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% tE RUFUS SANDER j-G-allua Statesman Tel'' Short Stories. Everyday Ilerops—Timt Ilra^p Hoy, <Wp«ck'’-A •‘Hram Collar l>i'ii» or.it" Mid* Urro In Toxas 1‘olltloi—V Hard Sum to Work—Two Criitlooieu « From Kentucky. i1 •. n iii ri' n, an 1 after lie left every* : y 1 !■ s«miliMiicnt put In uml tried t • i ; • rit lie »\asdrivin at when i . it xp i'ch to Nii-k iiuokalcw. '1 ii 1 m an d ad and ifonr* now. l>ut J\;o .'S.iil livmanl wonder in what that *• 1 1..n/it niiuint, and whether ho was d unk or cr.i/.v. ARP’S BOY MARRIES GAMBLING IN FUTURES (Copyright, 1895.U You tnaybe niousrbt not ihink It my gouei'il pearmonts. to kear mo talk and from <■ A 1. V down from tm i "wk' hut I haves < nvotir genuino, thor- ouglihro ' l.o ' in my day an 1 gon< ration. Now 1 don't mean generals and capt a i n s and presidents, and gov rnors h u t plain. ev< ryday heroes, which e come down from the highristoc* by of honest hearts and hard knuckles. Some Heroic Hoys. 'In my growin up and bruisin round I have seen many and many a cotion- headed, gander-legged, hatchet-faceted . yearlin boy that was every incii a h ro. I hold to the doctrine that a hoy which will git up with the sun on a raw frosty mornin, when the weather i ;cold > enough to fre v.e the tail off of a brass monkey, -and chop tho wood and fetch in the water, and tote out the slops and feed tho stock, and drive up the cows and rope olf tho calves, an 1 never i om- • plain or got out of sorts—that hoy is a hero. And I likewise also think that a hoy which can pull tho hell cord over a blamed old lazy mule, on a lone, h' t . summer day in a new ground full of •fcumps, and still use nothin but liibh; language—by gatlins I know that hoy is a hero. Oncst upon a time I saw a boy hero ( iltSchool, and 1 remember the general circumference of tho surroundins as .bright and clear as if it was yesterday. It was W'hilst Miss Susy Tolliver was teachirrof the school over at the Cross Roads/ One mornin a youngster, with red hair and a freckly face, coim* in from sdmewberes hack in tho hill coun try. Ho give In his name Johnny L d- betterand said ho was nins .y ars <11 past, ten next grass. There was more ' pure, honest devilment in that hoys’ face than I have over saw done up into one little package. Wo hoys called him “Speck” for short and ow n to iln* sun dry different shades and colors of In-, countenance. Well, Speck he had plenty of but it didn't run very much to Miss busy didn’t give out any h-s him on the iirst day. She slipp brMle, a:, it were, and let him have tin- run of the grounds till he could wear the new off. Hut the next moral; he mad- him trot out liis blue hack spoiler and comedown to his knittin reglar. II had to start in with his A. Ji. . an . when ho went forth to say his Uro. les son every eye in school was turned on Speck. Hut he stood the lire like a m m, and never flickered nor floundered, nor flinched. Ho come through smooth and easy on tho hist letter, hut struck a snag on the second. “What makes tho honey that you eat?” says Miss Susy. “B,” says Speck, quick as lightnim “That’s right,” says Miss Susy. ‘What do you do wit h your eyes. :v, ; ' 'A R" # . >v says Miss Susy when Speck struck the next snag. “C,” says Speck, with a loud voice and a proud smile. “Correct, my littlo man. You’ll b a scholar by-and-by,” says Miss Susy. Well, they went on finally at last 5y got down to <». and 30 backed into another snag. “When your father starts to plow, and wants his horse to go to tho right, what does ho say?” ask -Mis- Susy. “He don't plow no horse,” says Speck, “he plows a steer. Well, when ho wants tho steer to go to the right what does ho say?” says Miss Susy. id then Speck ho stepped hack and ^Idled his legs and dravved his face 4 it looked like a pine knot <m id