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. / I / THE GAFFNEY LEDGER SECTION 2 GAFFNEY. FIUDAY, JANUARY ii tsmemma 1» — Hi, 190« PAGES 9 TO 12 HBUION 6. VANCf. ‘Savoyard” in the Washington Po t. ' r->ted in the subject cun aft'ord to neglect | lA/i“ A I TU |k|T | tliis led lire, and Vance must ever he an! Mil Al J || | 11 hunored inline with the chosen people who »* • ' •*- ■ ■■ wi 1 produced Ahraham, .1 aeoh, Moses and ! David. Here is an extract. After referring ; to Macaulay's famous passage concern ing the antiquity of the i'atlmlic church. OUR fARMS RISt IN tARM VALUES. ’■First at Bethel, farthest at (iettys-1 combined to give his verdicts, lie was j Vance proceeds: burg, last at Appomattox”—such is the "< J l?r<*at lawyer, like Pinckney, and he “The Jewish people, church and insti- proud t»oast of North Carolina for her « ; ‘s never an authority on a great con-, tutions. are still lelt standing, though gland devoir in the great war of stitutional question even when he was a I lie stones of the temple remam no longer (*f her white population, men. women Catling senator in congress; l.ut when lone upon the otner. though .Is sacrd.ce and children, one out of every six was ^ ‘^‘e to convincing a jury upon a ques- j hr.s arc forever cxtmgu.shrd, and No State emhrace»l seces- tion ot tact, or persuading an audience | though tl.e tr.I.cs wluvse glorv it was. on a question of policy, lie was unrivaled wander with wears led throughout the and invincible. i earth. And what is the line ot Roman with She and fort h at the front. sion with more reluctance, but having en gaged in it, no State supported the cause a, " , inviiicihie. | , . , .. . , more heroism oi more fortitude. 'tier serving in the State ..gislaturc; pontiffs compared to that spcndi.l dy- gave everything t.ut honor to || lf . Vance was chosen a mcml.er of congress 1 nasty ol the successors „ Aaron amt South, and there reposes in the hoaom of i •» He was the youngest member I l^vir The tw.ligl.t ..I table, m which old Virginia as much buried valor and 01 ,, ' <i “lid a Whig, lie and Jo'm the line ot pontiffs began nnselfch patriotism from North Carolina Sheruu.i. and Justin S. Morril w * J noondav bnghlness oi the as from any other State. North or South. a trreed on economic subjects, though , hooji. their in-.lit.dim. eames the mm.l • ■ - ■ these two found him a formidable an hack to the age when the prophet, in versary a quarter of a century later in .apt mood, stood over H.ihylun ami id the t'nitrd Stales senate. Vance was re- lered Ciod's wrath against that gram) elected to congress amt took high rank. { and wondrous mist re.--, ol the I'.i.phralian He was the spreial favorite of Ton. Cor j plain when the Memphian ehivaln still win. u eougeuial spirit, who was instru (gave pre.-rdri.ee to tl.e chariots mental in securing his release from! horsemen who each morning poure.l prison, where lie had brrh thrown on imm tl.e l.ra/en gates ol ll.e al>ode ol the order of Edwin M. Stanton without \mmon; when lyre amt Sidoft were \el warrant and in detiar.ee of law. building their palaces In the sea, and When I.incoln was elected Vam-c did A arthage, their urea I,-si daughter, was all in his j tower to prevent secession, lie yet m.horn. I hat dynasty ol prophetic upon reading it one can In.I w ish that j priests existed even before Clio’s pen had took tlie stump ii. that behalf, and the I learned to record the deeds of ...en; ami majority of North Carolina wa. with jw'heu that splendid ruton.hcd civilisation li.irn; hut the liomh.iidinent of t ort Sum j on. e lighted tl.e short of the Erythraean ‘ter tired the Northern heart ami Em j sea. the bank?, ot th. l-.uphj.'.te-; .«nd the Carolina. If war must eon..?, I prefer for volunteers served to re-j plains of Shimir. with a glorv ineonceiv- to lie with my own people. If we have I., shed Mood, I p.efrr to ..hid Northern lottiM than SiMiihri ii N T o rth t urolina to..l. he. |.,v..r.tr so., at his regiment, l ater he recruited .ml was [ i»o,ens oi passage, equally no., When the nen. v».t?> Hashed over the wire." that President Lincoln had issued a call for volunteers to coerce sovereign State?. Zebidon H. Vuncc was addressing an immense audience, pleading for the union amt opposing the Confederacy. 