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- ‘S'' V> »' y ' • .. DUAL LIFE. ™ E SB of corn I spread by mu. *■- --|tS * .ML. A Physician hyllljr anda Bur- ' liar at Night iFIrst Dlscovarad Among the In dians by Columbus. WIFE DENIES CHARGE. Polk* of New Rochelle* New That Dr. ‘Bolin, A t In A Tbo York. ( Society Loader of That Town Barglar and la Iteaponaihle for Many Robbt-Hea, and Have Ar retted Him. Dr. Samuel Bolin, physician, chem ist, house owner and a social leader of the Huguenot Park section of New Rochelle, New York, was plucked front a trolley car and landed jail to answer the accusation qf the of a hards [ it Has Now Become One of the .Great Articles of Food In This Conn- irT - • * When Columbus reached Cat In land on that fateful day of 1492, he found the poor savages cultivating a plant that was new to the Spaniards. Later, when they saw the islanders I gathering from the stocks a mater- [ ml which they used for food, the tods a — iware wh: Spaniards tods a curious interest in their actions. This plant, which the natives called “Mahiz,” was wholly unknown in Europe or any other part of the old world. Afterwards the Spaniards themselves cultivated this plant for food calling it “maize,” j n | by which name it has since been known in the botanical world. In In this small way began what is now the most important and most valu attempted burglary ■tore. Detectives say they will prove [able crop fn the civilized world. Looked at from the standpoint of the botanist, a strange fact is dis closed in considering the habits as well as the habitat of this celebrat ed cereal. It was indigenous to the two Americas, but at the time of the conquest had made little progress toward the wonderful development it was subsequently to attain. The In dian tribet in various sections, from the Canadas to Patagonia were found to oe acquainted with its merits and depended upon it as one of their r * egei n lit that the physician has been posing as a distinguished resident by day and robbing his neighbors’ homes after dark. < The New Rochellians, who, prior to Saturday, had ridden with him proudly behind his pair of bays, were stunned at his arrest Tuesday night that they could not even re gain equanimity enough to go the doctor's bail. Dr. Bolin entered New Rochelle society with something of a fan-fare about four months ago. He had pre viously become acquainted with Judge John Van Zelm, a prominent lawyer of the city, and the Judge helped him spread the report that Ms practice m Harlem was some thing to conjure with and that as an inventing chemist his reputation was little short a of wizard’s. When he bought a handsome house on Summit avenue, installed his wife atod three children and a stable, and ■pent $2,000 improving the grounds, he was accepted as a welcome addi tion to the social situation, without so much as a question. The horses that pulled his carriage through Ndw I lv extend the ax Rochelle might have been blue-rib-Uy ; The aid of bonars. Ha entertained well and made friends. --— But last Wednesday night, just after 12, Mrs. Robert Haugh, of Hu- guenot street, looked out of her bed- ' 9 and across the lot to spied a man sowing the a window in Levison’s store,, which backs up her nronerty. sight interested Mrs. Haugh more from the fact that two It If Mott Protont Agfncy In A- . 1 A JriRimission of Cottuniptfon. Government Question of Burenu Busy (Studying Infection of Cattle With Tuberculosis. KGYPTIAN PRINCE. SOME fRAGEDES Wants to Study Culttvfctloa of Got* ton at dose Range. Prince Dabro Pazratido, of Cairo, Egypt, itrho has stirred Boston’s foqr I hundred by appearing In the com mon street cars and hanging to the straps at that, will start for the South within a few days. He intends to stay at somS length in Charleston. In one day the Prince stopped at three Boston hotels. “Well, perhaps it is the fact I stopped at the first ho tel to rest up,” he said* “This was the day I landed, and then I went to the second, where I ted urremain, but I could iu get a suite there. The hotel was TkatHm iNa EfneMT1iraM(li| , k hhumm ruiiiiitnropja Lady Bread at MM junadte atari Teptkerkyftee- V ‘ • . rwiu lo rroimso Rvimogo. The Gypsy Noth, the Guatemala Ant and the Aaatmlian Rabbits Three of the Worse. Twelve per cent of the deaths of persons of all ages in America are due to the ’white plague,’ popularly known as consumption. Iir practical- ly every instance the infection of tu- ex P ecte< i berculosis is communicated to peo- ® et 3 5 V f . pie through impure milk and^ot crowded solnaturallysoughtanoth- through the breathing of dried sput- erstoppmg place. um as eenerallv is suDDosed Mv Pnnce Dabro Pszzstido is descend- MW iXt the y iSvSSt cm! & & do