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SOME GOOD REASONS. wiiy til k cotton ackkagn should hi: hkdi cki>. A Hig OTop This Year Mrans Klvc Cent Cotton and llnrd Times For the South. The following circular letter has been sent out by Mr. J. A. Taylor, president of the National (linnet's association: Cotton has reached the lowest point since Jan. t. 1903, except from November to May of the big crop year of 1904-05, when it sold two cents per pound lower than this. What has caused this decline of three cents per pound in spite of the fact that me col ton crop of tho world Is about 4.500,00 short of last year's crop? The only answer that I can find is "Lack of Confidence." The reta'Vr Is not buying except as he no als the goods, the jobber is doing th es.tine, consequently the mills have no orders ahead, while last year, and fo - several years past, they have liau orders booked from three to six months in advance. What causes this lack of confidence? They are afraid we will raise a bumper crop of cotton again this year. Why tire they afraid of a large crop? They look at the past. In 19011 we had a short crop and good prices, which was followed by a large acreage and good seasons and a bumper crop. Tho next year. 190f?-0fi, we had a short crop and good prices, which was again followed by a large acreage and a bumper crop. Had it not been for the September storm in tho Mississippi valley and the exceptionally good trade the market would probably have gone to eight cents or under for the crop. We got a good average price for the good grades in the crop, and a large acreage was set aside, for cotton hist season, but owing to th eweather during planting time the acreage was cut some and crop poor in Texas and Louisiana enabled up to get a good price for the most of this crop. A month ago every indication was that we would have a large acreage this season, and the people did not care to place heavy orders for cotton goods, knowing that with a large acreage and fair season we would V produce more cotton than the world needed and the price of cotton goods would decline. They are good business men and you can't fool them How can we restore confidence? In place of planting the same acreage as last season in cotton plant 25 pei cent. less. As soon as the acreage report is out in .June or even before the trade will know that there will l>e a moderate crop raised this yeai and we will have the old time activity in the cotton trade. Jobbers will place their orders ahead lo enable them to supply their trade and the mills will contract in advance for supplies of cotton and the market will advance much faster than it has declined. The result, will lie I hat you will market a crop of 11,500,000. If the weather conditions should be unfavorable for the growing crop and it jshould turn out a million hales lessit would sell for 15 cents and bring a total of nearly $800,000,000 and add to this the value of the feed crops that can he grown on the acreage Intended for cotton and it will give us another $50,000,000. Suppose that you plant the same acreage as last year and with favorable weather we would likely make anyway 13,000,000, possilny more. What would the price lie under the present trnde conditions? Not over an everage of 8 cents per pound and persaps lower. Say that it averaged $4 0 per bole the crop would bring $520,000,000; at least $300,000 000 loss to the south. How to bring about this reduction? It is not too late yet to plant corn, alfalfa, sorghum cane, millett or cowpeas for hay. Or it will pay you to let tli<* land lie die tor a s \m>u rather than plant, in in cotton at a loss. Let every planter that reads this article at once arrang.? to reduce his own acreage in cotton and show the article to his neighbor, or better call a meeting sit every country school house in the south and discuss this matter intelligently, then go home resolved that each one will do his part. If you hsive any neighbors that will not reduce send me their names and 1 will take the matter up with each one personally. This is no small matter, and 1 hope that members of the Southern Cotton association and the Farmers' Union will stand 'side by sido in this great fight.. With a heavy acreage Wall street wll set ihe price for our cotton cron. with a light acreage we can get our own price within reason. Don't delay, but get busy at once. There is plenty of *tinie yet if you will only do your part. In 1905 by reducing the acreage 1 f? per cent, the price advanced f> cents per pound, j and we