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L. M. GRIST s SONS, Publishers. | 3 #amilj Beurspappr: #oi the promotion of the political. Social, agricultural and Commercial Interests of the people. | T?R"Jj'N;"K" ESTABLISHED 1855. ~ ~ YORKVILLE, S. C. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER2()7ihtO. NO. 75. 1 rrni^Mi |?,^M|M - ri-m?Tn +*?*+ ***** +&* : + ' A LAI I OR I WO * - ^ From the "ARA X ( A ?**A *$+A *,*+A **+A **+A * i [This story has been read by millions and will be read by other millions. Its claim for immortality lies in the fact that it is short story classic of the first rank. There is nothing in it but entertainment, of course; but of that there is no little]. PART III. When Aladdin had got into his chamber, he took the lamp, rubbed it in the same place as before, when immediately the genie appeared, and said to him, "What wouldst thou have? I am ready to obey thee as thy slave; I, and the other slaves of the lamp." "Hear me," said Aladdin; "thou hast hitherto obeyed me, but now I am about to impose on thee a harder task. The sultan's daughter, who was I promised me as my bride, is this night married to the son of the grand vizier. Bring them both hither to me immediately they retire to their bedchamber." "Master," replied the genie, "I obey you." Aladdin supped with his mother as was their wont, and then went to his own apartment, and sat up to await the return of the genie, according to his commands. In the meantime the festivities in honor of the princess's marriage were conducted in the sultan's palace with great magnificence. The ceremonies were at last brought to a conclusion, and the princess and the son of the vizier retired to the bedchamber prepared for them. No sooner had they i entered it, and dismissed their attendants, than the genie, the faithful slave of the lamp, to the great amazement and alarm of the bride and bridegroom, took up the bed, and by an agency invisible to them, transported it in an instant into Aladdin's chamber, where he set it down. "Remove the bridegroom," said Aladdin to the genie, "and keep him a prisoner till tomorrow dawn, and then return with him here." On Aladdin being left alone with the princess, he endeavored to assuage her fears, and explained to her the treachery practiced upon him by the sultan her father. He then laid himself down beside her, putting a drawn scimitar between them, to show that he was determined to secure her safety, and to treat her with the utmost possible respect. At break of day, the genie appeared at the appointed hour, bringing back the bridegroom, whom by breathing upon he had left motionless and entranced at the door of Aladdin's chamber during the night, and at Aladdin's command transported the couch with the bride and bridegroom on it, | Illinois Congressn Threatened I | I ^ ' |. ... j <-,] WHfttfH^ Hffi w ? lu liiauy of the lllluois coligtessiou are promised the most strenuous tight and election day The insurgents are seated by Henry S. Houtell. tieorge E democratic opponents to strive with f threatened with opposition in their o conventions called for Sept. by the same invisible agency, into the l>alace of.the sultan. At the instant that the genie had s? t down the couch with the bride and bridegroom in their own chamber, the sultan came to the door to offer his good wishes to his daughter. The grand vizier's son, who was almost perished with cold by standing in his thin under-garment all night, no sooner heard the knocking at the door than he got out of bed, and ran into the robing ehainber. where he had undressed himself the night before. The sultan having opened the door, went to the bedside, kissed the prioress on the forehead, but was extromei.. ... V,..,. e.? ..win, i\ s?ui |?i isru i" orv nv i i"??n .J7' - miv <? cholv. She only east at him a sorrowful ok, expressive of iffeat affliction. He suspected there was nothing extraordinary in this silence, and thereupon went immediately to the sultaness's apartment, told her in what a state he found the princess, and how she had received him. "Sire." said the sultaness. "1 will k<> and see her: she will not receive me in the same manner." +#**+ T +*H#* T +***+ T +** 1D1N, | THE | 7UL LAMP | 4? , X iBIAN NIGHTS" 5 :#+A **+A ?$+ *#+A ?*+A| The princess received her mother with sighs and tears, and signs of deep dejection. At last, upon her pressing on her the duty of telling her all her thoughts, she gave to the sultaness a precise description of all that happened to her during the night; on which the sultaness enjoined on her the necessity of silence and discretion, as no one would give credence to so strange a tale. The grand vizier's son, elated with the honor of being the sultan's son-in-law, kept silence on his part, and the events of the night were not allowed to cast the least gloom on the festivities on the following day, in continued celebration of the royal marriage. When night came, the bride and bridegroom were again attended to their chamber with the same ceremonies as on the preceding evening. Aladdin, knowing that this would be so. had already given his command to the genie of the lamp; and no sooner were they alone than their bed was removed in the same mysterious manner as on the preceding evening; and heaving passed the night in the same unpleasant way, they were in the morning conveyed to the palace of the sultan. Scarcely had they been replaced * Veeiit* o nnrlmcnt ivtlpll the Sllltall came to make his compliments t?