Sung out at the top of his voice; ^e-r-e! you dadburned old slab-sided, razor-hack jool then broke loose irriblest confjsi inent jut, and 1 thought in Susy would faint, and lull A ••ISram < ollar Democrat." But I took my seat with pen in hand to writ' a few lines coneernin everyday Ii'toi s. And iteomes to mind now that I nn-t a grown man in Texas oncst that w.is somethin of a hero. 1 had landed that m -ruin in a littlo railroad town way up t ere cl. s to the Red river. It was elect on «!av, and as usual the State ha I wi nt a uind n for tho Democratic t elect. After supper that night tho hr;:--; ban ! turn d out. and the hoys pro- cc ii l to pa nt the town red and put on s < ex ra touches and fancy trim mi ns. I hud went down town to see tho show • . and the man come up to mo wbcopin wi ii t v ry breath for the winnin ticket, ii ■ w then about three sheets in tho .ii i and the other on i a-tlutt Tin, but he had somethin to talk with and ho yen: on to talk. it takes a man with a backbone as j as a gatepost, stranger, to be honest a ph.it.ci. And when a man runs off a tti wrong trail, and then turns ■in I ! comes back to tho old lick- c!<. flat-foot d and erect, you can bet .out inday hoots ho is bravo as seven- e< n lion in a pack. ‘‘Look at me, stranger, and you soo a Lex s hero in the Hesh. Two years ago 1 took the cold wat r route and went off with the White Ribbon Army. For : months I was in tho fight for tho ; rob. ; .:lion ticket. Of course I didn't know what a tr rnendius big gob of toil and t roll hie and wornmentl had hit off, hut 1 tool; it for my own personal busi- ue- ;to n form tho fallen human ra'o from the R d riv r to Mexico. I went out on th 1 ' plains and down in the forks of tho cr> ok an l rallied tho boys to tho b" i of my ability. I took in thirty-six b y dinners and made twenty-seven -U i p speech's for the dry ticket* But it was vaniiy, strung t—perfect vanity. V> hi u election day come and tho re turns rolk 1 in, tho great State of Texas was w and tho white flag of tho White Ribbon A: my floated off down thesnaggy fori; of Salt river. ‘ On st more this year I went forth preach:u iho dodrin ' of retrenchment ami r f. rm. and 1 have now fit, hied and (lieu und r the flag of the Tlrrd party. But the fly wheels and tho side-shows don’t work worth a continent al in Texas, stranger. I can say this much for the Tail'd party and tho White Ribhi n Army, sir nger, and when I tell you that, the song is sung and tho stoi y is told: They can hold tho biggest meet ins, and git up the iinest dinners, and t irn out the longest processions, and reel off the niO't music, and then return th" durndest most fewest votes of all the political parties in tho round created world. “S > finally at last, stranger, 1 made a cr., i; mark and spi' in it and turned iouud and come back. When you look at me now you see a brass c dlar Demo crat. Do you know wh it wo mean out h re in Texas when we call a man a brass collar Democrat?” It so happened that I didn’t know, and the man went on to tell me. ‘‘Well, I don't know how it is hack there in tho Slat s, stranger, but out herein th" great and growin Slate of Texas a brass collar Democrat is a man that never refused a drink nor scratched a ticket.” And Thero Was An “Infair” nt tho Philosopher’s Komestoad. IIII1 THIn IIimv Hit) Question Is I’Ojipetl. Aski"ir Him UIiTm 1-w‘iier—A liattliful I.over'H Alt-thud. The II ngg Man Was Weary. Talkin about Texas and Texas poli ties, I r collect a good one that come to pa-i on • day on a railroid train some- whercs between Hillsboro and Fort Worth. It was only a few days after the State convention met in Houston, ami tho war between tbo Hogg men and igk men was goiu qq f , 11 ’■"st and furious. It uinflor me to say which was right and which was wrong. I was then a stranger n a strange