1 if is hand was raised aloft in appealing! gesture when the fatal tidings came, and in refuting the incident to a New Eng i land audience a quarter of a century later, he continued; “When my hand came down from that impassioned ges ticulation it felt slowly and sadly by; the side of a se.vssi.im ♦ I immediately,! with altered Voice and manner, called upon die assemhieii muildudv to volun teer not to tight against, t.ut for. South In view of the vast increase that has I taken place during the past decade in tin- nun.tier and wealth of our industrial establishments ami in the value of our manufactured products, it will lie sur prising to many people to learn that o..r i farms still greatly exceed in value and as a source of revenue every other source of i wealth, not even excluding our great mam.fact ..ring enterprises. The wealth I production of the farms of tl.e Cnitrdj States reached in I HO,, the highest amount ever attained in this or any other coun try, Hu- total figure being nearly six and lewish priest j one-half billion dollars. Four of the crops reached new records as to value, namely, eorn, hay, wheat, and rice. Corn exceeds previous yields lioth it. amount -jo.I in p. ice, a...I hay’, wheat, and rice reached new figures as to value only. The general average of production was high n. the ca-.e of every crop, and the j.riees r:u. higher still. The Secretary of Agri- eruit Southern as Northern as well armies, it sent Vance to war a-, cap tain of the l-'on.teenll. North t‘urolina regiment, l ater he recruited and was word, turned ?e.. . .iooi'.t with him and volunteered l«*r the conflict, j he fisher left l.is skiff to r.wk Tamar's glittering w.. The rugged miners poured to w «r from Mendip’s sunless eaves; tier I.onglejit's towers or t rai.bourne's oaks the fiery herald new And roused the shepherds of Stone henge the rangers of Beaulieu. Zehulon Baird Vance was not only appointed colonel of (tie Twer.lv .istl. North Carolina, ami participated in nu- ,,1, mernn-. I.:.tiles at the head of tl.al his torie command. When governor elect he went into tl.e battle of Malvern Hill over the protests of his comrade-., who told him l.is place w:is at Rah-igh. As governor lie put in commissioi. a blockade runner- that he purchased on the Clyde. The vessel made numerous successful ventures, bringing in supplies and able, of which here is naught tell, . xccpl the d.imh > Inqi.eisce . temples ami lu.rie.t citie-..' Do/.ens of passages e.p.ull \ and gem Jew h now to f i uined el. North Carolina’s favorite son, hid her' a,| d arms ami taking out cotton. Il greatest man, and 1 am no! unmindful verv.likelv lhat the war would have ended that Nathaniel Macon, Willie I*. Man- ; guru and George F.. Badger were also on? a year sooner hut for Vance’s efforts in this behalf. He was governor when the of North Carolina. Never was there ; Wfl >’ to an end, and it was l.is proud a man of whom it could with more truth >••«''* **•'*< North Carolina the writ jvisi,... ii. .ill it he said that he was sprung from the j habeas corpus was not suspended and , was a very great Never was there a simpler char-! tlx* ‘‘t v 'l remained paramount to mili j __ one of less guile, never one - ,ar . v authority. It was true ol but '*r*e i-ir- £ 1 iTEiiEkji w: his other State, North or South. At least,; AvtlvHA I • ,, lt . | that is a statement in one ol Vance’s i sa people a. tf r, r ever , h«e. 11- .rt was more conspicuous or. jleev, than this mnontuii.ee.* with speeches. Of course, he meant that the habeas corpus, so far as North Carolina was concerned, was not suspended bv Confederate or State authority. It was suspended by federal authority in tl.e .•losing days of the war. When Vui.cc got out of pris.... he re- dorv .if II. int - N’e.er before in thi-M.i ton trade lias sue), a mutitudii.ous amount ot T’car" .lope and '.l.tel.lioual misrepresentation of actual facts Lee., i given to Hie South through paid a.lver-| t■''* , n‘* , * tong, e of an orator, the heart of a pa triot, E.c mind of u statesman and the nul of a j.oet. He enthused the popu lace fro. i the stump and he instructed grave . cnatora In the council chamber. His tongue never acquired the art of deception and ids hand never felt the contact of a tainted dollar One might turned to North Carolina ami began the , £. easily have “plowed up hell with a practice of law. Ii. Is70 he was clmscn j ;J|M , Uv (l|4 . .i^trilmiion of circular h-l- I'ine shingle" as to have tempted him ^nator congress, but was denied h.s . t j |rorh (h) . |||ai , s . (>p,. r;l ,ors who S ‘" >« ,rs hiU ' r u ,,. moving heaven and earth to depress ernor, a ter a mos exe.t.ng ‘•••■.test de- f . (tnrr ,. 