> his daughter, when the princess could no longer conceal from him the unhappy treatment she had been subjected to, and told him all that had happened as she had already related it to her mother. The sultan, on hearing these strange tidings, consulted with the grand vizier; and finding from him that his son had been subjected to even worse treatment by an invisible agency, he determined to declare the marriage to l>e cancelled, and all the festivities, which were yet to last for several days, to be countermanded and terminated. This sudden change in the mind of the sultan gave ri3e' to various speculations and reports. Nobody but Aladdin ktiew the secret, and he kept it with the most scrupulous silence; and neither the sultan nor the grand vizier, who had forgotten Aladdin and his request, had the least thought that he had any hand in the strange adventures that befell the bride and bridegroom. On the very day that the tnree months contained in the sultan's promise expired, the mother of Aladdin again went to the palace, and stood in the same place in the divan. The sultan knew her again, and directed his vizier to have her brought before him. After having prostrated herself, she ten Are by the Insurgents. A J / , vi SEO.i.FOSS fWT if TV ul districts tlic 11reseat representatives of tlieir political career between now uiost active in the districts now repre. Foss and James It Mann. Besides or the ollice. all three of these men are wu party even though they win in the made answer, in reply t< the sultan: "Sire, I come at the end of three months to ask <>f you fulfilment of the promise you made to my son." The sultan little thought the request of Aladdin's mother was made t<> him in earnest, or that he would hear any more of the matter, lie therefore took counsel with the vizier, who suggested that the sultan should attach such conditions to the marriage as no one of the humble condition of Aladdin could possibly fulfil. In accordance with this suggestion of the vizier, the sultan replied to the mother of Aladdin: "(food woman, it is true sultans ought to titile bv their word, and I am ready to keep miiu* and make your son happy in marriage with the princess my daughter. Rut as I cannot marry her without some further proof of your son's being1 aide to support her in royal state, you may tell him I will fulfil my promise as soon as he shall send me forty trays of massy gold, full of the same sort of jewels you have already made me a present of, and carried l>y the like number of black slaves, who shall be led by as many young and handsome white slaves, all dressed magnificently. On these conditions I am ready to bestow the princess my daughter upon him; therefore, good woman, go and tell him so, and I will wait till you bring me his answer." Aladdin's mother prostrated herself a second time before the sultan's throne, and retired. On her way home she laughed within herself at her son's foolish imagination. "Where," said she, "can he get so many large gold trays, and such precious stones to fill them0 It is altogether out of his power, and 1 heneve ne Will IHU lie muiii incasm with my embassy this time." When she came home full of those thoughts she told Aladdin all the circumstances of her interview with the sultan, and the conditions on which he consented to the marriage. "The sultan expects your answer immediately," said she; and then added, laughing, "I believe he may wait long enough!" "Not so long, mother, as you imagine," replied Aladdin. "This demand is a mere trifle, and will prove no bar to my marriage with the princess. I will prepare at once to satisfy his request." Aladdin retired to his own apartment and summoned the genie of the lamp, and required him to prepare and present the gift immediately, before the sultan closed his morning audience, according to the terms in which it had been prescribed. The genie professed his obedience to the owner of the lamp, and disappeared. Within a very short time, a train of forty black slaves, led by the same number of white slaves, appeared opposite the house in which Aladdin lived. Each Mack slave carried on his head a basin of massy gold, full of pearls, diamonds, rubles and emeralds. Aladdin then addressed his mother: "Madam, pray lose no time: before the sultan and the divan rise, I would have you return to the palace with his present as the dowry demanded for the princess, that he may judge by my diligence and exactness of the ardent and sincere desire I have to procure myself the honor of this alliance." As soon as this