land, and somethin like a thousand miles from R i"k.y (b ook. But the Hogg men said the Clark men had bolted, and they There has been a commotion in these parts. Our Florida boy has cross 'd tho Rubicon and got married. He found his bride last • winter near Sanford, and being called professionally to Visit her invalid father, took advantage of tho old gentleman and tried his arts upon the daughter. It doesn't take a smart, good looking young man long to capture an unsuspecting maiden and so she sur- rend< r d at discretion. The mother generally falls into Ime with the choice ! of an ob'diont daughter, hut the old ; gentleman wasent soeasily harmoniz 'd. “I’ll th nk about it, Fil think about it,” sa d ho. “1 don't know much about you! Fll have to inquire. I thought you were coming out hero to see mo, but it seems 1 was mistaken. Are you making enough to support a w ife? Do you lay up anything or do you sp -nd it all? What does Sara say about it, and mother? This is a surprise tome, sir; a surprise, but I might have expected it I will consider it, sir, and give you an answer before we return to Phila delphia.” My r< c illection is that it is an awful solemn affair to ask tho old gentleman for Lis daughter. I put it off from dav to day. 1 dreaded it. I hal no trouble with tho daughter or the mother, hut these old solid fathers can’t he beguiled with good looks and honied words. I would like to see a book full of such interviews—what tho young man said and how he said it and what the old man said in reply. I km w a young man in the long ago who put it off until no found the old man alone in his Held sitting on a fog and he was so excited that he forgot himself and asked him to please to slop this way for a minute. Tbo old man smiled and said: "(Jo ahead, Jim, there is nobody behind this log.” In my young days there had to bo a personal interview. Writing a letter to tho old man would hardly havo been tolerated, but now it is quite common, and so the modern youth avoids much embarrassment. Why, they even pop the question in a lett'-r and cover whole pages with ador ition and admiration and adulation and ail the other ations and some promises that are likely to he forgotten after the honeymoon is ovr. In our day the girls wa t"d modestly to bo courted, hut now they are more agn s- sive and many of them set snaivs to catch their game. Dean Sw ift says that the reason why there are so m my un happy’ marriages is that t he young ladies spend more time in making nets than in making cages. I don’t like those cold.caluculating matrimonial ailiauc 'S. Tho exquisite, eostati , angelic ques tions of love should not be suppressed. Never was a bride more charmingly w on than Coleridges* Genevieve. He had told her a tender, touching story and it ended so sweetly that “She wept witli pity and delight; N e blushed with love and virgin shams, And like Hie inrriiiur of a dream 1 heard li» r breathe my name.” Hut I started to tell about the coin- mot on—the preparation for the infa r. That is what it used to he called, and it is a proper word. It is in the dictionary and means the reception of the wedding party at the homo of the groom’s parents. You see, tho bride was a stranger to us. Her home was in Phil adelphia and our boy had to travel 1.0 K)_ miles to get her and l.ked to have lj^,.