Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, November 17, 1910, Image 7
A GREAT VICTORY
DEMOCRATS WENT IN ON TUEfJ
DAY ON A TIDAL WAVE.
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They Not Only Carry the House by
Sweeping Majority, Hut Cain New
Senators.
The political upheaval of last
Tuesday, when the Democrats went
In on a tidal wave, has been followed
by a general survey of the po^
pltlcal field, which discloses with
greater detail and precision the magnitude
of the great Democratic vie
tory.
Latest calculations on the national
house of representatives, based on
complete, but unofficial returns, show
that the Democrats wl'l have a safe
working majority of 30.
The outcome of the United States
senate Is now definitely settled. The
Republicans are assured of 16 new
senators, which with 3 4 hold-over
senators, gives them a total of 60.
The Democrats are assured of 15 new
senator, which, with 25 hold-overs,
gives them a total of 40.
Two senantor8hlps are still in
doubt?namely, the successor of the
late Mr. Dolllver in Iowa and of Mr.
Carter in Montana, where there is
prospect of a tie.
These determined totals, however,
leave a Republican majority In the
senate as follows:
Total membership, 92; necessary
to majority, 47; Republicans, 50;
Democrats, 40; 'doubtful, 2.
The 16 Republican senators considered
assured are from California,
Connecticutt, Delaware, Massachusetts.
Minnesota, Michigan, Nevada,
North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, Utah, Vermont, Washington,
Wisconsin and Wyoming.
The 15 Democratic senators considered
assured are from Florida, Iadlanna,
Louisiana, Maine, -Maryland,
Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, New
Jersey, New York, Ohio, Tennesssee,
Texas,, Virginia and West Virginia.
A summary of the contests for
governorships shows the following
Democratic irnvurnnpu olonluit nrlia
the approximate pluralities:
New York, Dlx, 66,000.
New Jersey, Wilson, 30,000.
Connecticut, Baldwin, 3,500.
Massachusetts, Fosb, 33,000.
Ohio, Harmon, 60,000.
Oklahoma, Cruce, 25,000.
Oregon, West, 2,000.
Wyoming, Carey, 2,000.
Alabama, O'Neal, 50,000.
Benth Carolina, Blease, 60,000.
Texas, Colquit, 150,000.
North Dakota, Burke, 3,000.
The Republican governors elected
with approximate pluralities:
New Hampshire, Bass, 7,000.
Rhode Island, Pothler, 900.
Iowa, Carroll, 10,000.
Kansas, Stubbs, 5,000.
Michigan, Osborn, 40,000.
Minnesota, Eberhart. 50,000.
Nebraska, Aldrlch, 5,000.
South Dakota. Vessey, 12,000.
Wisconsin, McGovern, 15,000.
California, Johnson, 25,000.
Nevada. Oddie, 500.
Tennessee, Hopper, 12,000.
The governorships In two States
are not yet reported as being beyond
doubt, namely, Colorado and Idaho.
In tllO Mnct tho I?OIMlKllAona
Now York New Jersey, Massachusetts.
Connecticut In the lnte election
and Maine sometime ago.
AMOUNT OF COTTON GINNEI).
Census llurenii Gives Figures Up to
November First.
. The census bureau report issued
at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning
shows 7.339,983 bales of cotton,
counting round as half bales, ginned
from the growth of 1910 to Nov. 1,
compared with 7,017,849 for 1909;
8,181,5f>7 for 1908, and 0,138,562
for 1907.
Round bales including this year
are 81,187, compared with 109,62 1
for 1909; 148,866 for 1908, and
125,7 85 for 1907. Sea Island this
yeur is 40,516 bales, compared with
55,237 for 1909; 45,479 for 1908,
and 33,331 for 1907.
The ginning by states follows:
Alabama 747,162
Arkansas 323,674
(Florida 38,287
Georgia 1,241,138
Louisiana 154,756
Mississippi 676.873
iNorin caronnn .. .. 3X6,114
Oklahoma 584,850
South Carolina 729,023
Tennessee 129,781
Texas 2,403.981
All other states.. .. 24,838
The distribution of Sea Island cotton
for 1910 by states Is:
Florida 16,191
Georgia 22,507
Bouth Carolina 2,818
Kxpress Office Robbed.