magnificent procession, with Aladdin's mother at its-head, had begun to march from Aladdin's house, the whole city was filled with the crowds of people desirous of seeing so grand a sight. The graceful hearing, elegant form, and wonderful likeness of each slave, their grave walk at an equal distance from each other, the lustre of their jeweled girdles, and the brilliancy of the aigrettes of precious stones in their turbans, excited the greatest admiration in the spectators. As they had to pass through several streets to the palace, the whole length of the way was lined with files of spectators. Nothing, indeed, was ever seen so beautiful and brilliant in the sultan's palace, and the richest robes of the emirs of his court were not to be compared to the costly dresses of these slaves, whom they supposed to be kings. As the sultan, who had been Informed of their approach, had given orders for them to be admitted, they met with no obstacle, but went into the divan in regular order, one part turning to the right and the other to the left. After they were all entered, and had formed a semicircle before the sultan's throne, the black slaves laid the golden trays on the carpet, prostrated themselves, touching the carpet with their foreheads, and at the same time the white slaves did the same. When they rose, the black slaves uncovered the trays, and then all stood with their arms crossed over their breasts. In the meantime, Aladdin's mother advanced to the foot of the throne, and having prostrated herself, said to the sultan, "Sire, my son knows this present is much below the notice of Princess Buddir al Buddoor; but hopes, nevertheless, that your majesty will accept of it. and make it agreeable to the princess, and with the greater confidence since he has endeavored to conform to the conditions you were pleased to impose." The sultan, overpowered at the sight of such more than royal magnificence, replied without hesitation to the words of Aladdin's mother: "Go and tell your son that I wait with open arms to embrace him: and the more haste he makes to come and receive the princess my daughter from my hands, the greater pleasure he will give me." As soon as Aladdin's mother had retired, the sultan put an end to the audience; ' l?i? .I,,.r,1..r..,1 (I 11(1 I Id I I If) I I ' ? I I I I HO llliunv w< tax % that the princess's attendants should come and carry the trays into their mistress's apartment, whither he went himself to examine them with her at It is leisure. The fourscore slaves were conducted into the palace; and tht sultan, telling the princess of their magnificent apparel, ordered them t< lie lirought before her apartment, that she might see through the lattices he had not exaggerated in his account ol them. In the meantime Aladdin's mother reached home, and showed in her air and countenance the good news slu lirought to her son. "My son," said she, "you may rejoice you are arrived at the height of your desires. The sultan has declared that you shall marry tin Princess I'.uddir al Huddoor. He waits for you with impatience." Aladdin, enraptured with this news made his mother very little reply, hut retired to his chamber. There lie rubbed his lamp, and the obedient genk appeared. "Genie," said Aladdin "convey mo at unco to a t>atn, aim supply mo with the richest and most magnificent robe ever worn by a monarch." No sooner were the words out of his mouth than the genie rendered him as well as himself, invisible, and transported him into a huminum of the finest marble of all sorts of colors; when he was undressed, without seeing by whom, in a magnificent and spaciom hall, lie was then well rubbed and washed with various scented waters After he had passed through several degrees of heat, he came out quite a different man from what he was liefore. His skin was clear as that of a child, his body lightsome and free; and when he returned into the hall. In found, instead of his own poor raiment a robe, the magnificence of which astonished him. The genie helped him U dress, and when he had done, transported him back to his own chamber where he asked him if he had any other commands. "Yes," answered Aladdin, "bring me a charger that surpasses in beauty and goodness the best Champ Clark Pi Mi J Copyright, 1910, by American Pre Champ Clark Is tirst of all a Mis of the house of representatives at tl souri mules down Pennsylvania av' Grass" displayed about the White II to the presidential chair there Is re ward the capitol with the mules wb coming in Missouri that Missouri hi justice of the supreme court or a sp to it that we get oue of theui right in the sultan's stables; with a saddl bridle, and other caparisons to corre pond with his value. Furnish al twenty slaves, as richly clothed those who carried the present to tl sultan, to walk by my side and folic me, and twenty more to go before r in two ranks. Besides these, brii my mother six women slaves to attei her, as richly dressed at least as ai ~r t?.?l T)n.i/iAAf Ul lilt- I I I lllvoo 1314 U 