no greater humanitarian work th ® last century has lived in Egypt, than in providing a fund for the er- * r 2, m ^ sia adication of tuberculosis from cattle. i a ^ er ’ Nubax Pacha, and his grand- This work could be performed com- f ather ] ia J re 1)6611 P nm6 minis- paratively easily, and, while the in- 18t6rs of . ... itial cost might be considerable, it Aware of the great commercial im- would be well worth the money ex- Portan 66 °fcoUon growing in his fa- therland, the Prince is much mter- Dr.C. E. Schroeder, of the bureau e f e< l ™ i ^ cu ? u ^ will study the of animal industry of the National. P»ant during his Southern tnp Cot- Department of Agriculture, made ton bring 29 cents a pound in Ejrypt. this statement, after a Very exhaus- 5 ay8 l ’ st ^f 8 wu 6 6ee . n - • made by the cotton people there is raising it. upon chief vegetable foods. They cultivat ed it in little patchea. planting it in g hole in the ground made with a stick and from it made certain dishes afterward famous as “succotash,” “hominy” and “hoecake.”.. What is especially noticeable is the fact that no other grain or vegetable has such difficulty in reproducing it self unaided as maize. Left to itself it is difficult to see how it could keep alive. The grain being encaaed in A thick and closs-fitting shuck, and growing closely to the cob, can not reproduce unless in falling it becom- shattered and covered. Birds and other animals miarht help some in this process, but not enough to great ly extend the area of its productivi- ' man is needed, not only to plant, hut to cultivate the corn, and it is questionable whether, if left ungathered, the whole of the fields in our mighty belt, would spontaneously bring forth next son a single ear. Fortunately, the savages in a limited way assisted this tive investigation of the causes which lead to tuberculosis. “If some man of the wealth of An drew Carnegie could be induced to devote some of his riches to the era dication of the ‘white plague’ his name would go down to history as one of the greatest benefactors qf his race. I nave no doubt that con sumption practically could be eradi cated from the United States by the application of modern scientific meth ods in the handling of the disease, lyery cow in the country ought to be testedor tuberculosis and, if found infested, the animal ought to be killed. Thousand of milch cows undoubtedly are infected with tuber culosis and the milk' they furnish carries with it the germs of the dis ease into the human system. He will remain in the United States for several months and will visit the principal cities and cotton planta tions. The Prince was educated in France. He is young and good look ing and speaks good English. TKOrSEKB OF RECENT ORIGIN A Hundn>d Years Ago Methodists Thought Them Immoral. , The jnodern custom ol wearing trousers was taken from the nfilltary dress introduced into the army by the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular war, says the Tailor and Gutter. V In early days these were been demmistrated'conclS^l’y^that the Duke ^ e * lin ^ t ° n trou8er8 ’ * ftcr the germs of the ‘white plague’ are introduced into the human system through the alimentary canal. Thence they are carried into the lungs or throat or bowels, where they increase enormously. The only way to prevent the introduction of consumption germs into the system through-milk to boil the milk and, of course, is impracticable in a majority is When they were coming into gen eral use at the commencement of the nineteenth century the religious world and the fashionable were most determined in their opposition. A Clause in the original trust deed, da ted 1820, ofa Sheffield Nonconform ist chapel prbvided that “under no whatever ago her house was entered by ol just such a saw as she was then, with a consequent loss in ients Other wealthy the vicinage suffered hysterically cation being fit 8«wd»’phoned police. The station being Nat hand. Detectives De Veau Kenowith were groping for PMf the burglar In about two lies. They came on a man hur rear stairway of the ng. He was taking off Ms coat and collar as he ran ana act ed very much like a tardy home-com er ruining for his cot. “wru.t’iun?” he demanded, as the sfollowed him up the flight “We’re looking for a robber an Cbenowith wonderiui plant sutncientiy to keep it alive in many places until the wl man came with his hoe and plow to do the work on an extensive scale. It is just possible that but for the In dians, the valuable grain might have been lost entirely to man. its only chance of survival originally would be in the tropics, where the first grains that fell and became covered would escape freeing and thus sprout in the returning season 1 propagation. It