„ shipwrecked off Capo Hatley tt ,„ way. Tho vessel lost twe^T* in thfJ storm. For a weel^^^^ , ^^^j^g^JUforo that my fobes ) ‘ l "leaning up the house an i the ^ariTand seeding raisins and stall-feed ing turkey gobblers and they k'-pt mo or the man servant trotting to town f >r “Sugar and spice and all that’s nice'* or something else a dozen t nies a day. And they talked and worked and won dered what kind of a girl the hoy was bringing into the family. I was greatly Letter Received by Earn J noi Furnithua Him With a Text. TliU of Crimes" Denounml in jv«, Spur lii^ Terms—Believes Tint It Should Be Legislated Out of Existence. made the air red-hot with tho cry of | admonished bow to behave, and as "holt rs.” The train stopped at a littlo station and a strappin big m in got on board. The enr was crowded to standin room only, tb ■ weather hit was meltin hot, un i the big man was tanked up to tho guards with “spirits-of cats-a-flghtin,” as Biev Scrogg ns were want to say. But you could look at him and tell that he was a Hogg man. It stuck out as plain as a painted horso rack in his general appearments. Fellow c tizens,” said the big man PTSusy would faint and lull »’*‘iiow cu/.«iis, «aiu mo oilman But Speck had answere? '•hij j .presently, w hilst sweatin great drops of d went through with all ‘he perspirat on, “is tticr'* a Clark man in Ton and went throu tlons besides, and you couldn’t hlumo for that. It took nerve to do it, but Speck was a hero, and in the run of time lie turned out lo be tho brightest scholar in that school. . A Hard Sum to Work. Oncst upon a time a stranger dr y up to the Buckalew place to sp' inl t o night In them days they use to keep ft stage stand and run a public eatin house at the Buckalew pla e. When the stranger driv up that day the old 'Clfttf sent Nick Buckalew. w hich ho was the onlyest boy on tho place, out to the gftte to take the horse and tend to him. And when Nick showed up the stranger, which it seems like ho had nibbled at bis bottle till ho was about six bits in the dollar, went on to say: “Young man, extricate that quad- raped from the vehicle, stain late him, donate to him an adequate supply of nutritious aliments, and when the au rora of mornii, shall oncst mute en lighten th" eastern horizon 1 will award tbeo a pecuniary compensation for thine amifthle hospitality.” Well, Nick ho run back into tho bouse and told the old man that there was a Dutchman out there that wanted to ace him. The old ma'i and Niek and f»ongsl’em got tno stranger to nut It this car?” “Yes, sir,” said a passenger at the other end of the car; “I am a Clark man.” “Well, dadhurn you, bolt!” said the big man. “I'm weary and want your seat.” But tho other man didn’t bolt, and it took lifte n pa-iS'-ngers and tho conduc tor to prevent tho spillin of human blood. Two Men I rum Kentucky. tiling hr ngs up another, as tho touk a dost of a timo 1 was rldin on a One old lady said w hen she e pecae. Oncst upon railroad train through Toiin"SS'‘0. There was a uiulo drover on Loird and he had ii botile • f corn whisky—“white ink,” us Andy Lucas would call it. Ho w ut down iiito Ins siddlo bags and brought fifth the bottle, hut be couldn't pull t!i" ohq.p. r- H broke both blades out.of his knife and 'urn d rod in the face and i lls ' ll, but the stnpp t wouldn’t come. Finally at lait ho stood up and said: “1 would love to ask if thero is a man from K ntaicky on this train?" "1 am from K ntu kv,” said a man on tiie oth'T side, as ho roso up and Stood full six feet in his socks. “Well, by gad. sir, loan me your cork-crow.” The i tin y shook the hoi tic round. hands and oatped UUXIJH iSAN Dili UK, frii nds and kindred had been invited to a grand dining and somo would stay overnight, they said I might sleep on the sofa, as I had done before on such occasions. I would have s’ept outdoors on a plank if they had said so. I was instructed to go to Atlanta and meet the bride and groom and escort them to our unpretentious home, which I did VvDk exceeding pleasure. It is .ill over now and my wifo and I nro calm and serene. What the Quaker City has lost wo havo gained—another kind, loving and considerate daughter. They were not married in haste and are not likely to repent at leisure. Thero is another entry to mak<* n 'w Jn the family Bible. Tho good old hoi k Is gening pretty