11 11 tx I UUUUUWl each carrying a complete dress fit f any sultaness. I want also ten tho sand pieces of gold in ten purses; i and make haste." As soon as Aladdin had given the orders, the genie disappeared, but pre ently returned with the horse, the fo ty slaves, ten of whom carried each purse containing ten thousand pieces gold, and six women slaves, each ca rying on her head a different dress f Aladdin's mother, wrapt up in a pie of silver tissue, and presented the all to Aladdin. He presented the six worm slaves to his mother, telling her th< were her slaves, and that the dress they had brought were for her use. < the ten purses Aladdin took foi which he gave to his mother, tellii her, those were to supply her wi necessaries; the other six he left in t hands of the slaves who brought thei with an order to throw them by ham fuls among the people as they went the sultan's palace. The six slav who carried the purses he order likewise to march before him, three < the left. When Aladdin had thus prepar himself for the first interview wi | the sultan, he dismissed the genie, at immediately mounting his charger, b gan his march, and though he nev was on horseback before, appear with a grace the most experienc horsemen might envy. The innumer | hie concourse of people through who he passed made the air echo with tin acclamations, especially every time t six slaves who carried the purses thr? I handfuls of gold among the populaei On Aladdin's arrival at the palai the sultan was suprised to find hi more richly and magnificently rob than he had ever been himself, and \v impressed with his good looks ai . dignity of manner, which were so di ferent from what he expected in t son of one so humble as Aladdii mother. He embraced him with all t . demonstrations of joy, and when would have fallen at his feet, held hi by the hand, and made him sit ne his throne. He shortly after led hi amidst the sounds of trumpets, hau boys, and all kinds of music, to a ma 1 iiilieent entertainment, at which t sultan and Aladdin ate by thei 1 selves, and the great lords of t court, according to their rank and di ! nity. sat at different tables. After t feast, the sultan sent for the chl cadi, and commanded him to draw i a contract of marriage between t Princess Ruddir al Ruddoor and Ala din. When the contract had be drawn, the sultan asked Aladdin if would Slav in the nalacc and comnle the ceremonies of the marriage th day. "Sire," said Aladdin, "thoui 1 great is my impatience to enter on t honor granted nie hy your majesty, y I beg you to permit me first to luiild palace worthy to receive the prince your daughter. 1 pray you to gra me sufficient ground near your pala< and I will have it completed with t ' utmost expedition." The sultan gran ed Aladdin his request, and again er ' braced him. After which he took f 1 leave with as much politeness as if had been bred up and had always liv 1 at court. LTo be Continued.] X' It isn't even difficult to convin > some married men that it is better have loved and lost than to have In , ed and won. Xn Under the kaiser's reign Of many's naval expenditure has risi from twelve and a half to one hundr ' million dollars. omises to Drive Spa ssouri Mules to Ca .%* ; . : -:m *: I ' . " !' sa Association sourtun. He Is also u member of congress i le uext sesslou of congress. Besides this, he onno U'hon ho la oltwtotl anonL'or VVIiPf hpr ouse Is unknown, but ns Mr. Clark Is not sa.v ason to believe that be will be allowed to pr len the time comes, If it does. He recently td taken a bai k seat too long; that It neve eaker of the house "It Is time we had all < away." he added 3_- ittisccllanrous grading. ! go ] aS COTTON WILL SELL HIGH. ] he I ?w 1 ne Mr. James D. Hammett Discusses the j Situation Interestingly. id Reports from the marketing points 1 of the cotton-producing area of the t , south indicate even at this early date, 1 says the Charlotte Observer, that the or new crop is going to be rapidly moved. 1 u. Farmers are still allured by the high 1 prices being offered at the start and ? ?? while they are firm in their belief that i even higher prices yet will be attain- ' go able, there is a subtle attraction which < draws them to the market under the 1 present offers. The crop of the past I r" season not only moved rapidly, as 1 a rapidly as it was picked, indeed, but Df it moved solidly and long before the close of the commercial year, it was r" discovered that practically nothing of or the old crop remained for the market. | ce That cotton will continue to be m high, notwithstanding the effect it may have upon the market for finished goods, is generally admitted. The day en of low cotton has passed into history 1 ey and farmers as well as the trade as a i wnoie are connaeni inai ihkm urit-rs must be met fairly and ail other ac- . Of counts figured on such a basis. The ir, makers of cotton goods have been I |lg hard hit on account of the fact that i the prices they were offered in the past ( for their goods was in no wise comhe