is afar cry from the little pat ches on Guannahani island to the cornfields now smiling over the Uni ted States preparatory to a produc tion of 3,000,000,000 bushels this fall These fields occupy an area great er in . , . . .. ,. . . ^ circumstances whatever shall any that is impracticable in a majority preacher be allowed to occupy the of instances. nulnit who wears trousera ” — “I am satisfied from the results of But this was not all. Soine doubts experiments made by the govern- were expressed in many quarters ment, that the danger of tubeipulo- concerning the question whether a sis from dried sputum is inconse- man could be religious and appear auental. It is not comparable with in trousers. One of the foundersof with the danger of impure milk, Exper- the Primitive Methodist body re- around” in iments have shown that the germs of marked to a colleague in the ministry acquaintance the disease must beJaken into the “that trousers wearing, beer drink- which show € system through food and milk is the ing so an so will never get to Heav- * food which is the most extensive con veyer of these germs. Therefore, if we purify the milk supply of a given minister, twice president of the Con- same a* that in the community we practically eliminate ference (born in 1766, died in 1860.) that \he nature of tl r,loBn,a ’ ' 1J _j L i. 14 .. . Our catmmltlea are often dne more to misguided friends than to open foes. We suffer more from the foots than the frauds. *‘Hd # means well,” k Deadeye in the opera, “but he don't know.” Perhaps farmers have suffered more from this forcibly feeble element than any other claas of human beings, says the American Farmer. • t • . • The experiments are usually tried out on them. When in trouble the quack -comes along with one of those remedies worse than the disease, they yield and are ruined. A favorite form of this mistaken philanthropy deals with a cure for pests, especially those of the ingect species, and as farmers are the chief victims of these, the tragedies herelq to be recorded are exclusively agricultural. Many years ago a kind-hearted but soft-headed experimenter conceived a plan of rid ding the grape growers of Massachu setts of the philoxera which by an nual visitations was ruining their crops. To this end he imported a supply of gypsy moths, whose favor ite food was the Identical insect that was preying upon the vines of N?w England. Apparently this moth was the most harmless of creatureti and only good was expected of It as a pest-destroy er. It was cultivated, turned loose and soon had Increased to millions. TbsulTQVW 6 waa. however, that the gypsy moth declined to have hia bill of fare arranged for him in advance. He objected also to a restricted diet and demanded a more varied menu. He insisted on eating other things and in time developed into i far greater pest than the one he 'Wige Im ported to exterminate. The State has spent millions in trying to unload this costly Importation, but in vain. They can’t deport him like an unde sirable emigrant, they can't: stop him from bracking, nor can they check his omnivorous appetite which la gratlfled a7Tfie expense‘ofThe fra growers and gardeners who have been made victims of this conspicuous ex ample of mistaken philanthropy. A few years ago, some genius thought )i# had discovered a supreme remedy for the boll-weevil which was threatening the southern cotton crop destruction. While “nbsing Guatemala he made the of a variety of ants showed an especial fondness for boll-weevils as an article of diet. to £e Minister. Who Seises the Would-Be Bridegroom and Lady Escape*.' ‘ V n' , * Mias Belle Crouse, pretty daugh ter of Rev. N. I. Crouse, pastor of the First Presbyterian church Of. Stan- hope, N. J„ waa literally-forced to the parsonage of the First Methodist church, in Asbury Park, Wednesday afternoon by her frantic lover, Percy C. Blssell, who at the point of n re volver demanded that ahe marry him. When the couple came before Rev. C. M. Griffin, pastor of the church, and he began to ask the usual ques- tlon^, Miss Crouse broke down and v __ lit was not definitely ascertained that Father Reece, a famous Methodist | the weevil of Guatemala was the United States, or n«tbetaM to efept mSmPrMiSm; this respect. begged the minister to save her from •Blssell, who, she said, had a revolver In his pocket and had threatened to shoot her unless the ceremony was performed. Dr. Griffin, greatly agitated, made a sudden attack upon Biisell. He threw his arms around the ardent lover and held him fast, while Miss Crouse made good her escape from the "parsonage. w ^ She had no sooner reached the boarding house in Ocean Grove, where she was stopping, with her parents, when Blssell