can do it again. I will be glad to hear from every farmer that reads this and indorses it.. Do you want to return to the old days of 5-cent cotton? If not, join this movement and we will make the south more prosperous than ever. * The time you can depend on a woman is when you can't on anybody J-C. j.tB I&W. ILLINOIS FOIl lilt VAN. Instructs Her Delegates to Vole and Work for llim. The* Illinois State Democratic Con ventlon, which met at Springfield on Thursday, adopted 'be unit re'e am" insliacted its delegates to the National Convention at Denver to vote for W. J. Itrynn and '<? "use all honorable means" to secure bis nomination. The resolution endorsing Mr. Hryan was adopted with enthusiasm and a Mattering demonstration followed the action. One by one the Western States are falling in line lot the great Commoner. * I'LIM HIOIl'S CAIIIOLF.SSMOSS Caused the Death ol a Young Lady in Kronklyn. Miss (Jrace Hneklev, the 21-vearold daughter of II. II Min k lev of No. 1198 llalsey street. Brooklyn, was killed Tuesday night by gas asphyxiation,, said to be caused by the carelessness of a plumber. The gas jet in her bed room was fixed the day before by the plumber who tightened the stopcock so that it was impossible to turn it completely off; and Tuesday when her grandmother, found Miss Buckley dead in bod and the gas escaping front the fixture. A physician was called but lie stated the girl had been dead for some hours. APPFAL TO TFDDY. Newspapers Ask llelicf From the Paper Trust Fxuctions. The annual meeting of the Associated Press was held at the WaldorfAstoria Hotel in New York with an exceptionally large attendance of members from till sections of the country on Tuesday. Aside from the transaction of purely routine business affecting the organization, the most important action taken was the presenting and adoption of tin address asking the President and the Congress to "grant immediate relief from the exaetions of comIdnations of paper makers." The assoeation had a banquet on Wednesday night at which W. J. Dryan was the chief speaker. (l(M)h FISH STOItY. ' Dog Drowned hy Dig Trout in a . Fierce Struggle. ' A small dog belonging to A. 10. Case, of Dayton, Wyo., was dragged into Tongue river hy a trout and drowned. The dog accompanied Ctise's little son on a lishlng trip. The hoy hooked a lisli large enouuh 1 to Jerk the fishing rod into the water. The hoy sent the (log after it, hut thu trout hauled the dog and pole, about until the dog was earrled down the rapids and drowned in sight of his master. The hoy recovered the] pole and after a hard struggle landed | the trout, which weighed four pounds 1N I XCTIOXS PKIt.M \XKXT. Temporary Orders Issued by Justice Ciary Made Perpetual. Charleston blind tigers will have to behave themselves or go to jail. The Supreme Court Tuesday evning rendered decisions in 8 of the Char leston dispensary injunction cases the temporary injunctions previously granted by Associate Justice Gary be ing in each case made permanent the opinion of the Court being writ ten by Justice Gary. These are case additional to those in which perms nent injunctions have already boei granted on the petition of the Attoi ney General. The Girl Who Works. God bless her. She is brave an active. She is not too proud to ear her living or ashamed to be eaugl nt her daily task. She smiles a* yo from behind the counter or desk J is an honor to know this girl t_. 1 worthy of her regard. Her hanr may be stained by dish wnshin. sweeping, factory grease or ici.uiii ink, but it is an honest and he'ptn hand. II stays misfortunes ire; names; it is our shield which pr? tccts many a forlorn litt'.e famil fiom almshouse and the asvluiu. Little Boy Killed. Martin, the little son of Mrs. Join 15. Fletcher of the Pine Grove sectio .11 ? .1 I . <r . vji iTKii luuiu , uicu at 1 . i iJ | m., as the result of Injuries receive in a runaway accident Sunday. Mrs. Fletcher was returning froi church with her son and daughter. . break in the harness frightened th horse and caused it to run awaj Martin was first thrown out, his hea< striking a log. The little girl war next thrown from the vehicle, but her injuries are not serious. Curtis must think that the Democrats of the South are a lot of imbeciles. He says Bryan is the mas ter, although there is a deep resent ment and a widespread distrust, the Southern Democrats will nominate him at the convention and at the polls vote for him. Wonder if the people for whom this man Curtis 'writes believes such stuff as tin above which is a fair sample oj what he dishes up for them. A man's idea is that his baby has a first tooth because its daddy I? so smart. The "good old summer time" Is about here, as witness the shirt sleeve brigade. A TO! CIIING AI'PKAti. Voting Ijnvjcr jiikI I'ariMcr MdnartU White SjHittf*! Si?w. A North Carolina Inwyor sends tht following clipping from a newspaper which shows that the days of tru ' >q oMiee . iv< not ins. ed "This was a trial in t'uacol Count:, nr.t Tennessee," said the lawyer pad the Indictment of defendant \sa: t'o?