0 ^ ra< . (s 1(Ilt , pHees of'spot teating Judge Settle. He was )e el|X ted, l ( . oUoh , lll( .ir brains \ Ut . and i.rolialilv wits cruet magistrate ol . . 1 • ,. , i ., ii.odern art ot lugglu.g tigures and mak- .Nlate longer than any 1 r | ■ ei.ltlire estimates Hial in addition to tl.e . enormous yield of wealth, tl.e fauns of j tl.e country have themselves increased in value during the past five years by over ' six billions of dollars; and he puts the mutter dramatically when lie states that ! with every going down of the suu dur ing the past live years, Ihere has I wen I registered an increase of three million four hundred thousand dollais in the value of the farms ol the. country. An analysis of ll.e principal crops for the veai shows that torn reached its highest • induction wilt. .*,70S,t>n0,AfWi l.nshels, a .-tear gain of J.'.iMKt.iHH. bushels over Hie verv piotilahlc year of 18H9. The hay crop is valued at t.O.i millions dollars; eotioi. id .Via ...(lions; wheal at mil lions; oats, J8J millions; potatoes, l‘J8 millions; barley, ;»H millions, and tobacco at . r ».' millions dollars. Very remarkable is tl.e increase of ol million dollars in the value of dairy products, which reached the. total valuation of Mio mil lion dollars. The farmer’s hen, says the secretary, is becoming a worthy com panion to tl.e cow, tl.e animal produc tion of eggs being now .'(I billions. I’oul* try products have climbed to a value of over half a billion dollars, so that poul try competes with wheat for precedence. The total value of horses is estimated at $1 ,£00,000,000. There are over II 1 - - million milch cows, valued at nearly half a billion dollars. During the year farm j [triHli.ee to the value of M?7 million dol- oi i| | ii it i il iVilars was cxpoitcd. During tl.e last six- 01 At I UAL IAtlY tmi venrs l Ui , .[(.mestie exports of farm i [.roduets have amounted to I.' I.illioi. i dollars, or one billion dollars more ti.iu. j enough to buy all tl.e railroads of the country at their eominereial valuation. ! {’tear evidence of It..* prosperity of the seen in the fact that under recent amendment of tl.e national .,-ot ornate miehl be enllr.l from ll.i-. of hi.Ilia.. t1iom , hl. F.Sert youth, or t •entile, ought to read alt.I |>on tier t‘is elo«|iiei.t leelure. Il ought to l.e reided in every \li.eiie:.n aeade.ny to exercise tl.e lliougl.t nu.l stimulate the imagination of every budding genius ol our l.-.i.d. Only a deeply religions mind en.dd i have conceived tliis ‘.plendid work, and Hie lines of Vance had been so cast ns to make letters his profession. It will not lie m.til a real historian has told the story of the tremendous revolution of IHtii that the figure of Zehulon Baird Vance shall loom u|i before the public II its Titanic proportions. He man. The Manufacturer*’ Uncord of Balti more in its issue of Decemtver £lst, says: In the twenty-odd years of its exist ence tl.e Manufacturer*' Record has never published matter of more pro found and far-reaching importance, not alone to the South, hut to the business interests of the world, thin, the sympo sium which it presents to-day giving the testimony of bankers ami others through out the South indicating an advance in (he value of farm lauds of such magni tude that its influence can scarcely lie overestimated. From the depression and slough of despair under the low price of cotton which prevailed for some years up lo 1898-99, tin* Southern farmer has risen to a height of prosperity, and thus of optimism, which has not been known since 18ti0. While il is true that the in dustrial development of the South i.x going forward with amazing rapidity, it is nevertheless true that, by virtue of the extent of the agricultural interests of the South, agriculture is yet the founda tion of the business of that -.ection. A change from poverty to prosperity of the farmers, and a change from land without a selling value to land in demand at an advance of .70 to 150 per cent, over the. nominal price of one. or two years ago,: is the most far-reaching development in ' Southern advancement of the last quarter