The express ofHee at St. Matthews
was broken into by robbers one nlK.it
last week. They evidently were on
the hunt mainly for money, but fortunately.
they found very little. A
few of the lighter express paekases
were rifled and a suit of nice clothes,
hipped from a tailor In Columbia
was taken. The sheriff and Deputy
Hill are on the trail of the burglars
and they hope to get them.
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MONEY FOR SCIENTIFIC WORK.
Brttkh Academy Receives Endowment
for Research.
The British Academy has received
? 10.000 ?'or the purpose of establiohing
a memorial to the late l.eopol i
Schweleh. of PariH. This is the first
KAVI A#nnl ?-*?% * U A ? * ? ? 1
UV1IC1UVI lUC av UCI11J 1I?L^ rwciveu.
In accordance with the wishes of
the dom r. says the London Kxpresr,
the end* wnient Is to be ca led "The
the eud< wment is to be called "The
Leopold Schwelch hind," ai d is to be
devoted fo the futherance of research
iu the archaeology, art, hlttory, languages
and literature of an lent
ligation, with refercn tilbllcal
study. There are to be am ually not
Jess than three public lectures to lie
delivered in London. dealii.g with a
subject coining within the scope of
these studies.
The r sidtte of the intxmic of the
fund, with all sums which may he
added, is to lie applied for the purposes
of excavation, and for the publication
of the results of original research
in connection with one or moio
of the subjects named.
Ash Pit for Every House.
Among the objects that invariably
attract the attention of tourists in
Denver are the ash pits ut every
house. These are made necessary b.
the character of the coal cummunl
used for domestic purposes aud by th
high wiuds that prevail, says the
Kansas City Times.
The ashes of the lignite conl so extensively
burned hold the heat for a :
extraord nary length of time, retnai. ing
red hot for many hours, or, i
kept from the air, for days after pasing
through the grate bars.
It is evident that if these red hci
ashes were thrown out iu hack jar.
or vacant lots the high winds th.
swoop across the plains would scan.,
them br >adcast, making tuein n co.
stun i menace to the eyes and cloth iu;
of passtrsby, as well as to inilan.
muble property of every kind. Eve.
house is therefore required by eh.,
ordinance to be provided with an us
pit, shaped like /an old f ishfoue .
bake oven, with small openings at the <
top. through which the ashes are
thrown. Another opening I., one sic t
at the bottom permits their removal
when the pit is full. ,
$1,000 For a Newspaur.
During the siege of Kimlerley the
editor of the only daily paper the.e
was often hard put to find enough
news. One day in a club room be
found Cecil Rhodes reading a fairlv
new paper from Cape Town. He borrowed
it and rushed to his own ofhee.
where it soon appeared as a spec! 1
edition, selling like hot cales. Thai
same evening he met Mr. Rhodes, who
Inquired: "Where's my Cape Town
paper?" Oh, I cut it up for the prin era,"
war the reply. "Please don't ao
that ag.iin," said Rhodes mildiy.
"That paper came through by native
runners and cost me $1,000."
Hoi sea Made From Whales.
iNot very long ago there was cn
the coast ?of Lancashire, England, a
cottage a.id boat house that were mate
almost entirely from the remains of t
score or so of whales that had been
driven ashore some years before. T1 .
framework of the edifice consisted
wholly of whalebone, and the (int..
skius of the huge creatures were nearly
and strongly fastened as a coveiii.f
for wa..s and roof. Thre is another
building of exactly the same kind w
Scotland, and in this case the skulls
of the whales and some of tne heaviei
bones aie used with great e.'fect as
outside ornaments.
Thunder perstitions.
