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Sumorous department. Ratiieu IK'Mii.iatinc.?Representative* Champ Clark frequently visited Washington before his election to the house and thought he was pretty well known there. On one occasion he went to the capital on business for a client. He was surprised and pleased to meet an old friend and townsman at the hotel Mr. Clark had selected for his stay. "Well. well, if It isn't Brown!" exclaimed Mr. Clark. "I'm glad to see you. Is there anything I can do for vou?" Then Mr. Clark took his friend by the arm and marched him to the hotel's desk, saying: "I can do you one good turn, anyhow." "Clerk." added Mr. Clark, when they had reached that functionary. "This is my friend. Mr. Brown. I want you to treat him right. Let him have whatever he wants, and if he gets too extravagant and runs out of cash, just charge it to me." "Why, yes," said the clerk. "I know Mr. Brown very well, sir: hut who are you?"?Washington Star. Wise to Fashion.?"Did you see that ginny round here just now with a Tuxedo and white?gloves?" smiled Tom McCann in the lobby of the Fairmont. "No," responded Chief Clerk Brownell, flecking a rose petal off the sleeve of his new striped suit, "I didn't notice him." "White gloves with a Tuxedo!" repeated McCann. "I'd have thought you'd have caught that: it was such a ?well, such a cold"? 'Oh, well." remarked Brownell. sniffing twice. "I have a cold already: caught it the other night wearing a low vest." "Not a Tuxedo with white gloves, I hope." persisted McCann. "-NO, saill tsrowncn, i nine a * do with black cotton gloves; they're cool and nice, and lots more convenient. Pair I got for a funeral." "Wear the Tuxedo that time?" facetiously inquired McCann. "Of course not," asserted Brownell. "It was a forenoon affair."?San Francisco Chronicle. Prxisnixc; His Doxkey.?Not very long ago there lived near Halifax an old man who always rode on a donkey to his daily work, and tethered him while he labored on the roads or wherever else he might be. It had been pretty plainly hinted to him by one of the local landowners that he was suspected of putting it in the fields to graze at other people's expense. "Eli, squoire. Aw cudna do sich a thing, fer my donkey wean't ait" (eat) "owt bud nettles an thistles." One day the gentleman was riding along the road, when he saw the old fellow at work and the donkey up to its knees in one of his clover fields feeding luxuriously. "Halloa, John!" said he. "I understood you to say your donkey would eat nothing but nettles and thistles?" "Aye," said John, "but he's bin misbehavin'* hissen. sir. He nearly kicked me i' th' chest just now, so, aw put him theer to punish him!"?Tit-Bits. MisrxDERSTANnixt;.?His name was George Arnold, and he was arraigned in the police court on the charge of stealing a ride on a train to Dagupan. "Where were you?" asked Judge Ix>w, referring to his former place of abode. "In Manila." was the reply. "I was waiting." "Waiting for whom?" "Just waiting." "What were you waiting for?" "To get my money." "Who from?" "The man I was waiting for." "What did he owe it to you for " "For waiting." "How did you start in waiting?" "By beginning to wait." "What do you mean? Explain yourself." "I thought you knew I was waiting in a restaurant." "Oh!" gasped the judge.?Philippine Gossip. Seeds From the Seedless.?Mentioning the agricultural department reminds me of a letter received just the other day by Representative Walter Smith of Iowa. Judge Smith has a habit of referring to the people of his district as "the most enlightened con stltuency in tne worta. anci. to ten untruth, theii- action in sending the judge to congress constitutes prima facie evidence of the truth of this boast. But just the same, one member of this same constituency slipped a cog the other day. "Dear Judge." he wrote to Mr. Smith. "I understand the agricultural department is experimenting, and has been for some time, with a new variety of seedless tomato. If they have brought the plant to perfection and are distributing it, please send me some of the seeds."?Washington Star. The Jepoe Qcai.ikiko.?In a Baltimore court one woman was suing another for slander. When the plaintiff was put on the witness stand her attorney said to her. "Now. madam, just tell the court what the defendant said about you." "Oh. I cannot," she hesitatingly replied. "But. madam, you must." the attorney insisted. "The whole case hangs upon your testimony." "But it isn't tit for any decent person to hear." replied the witness. "Ah. in that case." answered the attorney. "just step up to the judge and whisper it in his ear."?Judge. Pl.AfSlltl.k Evidence.? "You say v.ni m<.t tho doffiniliint on :i street ear. and that he had been drinking and gambling?" said the attorney for the defense during the cross examination. "Yes." replied the witness. "Did you see him take a drink?" "No." "Did you see him gambling?" "No." "Then how do you know." demanded the attorney, "that the defendant had been drinking and gambling?" "Well," explained the witness, "he gave the conductor a blue chip for his carfare and told him to keep the change."