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A FARMER TAL Good Ben.si . I?V< >m u ( A Iso ; i (J ot to ri Charlotte Col. Li*Hoy Springs, of Lai . ister, 1 S. C., cotton planter, cotton uni nu I au- , turor, merchant, railroad president ? ami banker strolled into thc Manufac turer's Club. Ile no s.cr hit the top landing than Mr. .lohn M. Miller, cashier of thc l'irsl National Hank, of Richmond, Va., who was at thc club, addressed lum with tlie qucrj : "< 'ol onel, how is cotton? "It's all right," auswered the col ?.iel. "A little high, perhaps? ' suggested Nr. Miller. "Not at all," said the colonel. "Al present prices cotton would be a pro fitable crop. Thc fair cost of raising cotton on ?ntl average Ls niue cents, and the difference between nine cents and present price? in a short crop like this is no more than a fair pro fit." ' If nine cents is thc cost, how did people live when cotton was live and six cents a pound?'1 inquired a club man who was attracted by the colonel's approach. "Those who depended on a cotton crop alone when cotton was six cents did'nt live,"answered Colonel Springs. "When cotton was six ?ants the cot ton farmers, white and black, had no money, didn't have a decent change of clothes and everything was mortgaged. A price of cotton baBcdon labor under pauper conditions is no honest price at all. Tho present betterment in prices ?B because people have quit raising cotton under those conditions to do something else. When cotton was six cents it meant that thc color ed farmer could not give his wife or daughter a change of one garment of underclothiog once a year. "if a cotton plantation bc operated on business principles and the planter pay fair wages, he can't get out at less than nine cents for cotton and have fair returns on his investment. Nine cents for cost of production of cotton, including interest on capital, is about the same as 70 cents for a bushel of wheat or 10 cents for corn, and everybody knows that wheat at a price below seventy cents or cum be low 40 cents is a losing crop. Since the price of cotton fell below ten cents a majority of planters have broken all to pieces, both in the Eastern and Western cotton States; properties have been sold and the families of in dividual ootton farmers have lived like paupers, not having in many cases a change of underclothing once a year." The oolonel had advanced to the middle of the lobby of the club and quite a crowd had gathered around him. "How can we hold the practical monopoly cf cotton production ai prices above ten oeotB?" inquired a member. "Wolli" said Colonel Springs, "I ?Bm----emmmmm--srn^mmm--mmm* ? i-f The walking sick, what a crowd of them there are: Persons who are thin and weak but not sick enough to go to bed. "Chronic cases" that's what the doctors call them, which in common English means-long sickness. To stop the continued loss of flesh they need Scott's Emulsion. For the feeling of weakness they need Scott's Emulsion. It makes new flesh and gives new life to the weak system. Scott's Emulsion gets thin and weak persons*out of the rut. It makes new, rich blood, strengthens the nerves and gives appetite for ordinary food. Scott's Emulsion can be taken as long as sickness lasts and do good all the time. There's new strength and flesh in every dose. We will* be'glad' to send you a few doses free. Be sure that this picture In the form of a ial>e) it. on the ?Tapper ol every bottle of Emulsion you buy. \ SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, [ 4C& Pe?ri S*.. 1% V. Sdc. ?is j ii*' <'.%; A;*: * ?< .ti ( >i i I'In ii tor W 11 ? > is M nmi la? .! 11 rei*. Chronicle. don't know that it vv <. i J ! -1 bo desirable to undertake to control the production at :i price lesa than nine "r ten cents. If the foreigner want- to make '?v>><\ cotton at it-- then let him do it, and wc will buy it and tuan uf nc tu rc il, aud get in ?ri- motu y for manufacturer and employer than we could get oui ol' cheap cutten. Kngland has been playing that game with us, and I think wc have now got to thc point of making Knglaud pay ti- a fair price or bit her make the cotton in Africa, Kgypt or India, and wc will buy it cheap and m ike thc profit ol' turning it into cloth." "However, we aro not up against that ^ort of question now. There -erins to bc a lot of smoke, but I've seen mighty little fire, as yet, on this production of cotton in Africa and other countries whose cotton produc ing capacities arc not yet even approx imately well known. For my own part 1 think we have the soil, tho cli mate and thu people right herc in thc South. Cotton producing conditions mean a climate which is mildly tem perate, a sharp frost fur a rcatouablc period of the year, labor which uuder Btands the business, and a people who have thc mechanical ability to devise and operate maohincry for ginning and other preparation of cotton for tho market. We've