* killing the prosecutor's hog. "The facts were that the prosecu or lived on the head of a stream, a no ?li" defendant lived about a mile ot iwo further down tfie stream, and n the month of May, the prosecu i r's old sow got ?nu and strayed 01 town the valley iind got in the de ? mlaiit : Held and rooted up his corn ! he alligation was that the defend int killled her, mangling her up preh v badly, and cutting her up wifl knives. A young barrister named Smith who had just got his license, wai employed to aid Ih?? solicitor In th< prosecution. The case was set foi trial, and tiie attorney arose, and ! with a very'solemn air. said. "'May it please jour honor, ani you, gentlemen of the Jury, since tlx days of the assassination of the la meiKed president of the Unite* States, Abraham Lincoln, no sucl ioui crime has stained our country'! escet *heon j?s th?? assassination oil .lack I0d wards black and whit* spotted sow. (lent lemon of the Jury abd may it ploa.se your honor, go wltl me to the place f the tragedy anc contemplate the scone and the clr pii insta nces. Or that lovely morn Ipg in Max when the earth was dross ed i| her robes of green and the ait filled with the smell of aweet-sceiites* flowers and enlivened by the volet >f merry songsters, as that old sow walked forth In her innocence dowt that little stream, listening to th? music of t h -? waters, little did slu dream that before the king of daj hid himself behind the western horl /.on she should become the victim a foul assassination."?(hist! aiu Comment. No Trouble nt All. One day last summer ti (lerman en. tered an establishment of a photographer in a Southern town, and ?.f j :er severul glances about the place observed mournfully that the photo- i grapher did not :.eem to have th? i properties essential to the taking ot a plot ur* he desired. 'I should like a hlcture of mesell veepin' peside my vtfe's grafe," h* said. 'Maype yon fix a grave here it le shop for me?" "I am afraid I haven't the neees sary iceessones," said the photo graphe;. Then, with an attempt, a' facetlousness, he suggested: 'C'oridn't we arrange to have ttie por trait made at the grave Itself?" "Dot's in Bennsylvanla," sighed the German. "It. vould he too ex bens!"e to go there. Vnst yon fix u] some kind of a grnfe here In d? shop. I could ve p on dot. It's nt trouble for me to veep nnyvere."? Harper's Weekly. I>i<l Hotter. "You left off smoking because sh? I asked you to?" "Yes." "And you left off drinking because she asked you to?" "Yes." "Aml you left off swearing bo cause she asked you to?" "Yes." "And you began going Into bettei jcclet> because she asked you to?" " os. ' "It is a wonder to me you did nol marry her!" "1 had intended to; hut when 1 hao got rid of all of my bad habits 1 Kun* l could do better!"?Modern Society. A Practical Guest. (litest (to waiter) ? I can't eat thU sou p. Walter takes It away and brings another kind of soup. Guest I can't eat this soup. Walter, angrily but silently, foi the second time brings another kind, Guest (again)?I can't eat this soup. Waiter, furious, calls the hotel proprietor. Proprietor (to guest)?Why can't >ou eat this soap? Guest (quietly)?Ilecause I havt no spoon. Couldn't Agree. J'.tig*1 (in the law court, during a divorce case, to the husband)?Well, w h n Is it you wish? ilushand A divorce. Judge (to tho wife)?And you? Wife A divorce. Judge?-Mut when you came in you said that neither of you could evei agree on any one point.Nob Loisirs. So rnliko lliin. "Yes." he said. "I've had a couple of drinks." "The idea! "# exclaimed his wife;, "why do you tell me that?" "Why It's the truth." "I know; that's why I can't understand your telling me." Ills Rewards. Patience: "fie jumped overboard and saved the lives of six girls." Patrice: But what was the use? lie couldn't marry all of thorn?" "But he did. He lived in Salt Lako City, you know." Thinking of Kittens. "Pop!" "Yes, my son." "How many days does it take before n potato gets ita eyes open?" V MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENT Ily Kthol May Shorty. "And still they come!" exclaimed UK c < o? )i?