?Lippincott's Magazine. How Mien hk TiiorciiT aiioit Hkk.?They were on their way to the theatre, and she was tremulously happy. She felt that the words she longed to hear would be spoken that night, and the idea made her almost dizzy with delight. "Mr. Sampson." she said softly, "why do you wear that bit of string upon your finger?" "Oh." replied Mr. Sampson, taking it off, "that was to remind me of my engagement with you tonight." It wasn't much, but it was enough to take away the delightful dizziness.? London Chronicle. PICKING THE PRESIDENT. (Continue] from First Pago.) (" rant's 3<>fi delegates stood like a rock until the end. Democrats regard the Democratic convention of 1X9(1 as the most eventful in the party history. Before the convention met. Richard P. Bland, of Missouri, was the leading candidate, with Robert E. Pattison, of Pennsylvania; Horace Boies, of Iowa; Joseph S. C. Blackburn, of Kentucky, and John R. McLean, of Ohio, holding strong support. William J. Bryan was hardly considered for the nomination. On the second day of the convention was fought the momentous battle between the supporters of "free silver" and "sound money." In a debate W. J. Bryan delivered an eloquent oration directed against the "soundmoney" faction, in which he spoke these words: "You shall not crush down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns! You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!" The speech made him a candidate. The first ballot resulted: Bland, 235; Bryan, 119; Pattison, 9o; Boles, 80; Blackburn, 83; McLean 54. The remaining votes were scattered among ten candidates. One hundred and seventy-eight refused to vote. Bryan's vote increased steadily, and on the fifth ballot he received 578, sixty-six more than the necessary twothirds, and was declared the nominee. It is a truism in practical politics that "sentiment may elect a man, but it never gets him the nomination." The practical politician does not ask. "Will he make a good president?" but he does ask, "Will he make a good candidate?" Qualifications of the Nominees. The following qualifications are generally considered necessary for- a presidential candidate: First: He must be of "presidential size," which is to say that his party must feel sure that he will not show himself ridiculously incompetent after inauguration. Second: He must be a "ma:i of the hour." In other words, he must have had recent wide advertisement because of some personal act or series of creditable acts and accomplishments which are likely to arouse the high respect or impulsive admiration of the masses of the people. Third: The leaders of his party must have reasonable assurance that, if elected, he will not upset the party "organization," but will hold to the party traditions and distribute the "patronage" among the members of the party organization. There are other qualifications, not so essential as the first three. His public record for honesty and good judgment should not be vulnerable; and. in a lesser degree, his private character should be honorable. His home should be located in a state against which the least amount of sectional nreiudice mav be aroused. His social and religious affiliations should be such as will not antagonize large bodies of the voters. If, in addition, he be a great orator and possess much personal magnetism, his chances for the nomination are much enhanced. In practise, the influence of any national administration in power directed toward the control of a national convention is the greatest measurable factor in national politics. On June 30, 1906. there were eighty-six thousand, six hundred and ninety-two "excepted and non-competitive" positions in the United States government service. A small proportion was filled by women. The great number had been given to men as a reward for past political service. Federal Offiice-Holders. The men and women who fill these positions are known colloquially as "Federal office-holders." Thc^- are altogether distinct from the one hundred and eighty-five thousand who hold competitive positions under the civil-service laws, and who are not indebted to any political party for their appointment. The following figures from the official reports for 1906 show the number of Federal office-holders in the leading classes: Postmasters, fourth class, 57,860; third class, 4.524; second class, 1,403; first class. 316. (The president personally makes the appointments of first, second, and third class postmasters; the postmaster-general names the fourth class.) Pension agency serv'ce, 4,388; Indian service, 2.657; Iu.ernal revenue service, 1,4 82; Quartermaster's department at large, 1.144; Agricultural department, 1,161; Department of justice, 717; Public health and ma line hospital service. 