full of records. Births, marriages and deaths—nature’s rotation —gladness and sadness, joy and sorrow. Old Father Time has be m kind to us for a good while. Tho ten are still liv ing and ho hal liken but two grand children from th»* flock. The old rascal bhakes bis whelp d scythe at moo ci- tionaUy and wags his head an 1 grins a d passes on—pass'-s on and cuts down my friends, tho friends of my youth to warn me. Not long ago he cut dow n Dr. Bat- tey, the noble-beftrted surgeon, tho friend of my family for forty-five years; the gentle-hearted man whom every body loved. Ho was younger than I, but be was ripo. lie had done enough and was tired. And only last week ho put down Dr. Rich Branham, the m mof God, tho preacher, editor and educator, a man whose pure, exalted character and lifo-long service was an illustrious example to the generation teat followed in his wake. He, too, was ripo. The lives of such men all remind us Wc may make our lives sublime. But wo don't do it. It Is pitiful to think how few out of the millions leave (uot-piiuts tho Mud. ii?w uuiuy millions hnvedi d nnl left no si rn, no mark, no m r -siv example for good: nothing hut that they liv'd and do 1 and tho epitaph should be: : once in ttic flight of ages past : : Tlic.e live,I a man— : A man or a worn in in the humblest w'Iks of life can Lve suhlim" and thou sands of thetn d >it. Longfellow says it is sublime to ‘suffor and be strong.” 1 ! remember a poor bed-ridden invalid I whose knees wi re <lt nvn to his chin and j h.s fingers to h s wrists and h s spine bent like a how from chronic i ben mu tism, but his fac • was almost angelic in its sweetness and hi-', gratitude to (Jed for H.s goodness wai marvellous. That good man's influence over the family that gave him food and shelter and over tiio neighbors was sublime. The poor have more opportunities to show true sublimity of character than the rich. Every man an 1 woman should begin b're in this life the rtidim"nts of an education U r tho life to come. The more we learn here of truth, patience, virtue, gratitude and love t> (Jol and man the higher stand W" will t ike among the saints. Heave i is a school and is as progressive as the schools of earth. It was given only to Moses and Elias to h" present at the iraiisligura- t.on. They bad graduated with the highest honors, but any of us can learn enough here to enter a grammar school if not a college in life to coni'*. Wl.at, does all th s Trrinksgiving mean? Is it in earm stor is it a sham? Are the people thankful or just hungry? How can a man be grsit'ful unless he knows something of th • Giver and how can he know mile s he communicate with nature and ti iture's God. But I didn’t start to write a sermon. L t the preachers do that. Wo have bad our d hauksgi ving ail my wife and 1 re ceived the benedictions of a score of children and gr.indchildr n and our new daughter is Lilly introduc'd to her Southern k.iiiln d. Just now h< r politics and much of h< r religion is concentrated in her husban 1. and will remain so as long as he is kind and f litnful and irue. May the good Lord Id s, thoin uid keep them happy. —B<H Arp, in Atlanta Con stitution. ID licit In a Builer Ex]i!o<Ion. Brkmsx, Ga , Dec. 11.—The b nler of J. Ilepstiugstal, near t’ais jda-o, ex ploded. killing Josh II";) LngsLil and mortally w unding a boy. II" ny R ,b. ins on. besiue.s severely ?-aiding three or f ur others. Urn or t\v i ar" n t ex pected to live. Tii" b iil"'\ a Id ii irse- p iwer, en-ri e and s.iwni 1. are a t dal wreck. Lav wat "• aid nig'i procure of steam we:'; limeade;. 11 > nitmgstai loaves a wi e and thro * children. — » Mclntire & Wardwell’s Cotton Letter, (ByT. A. ('.‘Mr’s I'niYATK '.Vini:J NT:w Yonx. llec. I). I,:v<o'i)ool v.