mensurate with the price they were 1 m> forced to pay for the raw material, | forcing them to operate their plants at a loss. lo One of tiie most sensible comments ( es that has been seen on this particular I t,(j position appears in the late issue of Tiie Textile Manufacturers' Journal | from the pen of Mr. Jas. D. Hammett, a prominent mill man of Spartanburg, ed and it will doubtless be read with in., terest by farmers and mill men alike. in It follows: l,(1 "Making cotton cloths for the last e- two years has been very unsatisfac- ! t,r tory from the manufacturer's standpoint in that buyers of dry goods have not been willing to follow the advance ' ed in raw cotton, claiming that this ad- ' a_ vanoe was unreasonable. Whether i such advance is unreasonable or not , ' the manufacturers have had to pay the price: consequently the mills have 1 he made no money and many of them i have suffered a decided loss. ( "The point made that cotton has advanced to an unjustifiable height is, in 1 -C. our judgment, an unreasoualde posin, tion to take, in ?hitt the product of the i , farmers i ? ,^ry other section of the , 1 country has advanced to a price that as allows the farmers a reasonable profit ' ltd for their crops, and we see no reason i f, why the southern farmer should not ' be allowed the same reasonable profit "u> for his crop. i's "Harsh words are often used towards < he southern farmer because he asks lf> < . cents a pound for his cotton, but the . people in other parts of the country t" and of foreign countries forget that a ar short time ago the southern farmer i was paid for his crop less than it cost him to produce it. and we who are in touch with the southern farmer know 1 g- positively that the suffering on the I he farms during the period of low prices , was intense. Though we are manu- ( facturers of cotton we feel a synipahe thy for the man who suffered in times ' a- past and we now feel it is nothing but his due to obtain high prices for his , , commodity as an offset for the low 1 prices obtained only a few years ago. ' up "We feel that the buyers of dry 1 he goods at the moment are making a | ? very serious mistake in staying out of the market, because the south made a p" poor crop last year, and the indica- ! he lions at present are that a large crop 1 ,Je will not be made this year, and unless it is the price is bound to be high, and , at possibly much higher than we have gh experienced during the past twelve he months. i p. "As American citizens it should be , the wish of every one of us to see a high-priced cotton the year round, be- ' ss cause with high-priced cotton we get i nt more money from abroad and the bal- ( anee of trade is in our favor, which e. eertainy must be in the interest of all. 1 he if all the American cotton was con- I !t- sunned in America there might lie some | excuse for American citizens in some , portions of the country to wish for j >'s low-priced cotton but as the larger he part of the American crop is sold to ,.(] foreigners it is in tin- interest of , America as a whole to have cotton at a high price. "I do not wish to be understood as '< | favoring extreme high prices, but I I feel that buyers <>i ury roou? miuuki accustom themselves to a price of from (,> 12 cents to 14 cents a pound for cot- 1 to ton and if Roods can he sold on that v- basis the mills in America will be just j as prosperous as they would be on a lower basis and the farmers in Amerir ea who raise cotton would he on a ' ppj profitable basis, and be able to buy ; many more Roods than would be the , ease if the prices were lower. "The drastic curtailment that has n of pitol if Elected. I B 4 rh.' \ " ||t||^W tnd Is planning to be elected speaker promises to drive a span of real Mlstliere will be signs of "Keep OfT the iiiK anything about his Intentions as arced as leisurely as he pleuses ue told a crowd of visitors at a hoiner had a president, vice president, a af these officers, and I'm going to see been going on and is now going on throughout the country, and particularly in the south, will take a great many pieces of goods out of the market ivhich cannot possibly be replaced, and this curtailment is bound to be felt by the buyers of dry goods sooner or later: when the shortage of goods Is bought here there will be a demand tor goods thnt will probably carry the price much beyond any price that cotton goods have reached in the last two fears. "Mills cannot possibly make a profit ivith goods at present prices, and as ive have been going through this periid of loss for some months, a change s due, and we feel that within the next few months a decided change Is ilne. and mills will be obtaining prices for their goods which will make the present quotations appear abnormally low." THE BIG COTTON CAMPAIGN. Brown, Hayne and Scales Made Fifteen Million Dollars. The closing of the bull campaign in cotton, says a New Orleans letter, has established two important facts in the minds of the people. One is that the big cotton bears of