613; Isthmian canal commission, 5,057. The power of Republican Federal office-holders in a Republican convention is greater that that of Democratic Federal office-holders in a Democratic convention. To illustrate; Mississippi in the presidential election of 1904 cast 53.376 Democratic votes and 3,187 Republican votes. South Carolina cast 52,563 Democratic and 2,554 Republican votes. The Federal office-holders in both states were Republican. In the coming Republican national convention Mississippi will have twenty delegates and South Carolina eighteen delegates. controlled presumably by the Federal office-holders. On the other hand. Vermont in the last presidential election cast 40,459 Republican and 9.777 Democratic votes. Maine cast 64.4 32 Republican and 27.641 Democratic. The coming Democratic national convention will have twelve delegates from Maine and eight from Vermont. If the Federal officeholders in these states were Democratic. it is probable that they would largely influence the delegations in normal conditions, but not so largely as the Republican office-holders in the southern states. The following table shows the electoral vote, based on the last apportionment of congressmen, adopted by the house of representatives on January 8. 1901. The electoral vote of each state is equal to the number of its congressmen plus two t'nited States senators: Alabama 11 Arkansas 9 California 10 l '.ili.t'sirl.. 5 Connecticut " Delaware 3 Florida 5 Georgia 13 Idaho 3 Illinois 27 Indiana 15 Iowa 13 Kansas I'1 Kentucky 13 Louisiana 9 Maine 5 Maryland 3 Massachusetts 1" Michigan 11 Minnesota 11 Mississippi 1'1 Missouri IX Montana 3 Nebraska X Nevada 3 New Hampshire 4 New Jersey 12 New York 39 North Carolina 12 North Dakota 4 Ohio 23 Oklahoma ~ Oregon 4 Pennsylvania 34 Rhode Island 4 South Carolina W South Dakota 4 Tennessee 12 Texas IX I'tah 3 Vermont 4 Virginia 12 Washington 5 West Virginia ~ Wisconsin 13 Wyoming 3 Total 4 S3 Necessary to a choice. 24 2 electoral votes. The two leading parties organize their national conventions in practically the same manner. Each convention is made up of two delegates for each electoral vote, and in addition, an arbitrary number from the territories. The next Republican national convention, to meet at Chicago on June ' 11] of this year, will have on the roll !iC6 delegates from the states, apportioned as in the above table?two for 1 each electoral vote, and two delegates each from Arizona, New Mexico, Alaska, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Por- ' to Rico and Philippines?a total of i DSO delegates in the convention. The | candidate may be nominated by a , majority. 491. The next Democratic convention '< I will meet at Denver, Colorado, Julyii 7. The states will send 966 delegates . apportioned exactly as for the Repub- ' lican convention, but the seven territories will each send six delegates, ] making the total roll of the conven- . tion, 1,008 delegates. The Democratic j rules provide that a candidate to be nominated, shall receive not less than ' two-thirds of the total vote. The sue- 1 cessful candidate at Denver must have , 6 73 votes. The national conventions of each 1 party are arranged by the national 1 committer of the party. The national < committee is made up of one commit- | teeman from each state in the Union. The present officers of these committees and the men who will have most < to do with the arrangement of the ] coming conventions are: , Republican National Committee? Chairman, Harry Stewart New, In- ! dianapolis. Indiana. Born at Indian- i apolis in 1858, he was formerly owner | and editor of the Indianapolis Daily Journal. Several years ago he retired from newspaper work. He is mod- ' erately wealthy. < Treasurer. Cornelius Newton Bliss, , New York. Born at Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1833, senior member of the wholesale dry goods and commis- I sion firm of Bliss. Fabyan & Co., of | New York, since 1881. He served as i treasurer of Republican National committees in 1892. 1896, 1900, and 1 1904. In 1897 and 1898 he was secretary of the interior in the cabinet j of President McKinley. He is reputed to be a millionaire. Secretary, Elmer Dover, born at McConnellsville, Ohio, in 1873. He began as a newspaper man. and serv- ; ed on staffs of daily papers at Portsmouth and Akron. Ohio. In 1896 he became private secretary to Marcus A. 1 Hanna. and since Senator Hanna's death he has been secretary of the ( national committee. Democratic National Committee? Chairman, Thomas Taggart, Indianapolis, Indiana. Born in Ireland, in lfir.fi His nnrents settled at Xenia. Ohio. He early became a hotel proprietor at Indianapolis, and he was < elected mayor of Indianapolis in , 1877. He owns a large hotel at ' French Lick Springs, Indiana. He is reputed to be wealthy. August Belmont of New York re- i signed the treasurership of the Democratic national committee at the beginning of the present year. He was 1 succeeded by William H. O'Rrien of i Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Mr. O'Brien . was born at Lawrenceburg. He was , editor of the Daily Register of that ' city from 1877 to 1894. Since 1891 ; he has engaged in the banking bus- ; iness. He has been active in the Indiana Democratic party management , during thirty years. Secretary, Urey Woodson, Owens- I boro, Kentucky. Editor and propri- < etor of the Owensboro Daily Messen- : ger during the past twenty years. He is forty-eight years old. I The headquarters of the Republican committee were established at ( Washington by Chairman M. A. Hah- . na in 1896, and have since been continued there. The Democratic committee has no i permanent headquarters. By com- j mon consent, the residence of the chairman is headquarters until ofli- ' cial quarters are opened for a presidential campaign. i The secretaries receive regular sal- | aries. It costs approximately seventy-five 1 thousand dollars to hold a national 1 convention. It is customary for the j business men of the city in which the ( convention is held to pay the expense. The fund is subscribed mostly by ( steam and street railroad interests, hotel-keepers, restaurateurs. and , others who profit directly from the convention crowds. In recent years, Chicago, Philadelphia. Kansas City, Denver, Louisville. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Seattle and Atlantic City have actively striven to get a convention. The national convention has grown < to be the greatest spectacular political event in our national life. Thousands journey from all parts of the 1 country to look on at the proceedings. ! In considering the claims of different cities, the national committees have in mind the prime essential of seating capacity of the convention 1 hall, railroad facilities, and hotel ac- i commodations. All other things be- , ing equal, the city that best shows the possession of these essentials and agrees to put up the money gets the 1 convention. The convention city is expected to provide a hall with seating capacity of not less than ten thousand. Chicago did not quite do this for the Republican convention of 1904. The Coliseum, where the convention was held, seated 8,260 persons. This year an extra balcony is to be built, and, according to the architect in charge. the building will have a seating capacity of 11,25ft on the day of the convention. The Kansas City business men who appeared before the 1 committees last December claimed that their hall would seat twenty thousand persons. Six weeks prior to the convention 1 the sub-committee of the national : committee moves to the convention city and opens headquarters. The following are the principal items of expenditure for a national ! convention. The figures are the averages of the last four national conven- . tions: Architectural changes in hall to , suit convention. $30,00ft; printing of tickets, programmes, souvenirs, badges, 1 buttons, $15,000; pay-roll of em- i ployees during convention week, $4.- ( ftftft; pay-roll and expense of sub-committee during seven weeks, $10,0ftft; expense of national-committee meetings, stenographers, messages, etc.. . $2,000: miscellaneous. $lft,Ofto. Total $71,000. I Seats are provided for four hun- j dred working newspaper-men, who telegraph news to their papers. One hundred and fifty additional seats 1 are given to general writers, maga- < zine-wrlters, artists, and photogra- , phers. Fifty telegraph-operators are placed usually beneath the platform. ' Tammany Hall of New York usu- ' ally sends the largest delegation to I the galleries of a convention. In 1904 | Tammany sent one thousand one hundred "delegates" to the Demo- 1 cratic convention at St. Louis. They < traveled on five special trains. Kach ( man naid $24.25 railroad fare for , the round trip. The average hotel , charge was live dollars a day for three days. The average total expen- < diture for each man was $125. and the entire expenditure was $137,000. , Both Itepublicans and Democrats follow the same method of parlia- 1 mentary procedure. The convention i is expected to last three days, though | sometimes when there is no contest, it is finished in two days. The last business of the convention I is the nomination of candidates. Af- 1 ter the convention adjourns, the new | national committee meets and elects . officers. The presidential candidate who has ; been nominated usually names his i personal choice for chairman. The . treasurer selected is generally some man of wealth who is in touch with f large financial and business interests. ; and who is willing to advance money ( from his personal resources to start the campaign. It is known that the ti e tsurer of one of the committees in one of the campaigns since lf?00 ad- l vanced eighty thousand dollars to | keep things going. li is customary to open the cam- * paign formerly in August. Hardly 1 any money is collected before the t middle of September. Politicians find ( it impossible to interest business men in summer-time. Not until there has ' been much show of activity, much beating of drums, firing of literary artillery, newspaper bombarding, and dramatic appeals for help will the I business man who contributes rouse ^ up. Then cash flows in and the treas- ^ urer ?r chairman gets back the money he has advanced.?The Scrap Book. !l |ftiscctlanrous grading. Z" entli STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM. 000 , ha v< Progress of the Farmers' Great Hold- f W ing Movement. 