reappeared and broke through a window in the house He demanded to see Miss Crouse, but was told she was out. Later the young man was overhauled by a po liceman and taken to one of the out going trains. It is presumed he re- tttrneth to his home, in Stanhope The' Crouses, it appears, had been told that Bjjpett, who Is a member of the StanWpe Presbyterian church, had a. fondness for cards, and on this account their daughter severed a growing 'intimacy with the young man. He is a student in the State normal school at Trenton. She wrote him a letter )n which she refused to have anything more to do with him, and they down to Ocean Grove to escai hubbub. All Stanhope had heard of the affair. Whfen Bis r be’’ followed the Crouses after having ascertained in Stanhope that they had gone to Ocean Grove. Lite Tuesday afternoon the young man met Miss Crouse in the street and excitedly demanded that she marry him Immediately. Miss Crouse refused point blank to accede to his request and tried to reason with him Blssell took from his pocket an ugly looking revolver and showed her the cartridges. Miss Crouse alarmed, finally concented to go to Rev. Mr. Griffin and be married. Blssell call ed a cab and was driven with the young woman to the parsonage. , Mias Crouse would not admit iatec that she is engaged to Blssell but •aid she heard some time ago that MMt E. A. SkWl He Says the Gamblers Give the Uet* Their Old Excuse of Supply and “Hold your cottoa.” ^ That has ever been the advice of Mr. E. D. Smith. Now he adda: “Keep on holding.” The State says when he saw Wed nesday morning how the report to tbs department of agriculture had veri fied the claims of the Cotton asaocia- . tion that the crop was short and that the price was ridiculously low, he wgs wrought up to the boiling over pitch when he saw that the gamblers on Wall street were pushing the price down and giving the He to their own excuse of the past—"We must yield to the law of supply and demand.” “It Is robbery. It is an effort to take the money out of the pockets of the people of the South just as % pickpocket would do,” said Mr. Smith/ They know that this Is ‘debt paying.time In the South' and they think they have tts at thelf. mercy, but we will give them a fight which will show them the spirit of the South Is yet too proud to yield to them. "" ‘ ' 1 "Supply—It Is short! Demand— why, I am Informed Miat the mills are selling their product at a price which would be profitable if cotton were l>elng pruchased at 18 centaypef pound: “ ‘Hold your cotton.' That- is all that I can say to the farmers of South Carolina. And all who will hold are urged to let me know that me. they ,_yill htrta ind how much they they, yin r Jfent »pe the of independent scientists regarded that it is very probable Congress may take up the question precisely as it provided for the inspection of beef cattle after slaughter. Several mem bers of Congress now are consider- HIGH HANDED OUTRAGE. “He’s Into this place. I, don't say, cried the o« *T*Ju*t and then I’ll help you been man. run up-stairs and get my fcatch ‘“romnletely mislead the detective* for the rear entrance, they had been talking r fields occupy an area neat-1 UA v^ongress uuw »*«= wuoiuci- extent than the GermanErn- the subjectwith’a view to the introduction of legislation providing for a careful inspection of the sourc es of the country’s milk supply. The idea is to have an examination made of milch cows, in instances where the milk is furnished to the public, and to provide for the killing of such an imals as may be found tq be afflicted with tuberculosis, the government to make an allowance to the owner of the cattle thus ktiled. In this way scientists, can eradicated Negro Entered Young lady’s Robm and Chloroformed Her. bolted through the front door y. Though the: pire. Though every state and terri tory in the Union produces corn, the principal crop conies from Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, which constitute the far- famous “corn belt.” It is estimated that if all the corn produced in one year in these six states were shelled and Idtidetf in wagons, the train would extend nearly 166,000 miles, belting the earth six times with 4,000 miles of wagons to spare. Iowa alone has produced a crop equal in value to the annual output ot gold, silver and lead in this whole country, more than the net earnings of al the national banks. Our farmers may understand what is meant by improv ed corn culture, when it is under stood that an increase of one ear in every ten in the five principal corn states would mean an addition $44,000,000 a year to their wealth Though the origin of corn is very an eient, its use on a large scale is very modem. Darwin, the great