-'s u little dis ipiioint iirn :m I Ne-.y Yoek pries areord- ingly lieidiiied :t poinls si (ii>i. I.ul Int-n'on prices :i< ; vuneed sharply, rtsiiv. in fuel, into 17 points above tic lowest flgcics of the mo’uiiiu ami closing nt a net ndvanceof ll to It points with a laire speculation, the sales leaching ytl.V.i'M Oulte unexpectedly a report was issue' 1 which is constinod ns pointiim to a crop of C.'g.V 0 I hales. The hears were manifestly nervous ami their covering together with the heavy huying by local Southern and Liverpool opera h>i sea used the advance. Thu,<aop mov ir nt is modei at" and a Lot busilies is bein'.- dene in t his <aHin- lalaneing <jnot 'lions, liooI advanei-.l with sal' s of I’i.ODO Ind futures there closed •; points forth'* day. ^xp'oits f)i in the | "M v.< ic fully .New ()ri« a ns (lid a lai 'e - pot bus- in today. TIi" politicai news from Is more pe.aia*ful. Tin* rlist urlM'd sit uation tlieie lias for some tin past mitiga ted more or less seriously against the inter est of 1 he bulls. The New Orleans estimate for tomorrow ls/T*ajikrupt with the cry of orphans and rather liberal and Houston rms-ipt1 his fa^ this week are larger than for t h<* sameti last week, but the excellent demandfoi actugl cotton at tiomc and abroad 7!!, I'ill 1 i .'ks V| a 11 - ^Tester was (jniet. Spot cotton here was steady at!, advance, with vilcaof I.Ula for spinning and :J)i) delivered on contraet. Mid dling uplands K:!l-16. Savamiali Norfolk and Atr list a advanced J-JC; New Orleans sold r>.000 hi. Louis ••GO and August a K'-s. Augusta received Mia again: I U- i last week ami Ui'il last year. M< rnphls :.’!' , .'l against TH) last year. M. Louis M'-ti .against MM) last y«*ar. Houston 1.VU1 against’-TClti last year. Itous- tmi expects ton oik,w .VMM) against sfUt. and New O' leans Hi.Ot) to 1!)X<0 against 1a.S:.'ti. The I’m i teceipts w re (U.d-X against aT.OM). Tlie (•oiitinued activity in spot cotton not only in New York und'thc South hut also in l.lverpool gives a strong foundation for a bull market, and especially as the short crop estimate Is being continued fn.m almost a 'I pua 11ers not ibly from the government today. We therefore continue to suggi st purchases on t lie react Ions. McIntyiir i W.otm.Aw. Grain and Provision Market. [By T. A. Camu s ITmvatk Wikk.] N'kw j'oitx. Dec. II / L ( ccpTHtonr. isn’v The following comniunieiitioti was sent to me when 1 was holding enm- pelist meeting's in Houston, Tex., a few days ago: “Rev. Sam P. Jones—Dear Sir: Then is an evil which I have never heard of you mentioning in yo»ir sermons. It has become the most appalling and f ir- reuching devastating eurse with which a country luts ever l»een afflicted. Drunkenness is a horrible evil. Horse racing, if carried on wrongly and ma nipulated dishonestly, has and will en r continue to wreck loving hearts. But they all pale into utter insigniflearee whi n compared to the btilef-J effects of future gambling. I am not exag- geiiiting whi'n f assure you that when cotton dropped so suddt nly a weel; ago over *1.1,0'!,000 went out of Ibis state to the southern headquarters of future gambling New Orleans. In eonse- qm nee. the country merchants nro fail ing all over the state; even banks are not secure when their offleers deal in futures—bucket shops. Before the state of I'cxuk passed a law against it, they deal* in grain and cotton futures. The great bucket shop centers of New York and New Orleans have their agents in every city to take orders ami w ire 1 hose centers to buy or sell, as the ease may be. They are now called bookers, and every cotton exchange seenu to be hatching places of all the trouble. Cotton took an upward turn yesterday, and to-day most till the fu- tuie men in Texas being bulls, they have consequently lost millions, and you can expect many failuns in the next few days. So ventilate this evil before you leave Houston.” The above letter, written in a straight- forwaid business hand, I give in full. Take it for w hat it’s worth. For more titan a dozen years I have denounced all dealings in futures as gambling, and it is no higher type of gambling in my honest judgment than the dealing of faro or the game seven up with the old greasy deck. and w th w hom widows anu orphans d‘‘p » it, v '■ i ■ will nperil his ehur- I aet'T and i ;■ i, ii i. v y dealing in Dc t«i •• C ; ■ * 11*!:■ i, ■';*t , oui ht to Ik* | h .s Ini i j i:."