> ? ?" o his v l.u.o iii? .a il.y Oxford bulbing and saw tho package of env? lopes on his desk. Largo envelop. a and uuall of all tints and shades, and with a fow exceptions each highly perfumed. "It a a duce of a uuisrice now,' lie muttered as he tore op n envelope after envelope, merely glancing at tho contents and invariably giving eai h a toss into the waste basket, with curling lips. "Twenty lour this noon, that makes 1 19 in three days ?119 foolish girls! I Ah. this one Inclosed tho notice ltudf, 'A young bachelor, good looking plenty of money, desires to coin- ; municale with eligible young lady- ? | matrimony. Address Clay. P. O. 25.' ! "When Jack made the bet with i me I scorned the idea that any girl would be unmaidenly enough to even think of answering such a nonsen Blcal advedtIsenient. Well, I've los< an I a box of good cigars go s to him evidently. At first it was Inter efeting, then amusing, and now, well, rather disgusting." Suddenly he paused, staring Incredulously at a photograph he had just taken from a plain little envelope a smiling sunny face returned his gaze, and two hlg trusting eyes, shaded by wavy hair falling about a high fore head, looked Into his. "it 1h!" he exclaimed at last with a deep breath. "She was the last one In the world I thought would stoop lo such a tiling, but there can be no mistake," and lie stared long and earnestly at tho picture, entirely ig noting the accompanying letter. now many times does a fellow have to rap to lie admitted to this sanctum sanctorum?" asked a merry voice as its owner put his head Inside the door. "Ilex pardon. Frank, I didn't hoar you," answered Clayton, slipping the picture of that sweet face under a pile of papers. "Did you knock?" "I)ld I knock! Several times, my dear hoy. Aren't you feeling well? Look as If you'd seen a ghost. Who Is she?" "Well, It Is a she this time," Clay'011 laughingly replied, "and 1 don't even know her name. Your acquaintance among the fair sex is not as limited us mine: perhaps you can assist me. I see her nearly every morning, as early as 6:30 or 7 o'clock, on horseback riding through Wostbury street? u beautiful girl with fluffy brown hair?" "Wears a gray habit, doesn't she?" interrupted Frank, a strange little gleam In his eyes. "Yes. yes, do you know her?" "If It's the one 1 think, you must be referring to my cousin, and if you've been putting her on a pedestal you can't make It a bit too higlL." "Your cousin!" "Yes, and the dearest, sweetest, little thing you ever saw. Are you coming to sis'party? 1 suppose you have received her Invitation?" "No, but 1 haven't been all through niy mall yet?why?" "Because Queenie will he there and I'll introduce you. Iler real name Is Marjorle, but we've always called her Queenie on account of the Imperious, yet modest, little ways she has." Imperious?modest! Involuntarily Clayton's hand fumbled with the pile of letters underneath which lay the | picture face of this girl, giving the | lie direct to her cousin's eulogy. "There's Kit's invitation now; I know her writing," exclaimed Frauk digging a plain little envelope from the pile. "Haven't you read it yet?" "iiadn't seen it before," responded Clayton. "Been opened," replied Frank, unceremoniously dragging forth the folded paper. As he scanned the lines a bewildered look stole across his face. "What the dickens?" he began, then stopped, the light of understanding superseding his bowild ermont, which ended in a hearty laugh. "One on sts." he cried. "Hear this; Mr. Philip Hanscomb, artist; Dear Sir Inclosed find the photo rrn;h I wish copied life size, and about which I spoke to you yesterday. Sincerely. Katherine Ellis.' Don't you see what she's done? Wrong envelopes! Kit was going to have Queenie'd picture copied as a surprise for her father and mother, and she mixed your invitation up with the letter to the artist. Good Joke, isn't it? I wonder where she sent the photo." And again he laughed heartily, while the rapidity with which Clayton set his "pedestal" up again would have dono credit to the swiftest express ever known. Ilut ho wouldn't part with that picture, and so failed to enlighten Frank. "I'll seo you get your invitation," Frank said as lie started for the door, then, as on afterthought, "By the way. speaking of my cousin I want to toll you the most nonsensical thing she ever did to my knowledge - taken a decided Interest In a goodfor-nothing chap who looks something like you, and whom she meets nearly every morn?' After his exit Clayton drew forth the picture from Its hiding place and gazed once more at the two big, trusting eyes, and it was quite a while after the wedding bells had gayly chimed that Queenie learned from her husband how she had once for a few moments, been credited with answering a matrimonial advertisement. V IWnr'XG STTFFEF) AVIIjLS. T'iciv Is Witchery in Words, According tt) New York Lawyer. "Do you know that there is ? witchery in words? 