nature ist, while traveling in Peru, found ah ear reposing in a metal vessel eighty- five feet below the present surface of the soil. Others have been found S ic re The with and ran away. Though they didn’t find him again that night De Veau and Chenowith swear he was Dr. Bol In and the collar left behind when he fled is as good evidence as they had with their eyes. Under the half-sawed bars of Lev inson’s window they found a bur glar’a hack saw and a can of lubrica ting oil. Sergeant Cody of the New Roch- . elle police detailed all of his slim de fective force on the case at once. He says he discovered that Bolin was home much of the day and away most, . . , , , of the night. But friendly neighbors with mummies in the tombs of the who knew this explained with the ’ statement that as BoMn was practic ing medicine and running a drug store in Harlem, he couldn’t be ex pected to come up from New York until late in the day. The police found out, however, that he generally ar rived in town so late that he must have been compelled to use the Mount Vernon trolley car. Just what—if anything—the de- . toctives found to involve Bolin in an unadvertised double life they will , not say, but they declare they have found enough. They say they fol lowed him four days, know where he went on his strange trips after dark, traced him until no doubt re mained, and then got out a John Doe] warrant for his arrest. At any rate Detective Scott was on hand when the Mount Vernon trolley care suraed into New Rochelle, and as Dr. Bolin got off and started to soon ter toward hia waiting carriage the detective said, “I want you for burgiac?,* presented the warrant and dragged off the prisoner to po- CH1CKEN Miss Evelyn Cauble, aged 14, daughter of Mr. and Mra. David Cau ble, who reside on George Vander.- bilt's Blltmore estate,- near Asheville, N. C., was Thursday night chlorform- af her home and an attempted assault was frustrated by the screams of her ten year old sister, who oc cupied the same room. The cries of the younger girl aroused the girl's parents, who put the intruder to flight. The Asheville police were imme- fdtately Informed, aud Deputy Sheriffs Williams and Penland went to Bilt- .. That Has Two Pale of Legs To Walk About On. A farmer at ElWood, Ind., reports a freak chicken with, four "comp legs. v Two, wlttfswhlch It walks, are like other chicken legs, while others are on its back, where wings ought to-be. The latter are fairly developed, and when the foul Is turned “upside down” It can wa+k more with bloodhounds. Blltmore lage and the surroiyidlng country Incas. '1 he natives of Mexico, long before the conquest, worshipped a dess corresponding to the Greek res, and the method was for sun virgius to sacrifice cqrn cakes in her honor. The North American Indians believed that corn was a direct gift from the Great Spirit. This inspiring belief was embodied in a poetical le gend, to the effect that a young war rior fasting in the wilderness prayed for a gift for his people, when a spir it in the form of a beautiful youn; man garbed in glistening green wit flowing . plumes, descended in re sponse and brought the grain of grains as his offering. The Greenwood Index announces that its subscription price will be in created to $1.50 on the first of the year. Sooner or later every country paper in the State will have to raise their price to at least $1.50 or go out of business. • •. V HI l '. ll«M Ml. |H< HI I When Huguenot it daylight that B< Park found out Bolin was in a cell and grew utterly Bolin, declaring the ran from naigh- ■ 10 o’clock citizens in int release r Fering any hjw* out. d awhile 'of them As a result the f Justice she doesn’t know anything about it She, too, protests ttyrt he is inno cent. Judge Van Zelm also refused to- put any faith in the police charges against his friend. He was retained by Bolin to get him out of the scrape and expressed much anger when Justice Van Auken declared to parole the priaoner in his custody. Sergeant Cody, says that the charge of attempted robbery of the hardware store has been used only as ja cover to hold Bonn T more eerious - said. “We we can prove on Its freak legs but Is rather-wabbly. IJ would pay to raise a breed from such a reversible, self-adjustinn, dou- blebark action foul for several rea sons. The demand fof ‘ thohe who prefer legs for dtnber "could be met easier, the chickens woui-1 have more legs to run away from enemies,, and until they became common woriq draw well at shows at so much to see "the g-r-e-a-t-e-s-t'-llving curloslty.” have been searched l>y*Qgpsse but up to the present writing uT^Ace„oLtlie eiKirta i nernetrator of the crime^^i been nplete ] found. - Miss Cauble was several hours re- tke