got all these condi tions. Many countries have one or two of them, but uo other country has all of them. I have no apprehension about losing thc monopoly of produc tion at anything like ten cents. We didn't lose it during the civil war at 80 cents and we didn't lose it imme diately after the same war at 2f> cents." "Have you bought cotton for your factories, colonel?" icquired a num ber. "Certainly," answered the colonel. "Why, certainly?" was asked. "Well," rt Heeled the colonel, "thc operation of a mill rests an much in buying thc cotton right as in keeping the wheels turning; I vu ?aid in a slock because I thou 'ht that as a rule the mill which buys UP year's supply io the three or four months when thc farmer is putting the crop on the mar ket will come out all right in the long run. There's no fixed rule, however. It takes judgment to buy cotton and the man oharged with the buying for a mill must have the judgment." "Hew aro the factories going to oome out with this high priced cot ton?" asked some one in the crowd. "No reason why they shouldn't come out all right," said Colonel Springs. "Let them raise the price of gtods proportionate to the increased price of cotton." "Will tho nannln non ? V> r> -' II iii |w - j. ?. w j.. v. f?jr vuv lUVlUODCI was asked. "Pay tho farmer a living price for his cotton, and then he will be able to pay a fair price for cotton goods, and he will bo^williug also." "How do you know what the farm ers will be] willing to do?" asked a young man. "Because I am a farmer," promptly answered the colonel, and then the crowdolaughed. Thc colonel looked disgusted that anybody should bc moved to t-milebt causc thc biggest ocotton planter in Sooth Carolina calls himself a farmer. "Cotton goods are bound to go higher in price all thc same," said tho colonel as he weut off to write a letter. Value of Persistence John Dicdrich Spreckels, thc son of Claus Spreckels, is thc proprietor of a Sau Francisco newspaper. To an edi tor (nc day, Mr. Spreckels was talk ing about persistence and in thc course of his remarks he said: "My father is a great believer in persistence-in patience. Onco when I was a boy I abandoned in despair some childish task that I had undertaken and my fallu r reproved mc for it. 'Persis t 'ncc will do anvthing,' ho said. 'Till rc s m thing 3 ou can't accomplish with patience.' And then ho smiled slightly and added: 'You could even ca-ry water ion sit vc if you would have thc patience to wait long onough.' 'How long would I have to watt?' I asked. 'Till it froze,' my father answered." - See that no day passes in which you do not make yourself a somewhat better creature, and, in order to do that find out first what you are now. Try tog? t strength of heait enough to look j ourself fairly in tho face, in mind and iu body.-John Ruskin. - Providence has nothing good or high in storc'for one who does not rc Bolutcly aim-at fsomething high and 5ood. A purpose is the etarnal con ition of success. Nothing will take its plano.-T. T. Monger. - A man can feel gord without br ing especially good. Mic Masqueraded ii?, n Mau. Tho I? |c rt ihat ;i whit<. girl had nee II uiusqu< > i?3 i u in men H clothes 10 this region for sc vi ral week H and it ail bee ri working ns a lin? man fj-r thc Soutint ti lie! 1 Telephone compauy led leia good many rain telegrama and ! -i f-'li-taiic" ?. !. idiotic iiit'.v;< . last j 11 if lit : but au ')!.?'i vir r ?.< - .1 . li .ntl- , ly Incaled thc young woman at New Iii i 17, S. C. win re r-lie is resting tem pi icily-without being under at rot -in the police station. Il? 1 narnu is Laura Williams; she says she is 17 years old, but is believed te bc 1!) years old, and her home in K?the: ford county. Thc girl is a voluntary prisoner, though when .^lic iir--1 appeared at the Newbury police -talion Monday night it wu-i thought that she wan a young mau named ?John Long, who, it is a! luged, was implicated with 'Squire Sittonund C. (?. Nanny, of Hender son county, in obtaining money ?1 tni< r false pretenses, by palming of the f Ulna us alleged pclrilicd manon the I'r isl inc I 'ct ri lied company foi ? il ?00. Shortly af'ti r the appearance nil the girl- in men's clothes - the chief of police at Xewbi rry was ctitaiti that shu was John Long, and -o tele phoned tho officials in Asheville, where Long is wanted, but after a subsequent investigation the New berry officers 'phoned in au embar rassed way: *'Say, this is a girl down here-in boy'n clothes. ?She says she don't know a thing about your petrified i --- " maa. "We are not after girls," ernie the reply, in effect. "It's a sure enough mao we want. You can tuen thc man-giri loose so far as wo aro con cerned." Policeman Franklin, of Newberry, in a telephone conversation with an observer reporter at midnight last night, gave a rather interesting ac count of the adventures of the girl. As has been Btated, her