Thund t, just because it is a noit 3
for which there no visii.i<
has alwi vs excited the imat in ition . !
the unscientific. One old wiiter explains
the belief or his day that "a
storm is said to follow present y whe.i
a company of hogges run at cryl. g
home," on the greund that " i hog, e
is most dull and of a melancl >ly nature
and so by reason doth for .-ee the
rain that cometh." Leonard oigge ,
in his Prognostication Ever astinj "
(1550) mentions that "thunde in tl e
morning signifies wind, al at t nocn
rain and in the evening a gie.t tempest."
A Remark.it New Pot to.
The British Vice tonsul at it .men reports
that the cultivation in h ranee i
the new potato b lght from l.'rugu y
has been observed or some I nc wi .
great interest. T a variety is calleo
"Solanum com. .con all b.iet," it
said to possess e. ellence of taste as
well as nutritive value, and .3 equ .
to tlie best wable potato Un iwn i.,
France. This var.ety is dis 1 ^utshed
by its resistai ce frost, as also to
disease, ..nil it. one great ad autage is
that it 1 rospe a n oct in a da up inn
swampy soil, vh?: e no other kind of
potato would .row.
Chem t~y f Fatig- ?.
A Genu an I > ve^Urator. ^ 'e chardV
has promulga -d the theor iliat / tigue
is the d rect result ol ? polst j
manufactur 1 by the system and d veloped
by a;d ?ork. and r :|uiri ;
rest to dri' i out. Welrhard expel
mented w the muscle juice c.
guinea pig hleh be had m >v!oue >
fatigued p his examlnatior prov- d
that this e a/ited as a * erltat
poison sin r to some of t' e we.
known ' Br Inoculaiijg oth
animals hi odueed sympt pis of f
tigue and .a d< mi product d death.
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KXPLODLNP GAS KILLS F1VK.
Eighteen Others Injured in llllnoi*
Mine Accide'it.
Five men are dead and eighteen
injured fis the result of an explosion
Saturday in a coal rlne at Panama.
111. For men wr re killed outrignt
and the fifth dir J from Injuries later.
Rassel Ror anlo. a miner, is stln
in the shaft.
Gas. wqtc' had accumufated over
night is ' pocket several hundred
feet tv the mouth of the shaft. extearing
out the timbers an.l
making the earth for miles around
No serious Grj followed. The men
who escaped were injured by falling
slate and flames from the explosion.
About 300 men were working in
and around the mine at the time,
most of them on the outside ran
away from the danger. Fifty m?a
in the entry of the shaft were rescu
ed by the other miners.
AVOILD HOLD VP OIL KING.
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Young Hungarian Writes Threatening
letters.
Charged with writing threatenine
letters to John D. Itockfeller , demanding
$50,000. Peter Lillijnhn, a
Hungarian, 23 years of age, is held
at police headquarters In New Yoi s
Hugo Kardoc. who accused I.illiiob.
of sending the letter to him to M
forwarded to Mr. Rock feller, mane
the complaint which, caused tli.
young Hungarian's arrest. KardotT
told detectives lie received three letters
from L'Uijohn Friday aftrriioor.
One written, in Hungarian, was addressed
to the Standard Oil chief,
and contained the demand Tor $50,000.
The others were addressed to
Kardoff and directed him to translate
and forward the message to
Mr. Rockfeller , under threat of
death. *
FIRM \T CONVICT CAMP
One of the Guards Was Burned to
Death in Camp.
At the Gaston county cor.vi. t 1
camp, 4 miles west of Hessimer City,
N. C., at noon Tuesday, *he Camp
with all its contents waB destroyd
by fire. Dennis Harrelson, a night
guard, of Cherryvllle, who was sleep- '
In? In tll#> hllllfHnir n.no tii,?oJ * -
vu..u.i>n, "uo uuiucu IU
death. Mr. Ilarrelson 's a son of
3. S. Ilarrelson ami had been at
the camp threq weeks. He was popular
with all. The entire force was ,
away from the camp, building road,
except one or two trusties, who were
unable to rescue Ilarrelson.
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The Tariff laiw.