3 com Philadelphia Public Ledger. |)OS}1 The second war of rebellion is now the In full progress throughout the cotton ileet Uates, and a struggle for freedom has neet been inaugurated that will not end un- sine til reconstruction has done its work and and victory perches upon the banner wou of the hosts of King Cotton, who never cott again will be dethroned. It is a war fore between the producer of the fleecy sta- ?or pie. the grower of a world's necessity that ?which the world for all time must nani look to America for the greater part of Its supply?and the middleman, who has organized his forces so as to de- Ej inand a tithe from every bale market- nier ed, and arrogates to himself the right soci; to depress or elevate the price as best son, serves his ledger account twlth his fel- the lows. and There is no sectional hatred, no ra- sout cial contention, in this war; it is mere- all ! ly a case of existence on both sides, for rem the planter may as well throw up the ed sponge if the exchange is going to die- accc tate the conditions under which he to nui mm-lcf-t his cmn. a mo At least, that is the way the leaders hou: of the cotton forces put it. The brok- wen ers, on the other hand, claim that they mar are as necessary to the grower of cot- stor ton as his land, fertilizer and "nigger" gav< tenants combined. If they cannot make niig good on this claim they will no longer held be able to show a "license to live" as and exchange members. hanl The preliminary struggle, since the Tl Southern Cotton Association and the Apr Farmers' Union came into existence, of t reminds one of the prolonged insurrec- and (ion in Cuba before the Spaniards, who In e lorded it over a nation of poens, were of a finally and forever deposed from power, ban Generals of both these armies vow all > that a like fate shall overtake the lords Ark r?i the Cotton Exchanges, even if the able most revolutionary methods are found larg necessary. capi Has Powerful Support. loan Nor are these forces to be lightly ei n considered. The Farmers' Union or- wer ganization of America, now shows a 'aig total enrollment of 2,500,000 souls, all A,al imbued with the sense of their wrongs for and determined that coming genera- cn" tlons shall not be similarly enslaved, even if they do not realize the millen- u" nium in their own term of activity. In co" sympathy with their aims and hopes ,)as' are 5,000,000 other tillers of the soil in this country, and 20,000,000 of the younger generation, from whose ranks ^ will come the farmers of the future. t"ro The labor organizations of America are t,f ^ likewise sympathetic, because millions ,soc' >f skilled workers of the country sprang (> from the soil and graduated from ap- me< prenticeships behind the plow. li" 1 The Southern Cotton association's r'?l contention and purpose are the same. The organization is composed of men ' who own both small and large planta- t<>n(^ tions and others who have large bank- 11 r< ing and commercial interests directly hi,n' iffiliated with cotton growing. Their xast wealth and power are enormous in the sggregate, and these allied hosts all have one belief, which, to the layman, seems quite sane: "To the producer belongs a fail- retain for his labor, and mu'; Investment, uninfluenced by extrane- T' ous pressure from organized freeboot- u ,ie prs (as they term the exchange crowd), lait" who simply desire to get somethingfor ^ e nothing by 'gambling with marked "l,t cards and loaded dice.' The Grower's Argument. "The cotton grower points to the M>U market history of years to demonstrate ' that when a large crop is grown he obtains costs or less for his product, and when the crop is short the exchanges see to it that lie gets hut a ? small portion of the increased value. He cannot remember when the planter got a high price for cotton except that natural conditions greatly favored him: or an abnormal demand sprang up so i 1* "11 +1^" r?*?Aaaiirn nf f lif* SUIUICI1I.V null it 11 uir |iii?ii<u>c ...^ mill owners and tricks of the brokers could not avail to defraud him of his rights." This is in the exact words of one of the largest planters in the United States, who addressed a meeting held recently in a southern city. The exchange defenders contend that their delicate and imposing machinery is necessary to the marketing of a crop of twelve or thirteen million bales, and that the farmer never could antl never did get high prices until the exchange "bulls" made those prices for him. The exchange members consider their organization as being indispensable to market welfare. The cotton grower says that, from his point of view, the exchange is about us important as the curl in a pig's tail. This difference of opinion has led to a marshaling of forces on both sides for a struggle to the death, and if there is doubt as to when the fight will be over there is no doubt in the minds of I he cotton producers that they will eventually triumph. A Gigantic Holding Movement. It is claimed that more than a million liales of i!?07 cotton, most of it high Trade, have been pledged for retention in first and second hands until the I market shall take it at 15 cents a pound I (for middling). This is practically half I of all remaining in the United States I >f last season's crop. A vast amount H >f "unpledged" cotton is also being I lield by owners, who realize that it is I intrinsically worth much more than I present market prices, in view of "the I statistical position of the crop" (see | circulars