New York, who have been a source of oppression to the south, can be fought and whipped; the other is that the campaign was exceedingly successful from the money point of view to the southerners engaged in it. Hereafter, it may be understood, artificial price depressing inlluences will carry less weight, and the producer will come nearer collecting the full value of the cotton he sells than he has ever before done. Frank 13. Hayne and W. P. Brown of New Orleans, E. G. Scales of Shreve port and James A. Patten of Chicago, known as the big four, led the hull forces to the biggest victory that has ever been won for cotton. .Mr. Patten, however, dropped out before the finish. Consequently the final victory, that of sending the August delivery to 20 ^ents, was won by southern men alone, and that, too, in the face of the fiercest opposition ever made by the New York shorts. Cotton leaders of New Orleans estimate that Messrs. Hayne, Brown and Scales cleaned up $1.1,000.000 by the bull movement. Friends of the southerners who fought the battle in New York declare that as a result of the three men's fight the planters will rereive over $200,000,000 more for this season's crop than if the price had remained at the figure it had reached when the bull leaders opened their guns. It is estimated that the bull pool has contracts for delivery of about S50.000 bales, which will net an average profit >f about $8 per bale, or a total of $7.100,000; that $8,000,000 was netted from trading in the open market with private settlements, and that $">,000,000 more were realized by the less important figures in the pool and on the edge ?f it. It is stated that Mr. Havne's profits have been the greatest, with Mr. Brown a close second. Mr. Scales is said to have earned more than a million. Following explains what this bull victory means to the south and how it was brought about. Until a few years ago the farmers were producing in the aggregate more cotton than the spindles required, but a period of low prices for raw cotton during this time f accumulation induced spinning mill xpansion on a large scale. Then came Increased consumption, and through boll weevil ravages and bad weather 1 .f Moln 4 J..,.!. . I 1 \i iiiimni'i "i i vmi i \ ' .* Aiiifiii This condition opened the way for an improvement in the average price at which raw cotton might ho sold. In 1902 Messrs. Hayne, Brown, Scales and others, realizing that artillcial market conditions at New York were giving speculative hears and. through them, the spinners of the world greater influence in price making than they were entitled to, went to New York, bought cotton contracts in [he open market, called for the cotton md then squeezed unprotected shorts severely. This was the first real jolt the New York hears had ever reeeiv ed, and as a result the farmers in the south received good prices for most of the cotton they sold during many months thereafter. Hull campaigns then became more popular, but not until the spring of 1909 did the big campaign which resulted in 20 cents for August, 1910, start. It appears that under the NewYork contract, which has been condemned by United States Commissioner of Corporations Herbert Knox Smith, many unwarranted advantages are given the short seller of contracts He may deliver certificated cotton In I such a way as to Impose severe hardships on the receiver, and because of this most men who in the past have worked for higher prices have sold out their contracts at a decline rather than take tender cotton which they could not readily sell. In this way depressing the price became a practice and the producer of cotton and his natural ally, the speculative bull, were made the victims. Last year Messrs. Hayne, Brown and Scales, who are extensive spot cotton factors, merchants and exporters, decided to break up this practice at New York, and in order to succeed arranged to borrow some fifty or more millions of dollars from foreign banks and to supply the needs of many mills with cotton they expected to receive on contract. They planned to buy more cotton than the New York bears could deliver. During the fall and winter they bought many contracts and helped the market every day. Prices were much niKN?T iriilll USUill W IICI1 nir IIV. t< v> U|/ market season opened and producers received from 10 to 1.1 cents per pound for all the cotton they sold. In January the New York hears attacked the market in force, and believing that the power of money was supreme, cold contracts calling for hundreds of thousands of bales which they did not possess. Prices declined. In February the bull leaders got together and planned the big coup. They bought all the contracts offered for sale, and offered to buy more. This action re-established the high prices that had ruled earlier in the season. In May, shorts began to deliver cotton to them. They paid for and accepted all that was delivered. The protective stock held by the New York bears was wiped out. In July, shorts had to buy up cotton from all parts