of a century. It is far-reaching in many way-;. It means that within the tarm properties by people from other sec tions. The realization by the people of the entire South, hankers, merchants and farmers, of the power of co-operation in the proper handling and marketing ot the two great staples, cotton and tobacco, has brought about a community of inter est which is destined to exert a very great influence upon the entire business interests of tl.e South, and of that por tion of tl.e business world which is in any way dependent upon these staples or upon the general prosperity of the South. The Manufacturer* Record, with a full appreciation of what has been ac complished in ll.e material upbuilding of tl.e South during the lust 20 years, reite rates the statement that Ihe facts which it publishes to-day indicating the great increase in the prosperity of the agricul tural interests of the South are fraught with greater power for good to this sec tion than ar.ything which we have had the privilege of publishing since our first issue, nearly a quarter of a century ago. CONSliMPlHiN VS. OVtft.PROMiCIiON The present rate of consumption of American cotton by the mills of the world is slightly in excess of one million ■ . ’ • , ,, ,. bates of raw cotton ocr month. It is sKhrirr, r?* ^ Ooo.imm value, probably at least cotton and no Internation&Mroubles m But more than that, it means tii.it under this improved th.uncial condition the .Southern farmer has gained new courage, new backbone; that interfere with the present enormous de mand for cotton goods, fully twelve mil lion live hundred thousand hales of American cotton would lie consumed be- with a bribe. The Vances went from Normandy with tl.e Conqueror and helped to gain the day at Hastings. They were of tl.e equestrian order, and magist rate in the English I the “Old North _ , ^ peerage the name is De Vaux, as it was other individual, lo him K attributed - m , h< . Sll|)mi)< . ,.ffort to io France. At an early day the family | the immortal sugge-tior. of the -governor y{Ail of 1 cotton in Virginia, ami it w.i* from thr i Nortii Carolina to tin- governor ot Did Dominion that came the North Caro- ; South ( arolinn. lina branch. The grand-father of Zebu- He was a mat. ol inti.tit.* jest. When Ion B. Vance was a soldier of the Revo 1 a friend remarked to him once that it lution and a captain at KingN .Mountain, j ' vas -strange that he and hix brother he- Here is a passage from l.is will that is' longed to different churches, he an- perhaps Curious literature to those who; s "'ered: “Ws, hid ,-i stranger thing than got their idea of American slavery at . that is that Boh believes ii. the doctrine the South from Mrs. Stowe’s nhsuni tic- j °l falling from grace, and never falls, tion, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’* In disposing; wl.ile I do not believe io the poxsihility of some old slaves, the will directs: “It j «f falling from grace, hut a... always is my will and desire that they have full tailing. ’ liberty, and 1 do bv these presents give; Vance entered the United Stales srn- them full liberty to do and live with any Me in 1879, simultaneously with Vest, of of my children where their own children j Missouri, and remained a member of that may he; and 1 enjoin it upon acquaint-' bodv until l.is death in 1891. lie was a ances who lulmred ami spent their leader of his side from the day he he- strcr.gtl. to raise my said children and 1 came a member, and men saw in him ■ ’ * ‘ one of the verv great debaters of that in the eohi.nns of tl>.- press | , ,. hanking h.w, allowing the establishment of banks with .. capitalisation of less than $50,000, there have been 1,551 such hanks established in the last year, nearly every one of which, says the secretary, is located in a rural community and tl.e capital furnished by farmers. For tAe first time in the f.i.a.ieial history of the South, tl.e deposits in that region exceed one I.illioi. dollars. Should there Ih* no relapse from his present position as a wealth producer, three years hence the farmer will find lhat the faming element, which forms thirty-five per cent, of the population, has produced an amount of wealth within tl.e preceding ten years equal to one-half of the entire i.atinnal wealth produced in three centuries. high records it. distorting slutis- make a take