j-ainiug consciousness, and she was the I tt t first believed to be dying. It was found that entrance to the Cauble residence had been affected through a^rear window. SAW HAINBOW AT NTGHT. COST OF HONEY. The tabor Required to Make Only One I’ound. Few realise the industry necessary for the production of a pound of honey and the enormourlabor neces sary on paYt of the little insects to supply us with this most precious of all wweets. It is estimated that the nectar must be extracted from 624)00 clover blossoms to make a pound of honey, which means that the bees must make 2,750,0(p) .kripfc*‘from The httrarthe flowers. Bee labor is evidently to cheap, and If they had labor organizations we should certainly hear of strikes. But this Is one of the few cases In the world where the laborer cheer fully works for nothing and feeds himself. The employer gets all, the benefit, but there Is never a kick from the “wage slave.” -■ •: The Lancaster News thinks if the Raleigh man who has sued theSouth em for $6,000 damages for catching a cold in one of itp depots, while g on a train, wins his case the pany will have to get busy en-j larging its stations all over, the coun try to accomodate the inevitable nah ’^le of the Sea Told by Trans-Atlan tic Travelers. The Atlantic transport liner Mlnhe^ haha. Just arrived at New York from London, brought to port a story of having seen a rainl>ow at night, Cap tain Robinson, and a score of passen gers vouched for the truth of the story. H. W. Scovllle, a retired merchant of Newburyport, Mass; said "ithat the ralnbpw appeared Just before mid night on Wednesday. All that day there had been occasional showers. To ward evening there was a clearing, but at night a mist set over the wa ter. “Along about midnight," said Mr. Scovllle, “a peculiar half circle of colored light appeared in the weqjt. Both ends touched the seas and al though not as vivid as the rainbow we qqe-l* the day time.-tt ■warvlearly de fined and..a beautiful sight.” The phenomenon remglhed In view twenty minutes and finally faded away. SHOT FOURTEEN MEN. Kentucky Feudist Makes Startling Admission on Witness Stand. D.-D. Edwards, oh trial at Chat tanooga, Tenn., for the murder of| Sam Brooks, under cross examination Thursday said: ‘T have shot and probably killed fourteen men in my lime.** He said that a majority of the killings oc curred In the Kentucky mountains and during a labor strike te Chicago. Awards is known at a Kentucky! jumped to conclusions, decided with himself that he had made a great dis covery and Induced the government to import a .lot of the blessed ants ’em Central America. When they ar rived on Louisianna soil, like the smart Insects that they are, they looked around and took note of the vegetable productions and the oppor tunities In life presented tor poor bo‘t ambitious insects ushered without their concent among strangers In a strange land.. They did not seem to have any es pecial enumlty to the boll-weevil, and the later indicated no fear of these pauper immigrants from the south. The ants, after sislng up all things, went to work with zeal on such food as lay before them, indicating an es pecial fondness for garden truck and various valuable plants on tbfe farms. With that community of interest w|ilrh l» to prevail among * bri gands, they left the cotton"to the boll-weevil as his special meat, while they proceeded to show what a Guat emala ant could do In the way 'of making a pest of himself. At last ac counts, he was climbing trees and de stroying the nests of singing birds to such an extent that the people were in fear thpt their favorite songsters would be exterminated by what was promised-as tfrsfr benefactor. }' I But tha worst tragedy of all In the Titue of mistaken phllantrophy is re ported froln Australia. About thirty years ago oue of our sapheaded Kind Hearts noticed that In the distribu tion of (he wonderful fauna of that island continent, the rabbit had been omitted. He Instantly decided that Old Nature had made a mistake and determined to import six as a starter. They v^ere the only things to nibble the surplus grass, afford sport to the natives and incidentally lend beauty to the landscape with their elevated fear# and -cottony tails. The progeny of these six rabbits have cost Au stralia more money than she has spent in running the government, building railroads and constructing all her Internal Improve ments. Many times they have brought tfie farmers and sheephetd- ers to the bring of ruin by their de vastations. It was necessary to build rabbit-tight fences around whole provinces and employ an army of men to stand guard and endeavor to hold down the over Increasing supply of plant-eaters. The rabbit got into gplitlcs and statesmen found It the hardest of their problems to deal with. They are now killed by mil lions and shipped in cold storage to Europe; other mllliona are shot or ppteoned, but the cry is still they come,'and this closes our melancholy chapter of mistaken philantliro]>y. - It will reqtitfe last a .