of any prominent cotton ex- I change houses). Being in no stress for I money these holders can afford to I 'speculate" in the real article, as they I >wn it outright. This holding movement originated I n"hen in September last the minimum I [nice of lfi cents was fixed by the Far- I iters' Union at Little Rock, their ac- H lion being reaffirmed by the Southern I 'otton association in session at Mem- I ihis next day. In other years the price I tad been fixed ;it lfi cents and 11 cents. I ut ;it this time the pinch of the panic I tad not been felt. The market was I iround the 14-eent notch for the rem- I mint of a l.l.fififi.fififi bale crop in 190G, I ind their new crop was known to he I diort. The crop in 190F? had been only I i little over lfi.fififi.fififi bales, and the I 'arry-over at the end of the 19fi(! crop I iVas about 1,.100,000 bales. "The only unreasonable thing about I he fixed price of 1 it cents," says a I arge holder in Atlanta, "was that the I flower had a show to get?for once?a I ig profit, or those of them at least who I an ordinarily make something on lfi- I ent cotton?it was in the wrong I lands." Cares of the Planter. "Kven at 15 cents," said a Mississippi I ilanter to the writer. "I would not have I a>t rich. I had to plant four times be- I ore I secured a crop at all. and did not I i vera go more than half a hale to the at that." Considering that 33,000,- ' acres were planted in 1907 and the i re crop was a little more than 11,- i )00 bales, the net returns would not i 1 been any better than those recelv- i or the 13,000,000 bale crop of 1906. ith the cotton world practically inced that l.r>-cent cotton was a ilble or probable fact, along came "October gales" wrecking a vast freighted with sanguine hopes. No ' I to dwell on all that has happened e to militate against high prices : an eager market. Thousands who id have kept their promise to hold on for a 15-cent minimum were ed by the calling of loans to sell all a part of it?to pay indebtedness could not be rearranged and fired as usual. Aid From the Banks. irly in March a meeting: of Fans' Union and Southern Cotton asation officials was called in JackMiss.. to consider the future of cotton still in the hands of growers the merchants and factors of the h. A plethora of loanable funds in southern banks gave hope that the nant might be financed and removfrom the "distress" column of no >unt. Memphis banks had agreed advance $40 a bale on a large >unt of Arkansas cotton, to be warosed and insured in that city. There e signs of an improved demand for lufactured goods, and a gradual reatlon of good business conditions e hope that a successful stand ht yet be made by those who had 1 out in spite of "a sea of troubles." were willing to hold to the end if king favors could be secured, lie matter was again taken up on il 2 at a meeting of state presidents lie Farmers' Union in Little Rock, it was decided to renew the fight aoh of the states, and co-operation l| cotton holders was solicited. The ks of Little Rock agreed to finance r>f the "distress," or loan cotton, in ansas under fair terms and reason> conditions. This action freed a e amount of promised Memphis tal, which was speedily applied to is in Missouri, Tennessee and northMississippi. Next to fall in line e nineteen banks of Mississippi, the est in the state, and the banks of lama followed suit, agreeing to care all necessary loans on warehoused on in those states. l- Ar?i-i1 19 if hcorimo porfnln thnt I necessary cotton loans in all the on states would ho carried on the s of $.10. $.1f> and $40 a bale until tember 1 if desired, and the greatobstacle to success was removed, n began an organized canvass ugh the various state departments oth Farmers' Fnlon and Cotton asution. wners of many thousand bales 1 no financial assistance, and could y what they have and the 190X >, too, if they deemed it wise, and ' are not disposed to weaken now. spontaneous and generous aid ex- : led by the southern banks has been velatlon to the farmer, and the Iter views the whole problem in a ly different light today than ever ire. As a national bank president, ninent throughout the south, puts lorctofore when funds had accuuted. as in recent weeks, we trunsed our balances to New York, re the money was loaned to specurs to depress the price of cotton, ought to use that money to help the southern planter." tius it happens that a very large nation of the cotton now in the h is not being pressed for sale at ?ason when ordinarily every planwho has seed in the ground is flgg on the next picking and anxious lear the decks of all the old stock. |?01 s POW Absolut The only bal made with R Cream 01 No Alum, No Li Limit Youi SAVE THE That is a better way to get a sta saving and SI*KVI) the ha la nee. can create capital when you go ab< determination. "With capital?Reserve funds portunitie.s which will surely come NOT YOU] Alone tluit will make you imlepeu SAFE PLACE AM) MI ST WOIIK We Pay 1 Per Cent?C'ompo Accounts. Write us and we will explain to know in regard to Opening an . THIS IS ONE OP TIIE S COr\TKY The NATIONAL (ABSOLUTEl ROCK HILL, S The way has been provided; now the rpjestion