on | the appearance of a plentiful supply. | Hundreds of thousands of dollars have | t>een expended in the past two months !in cablegrams, telegrams, paid articles in newspapers, postage and market letters ! in an herculean undertaking to deceive I the public, discourage the farmers and local s|K.t holders into rushing the rem nant of this crop on the market, unsettle public opinion in the South temporarily so as to break tl.e market and induce liquidation. The spinners have ll.real- i ened to withdraw from tl.e market, which | is an absurdity in the face of their ennr- | mous commitments of the entire output j of their mills for the next six to eight : months. Prominent “Bear” leaders take their own also. I enjoin it upon my children who may have tl.e children of said Mack old people not to confine them, t.ut let them go a while to one and a while to another, where their children may he; and I enjoin it upon my chil dren to see that the evening of tl.e lives of these black people slide down as com fortably as may he.” The mother of Zehulon B. Vance was Mira Margaret Baird, and it was from her that her son derived his genius. She ot me very great tleliaters oi Iwdy during the fifteen years he was a member of it. He could hit hard and never feared to strike, he the adversary who... he might Ingalls himself felt his steel and never challenged him more. The Kansas senator had made a speech on the negro question that was a thing of brilliant phrases. In reply Vance said: “It constitutes the t.urdeo of his speech (the negro’s wrongs), around which is Bigt£«at Came Preserve .South. King's Mountain Herald. Mr. Henry K. Knox, a trend of Cap- lain I tilting, sent him this .naming two English pheasants from the game pre serve of Mr. Billy Urocraw, near High , Point, which is the tincst preserve in the peculiar interest in dailv publishing com-1 q, Mlt | K [, ow ned alone by this geu- : s.i- p aVs only Wa*; the acquaintance and friend of John clustered the brightest display of rhetor- C. Calhoun ah.l William C. Preston, icaI pyrotechnics ever employed to oon- whom she had frequently entertained at ! cent a paucity of ideas by the gorgeous- her husband’?. iM.urd. It was from Iter ness of phraseology. This rhetorical dis- th.it Zeb Vance got his fancy and l.is j play across the forensic heavens reminds humor, and from her, too, he got l.is big ; me forcibly of an astronomer’s descrip- heart and Ids noble nature. The Itov I of tl.e mnurkuhle tenuity of the acquired a good education and was well, tail of a certain comet, lie said its grounded in Latin. The Bible w s his; length was ll)0,iMH),0Ou miles as it favorite book, and he could repeat whole stretched athwart the skies, that its chapters of it. Perhaps no other public breadth was 50,000 miles—and yet the man of our country ever drew so liber- solid mutter which it contained could be ally and so constantly from its sacred condensed and transported in a one-horse pages for illustration as he. His lecture, cart." “Tne Scattered Nation,” Is a classic, and But lie was not eontrnl to employ the perhaps as eloquent a defense of the wea[»on of ridicule only. He assailed Jewish race us our language affords. Ingalls will, invective, and one wlm would Some of its passages are grand, and ihe lead a splendid hurst of eloquent indig- elosing paragraph is suMime in its nation should read Vance’s speech or. energy and imagery. the legislative, executive and judicial ap- When Vance completed his education | propriation hill for the fiscal year ended he studied law and was admitted to the: June JO, 1880. Only a few days ago a successful practitioner i mol. arose against parative c-.fi.nates of thi- crop with years that have gone before. These tangled | and muchly juggled statistics emanate j from the offices-of gentlemen who breathe the atmosphere of u climate one thou sand miles from Southern cotton fields and whose eyes have not witnessed the actual condition of a single cotton field in the South this year. 