- . a mi 1 lie striped suit |h gamnn! for the b.dance of his life. fins set n. like hard sayings, many I "ih • s *'iy; v. iiy, the nie. st i .an, the best man jn our eity ; nd town does this; why, the tie. e-.o aisl stew aids and cid ers in the ehinelu*—they ileal in fu ture.. Am 1 hnYcouly thi.stosujr'in re- pl> : A giant 1) g job lot of deacons and stew ards w .11 l.e Ii i| b v by. in bill and future deal- lai s l\ i ( sponsible for i.;: ami ati species of gam- I »n; tl. 1 This stock ini ,111' .• llOi ;.e r; iug in eit i I I .*.'jw : ml i iicn w e \ *, ill ; iOl in in')’, i 1. :d is ti of p;ii:,*):l) ■ i d HO'.' ami e Wiu ; c :: . tia< ■ : s ! : Loo d ami it lutit: I j! C’\ii i In r ns;- : . i ally t ;.;tv au initv ill u t! •: 1 ia t h ■ J ir * i J . S 1 i*. om cr:*. uci ! \ • v* evil i • > v 1 :oi. ’’ :>■, i . Vi. » i-i* v ..; •ill full ■ i ;i ir. in.nJ : ; ; iiiu! ! ii !s a ir *, t V(; li CM! : C).*,« i i ! • uiiir .‘i • noi’kh g i: :: .!. 'j \N i ■ i. * 1' '• <! • NnsItGli*. ' 1 ad a te*c ' Mi ( ii of < g:;r:*.B) : ') i ( tht st * • T o- of ti ’ . • F • i t n in ! ' •' i' 1 ' ft.’ .. ^ 'A t . c;. ci , ..• • .-Tii i. ; urc o r t'w Uv' ; : in..) ill th.* ' 1 i. f 1 : i.,t.* No wombi • .! *re is a v dene , \ ' n: r i li.:\S ( art! .i'.; : . 1 wicck: . Tl and \ o: . catina . cor tut cres. in S, ( Clli'i i 'on tracks,in t ' Ujitr i oor::! v. In re p i .b i s ply 1 soil* Lm w .!:• . ui: vve c a hi a. <1. 1* ill 1; lima • • ::l w whv men lit ivc no ' •on lid a»e Is-en tuh- : st; but we’H i ininate‘ the my city who faro down to ‘.•credit as re al • in cotton, nid j aiiioie in ■ I ittom and "i'ld can onl r two ago •' ! < on fi:tu'’c ‘•I a -’’.rg fro: : ay an .-ome ea t'i y arc ■ 'll. ami the e'a!i' . frm . t state had bet os" for v of 'I'emu ssee )f stringency ic money lost n ami wheat on tin* race “!‘y • am th. tb* l at of thy , .1 •> face ee .i man. thoi. shall 11 law. ! t x*. !.o (i. i;,'.\ v. a A tjusim’ss iimn lias no more right | Tl: :e Ig oh! morally to imperil liis character and de- w Loin w c d. ib a fraud liis crcdkors in stock speculation :v‘ d 1 ‘v’c;* or fut me gambling than he lias to stand [but . i f‘ u in front of a faro bank and gamble | they 1 OIIHC! • on away the money of another. ! as t i (* . oi:;. «’: ri The iea.-on of thousands of failures j com; 1 an;• n: • in thh country given to the public, car- • If the V/.ill f ry a lie on their fates. “Hard times, | is a ! '-h ;r. -J l.e ! poor collect ions,” etc., as the reason for If !. ’ slice ct ds j all faiJuiOH is as ridiculously false as mm*; d<* i.cca l! ■*■(* Hint w hen tin old toper Is burnt out Mice d i u ! k* w ith liquor and dies, that doctors ad- self a littii < vertise to the world, in order that In* I 1: ave r.o IH'f nur, protect the feelings of the family jew.: ct for till and friends, that he died of “heart more • t l e: ; < 'i't t failure,” but give no reason why his iug n an w] It) < heart failed. sweat of hi; « ro The world applauds the stock gam- hone st man is t bier ami the dealer in futures so long a> <1 toe •' eand shirk that 1 '<* ii.m.d that the man ; d w ith Cod and ignored His Hound to; . ■ tier at last. inn in New York, nun 1 ! ; 'llionaires, are ■i * of th* ir millions, l ’r ion a number fails hiiii and * at him up just t !ii*‘\e failed. 