is, will they stand lirm, let the other fellow sell until he has no more and wait for the longlonked for buyer at 1 ft cents? Tlte owners of cotton says yes. The speculators in futures say no. The Farmer's Reasoning. In a journey extending through important sections of eight of the largest cotton growing states the writer converse*] with hundreds of planters, large and small, factors, merchants, cotton buyeis, bankers and officials of both the above named organizations, and the essence of their reasoning is embodied herein. The opinions and arguments are wholly theirs. The farmer ho longer speculates through exchanges or bucket shops on the hunch given him by a cotton buyer who had persuaded him to sell his actual cotton and buy one of those famous "hedges" ?a paper contract. He recalls the day when representatives of foreign houses were thick as blackberries, and he or his factor could sell direct on the wharf or in warehouse yard to a man who knew what he wanted when he saw it and paid In hard coin for what he got. Thinas Not Understood. He knows that grain and provisions are sold abroad now as then: "Sight draft with bill of lading." He believes that if it was not for the exchanges cotton would still be sold in the way that formerly worked so well, and that the insurance feature, or hedge, was not invented for his benefit but to help the other fellow. He doesn't quite understand how it is that with only 100,000 bales of cotton in New York, which stays in the warehouse from one year's end to the other, it can form the legitimate basis of sales from one-quarter to one-half million bales a day, as the reports i duly set forth. lie is quite prepared I to understand by the reported dealings j that members of the great exchanges, north and south, are "short" of more cotton than there is in the world, and naturally wonders why prices steadily decline in the quotations of "hereafters." Roland Stone. A TEXAS CYCLONE YARN. Storm Carried For Miles a 500 Foot Column of Water Topped By a Big T ...... I I cc. E. F. Turner of Hamilton county said: "I was riding horseback across the country Thursday and passed through tho town of Meridian, where I took dinner. After dinner I started toward Waco, and had a hard time on account of high water. "At about T>.30 p. m. I was a few miles from Clifton, when I found a cy- . clone chasing me, and I galloped away from it as fast as my horse could carry me. Presently I found that it had passed me. and I sat on the brow of a hill and watched its course. It was carrying along much debris, and when [ it struck the Bosque river it sucked up all the water, leaving the bed of the river practically empty. It crossed the Bosque obliquely and the water it took out of the bed of the stream was carried upward in a column which appeared to me to be about r?00 feet high. 1 "The most remarkable part of this, phenomenon was the fact that it had ^ torn up by the roots a big tree ami the tree was on top of the column of water, waving like a plume. When the column of water broke the tree went sailing on and fell about half a mile from where it was taken up."?Dallas News. Colorado, Montana and Utah have showed a decided decline in the production of precious metals. tv The swiftest river in the world is the Sutlej of British India, which in 180 miles has a descent of 12,000 feet. if* w m P ' % |H? DER ely Pure 1 king powder toy at Grape a f Tartar ime Phosphate e t r Spending : : : BALANCE i Y I I J rt financially, than to limit your |t It is surprising how quickly you ^ jut It in the proper way and with s; c 0 ?you are ready for business op- u to you. Remember it is s 1 El SAVING ; t< dent. Your money must be in a FOR YOF unded Quarterly?on All Savings 1 i to you fully anything you want \ee<?unt, tl TIIONOF.ST RANKS IN T1IR I ~ j< fi SJ UNION BANK LiY SAFE) outh Carolina. s. r< | TJILTTTS | Clothing | PRICES CUT A i A TH 0 It is early in the season to n ? ?that is, noticeable cuts?but tl V same?doing it in time for you 1 ^ Late Summer Prices. There are Z here?big values tuat you can # save from $1.00 to $3.00 on a S k pair of Pants?that is worth sa V ?the qualities and prices will te MEN'S SUITS. ! 12.50 Suits Reduced to $9.00. j? [12.00 Suits Reduced to $8.75. $4 [10.00 Suits Reduced to $7.50. |j !9.00 Suits Reduced to $6.50. [8.50 Suits Reduced to ! [6.00. S7.50 Suits Reduced to !>5.00. [6.00 Suits Reduced to ! 4.00. [5.00 Suits Reduced to 1 [3.50. $1 [4.50 Suits Reduced to l>3.00. $] [4.00 Suits Reduced to $2.75. 7f [3.50 Suits Reduced to 12.50. [3.00 Suits Reduced to 12.00. [2.50 Suits Reduced to $1.75. YOUTHS' SUITS. ji [8.00 Suits Reduced to $5.50. [5.00 Suits Reduced to $3.50. f. [4.50 Suits Reduced to $3.00. lr [3.00 Suits Reduced to $2.00. Boys' Knee Pants Suits [4.00 Suits Reduced to $3.00. [3.00 Suits Reduced to $1225. $1 [2.00 Suits Reduced to $1.50. 7f [1.75 Suits Reduced to $1.25. 5( [1.50 Suits Reduced to $1.10. 