'I'l.e statistics and daily reports which they put out in the stupendous effort for private gain are Hen.an, who is a New Yorker. He an F.nglshman $2,500 a year to raise pheasants. Pays his dog trainer, who is a High Point young man, $1,200 a year. His superintendent's salary we could not learn. He controls 20.000 acres, of which 1,500 are enclosed with an eight foot wire fence. Within this enclosure there are 200 deer and 42 elk. He has a house for his guests which will iccommodatc 50, and is more elegantly ; . , 1 , , , i . i • *. -^Hirru-ai. couon wot.in oe consumed oe he has earned how to market his cot on , September 1st. 1905, and Septem ‘‘ p ; \' l h 'T <0 . Ug n V "“ S ,' iW This unprecedented 1 ^eon- great ha th* ax to whether the producer 9n of American cotton is due .• i • , «. • ... f. .. i principally to two causes, namely: ot h.s staple. Hav.ng won I us f.gl.t, l l.e increasing demand for cotton good? he rnt.re handling ol cotton Iron. P.ej,, v , hf joh ,, ing '’ and retail trade o? the h.Id to the Luton, whether the lactory eiviliml nations of the world, and the he ... tins eonntry or m Enrope, has en-; ahnoriua| inrreast . of new ; ind ’ les Hithin tcml i.pon an crdirclv new stage in its ! F T , history. Il also means that land will he ", P 'VLrie.. Sin I F j npland ’ Ja P an more thoroughly cultivated, for the sue-i fo|ir rni|Iion uevv spindl / s ^ ^ ccsstul man. whether he he a farmer, a ; added , 0 the milling industry of Man M e : .le 0r to woir o S ! ^ *"*'?*• FM ^ tha . the one who is fighting a losing hft- f .1 iv i t . r .i.ii * i,sl y ear 0, > account of strikes, are now tie. During the last six vers the total . i .u .. ••ii- i running night and day. These vital value ot the cotton crop, .i.clud.ng seed, u-ni , •. J . . , . | *.* r/v. Aiu./um 1 » o.inn torces will i.ecessanlv demand at least has fieen $..,WM),(MMt,(MN), against $2,190,- ~ . .. i- .i. r \ i one nnllion hales of cotton tor consumo- (Mto.iMHi tor Hie [.receding six vears, s mw-1 1 iug a gain m the last six over the V vc-' \Z\ ,!| !h; ceding 'ix of over $1,400,000,000. It is u jj. . mi s are being not. however, due to this great i.u rease I d “ d 'V'l ° f .°k mUk in cotton alone that Ihe Southern farmer; ^ enim | P W erever labor can is in Mttcr Shape. More and more has CommunUon is only limited now to the diversification of agr.cultnrc gone, the spind t eapachv of the world ope on; more and more have tru.t-grow.ng, raU 0 „ tjinV M n and truck-raising, hog am) honunv, i with the meathoose at home rather than '.j oa f .! s . ’ es . Ima PS fon^naip- ,i ... , i , , , . . i non tor the next twelve months under the \\ est, fieen developed throughout j ^ hales of American COtton But '*i • ‘ " '• | Mr. Ellison represents the foreign spin- In response lo a letter ot inquiry from 1 1(ers solHv< aru , | it is a habH h J the M aim fact a rer* Record hankers and undpr . est j mat< . at t [, e lM . innin of farh Imsmess men throughont the cot to., re- . Mnd later on fo * ed t f incr ^ g.ons ot the .south have reported a re- hjs f in ^ ( fJs TbI markable advance ,n the agneultural vi , e of < , r . ttoil , s js ^ lands ot th.s ^e ,on. to which nttr.d.on udvftn< . i in m * sf , in(S month f v . “J was briefly called ... one o our recent!,^ ( J^ ^ than thel issues. A studv of these letters develops i h „ M •' ^ K ... .• • . • . . m 1 na\e iven in twentv-five years. In the many facts ot verv great interest. Manv ! tr . p!r>rj 10/v . . • • , . ’ . I. .. >■• • • spring ot 1R04. when cotton advanced to of them tell ot an advance m the scll.ng:,- rents { (] value ot tarm lands ranging from ..0 to ba , f of O ' tto|1 ‘ for ^ at tba ’ t tinip a ,^ 100 l^ r ‘T • VPar Nengerlv taken bv the mills, the man“ very few report less than 2., per cent Eu-turer,. nh ^ rk a , |d re aUfP8 “^ .ncrease. and the average reports would | , rt . lde{| wilb d , whioh oou , d not hf ‘" d ! 0 :' ,e . a " T™*' «»bl that season. After consumption of the 14,000,000 hale crop of 1904, we find 1 , ”, . n . the mills of the world to-dav with no correspondent ... .south t aro ,na says: K on hand for Sa , e , [, ut from to In many instances lauds are selling tor i h j montbs M|ind ^ b thdr 0rd three and tour t,roes as much as they and t , |f lobbj trad< , „ v a J ad wouhl have brought tour or five eondition: With the trade now it is not ago. Another <wres,u ndent m »»•“ ; a qnfstioil of prif . rt b|lt tlie sfrimjs ob . same Slate writes that >.. h.s county »l.cre , em js tb( . dHj |. erv n( d . h Py, are seven hanks with deposits aggregat-1 _ e •,, .. ^ mui.s. «... ooonoo ,.r ;. I 1 n f the world are largely simply the nightmares of overcharged ; f in . rt j s [ ied than any of our hotels in this bruins reflecting individual views in th. forlorn hope of changing at least tempo rarily the law of supply and demand. The inlerest of the spoi holder is uol considered. The great desideratum is paper contracts and hot air. Thousands of people read this “Bearish Dope” scat tered over the South daily and know it to lie false, yet they tremble in doubt and surrender th.