Secretary Wilson, or the Department
of Agriculture, who had been
campaigning for the Republican party
up in Nev/ York and other States
for ten days preceeding the election,
defended the tariff law. He said
"the department of agriculture Is
In touch with all sections of the
country. It has 3,000 specialists (
making research into- conditions
wli'ch interest the farmer. A few
years ago nearly all our rice was imported.
Along the gulf of Mexico
we now raise the equivalent of all
rice used in the United State. We
import some but we also export
some. Along the northern border
states we make G00.0O0 tons of sugar
from beets. Our last beet sugar
crop was worth by products and
labor nearly $100,000,000. From
California 42,000 cars of citrus
fruits were shipped East last year.
Take off the duty and we will get
the fruit from Mediterranean countries
where cheap labor prevails."
according to Secretary Wilson the
farmers who make cotton, corn,
wheat, oats and other staple crops
must be taxed so as the farmers who
plant sugar beets, rice and sugar
cane can make money out of their
crops. Is thero any justice in that?
If there is we would like some one
who is in favor of the protective tariff,
point it out to us and the taxed
farmers of this section.
Fine Wheat Crop.
The wheat crop for South Carolina
for the year 1910 has broken
ill records in this state. The figures
on the crop were given out Wednesday
by Commissioner Watson. During
1910, the wheat chop crop was
4.756,000 bushels, while for 1909
the umnber of bushels was 3,810.
000.
Seven Houses Humeri.
Fire Thursday afternoon destrojed
seven dwelling houses at Goldsboro,
N. C. Inhabitants of the burnt
houses were heavy losers, as lbflames
spread so rapidly, and the
heat was so intense that it was with
groat difficulty that they succeeded
in saving what fiw articles they did
save. '
liciiwirknhlo Prisoner.
At New York Joseph Jones, under
arrest charged with picking pockets,
is rated by the detective bureau as
one of the most remarkable prisoners
coining into their custody.
Jones is 87 years old. blind and al
most deaf. lie is bald, toothless
and lame, yet the police allege despite
these handicaps, he is one of
the most expert pickpockets In the
country.
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ME A Li RATHER THAN CASH.
Tliis Is What the Carolina Vnlon
Farmer Says.
i ne current issue or The Carolina
Union Farmer contains an Interesting
article on the importance of the
farmers co-operating in the disposal
of their cotton seed. Our contemporary
urges the storing of the seed
until spring and the disposing of it
through an agent who will act for a
number of farmers. It is convinced
that by this method a better price
will be realized han could possibly
follow individual marketing. Having
made this point clear. The Union
Farmer proceeds to urge what it
considers an equally important step,
namely, the exchanging of the seed
for cotton-seed meal rather than selling
for cash.
"There can be no economical buying
of commercial fertilizers in
ready-mixed form,' it argues in support
of its views on this subject.
"The only way to get the lies! fertilizer
at least cost is througn the
process of home mixing. Acid phosphate.
basic slag or ground raw phosphate-rock
can always be bought
without much dilliculty, and potash
in the form of kainit or murate jf
potash is also easy to secure if orders
are .?? nt in time, but drlel biaod
and tapkagc as a source of ammonia
is not obtained so easily because the
fertilizer-mixers use these ingredients
in great quantities and generally
buy up the bulk of them. If farmers
in the cotton counties will lay
plans wisely and get cotton'-seed
meal in exchange for seed, they will
have this element of fertilizer on
hand. It then follows that they will
have to buy only phosphate aru po
ash to form the complete mixture,
such as is usually sold in ready-mixed
form at high prices. '
The subject of proper fertilization
of crops at reasonable cost is one of
the most d'tllcult problems which
confront the progressive farmer today
and The Union Farmer's advice
should be carefully considered by ail
who have or will have cotton 3eed t*
their disposal. Aside from th?> for. '
tlllzer question the meal has proved
Its value as a feed, a feature which
would seem to furnish an additional
safeguard to those following the plan
outlined.
A VKHYDHY COUNTRY.