1 f othern fails he kills his fool A thousand times ady. honest labor- rerdl by the tarns bis \ A ' f» t ' lie is on the winning side. The w oi Id takes no note of the honesty or dis- , honesty <>f the matter, than if itjptfdve’d no questions of this so^ff/ The mer chant or banker oiydjtTsinesK man who made $1 .ooo.ooypa" year ago on future fields i«^!j*jjKtuled by the wyrld. That sa nirdrau with the same im iho<ls lids V'-kr has lost $1,000,000 ami is now a 10 M itL'GSfC" ^ ^ . . l Feel ® |Q) ^ R - n !■- , - ’ i ce’ nize that an t work of God. ! .m I*. Jones. e!L-0<L7:^aji ra '-nr*. ITo* dayi W 111.AT - January May CO UN January May OATS- Januioy M *i v 0|M*nin^. 5^*4 «i H B 'W < 'li)siiisr. • r »7 : '» 6i q 26 I'ti. PORK- :«) May....' . s W) H 67 LARI) January ..... Rtl 5 ^11 May....' 5 t:> ;> t:J RIBS- Jaiiiiury 1 .11 t 17 Ma v i i.'> i i.: COTTON January ... S .Tl s 22 February s :n s 27 Mareti .... h 25 s ;i*.’ April H .V) s 27 May S M H 11 June h r> July 8 Hi Aujrust 8 tl December Tone Barely steady; hp'dsS'i. S ites. 2JI,- 100 bales. Local Cotton Market. the wailB of w idows piercing his < ars, he is eomiemned and fulleti now ami is tubboefl by all decent people. There is ns inueli morn! terpitude attached to the business man who wins as to the business man who loosea. No man w ho deals in futures ought to be trusted. 1 care not how honest he desires to lie or proposes lo ue. jncic uic : ;... m.- mi thest* seas, no ships can outride. i':u' the most sea-worthy of them have gore down carrying their crews ri.d p: sengers with them. I verily believe that in t!.-;* last 0 1 ! daj s the south has shipped her millions to Wall street to put up on mnrgv which Wall street has gulped down with the gluttony of tin alligator ami the cunning of an hyena. Thes.* book ers like the Mississippi river. Wall street like the gulf ami all sections of the country round about emptying through the bookers into Cue grea* gulf called Wall street. ' 1 believe the legislature of e\t ry slab in this union ought to puss a law pu’- ting the assets of every bankrupt linn in this country iuto the handsofu state accountant first and let him publish to the world the source of the trouble ami the cause of the failure, und make it a penitentiary offense w In n lbe party ha gambled off money which belongs to others through the bucket shops ot this country. If a man has no integrity and no trust funds and no character and wants to deal in eotton futures, tliat’s the class that ought to go at it. But the man whom the public trusts. 7 2 We r. k O a 0 scrums (3 admen' O n O V?j th'.' v i-cs oi ctl 0 « Kf6N';: S ra © lii © hi iU o Vi o EU because How trifling b O If y i . r • v.-.iVc f) I . ex- n t t- . : ns, m ! <-* IS < ..,*; ' its E* <1 c; i't work, y !|) .'*t once t iU- y it: :* nt st rel’Z- Q I* ' t feint hen i ax p| I l *, Wllil !l is Q ■ . - iron Bit- q : I; 'it ccr.ics Z • i i the voy i.rst a Jo. c. S :i IT GURUS I 8 DygpepG.i; . • y N?:d Liver S 5 Meiiral ri i, H. ! R .c, S b Con/ Hood, a laiani, I ’ ailments^ Wore . b’j ;c: ipfoinis. » — U /V* a 1 e 2 Get only t © e G.,.. pg r ? !' s crobutd red O M CtL. 'C -J. ,♦,/ r. i iMORE, MO. NOTICE. All per-cT.s imlcldnl to the estate of tlx* late i’rv >loii F. Goforth, de- eeused. are korchy t.otified to coino forward al om*" ai d make payment to any one of l In* undersigned admin istrators. All pcr-oiis holding claims against mid estate »ill present the same to tlx* tinbersigt.ed duly veri fied. o. Ii. (lot oktii, J. I. Sakrait, '1'. .1. A LKX ANIH’K. A'lmr s l’r st'iti 1*. (iofortli dee’d, Gaffney, Dec, 3, 1895. The fotlowhiK are tin* (|u<itatlous of tla* lo- cal eotton iieoki'l. fund: bed Ly J. I), .toil"',: Strict (loud Mtddllii;' * (omhI Middling .. t h Middling 7 N The aliov is quotattoas for 1 ec taber Ittli, JANUARY 6th, iEqC. THE i WINTER ? 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