for domestic use is they needed it. On another planation in Cuba he had successfully aised some sea island cotton and sent t to New York to a broker who prolounced it worth 28 cents a pound, le had only, however, tried the experinent for one year. He said the reaion cotton could not be raised upon he loamy sugar lands of Louisiana n knnnttnA f k rv nrAKmn Kl1 IYO a ? vao uctauoc uic yvviiiio auu uuqo dviilusly lnterferred with the growth of he plant. The Texas planter In this conneclon Interposed a pertinent question vhlch yet remains unanswered: "If 2uba is such a fine cotton country, vhy was cotton not raised there durng the four years of the civil war, vhen cotton was worth $1 a pound?" V Yazoo, Miss., planter volunteered he statement that Mexico had grown ;ome cotton during the war, but could n no way compete with the south, on iccount of the fact, as he believed hat there was Insufficient frost to arest the rank vegetation and bring ibout a maturing of the plant. There seemed to be a wide variance )f views about this cotton .and frost luestion. A large commission mer:hant from New Orleans, and one well icquainted with the farming Interests >f his section, said that as sugar makng was no longer profitable, and had jut little future prospects in Louisana, he knew, personally of a number ttrV*A VioH OTinn +A n isugai i'laiucio ?hw nu.u evu? w aislng cotton in the sugar parishes, ind that cotton was looking excedingly veil. One friend had 200 acres and mother 150 acres of as fine cotton as :ould be found. The frost did not fall here. What about the cotton of Egypt, ind does the frost fall in Egypt? Providence Intervened.?One of he most miraculous escapes from leath which ever occurred in this part >f the world happened this week at a arm a few miles from Raleigh. Near tn old country barn stood a great oak, vhich had died, but so recently that ts withered leaves still furnished some ihade. In ihe porch of the house sat l mother while a little Negro nurse oiled the mother's pretty baby back tnd forth under the shade of the shelering tree. Suddenly as the nurse :ang and the baby cooed, the tree fell, jurying in its wreck of branches, child, iur.se and carriage. One big limb finned the girl to the earth by her Iress, but she was unhurt. Right and eft of the carriage big limbs were iroken off and driven deep into the ground, while under a sort of arch they nade was the baby in the carriage, lot in the least injured. The baby vas actually laughing.?F. A Olds, in Charlotte Observer. A French savant points out that piders' webs improve the accoustlc iropertles of a room. He says he knew n England a hall that was ideal for the :onveyance of sound. In an evil monent it was decided to clean the ceilngs, and all the spiders were dislodged. The hall was ruined as a place for peaking. The savant suggests that otton strings might be hung loosely icross ceilings to improve the soundarrying properties of the room. THE MA8SACREE IN TURKEY. How long, O slumbering conscience of the world, Wrapt In thy dreams of empire and of gold How long shall this dread tale of blood be told While all the banners of thy wrath are furl'd? Of slaughter^ babies?the firstlings of the fold? With nameless shame and terrors manifold And smoke of cot and temple upward curl'd? Has greed of gain and power thus shackled thee, Conscience of man, vain of thy free control, And boastful of the centuries' starward flight? What shall the Judgment of the Lord God be When Wa shall ch a rcra thoo irlfh thv brother's soul? Shalt thou be numbered on the left or right? II. O, strange gray world, O world half soul, half brute! World with the prayer of sainthood on thy tongue! World where the songs of angles has been sung? Yet mute, dumb world, with all the demons mute! Loud-voiced enough thy boastings vain to suit; Loud-voiced enough when Glory's chimes are rung, When Fame's abroad and victor flags are flung? These are thy blossoms and thy chosen fruit. Yet, think'st thou not, gray world, With all thy power, With all thy trumpetlnrs of old pretense That thou to Mercy ?west a moment's span? I tell thee that thou yet shall see the hour? An hour of dread?an hour of recompense, And that stern hour shall know the rights of Man! ?John Jerome Rooney, la New York Times. UNCLE SAM'S DAILY BALANCE. It Accumulates at the Rate of $2.21 a Second. That the cost of the government Is daily increasing, and that, in spite of this increasing cost, the United States is able, after paying every bill, to put aside more cash each night at the close of business than it did on the corresponding day last year or the year before that, are easily demonstrated by an analysis of the daily balance sheet issued by the secretary of the treasury. One of the clever statisticians of Washington took the statement of September 16 last, which was typical of the whole series of the fall season, and made some interesting deductions. The statement, which sets forth the transactions of an ordinary day, shows that the tptal receipts of the government from all sources for that <lay were $2,020,836.55, and that the total expenses of that day were $1,830,001), thus leaving a balance of receipts over expenditures in the treasury of |190,836.56. In other words, the government collected nearly 3200,000 more than it had any immediate need for. The collections for the day were at the rate of $84,201.52 an hour for the twenty-four hours, which means that every minute there poured into its strong boxes from the pockets of the people $1,403.36, or $23.39 a second. On the same day the United States paid out on an average every hour $76,250 in order to keep the wheels of government going. Expressed In another way, the expenses 1'or the government for the day by minutes were $1,270.76, or $21.18 a second. As the collections for the same second were $23.39, it is shown that the government's profits for the day were at the rate of $2.21 per second. The source of greatest Income on this particular day was from customs collections levied under the tariff act. They totaled for the day $1,131,878.59. This Is at the rate of $47,167.60 an hour, or $786,00 a minute, or $1J.10 a second. While collecting tariff duties at the rate of $13.10 t. second, the government at the same time was col- ' lecting internal reven.. taxes at the rate of $8.76 a second, tiie total receipts for the day from that source being $756,933.72. From miscellaneous sources there was collected during the day $132,024,24. On the corresponding day last year the receipts from all sources were $1,331,440.40, with expenses of $1,160,000. Collections for the corresponding day last year were at the rate of $15.41 a second and expenditures averaged for that dav 113.42 a second, the DrofltS to the government on the day's transactions being only $1.99 a second, against $2.21 a second on September 16, 1903. The item of greatest cost, as shown by the statement under review, was credited to "war"?merely a convenient term used by the treasury's book-keepers to indicate the total expense of the war department for that day. The exhibit shows that there was disbursed on account of "war" on September 16, $720,000, and on the same day the navy cost the nation $570,000. Pension payments for the day were $300,000, thus making the total expenses of the government on account of war and the necessary equipment to carry it on $1,590,000. While, of course, an enormous amount of money is paid out every day in expenses, the government, as has been shown, is making a profit of $2.21 a second on its dally transactions. If this is kept up long enough it will have in its exchequer all the money In the nation. WAt the end of the year 1902 the Russian army had 1,386 generals, of whom 129 were "polmije generalus" (full-generals) 387 lieutenants-generals and 870 major-generals, '. he average age of these generals was sixty-nine years for the "full" generals, sixty-two years for the lieutenant-generals and fifty-six years for the major-generals. Fifty-eight per cent of all the generals have seen active warfare and four of them are over ninety-years of age. The gold mined in Mexico is now approximately $25,000,000 annually.