-ir honest convictions ...id Southern manhood before Ihe edicts which emanate from the line Italia), hands of their enemies. This crop can section. Of arc the only this ground, ve.nher 15th course, his invited guests ones allowed to slmot on The house is opened am I kept ope. till No- M.-.rrh the 1st. There is nothing you can get at Delmonico’s at New York that yon can't get here while the house is open and everything free to tl.e guests, t ap- tai.i Dilling expects to go over some time an.) take a hunt. II lf« Outraik 14*4 Him. happened in a station it. the rle- har He was a successful practitioner j mol, arme against a d.,/er. or 1 | dH „, ldnalioil lo ^. nr< . higher prices for and invincible l^fore a jury. Many was negro children m Fittsburg, I'a. Their j tbf , )a|aIM . r , bi , crop, whi. l! w ill .... no more In* compared with |,ast yields in the matter of picking, ginning and j vated. selling than could the enormous prnduc-j V big policeriian and u Hi ycu. -old tion of Itw.E Let every .nan in the: special delivery Is.y attempted to rush South stand pat on the actual conditions 1 through ll.e gate ut the same i.istanE which confront him. Spur., these jug gird statistics us you would all adder id vailing the holy precincts of your home and remain fixed and unalterable in \our They gate. The just a- Hie ease he laughed out of court, and 1 crime was attendance at -..ho.,I The; T.^ ... it was a compliment a mountaineer paid! moh made (hem tenants of hospitals M- 1 S n,ailcst Lrr.,wn ih a number ot" er i- him: ‘if that young feller Vance kin j stead. How ridiculous is Ingalls’ mag- sn ‘ a, ! est »< rown ,n u °* only git his case apa.st the jedge, lie is { nifice.d eloquence in l>ehalf of the nej<ro u; goo.1 a lawyer as any of’em,” meaning j read in ligl.t of that Fltsburg outrage if his [drading only witluitfH.d the de- the good year of 1905. mnrrer. V..nee was a versatile man thinker, No man ever understood the common ! orator, poet, scholar, soldier, udiniiiis people better. No man ever bad a pro- trulor. Tl.e greatest cl.ihl of his hrain founder sympathy for titem. No man * of the Hie *ver had a keener perception itdiculous, or a profounder conception of the pathetic. He was ever genial and cordial and candid and confiding—these and a vast fund of common sense, a memory tenacious of the slightest par ticular, a sovereign contempt for sham, tgn co a sovereign hatred of meanness, an en- position it is history gaging fancy, and a fine command of ■ as well as eulogy- i! the plain, simple and direct language—these j of the human family. was the lerturr- on “The Scattered Na tion.” It is a wonderful production. In finitely s..rj)U-<sii.g Boh Ingersoll's blas phemies. II Is the work of a scholar and a thinker, as well as of un orator and j U poet. His reading must have brer, | vast I to Yours truly, 11 ahtik John. s. President Souther*, t'otton \ssneintio... Napoleon nnee said to Talley rand: ”1 am the master of Europe, because I work harder than any other mat. on Hie contlneih." 'Hie best evidei.ee of ability ; is immense eapurity for hard work ami i an intense ! ■'tit*tern eouvietion of its neeessitv. It is worth live hundred pounds u ye.ir d and his retteetion ,he profoun.lcst I V", “ n > 1 . ‘““‘I “‘ dp t0 ‘ ir '' "•*' ' ,U ^ have pr.Niuced this extraordinary coni- * 1 'K 1 - • * * and philosophy, greatest branch No roan inter- To deceive can only bring returns for a short time; a lie, like a hen, comes home to rooit.—Ezcharigt. collided ami stnek fast in tt.e train pulled out and lelt them they wrenched themselves I.H.se. I t,en the big copper turned on the Imy “You darl-hurncd, insignificant tit- tlr" “. \vv viol’s t.d.n’ ye!' inter.u[ded the IHiy, raising his tiiind warn.ugly. ‘ .*.kid- .I.Mi! You work fur de city, an I work for de United Slates gnvWnt. A’.il away fm me!” 'li.e oflierr, who probably had read in l.is little »Mh.k that he could not arr.