name is Laura Williams, and tho only close relative she has is a brother named John Wil liam H, who is supposed to be in Co lumbia, S. C. According to her own account the girl has had a hard time of it for the past two or three years, and thc final r?unit of it has left her so worn out and ill that tho Newberry authorities propose to raise money and send her to a hospital in Columbia. Only four weeks ago she was in G bs riot to, dressed as a mnr. though it was in Ilendersonville that she cut her long hair, discarded her dress and donned trousers. For a while she drifted; was in Asheville doing odd jobs, roamed through this Bection of country, and eventually got to Tryon, thia State, where she scoured a posi tion BS lineman for the Bell Telephone Company. Her work wa? satisfactory, and abe remained as lineman for the company until her identity was dis covered by the men with whom she worked. Then ehe fled in the night, and went to Spartanburg, then tc Gaffney, then to Laurene, and theo tc dewberry. Policeman Franklin waa the fir.ni officer to see her when she arriv?e at the Newberry polioe station anc asked for a night's lodging. Sh< looked very young and very tired, anc the officers straightway made roon for her to sleep ia tho officers' quar tera. Thc suspicion that the new arriva was John Long led to the dieclosurt of tho truth as to her sex. As soot as the police began to badger her witl questions, she weakened, wept, sail she had done nothing wrong and tha she was only a girl. When the polioi fouud out that sho was a girl and tha there was no chargo against her, si far as they have been able to ascer tain, they became kind1 to the youoj woman and are disposed to help he along as much as possible. "But stn sure has attracted attention here to daj'," said Policeman Franklin "Crowds flocked to sec her all th* time, and finally, at her request, w< put her under lock and key, and she' locked up now, though shooan get ou the cell whenever she wants to." IL said the girl showed uo disposition ti leave and says she7 is enjoying tip first rest and security that she has fel in many months. "Why a girl? Why do y m mas qucrado?" These wero thc first quos tious put to Laura Williams. Am she replied that sho wore men's clothe and acted as a man because she foum it impossible to pet along as a woman She tells a sad tale of being naggei at and hurt; of being made miser able; of having no friends; of bein sickenod of the life that a friendless homeless girl may lead. So sho got suit of boy's clothes and determine to bid an eternal farewell to her giri hood. Sho liked her new life and said pei plc were good enough to her and lc her alone. It gaye her, she deoiarei onie freedom that meant happiness Sho said sho wanted to hide from few certain men who h ai persecute her, and her new apparol gave hi easement from this. Unhappiness . ?nd terror carno o apace. When she applied for work 1 Tryon Ver off? r WM T.-a Wy accepte .od for several weeks she did ht d??;e? *<? Vl'neraao and found plea ure in the work, SI.-' lived with a rude, rough lot <>f mun, und l"r a long tim - they lia?! DO suspicion so ?'.tr as ?ht* was concerned. Hut a whisper iron) one "1 thc tuen culminated in overt remarks that huggested the im minence of detection and she rati away Iron. Try After that she said she had a pretty hard time. She was always afraid '.nat somebody would lind out that hhe was masquerading and t'ois made her testions and nervous. She began to suffer from recurrent attacks of ill ness, top; she was unable to obtain proper food and sheller for herself, and it was after a .series of rebuffs and disappointments that she arrived at Newberry, and shed tears and said she was nothing but a young girl after all. "Hut she bas still got on men's clothes," sitd Mr. Franklin. "She is asleep in 'em right herc now. Hut we aro going to dre-s her up proper tomorrow and send her oil for treat ment and the right sort of attention. Pretty? Well, I'll tell you, she't; a bully looking bny and weighs-let me see - about 125 pounds. Now as to h )w she looks when she's a girl," concluded the officer in a tentative way, "why I'll have to wait and tell you tomorrow." - Charlotte Observer, 13th inst. - mm . mgm Why Women go to Purtles. The society reporter has made a great discovery during the week. In common with other people she has been woudering why women go to so many parties when the effort often makes them so tired that they can scarcely drag one foot after the other, and now she knows. The lady ivho elucidated this problem says that she often attends parties when she doesn't want to go at all, because she is com pelled to do so by the fear that people will think that she was not invited. Thia accounts for the queer assort ment of guests found at many large parties, for this lady seems to voice the sentiment of many. A lady left out of the party has the desolate feeling of tho small boy who is not "in it." In consequence of this, women with no possible commu nity of iuterests or ta-tes are brought together for mutual entertainment when they simply have no uso for each other. T'nder these conditions parties aro sometimes wearisome af fairs, but satisfy the pride of both hostess and guest. The latfer gives indubitable proof thai"t.he really was invited, and tho hostess shu.."' to her acquaintances that she had the right to invite this special guest. The fact that ueither enjoys the other's society has nothing to do with the social amenities.