of the south, from Europe, and in addition had to borrow a lot from spinners in order to meet their obligations to the bull leaders. MeanI while the latter had been shipping out to unsupplied spinners the cotton so received as fast as possible. In August, shorts found they had cornered themselves. They could not get cotton enough to fulfill their obligations to the bull leaders. Nobody had any more to sell them. And so ihpv hid the market up high enough to induce the bull leaders to let go some of the contracts they held. The result was a 20-cent price, the highest since 1872. In all, the southern operators who had gone to New York for the main purpose of defeating the professional price breakers there, received, as stat| ed above, about 850,000 bales of actual cotton, involving a cash outlay of more than $60,000,000, not counting the mil| lions of dollars of margin money they had to put up to protect probably twice as many future contracts which they had been carrying. So that though the profits in the long run seem large, they must be considered in connection with the enormous money the operators had at stake during the campaign. These men wanted to free the market from the domination of Wall street bears, and in effect they created a market in advance for 850,000 bales I of actual cotton, then bought future contracts and forced the short sellers at a severe loss to buy up from the farmer and the merchant that amount i of cotton and deliver it to them in order that they might ship it to the spinner who needed it. It goes without saying that the fanner and merchant who sold the cotton to the speculative shorts obtained very high prices for it. The fact that some actual cotton merchants possessed the nerve and the means to have taken up so much cotton on contract has completely subdued those New Yorkers who have made a practice of heating down the price of cotton. In the past the spinner has depended on these bears to put prices down whenever the spinner needed cotton. Henceforth the New York bear will | fear to attempt a repetition of his old[ time programme, consequently the i........ ...ill 111., i n III,. ,if r><ittotl I .ipilliu-l mil !>?*. H.v ... to secure it. The 1909 crop brought the southern farmers somewhere about JSOO.OOO.OOO in cash. There is now every reason to hope that the 1910 crop will bring the producer even more than that. Th? bull leaders say prices will continue high, and should a sharp decline occur at any time they will probably step in and repeat their successful tactics of recent months. Under such circumstances the southern farmer will not be apt to sacrifice his 1910 yield. The Passing of the Drum. A few years ago the French government. acting upon the recommendations embodied in a report made by a committee of generals in its army, decided that the drum must go. The report asserted that the drum was a serious incumbrance in marching: that rain impaired Its usefulness; that its calls could not be distinguished in time of battle: that it consumed a period of two years, to turn out an efficient drummer, and that, by abandoning the use of the drum, many thousands of youths and men would be released for active service. It is expected that such others of the European powers as still retain drum corps will follow the example of the French. The history of the drum is both ancient and honorable. The Egyptians employed it. and the Greeks ascribed its invention to Bacchus. The Spanish conqueror Plzarro Is said to have found drums in South American temples. The snakes of Ireland, we are told, fled from fhe Emerald Isle before the drumbeats of Saint Patrick. The Puritans of New England used the drum as a church bell, and it figured frequently and romantically all through our wars of the Revolution and Rebellion.?Harper's Weekly. <tiV After a man learns how to hypnotize hh conscience it doesn't give hint very much trouble. Windows were taxed in Great Rritain from 1695 to 1851, and tiles from 1784 to 1833. WELCOMED HOME. Governor-Elect Blease Met By Big Crowd at Depot. Newberry, Sept. 16.?Hon. Cole L. Blease, Democratic nominee for governor of South Carolina, was accorded a most enthusiastic reception by the people of his home town last night upon his arrival from Columbia. A crowd of men, women and children, variously estimated from 2,000 to 3,000, were at the union station awaiting the arrival of the successful candidate for the office of governor In Tuesday's primary, who was returning from Columbia, where he had gone to receive the returns of the election. Governorelect Blease had been apprised that the people of his home town were waiting to welcome him, but knowing that the corpse of a little child was in the baggage car of the train in which he was trnvelinc nnrl tVinf father nnrt mother of the child were accompanying the remains, Blease, desiring to respect the feelings of the afflicted parents, caused a message to be wired to his friends who were waiting to receive him at the station that they make no