(sw lines on a-postal card addressed , to our-office. roefm 610, Skyscraper, Col umbia, 8. C.” “The government report, both as to condition and number of bales gte- ned, was even more bullish than the friends of higher prices really anti cipated, 67 on condition and practi cally a half million bales less ginned to dat$ than last year, confirming the statement that the crop was steadily that there was not and would not he as much to gin this year as last 6y possibly* 2,oeo.000 bales. This' amount Is about correct as the pef cent, of decrease In condition shows, and the glnnera report certainly con- firmsThls estimate. “Yet the ‘professionals' take R as a joke and proceed in the face of these conditions—that should war rant from 3 to 4 cents more ]ier pound than It is brlngiag—to deduct a dollar a bale from the cotton now going on the market. Every argn-» ment. all statistics, the law of sup- , ply and demand, all In favor now of ^ higher priced cotton , the South through her cotton organisations de manding a higher price, yet these f' A i awwtaui—a he played cards. He told her, how-1 gag(]emeu see fit to taunt the4 with I ever, that he had given It all up and she forgave him. It that Blssell;* parents ie understood will send the young man south. Miss Crouse is a graduate of Blair Hall. FOUND STARVING. When Cottage Waa Searched Large Fortune Was. Found. A dispatch fro Kenosha. Wls., says after living as a miser tor more' than 50 years, and acciimulatlng more than $350,000. Lander E. Merrick died at the Home of Strangers in that city Wednesday. The old man went to Kenosha County In 1640 and lived In the town of Randall until two years ago when the officials of the town found him nearly starved and took charge erty. A guardian ^was appointed and when the hut, which the old man oc cupied was searched $350,000 in cash and securities was found. UAYE UF CARDS, Because. 6hc Thought They Were Un dermining the Church. ’ A sensational attack on card play ing was made at Winona Lake, In diana, the other night by Mrs. A. B. Sims, of Des Moines, Iowa, in the presence of 4,000 people. Mrs. Sims is the woman!# whist champion ofthe United States, but she had seen a new light and has abjured her once favorite recreation completely. She stated that she had burned her forty packs of cards, because they had absorbed so much of her time and energy. Frequently she had play* ed from 10 a. m. to 11 p. m. She also thought that excessive card play ing jpn the part of women was under mining the church. ' » THEY COME HIGH. Quite an Extensive Chicken Farm in Pittsburg, Pa. A Pittsburg millionaire baa estab lished a chicken farm on a tract of nine acres in jjie residence district of that city, his purpose being to pro vide bis family with fresh eggs and tender broilers. Afc the land Is val ued at $450,000 tills would seem to be a rather extravagant outlay foF| egg*, even in Pittsburg, it .Is better, however,, fof these millionaires to raise poultry than snch^ drops of scandals as they have been turning out and may be hailed as a J «i| reform. — - this added Insult today to a 20 |>olBt drop in the market. “Is It possible that the bsiness men and farmers of_the South are [going to have It proven to a certainty that the cotton gamblers can deter mine what the revenue of the South shall be and what Shall be the per sonal wages of every individual in the South? Or will they take this occasion to prove that they are mas ters of the situation? “The situation would be ludicrous if It did riot involve so many Inter- ests vital to the South. - As said in my article^of last week, the only pos sible answer is—to stop selling cot ton. * “The bankers and merchants of the South as well us the creditors of tbs South should co-operate now In hglp- lug the^Sonth to win this fight. This uJTIrst TTine when conditions were such that we will be in a position to prove our friends and remember them. <■ ' , "Once more let me urge every maa who 1 has cotton.to reportto me on a postal card the num!>er <fr bales he is making and how many he wilt hold K from the macNet. Repprts are coming In now,, I want them as full as possi ble so that I may tabulate them and give them to the public for the bene fit of all parties Interested.” OFFERED WORTHY YOUNG PEOPLE. ^ kowhaaltod yowmttmStai» ORB/tf'h aS?ATB * SnoMM, IndepandMM and TCNB nsnntssd. Dost deli TIM OA.-ALA. 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