-st a carrier on duly, gnawed Ids ...oustache reflectivelv and walked to the other side of Hw platform. Whereupon a mao vvho owns an a..to i.ioliitr relieved his feelings by elapping n.e t»oy 0,1 Ihe sl.oi.lder and (dvlng him ,. .'>0 rent [dree. fJEcai/o Trihuue. l ife U an arrow —therefore you most know what mark to aim at, how to use the. bow—then draw it to the head and : let it go.” ing $1,000,000;’ most of 'it "T ,aP ,f ly .. V .rv 41 ■ narr of cotton goons, and in manv lines tarn,eis, whereas 0 years ago t^re was ^1,,^ exhaustion has taken plac^. Thl only one hank w .th depos.ts of $ wn , no , ^ ^ co „ Another ... the same State reports sales ^ ot farms m Ins sect.on at a heavy ad- tnjlmfnt by th< , ni| , Js hffor( , next s e, and gives as illustrations one case .* . ., . “ re a farm increased in selling price ‘“K ‘•‘msurapt.on . £-a A- I I, nm I K onr beyond the ahdtly of produ. $J,fi00 to $8.07), and another f rom ; P V 7‘ P ,ap . of P . . . , ,, At the pnees ot cotton goods ' *!?. fniSLXL i "NM h,v. ,«iiv paid & has rod action. Is spinners of var.ee whet from $J .■B..W I,,., v.i.rs ap.. ... .. , ™„|d hiv, ruilr paid Ihe fomiers ly miLT’ “ " C " , ' ral : tor every fepL of .Vperiran CO. ''XLSrZutlVZJU'JZt.Si porleil SSl to >»' »P .-.creV™'*- “fn ^ d"" t 1 ,at an averairc price tinder 12 cent; win e another correspondent in the same T * ^ _ AA * . . '-■‘f & '“"V""' %ssz■sn.s ;.r00 f ,z. and inr™;"^;a!":„‘ f , v '^ v -t.•“««««. more.” while from another part of the >* d ^ x ^ wd " w « ded ... . , ... ., 1 , . :'Mcr on when the whole world realizes Sta e reports come that there has been , |b(t sbortnpss of tbf and th ^ an .nerease in the past two vears of 50! , , , * - ‘*7 marari .,v >ra. 1 .espondsto the actual eondtions brought Throiydiool ,he ce.dr.d ii Hn* Press and the business interests of the South generally, I extend herewith my best wishes for a happy and prosperous new year. Yours truly, Haivie JotODE President Southern Cotton Association Two »r • HIa4. A large touring automobile containing a man and his wife in a narrow road met a hay wagon fully loaded. The .woman declared tliat the farmer must back out, hut her husband contended that she was iroturl generally stated that this increase is due mainly to the increasing prosperity of the farmers, and very largely brought about by Ihe advance in cotton, cotton lands selling to a considerable extent on the basis of the price of cotton, at times rising or declining, as cotton rises or de clines through a period of years. In some parts of the central South the in crease is also in part due to immigration, hut this has as yet been a comparatively small factor except in Arkansas, Texas and other of the more .southerly and southwestern States, where immigration »• M I I § 4 vv w J 4 1 • •• vv aw jr a j • «awavwaa«a « vaaav-aava* «« waawv >aa«. VT has largely added to the general advance unreasonable. if. farm land . ‘‘But you can’t hack the automobile no In thr tobacco districts of Teiurewee,, far,” .hf said, “and 1 don’t intend to 4 A I . I ...1 _ ? A 4 _ I 1 j-* 42 /-v«v 4. /-lew-.* K 4 A '• k, —v . . 1 t E ^ «« — ^ in inr iimittiu iiiMrn'iH i«*uuc>*4:Ca. •ii«i « uuu i imcuu w where tl»e growers have made with equal | move for anybody. He should have seen success the same character of fight for us.” better prices that the cotton-growers ; The husband |M>ii.ted out that this was have made, there is reported a realiza | impossible, owing to an abrupt turn in insisted. “I won’t stay here all night ’ automobile was start- iiiaiir, uirrc ia ir|M»r»cu n rmiiAii- | lion on Ihe part of the farmers lhat when ! the road, handed together thev hold the whip-1 “I don’t care," she p l.amlle against all possihle comhinatioriN | move II we have to sta] to beat dou.f the prices of their product, ’Hie man in the uuto.,i,»„ ir wua xiuri- and that witt, this has come new courage iug to argue the matter when the farmer, and strength, new enthusiasm and greater | wlm had been*sitting quietly on the hay, optimism us to the future. interrupted Throughout Ylrginia there has lieeu a “Never mind, sir,” he exclaimed. “I'll very considerable advance, due In part | try to hack out. I’ve got one just lilrs to improved cultivation, increased diver-! her at home "—Philadelphia Ledger. sification, the raising of live-stock, and ; also in nart to the purchase of many 1 ‘No one can rise who sligbti his work.”