This Is W lint the Law Tries to .Make
of the South. t
The law in Alabama. Georgia, ]
North Carolina and a part of South
Carolina may be dry, but the dry bill"
is limited to the law, not to the people,
according to the report 'he revenue
collectors in the ? p:ohibition
Btates made to their chief at Wash- (
ington.
These reports are fairly Fteeped in ,
liquor. They tell not only of "booze ' ,
being made but of the sale, both in ,
small and in large quantities. In ,
another month Commissioner of Internal
Uevenhe Royal Cabell will
make public his annual report, 'u i
which he will quote figures furnished
by collectors of internal revenue
in these states showing the number
of special tax stamps which have
been sold in the past year.
It is estimated that in Alabama.
Georgia, North Carolina rnd a smal
part of South Carolina the receipts
from the sa'e of these special tax
si amps will amount to approximately
$ 1 0.1.000 for the fiscal year which
ended June 30 last.
Alabama leads in the number of
stamps purchased. The sale of retail
stamps amounted to approximately
$31,000, and the combined
sale of retail and wholesale $v8,500.
Georgin conies next with a combined
sale of $30,568 worth of stamps
It is estimated that $16,000 worth
of both kinds of stamps were sold
in North Carolina in the past year.
Again drug mercnants were the
heaviest buyers. South Carolina
will show a combined sale of about
*20,000 worth of stamps.
l'OINT KLl'K NOW.
Congressman Klect Changes Name
of Oyster Hay.
The New York World says Congressman-elect
Martin W. Littleton,
who was elected over Col. Roosevelt's
friend, W. W. Corks, in Roosevelt's
own district, was being congratulated
by a host of Democrat'c
friends at the Manhattan Club
Thursday.
"Well, how are thin?s down at
Oyster Ray now?" said Littleton.
"They don't call it Oyster Ray any
more."
"Well, what do they call it?"
<<niuA DAU v,? ?it ?
una, u*j repneti.
Will Jubilate.
New York snfTraglsts held a mas.?
meeting at Cooper Union Thursday
night to celebrate the victory of wo
man suffragists. won in the Mate election
last week. The meeting wa>
one of the largest ever held in New
York city by the advocates of voletfor
women.
Sweep Chicago.
The Democrats carried Chicago by
about 40,000 majority, capturing six
Republican congressional districts
and electing their entire county
ticket. The vote in the rural districts
was ail that saved Illinois to
the Republicans
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BAKED ELEPH ANT'8 FOOT.
Col. Roosevelt Will Be Privileged to
Taste a Delicious Dish.
While Co'.oncl Roosevelt is in Afrt
a he will have an opportunity of tastng
thai delic'ous dish, baked ele hant's
foot. The Elephas Indicus or
llephas (I.oxodon) Africanus walks
a itis toc3 and the balls of his feet.
. ne re:il toot of an elephant extends
p some distance fro:n the ground,
ye the "trotter" of the hog the foot
the elephant Is full of gluten, and
he (lcah. if properly baked, is very
T.der. tasting something between
>rk and chicken. From a freshly
? pliant the foot is cut off at
e ankle. and baked in a hole in the
ornd which has previously been
en', d with l ot stones. The hole
Uft be led hot and a few heavy
ones h ft in the bottom. The foot
aving been put into the hole, which
i made Jurt about big enough to reeive
it some natives lino the hole
with green leaves- sand is shoveled
over it and it is left to cook. One
must not be in a hurry for bis dinner.
When taken out and the thick skin
peeled away u delicious morsel awaits
the epicure.
Our National Forests.
The recent proclamations retting
aside the Oeala National Forest in
North Dakolu bring the number of
states possessing such forests belongng
to the Fuited States up to "0, if
Alaska be included. Of tkme forests,
Arkansas ha? two, but all li e o?licr?.
except ta ne.v or.es lit Florida and
North P. ko'n. aie in the Him y Mounta'n
or pacific eo t ft itc . It is ex j
pcctcd tl at the CVnln F rc.t area
which cove rs -01,{ 'U a s, will heco"
e deurc'y cove ed w!'h ( <> Find
pt".e. N" part of tlie area rf < ? more
than 150 feet above se t-' ? -1. The
Dakota Forest is in the T> I ! eels region,
nnd much is i -;| < cd fioai its
influence, s in? ?* Nur. Da <> a is the
least forested state !:i t1 r t'nion. The
new fore l cover.. 1 ! > - :
The CclurrLus Tree.