1 mean in simple 'Words, words, wo^ls!" ns Hani sws. ve-pird .ess of their sense or uoecs-siiy. If a lot tjf words are llrod at tlie ordinary man they seein to carry some .-ort of an of{Vcti\e in calltaticn power with them." The speaker was a New Yoi'k lawyer, dining at the Lawyers' Club. Ho Continued: "Preachers, physicians and lawyers understand this and use the fact to their advantage more than any other persons and particularly the lawyer. I was thinking of tills a few minutes ago when I completed drawing a will that contained about u thousand words, when fewer than four hundred would have made the same will and ,1ust as good If?w better than the one thousand; but my client wouldn't have been so well satisfied, and would hu\e felt that I was overcharging him. He would object to paying for the real thing, but not for the useless padding. "What was the use of my writing 'considering the uncertainties of this mortal life' and ail that sort of rot? The will would he Just the same, and the testator will die Just the same, wjthout such rubbish. The law does not require him to think of such things. Then why should I write, 'after the payment of all my jusi aoms and rtinorai expenses'.'' Just debts hikI funernl expenses have to be paid, whether the will says so or not. If tlie testator said not to pay his just debts and funeral expenses his legatees wouldn't get one cent more. "Then 1 wrote something about being thoughtful for the future welfare of my children' with a lot of other stuff before I got to the bequests to them. Again this was only words, hut it sounds well and Impresses my client. So tt was all the way through, with one real, necessary, vital word to about a half dozen words of padding. It in ay be foolishness, and I think that It Is, but there is not a lawyer In New York who dares draw a will that contains only the necessary words to make the testator's Intent clear and to comply with the requirements of the law." The Style In Clocks. There are funny things about the clock business," said the salesman from Connecticut. "Nine-tenths of | the clocks that I sold on my la*t j trip were eight-day clocks. Everybody seems to have serious object| Ions nowadays to winding clocks. If I could provide customers with thirty-day clocks or slxtv-day clocks, j without too much additional cost, they would prefer them. That demand for long-distance timepieces j represents a decided change in taste. k year or so ago everybody was clamoring for twenty-four-liour clocks, | on the ground that they kept better time. Now, if 1 could put on the market some of those one-year and five-year clocks that venturesome manufacturers turn out now and then as curiosities, they would prove ready sellers." Whence "Coroner' ? Apropos of the origin of phrases, one is reminded that, contrary to popular belief, the word coroner is neither derived from the Latin "corona," nor does it mean "a king's officer." It literally signifies a "corpse inspector," and comes to us from the old English "corph-coniier"?an officer whose business it. was to make himself thoroughly acquainted with the manner in which persons cairie by their dent its. Part of lite same word appears in "ale conners"?persons y> hose duty it was in times past, to visit the various alehouses In the city of London and sample the quality of the beverage supplied. This is from a I^ondon exchange. Execution of a Queen lire If tin? mother-bee of a colony is getting past her work, and she cannot be sent off with a swarm in the usual way, the bees will supersede her They will deliberately put hor to death, and raise another queen to take her place This State execution of the old worn-out queens Is one of the most curious and pathetic things In or out of bee-life ,One probe with a sting would suffice In the matter; but the honey-bee is a great stickler for the proprieties. The royal victim must be allowed to meet her fate in a royal way; and she is killed by caresses, tight-locked In the joint embrace of the executioners until suffocation brings about h?