31 [1.25 Suits Reduced to 90c. 21 I 4 Please bear in mind that thes I k and we reserve the right to wi If a few Havs. or as soon as we fin X J - like this can't last always. But C Clothing Bargains. { THE STRAUS, ACT QUICKLY 0 Delay Has Been Dangerous In Yorkville. ^ Do the right thing at the riglit time. _ Act quickly in times of danger. Backache is kidney danger. * Doan's Kidney Pills act quickly. Cure all distressing, dangerous kidley ills. Plenty of evidence to prove this. A Jesse Pinson, Main St.. Gaffney. S. 2., says: "About ten years ago 1 was v? tuddenly attacked by. a dull aching hrough the region of my kidneys. I :onsulted a physician but became no ? letter under his treatment. I then vent to another who told me that I had cidney trouble but he was also unable ,o help me. I suffered this for eight .'ears and grew so weak and run down hat I was almost a physical wreck. The pains in my back were almost unlearable and it was quite impossible ? 'or me to do my work without suffer- ? ng. The kidney secretions were very I innatural in appearance and during passages caused me intense pain. I ecently heard of Doan's Kidney Pills ind believing that they might help me. irocured a box. The contents brought lie such relief that I purchased another A mpply and when I had taken this, I vas cured. I have had no similar trou>le since and cannot give Doan's Kidley Pills too much praise." fc For sale by all dealers. Price 50 ni ents. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, *Jew York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's?and ake no other. 'OVER THE COUNTER" The Taylor-Burt Paper Co., Holyoke, Mass. r. G. Taylor, President. I*! May 8, 1907. dr. O. L. Cowles, General Agent, The Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co., ? Springfield, Mass. a )ear Sir:? A I have just received the policy for 3000, which makes the eighth policy hat I have taken out with you in the dutual Benefit, of Newark, N. J., and .11 in force. This ought to show my aith in this grand old company, as ? veil as in the agent. S< My first policy was taken out sixeen years ago, and it is the only one or which you ever solicited me?all he balance have been sold me "over he counter." I am perfectly satisfied J rith the way I have been treated, and th m glad indeed to recommend the com- sc ?any to any one needing Life Insur- st) nee. Yours very truly, th J. G. Taylor. Sc is Call and let me show you. ac SAM M. GRIST, Special Agt. be THE CORN CONTEST. it A LL FARMERS of York County J* l\. who desire to do so, are invited to OJ nter the Farmers' Union Corn Con- po est. The prize money Is being raised by _ oluntary contributions. Already the . um of $225 has been promised and 1 his fund will probably be increased, kl The fund is to be divided into three at irizes to go to the first, second and hird largest yields on one acre. The largest yield is to have 50 per ent of the entire amount, the second " trloM Qfl no,- rionf nnd thf? third argest yield 20 per cent. All intending contestants must make e, mown their ' intention to Mr. A. L. 1LACK, Secretary of the Farmers' Tnion, No. 1, Yorkville, on or before UNE 1ST, and pay to him an enrance fee of 50 cents each. Each contestant is required to plant wo acres in corn on the ihtensive ystem for each plow operated on acount of his own farm, and the yield f each acre required of him must he \\ p to 75 per cent of his best acre. For further and fuller particulars ee the issue of The Enquirer of April 4, the Rock Hill Record of April 13, he Rock Hill Herald of April 18, or pply to Mr. A. L. BLACK or any lember of the undersigned commit?e. . 0. \V. D. ORTST, ^ J. B. SCOTT. x; D. J FORBES, Com. rj;J FINAL SETTLEMENT. J? \LL concerned will please take notice that I have this day made a ill settlement with the Probate Court In ir York county as administrator of th he estate of Miss R. C. MOSS, de- sq eased, and that on May 16, at 11 a. m., A will apply to Hon. L. R. Williams, pi< Jdge of said court, for a discharge 0 rom further liability on account of foi aid administration. be JAS. W. SMARR, Admr. co 31 f 5t ed or CLOTHES CLEANING. mi r AM prepared to clean gentlemen's L clothes and ladies' skirts in a thor- lu ughly satisfactory manner, at rea- no mable prices. Work may be sent di- SUl ?ct to my home or left at W. E. Fer uson's store res Mrs. R. B. McCLAIN. 10 >TT-A-ij 5 Values | . FOURTH TO | IRD. j lake cuts in Clothing prices ? lien we arc doing it just the h ;o get New Spring Styles at y : many extraordinary values ? ill afford to pass by. You X f uit?from 50c to $1.50 on a ? ving. Come and see goods ? nipt you to buy. See below: y MEN'S PANTS. ^ i.00 Pants Reduced to $3.50. LOO Pants Reduced to $3.00. 1.50 Pants Reduced to $2.50. t.00 Pants Reduced to $2.25. !.50 Pants Reduced to $1.75. !.00 Pants Reduced to $1.50. 1.50 Pants Reduced to $1.00. 1.25 Pants Reduced to 90c. ' ? 1.00 Pants Reduced to 75c. * ic. Pants Reduced to 50c. YOUTHS' PANTS. !.ftrt Pants Reduced to $1.50. *" [.75 Pants Reduced to $125. 1.50 Pants Reduced to $1.00. 1.25 Pants Reduced to 90c. [.00 Pants Reduced to 75c. ic. Pants Reduced to 50c. Ic. Pants Reduced to 35c. BOYS' KNEE PANTS. [.00 Pants Reduced to 75c. ic. Pants Reduced to 50c. )c. Pants Reduced to 35c. ic. Pants Reduced to 25c. ic. Pants Reduced to 18c. e prices are for CASH only A . thdraw the cut prices after Z d it desirable. 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