In the outskirts of the o' 1 city of
San Domingo, of ihe Dominican re
public, among the shacks, d. lapidated
dwellings or.d mass of debris that lifters
this section of the town noi iering
the bay. stands u giant o ik. Tim tree
Is much larger than all the trees
around It; In truth, it is iron h larger
than the average trees of the island
and, for this reason, is peculiar. But
tlio tree Is interesting, not alone for
Its bigness and its apparent age. but
berauso of the story attached to 't.
t?, ks~ 1- t~ ?i--?
Hie ti s <>'? if cuiii'd III" t O'UinDUB
Tree," and the story is that Columbus
tied or made fast his ships by long
hawsers to this tree when he came
Into the harbor on that memorable
twelfth day of October, 1192.
Insist on Yellow Flour.
Charles Christadoro, an expert on
fl >ur and grains, sounds the keynote
of the new situation brought about by
the bleached (lour decision when he
says in a communication to the editor
commenting on 'he bleached flour decls!
n: 'The housewife will now insist
on yellow tinted or creamy flour,
and wjll learn to realize that a natural
(lour very white can in no manner
compare with the creamy or yellow
(lour in so far as glutens and muscle
building values are concerned.
"As from 85 to 90 rer cent, of the
large flour mills of the country were
using this bleaching process, the decision
is far-reaching." ? National
Food Magazine.
Egyptian "Sabak."
This na::.e is gi\en to a peculiar
1 !nd o? manure employed in Upper
Ugypt, aud found u.i I lie sites oi
aacicnt Arabian kabit.i ions. Even
the crumbled walls of the habitat:an
themselves have rddod valur Me in
gredients to the deposits, because th?
walls wcro composed of eann f~*er
mixed with an abundance of straw
The sites of these ancient dwelling
places are .recognized, in the firs;
pi' cc, by the finding of relics o." I ousthold
articles, and oven bits of i. v Irv
V! a deposits aro found in sucet a 5v?
layers, indicating that tho sites u.vt
b< en occupied, abandoned, and reject'pied
a number of times. Che: lie:/
analysis shows that the ?'.cpo I s o
"atbalt" are veritable beds of nitrates
An Old, O.d Life Cite.
Recent excavation at the Maumbury
Rings Circle, in England, is regarded
as corroborating the tradition that a
Roman amphitheater owe existed o:i
that site. A stratum of quartz, flin'.
and fragments of shells, such as the
Romans placed on t' i surface of the
arena where pladiators fought, has
been found there. A very interostin?
mcv is that other remains
that the place was used liy Noolith.
people as r ilint workshop, it is ap
parent that they used picks made o
u-.ci's antlers to excavate u.t pi'
where the ilini was found. The pit is
30 feet deep. The place seems to
have been almost continuously occupied
since Neolithic times.
An Actor's Ruse.
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kjuv ui m? it'uuiiig cuoicaians or me
Frankfurt Theatre in Germany went
to the director and asked tor an advance
on his week's salary. The books
showed that the whole amount had already
been drawn, and the director
said "No."
"Very good," said the actor; "then
I shall refuse to go on to-night."
The director saw that it was dangerously
near curtain time and reluctantly
gave the nctor the amount asked
for, but said: "Remember, sir,
this Is nothing short of extortion, and !
a cowardly one at that."
"Not at all. Herr Director," said the
actor, stuffing the rronev in his pocket,
"my name is not on the h'll for to
night, anyway."?The ArgonauL
SMITH ON COTTON
UROKS Tll? FARMERS TO HOI.O
Til Kill NERVE STEADY.
lie Advises them to Look to tlieir
Own Interests and I<et tlie Mmiufaeturer
I.o?>k After His.