demonstration until the train had gone beyond the limits of the town of Newberry. When the train arrived, Mr. Blease, standing in the doorway of the baggage car, with bared head, motioned with his hand for silence from his friends. The effect of Mr. Blease's attitude upon the people was remarkable, for, though hundreds had been waiting for an hour to cheer the next governor of South Carolina, not a voice was raised. As soon as the train pulled out the Newberry concert band began to play and lusty cheers went up from the assembled multitude. Among those greeting Mr. Blease were a number of relatives, including his aged stepmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Blease. With arms about the whitehaired lady, he was led by his friends to a waiting carriage in which he and his mother were placed, and 200 men with ropes attached to the carriage began to march up the main str ?t of the town. Reaching the stone steps of the historic old court house, Mayor Blease was called upon for a speech. His remarks were very short, asked his friends to excuse him from an extended speech, as he was Tery much fatiguel and needed rest. He said that the victory which he and his friends had won was the greatest known in the political history of South Carolina, for almost every newspaper in the state had aligned itself with the opposition, but the bitter fight which had been made against him had only made him more grateful to the people who so loyally gave him their support, with such little opportunity to defend himself from the violent attacks of his enemies; that the people of South Carolina had chosen him as their governor for the next two years and that the large majority which he had received in his home town and county not only contributed to his election, but gave absolute denial to the many accusations which had been made against him. He spoke feelingly of his love for Newberry and Its people and of his life in this town and county, and said it would be his purpose to so discharge the duties of the office of governor of South Carolina that the people of Newberry should never have cause to regret the confidence which they had so often shown in him as a man and as an official. THE RED DAB OF DEATH. Tragic Mark on the Steel Skeleton of the Skyacraper. "See that big blot of scarlet paint?" said the engineer as he pointed to a girder high up in the skeleton of the new skyscraper. "That red spot means that one of the men working on the building was killed by the girder sweeping him off the structure while being put in position. The visitor craned his neck and saw a rough patch of vermillion paint on one of the floor girders up on the sixteenth story. "It must be a dangerous life," he said to his engineering friend. "Yes. Those men up there are working under the chance of Instant death at any moment. They'll walk along the topmost girder, 300 feet above the sidewalk?a little path of slippery iron five inches wide?and will lean outward against the wind. You or I couldn't do it for a second. "Now and again there's an accident. A chap slips. A worker gets hit by a swinging girder and flung off. Another man takes an incautions step and falls off into eternity. The men working near by do their best to get at him if he manages to grab the girder he's falling from, and there are some swift and reckless races with death to get to their comrade at any cost In the five or ten seconds allowed tnem wnne strong lingers are sliding away from a slippery beam flange. If the worst happens and the man falls In spite of their efforts, then they apply the dab of red paint, and the Ironworkers call it a day. They don't speak much of the man that is gone, as a rule. He's soon forgotten. The men consider it fate. "You'd think, by the way," went on the engineer, "that the higher up these men worked the more careful they'd become. They aren't particularly careful, but they do guard against the hypnotism of height. One of the men working on a high girder gets paralyzed now and again by a sudden fear that holds him motionless and still on his iron beam. "The men look out for this sort of thing, and the remedy is to distract his attention by a rough blow on the back or in some cases by exciting him to anger through any means in their power. When the man gets fighting mad he is freed from the paralysis of terror or whatever you may choose to call it. He gets up from his girder to make a rush for the other fellow to do him up, and the moment he is safe he is restrained by the other men. "Whenever you see a skyscraper framework," concluded the engineer, "each dab of scarlet paint on the iron means that some man has come to his death. Every skyscraper and every bridge is the monument to some little group of unknown workers. laboring at dizzy heights and dallying with sud den death as part 01 meir uuy a ?um. ?New York Preaa. '' Many a man is*so stingy that he won't even tell a joke at his own expense. it'- The less important a thing Is the more fuss the average woman makes over It.