>r floa I li Mosquito Family Large. The mosquito family is a large one. as might, be suspected. The department experts have captured, Identified and classified no less than 12f> different species. In addition to the simon pure mosquito there are any number of counterfeits. Scores of them are so closely allied to the real thing in looUs, buzz and other characteristics as to he mistaken by the amateur as a member of the original family. Iron Cloth for Collars. Iron cloth Is largely used today by tailors for making the collars of coals sit properly. It is manufactured by a new process from the steel wool and has t.he appearance of having been woven from horsehair * DISTRIBUTION OK THE TOYS. In Excitement Gi;ve Tliem to the w Wrong lloy. Mrs. Styles Van Brocklin, whose time was divided among her twelve women's clubs and away from her _ children, took an off day. at t'hristtnas, to visit a toy-shop in the In'lf.w^ est of her six offsprings. Loaded I* down v ith her gaudy purchases she had reached h? r front yard, where the children were making a snowman, when an elegant equipage jin- * gled up to the curb and stopped. "'Oh, Mrs. Van Brock I in!" cried a lady from the coach, "come with 1110 to the Social Problem meeting." Lxxclaiming that she had forgotten all about this meeting, the mother quickly approached the oldest of the children about thc? snow-mlW and pressed the toy packages In his arm. Take these inside and distribute them among your brothers and sistors," she said; and the next moment she was whisked away in the friend's coach. That night when she returned home she was struck by the surly and tear-stained faces of her children "Put the dears right to bed," she ordered the nurse, taking in the situation with the quickness and accuracy ot the average club woman. "I can see they're tired out and sleepy aftor so much excitement witl^thelr new toys." "It ain't that, ma'am," returned the nurse "You ' "I didn't hring them just what each wanted, perhaps? Well, it's hard to p use so many" "it ain't that, either, mum; but you gave all the toys to the boy next door!" RUDE RUFFIAN. Cholllle.?Lawst night a wude fellah ?aw?thweatened to beat my bwains out for?aw?meahly twarnp. ing on ills toes, but I talked wight back and thald '13' Jove, you cawn't.' " Fwerldle?" Fa uncy!" Chollle?"Yeth! 1 must have given the fellah a fwtght, for he tried to look angwy, and?aw?weplled: ' Youah wight?nor no one pith^r I) jove!" Till' Wrong Prescription. A well known physician was telling a friend of the humorous phases of the practice or medicine when he was reminded of the sad case of a patient who came to him suffering from hay fever. '""ow, it Is fact, said the physician. "that in hay fever there is no absolutely infallible treatment. Send- . ing one person to a certain climate ' may result in a cure which would not mate'iallze in the case of another. Asa rule I advise the one afflicted to take a sea trip. in this connection I once encountered a great surprise. A large, fine looking fellow came to me one day suffering from hay fever in its most aggravated form. I made tire usual suggestion that he take a trip at sea. "II.* gave me a look of disgust and prepared to depart. 'Doggode Id!' he exclaimed, "I'D dee capdld of ad oceud liner. 1 lib ad sea!" / v Her Method of Distinction. "They look exactly alike, and you dress them exactly alike Mrs. Higlisnoggle," suhl the caller. "How can ton tell them apart?" "That isn't hard to do," answered i u - ? - * i no inomer or the twins. "If I slap Johnny and he swears a blue streak I know s it's Dick"?Chicago Tribune. A Parting Shot. "You are not golng^b send me home this way, are you?" asked the young man, as he hesitated the open door. / "Well if you want to wait, father may be down and send you out through the window," replied the girl, as she prepared to shut the door.? Yonkers Statesman. Sane Moments. "This bill for $1,200 is altogether too high," said the client. "But didn't I prove yo^u were crazy and get you acquitted,' replied the lawyer. J "Yes, you did; but you haven't proved that I'm crazy enough to pay this hill, yet!" One Exception. "Yes," said the Rev. Mr. Ooodley. "I oppose the contemplated prize for our building fund. I can't connive at any form of lottery/V > "Except a marriage in the church,? suggested the crusty bachelor.?Phil.y adelphia Press. A Contented Mind. "That fellow Dickson has been bothering you quite a while about that hill you owe him." "Yes. I can't understand why he worries about it. I don't."?St. a Louis Times. ^