Senator E. I). Smith Friday save
out the following statement with reference
to the cqtton crop:
The usual efforts are being made
i to depress the price of cotton. Tne
I same old arguments, the same old
! song.
It is a commentary either on the
prostitution of those who would tiepress
the market or on the Ignorance
of those who have the cotton to sell.
I cm convinced that it is the former,
j for the farmers have at last arrived
at that stage of knowledge, in
reference to their business, where the
ridiculous and foolish arguments of
the bears no longer affect them. In
a word, those manufactures and buyers
who hope by any specious arguments
to so affect the market as to
get cheaper cotton had as we'l disabuse
their minds of any such fond
hope.
The farmers of the South who produce
the cotton know as well or l>etier
the conditions than those so-called
manipulators of the market. Th"y
are thoroughly aware that the narmal
consumption of American cotton
by ihe world is approximately 14.000,000
lialcs. That last year the*
only made above 10.000,0'-O hales,
ieavln^ a deficit of ft 1-2 to 4.000,ooo
hales; that stocks arc exhausted;
that the manufacturing world begins
tin? 1909-1010 with no supplies to
draw upon from the 1000-10 crop.
They know that this crop cannot
exceed 11,000,000 bales maximum,
making a deficit in this crop from tho
normal demand of about 2,500,000
hales, an aggregate shortage In the
years Of ininrnrlmntolii r. m\i\
U.iniu.wuu
bales of cotton. They know that millions
of dollars are invested in tho
mills which must spin and weavo
cotton or lose their dividends .
They know that the worl.l has no
substitute for cotton and that sooner
or later they must have it. They
know that the price obtained in tho
last few years has placed them In a
position where to own tho cotton,
rather than the merchant who furnishes
them the supplies to make it.
They knew the "tricks of the trade"
at last and have learned a few things
themselves.
This crop was unusually late; th*
frost comparatively unusually early;
the price unusually high durshort
so that this present picking will
rapid ginning of the crop. The last
short so that this present picking will
mean the end of the crop of 19101911.
It matters not in any event, what
the ultimate yield of 1910-1 t may
be, if the farmers of the South ?in
their present prosperous condition ?
will but use discretion and, common
sense in the disposition of this crop
they can absolutely dictate the price
to the consuming world.
In conclusion 1 wish to say to
all farmers: You have absolutely
nothing to do with the price of tho
manufactured article. Let tho manufacturer
look after his business and
attend to his profits; you look after
your business and attend to your profits.
A FT Mil A IUTTF.lt FKUIT.
President Tail Fired Stuart from a
( odd Office.
Announcement Thursday of the
ippolntment of Fred Read as collector
of customs at Newport News,
Va., marked the end of a fiftht that
began early last winter and forced
the retirement from the ofilce which
he had held for four years of J h.
M. Stuart, son of the famous Confederate
leader.
President Roosevelt appointed .Mr.
Stuart to office as a compliment to
the South, he said. Early durinft
his term, Mr. Stuart heeame involv.
d in a oiv'l service investigation
' >ecause he deposed two white de-nitles
and put in their places negroes
who happened to he party
leaders.
Presid< nt Taft took up the matter
last week and decided to appoint
Mr. Read, but announcement of tho
appointment was deferred until last
Thursday, when it was given out at
the treasury department.
lie Dropped Dead.
When the I.Missouri Pacific Train
\*o. 1 ran down and killed an uni'entified
man near Warrenburcr Mo
Thursday, L. I). Hopkins, of St. Louis,
tlie conductor, clutched at his
hreast, reeled and fell dead in the
Pullman coach. He had been on tho
road forty years, and the accident
was the first that ever! occurred
while he was in charge of a train.
Where is Teddy?
Oyster Hay wonders what has become
of Colonel Roosevelt. He is
still in complete seclusion at Saymore
Hill. Not sinco his return
from the Spanish-American war,
twelve years ago has the colonel
kept himself so secluded at his homo.
The man is strong who conquers
himself, but he who allows vicious
habits to control him is a weak lints.
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