-Nebraska State Journal. St. Peter and the Broker. This is going the rounds, says the New York Press. A broker from the fioanoial vortex sought admission at the pearly gatos. ,4Who are you ?" said St. Peter. "I'm a wall street broker." "What do you want ?" 1 I want to get in."' '.What have you done that entitles you to admission ?" "Well, I saw a deorepit woman on Broadway the other day and gave her two cents." "Gabriel, is thai on tho records ?" "Yes, St. Peter ; it's marked down to his credit." "What else have you done ?" ' Well, I crossed tho Brooklyn bridge the other night and met a news boy half frozen to death and gave him one cent." "Gabriel, is that on the reoords ? ' "Yes, St. Peter." "What else have you done ?" "Well, I can't recollect anything elso just now." "Gabriel, what do you think we ought to do with this fellow ?" "Oh, give him back his three cents and tell him to go to hell !" - Medicine as a .profession for women is constantly growing in pop ularity io London. Women now holdiug medical degrees in Great Britain number more than five hun dred. May Bc Nominated Yet. ('loveland is tho only possible Mo ses of the Democracy at the present i?!:?". [Ie alone, in a word, is ht to be pit ted against Theodore Roosevelt, < xtracrdinary qualities and whose record of achievements re quire that thc man to oppose him -In!! himself be the possessor of extraordinary qualities and of a re cord of great things done. Who but Cleveland answers this description? [{?chard OJney's recent speech, iu which he ignored Cleveland's refusa! to be a candidate and demanded his nomination, is an index to the feeling which prevails on this head among the Democrats who actually make I he policy and guide the fortunes ol' their party. The demand of this clement is not likely to be futile. >or is it to bc anticipated that the hatred of thc Bryauites for Cleveland will bea material obstacle. Bryanisui has lost ita power of ob struction. Thc conservative forces will undoubtedly predominate in the next Democratic national convention, and tlie coudiiions point inevitably to thc nomination of the only man whom thc Democrats have to offer that has any pretensions to be on the same plane as a statesman as thc present occupant of the presidential office.-Pittsburg Leader. Milk In Bricks. The inventors of a method by whioh milk is now being solidified on a con siderable scale ooofideutly believe that their discovery will not only abol ish the many dangers of the dairy, but will eventually do away with the dairy itself. They are confident, that is, that the day of liquid milk is over. ' People who have tried to solidify milk before have employed too low a temperature in their fear of decom posing its fats and sugars, and in con sequence have failed. But by tho Just-ILUmakT process the liquid milk is whisked round polished cylinders kept at a fierce heat by steam, and comes off in a few seconds in the form of a continuous creamy-white Bheet five feet in width. This is reduced to powder, and may be compressed into cakes. The feature of the product is that it is still potentially milk-the whole milk and nothing but the milk, and to make new milk at any time it is only necessary to add the seven parts of water which have been evaporated. The result is said to be dimcuit to distinguish from fresh milk. Its cream rises naturally, and it may be made into butter and cheese. The powder cakes keep indefinitely, and Bamples have been sent round the world and kept for three weeks in Shanghai, returning quite fresh. Obviously it is impossible to water, skim or adulterate solid milk, and a fact to whioh the inventora attach ex j treme importance is that all attempts ! to oultivate microbes on it have failed. -San Francisco Call. - mm m - Wanted lt Like Papa'a. Josephine was having her hair cot at a real barber's. Finally the barber lifted the little girl down from the ohair and pronounced his work done. "But I want to see it again," said Josephine. The barber, lifted her up and let her look in the glass. She wagged her head vigorously from side to side and forward and backward. "Oh-h 1" she wailed. "Why, what's the mattel ?" asked the barber, while the father jumped up nervously. "Oh-h-h!" she repeated lustily. 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