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COTTON DEPENDS ON FOREIGN NEWS N. w Orleans, .Jan. 15.?In the cot ton mark.-t this week much will de pend on the reports from Manchester. At the close of laat week many trad ers, representing the more conserva tive element on both sides of the market, were Inclined to take with a grain of suit some of the more opti mistic utterances coming from Eng llsh brokers. The suspicion began to grow that mill men. merchants and cotton operators were engaged In spe. eolation on a huge scale In both cot toa and cotton goods. The feeling that some of the accounts of the enor mous business being done by Eng il>h mills were exaggerated was strengthened by i ible messages from houses that are not strongly bullish stating that business was showing s.igns of halting. Want Real News, The first thing this week the trade will try to get a line on the real (situation In England and the new news received may form the basis of a price movement either way. On Tuesday, representatives of Southern mills will have a confer ence to talk over the matter of cur tailment. The cotton trade has not been inclined to take this talk of cur tailment very seriously because it hits Amounted to nothing in England and then, again, it is generally uecognlzed that, whether they desire to or not. iho mills vlll have to curtail to some extent this season because of the short t rop raised. Kxpotl Decreased Movement, Statisticians on the bull side have predicted that this week the move ment will .show signs of falling off. II tubs predlclh n comes true import ant trading will result, for th?> bears have been Irnsing their campaign for somo time solely on the nenvy Inlo slghl movement, claiming thai it was a good enough lndi< ntor to allow ihosu to dispute bullish claims of it crop of around I 1.150,00': bales of ; pin nabln cot In By s-.n:... iho largo movpmenl bus been used to dispute i the government's small estimate of the crop. Texas ..till complains of drought and unless that Slat ? gets rain this week, bullish comment will result. ? TUR NEWS OF MADDEN Madden, Jan. 16.?The year of 1910 t.,is been numbered with the past and WO have COnilU -need with the new. We should make seme promises and then carry them out. Everybody seems to he in good spirits and will start out with renewed energy to look for ward to n good crop from which they rope to get a living price, which is &11 that the farmers want. The Milam brothers, Charles of Camden and Ilium? and Henry, bought the Teague farn> two or three years ago and have been renting It until this year. Today they went to Lau ren a and bought some of thos > mules i at fancy prices to supply that place ; end it Is safe to say that the Teague ' p\ice will have good crops if the sea Sons are alright. When your cones- ' pondent enmo here eighteen years ago. these boys were little follows going to school at the Orphanage in Clin ton, i-:. p. Milam, of Cold Point, being the only one able to do much work at that time. Today theso four boys mil thirteen plows and. it might be added, none of them drink whiskey, U80 tobacco or have any other bad habits, but are men of high moral htl i acter. On December 13th, Mr Eretl Jacks and Miss All to Hell Fuller were mar ried 01 MounlVllle. On December the ..'st. Mr. JnuiCS .lacks ami Miss l.ula Boll Madden were happily married at the holm' of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs W. W. Madden. Their friends ami nequaintonces wish those young p'Opplo much happiness and prosperi ty all the way through lit'-. Mr. Green Puller and family will occupy the Teague home another year. Messrs. IMnk and Ed Kuller and Mr. Aus. Bidder and family will occupy the Smith and Holmes farm These young men are all good farmers and ' |00d people and a hearty web onto is extended to them. ?100 Iteward, #100. 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Hero is tho real story of the i "dark horse:" It came down to the Ron of a man, who had it from his I father, who in turn got it from his I father, and so on back to a time , i when thero lived in Tennessee a : shrewd old chap named Sam Flynn., , lie was by way of being about the . cunningest horse trader in Iiis Btate ! and generally contrived to have in' ! Iiis stable a nag or two that could t \ go along some. These lie used for I racing purposes, particularly when j he chanced upon a town whore ? there was sporting blood in the I course of his travels. Flynn Anally picked up in a swap a black horse which he called Dusky Polo. The horse was close to a thoroughbred, and the shrewd horse trader was not long in making the discovery that he was something of a marvel in speed. Hut this fact lie cunningly kept to himself. He roughed up the horse's coat and . made him look as little as possible like the real wonder that he was in ! a race. Once ho had got Dusky Pete to a 1 point where ho looked the part of a horse vagabond, Flynn quietly rode him into, n town one fine day, when; a rustic race meet was in. progress. Dusky Pete merely look-. cd like a "likely boss" for swapping purposes. Pretending to be inno cent of everything connected with rat ing, Flynn entered his horse in ono of the events. The village sports took his bait ton man. They backed two or three of the local 11 iois against Dusky Pete for every dollar t hoy could bog and borrow. The old horse trader moved around in the crowd and took ev ery bet that was offered, most of them being at big odds against his horse. Just as the horses were be ing saddled for the race old Jndgo McMinamcc, the turf oracle of that pari of Tennessee, turned up at the track and was immediately impress ed into service as one of tho racing judges. As he took his place in the judge-' stand he was told bow the betting odds bad been going and of (lie presence of tho old horse trader who was so foolish as to think his Dttg could beat the local cracks. The oracle was also in formed thai Flynn had taken all bets offered against his horse. At; that Judge McMinameo ran his eye over Dusky Pete and in-1 stantly recognized tho veteran racer under his ruffled coat of long hair as an old campaigner. "Gentlemen," quoth the wise judge, "there's a dark horse in this race that will make some of you look sick before supper." He was right. The dark horse lay back till the three-quarter pole had been reached and then went to tho front with a rush, taking the j race with ridiculous eaflc and clean-j ing out the pockets of all the vil-' l?ge sports. And from this humble origin' comes so groat an institution of. modern times as the dark horse.? New York Times. England and Lotteriet. The London Chronicle calls Eng land "a nation of gamblers." It points out that ''Westminster bridge was built on the proceeds of a lot-! tory. Hut so solemn an institution as the British museum was founded upon a basis of gambling in 1753. A sum of i':?00,000 was raised by a lottery authorized by a special act of parliament. The money was spent principally in buying the mil-1 scum and collection of Sir Hans Soane, the Harlcion collection of manuscript and Montague House. Bloomsbury, then the mansion of tho Karl of Halifax. And the gam ble bought a house big enough to contain the British museum for many years." Amaranth. Amaranth is a name frequently nsed in poetry for certain plants and flowers which on account of their lateness in fading are taken as the emblems of immortality. The famous flowers arc still to be found and are known in our gar dens as love lies bleeding, prince's feather, coxcomb and globe ama ranth. Instead of using holly and ivy, as we do, the people of south ern Europe decorate Ihoti churches with these flowers, which arc said to retain their color for many mont hs.?Exchange. Patent Leather Shoes. Before putting on patent leather shoes always rub the surface of the vamp briskly with the warm palm of the Imnd, thus softening tho shoe and rendering it lens liable to oraek. Many patent leather boots r>racklo ::!! ovor the first time tbey are worn when this precaution might prevent the aeeident. Another method is the gradual warming of the shoe, and it must always be remembered that shiny shoes are never kept in cold places. FORGOT THE KEY. Then the Lookamith Showed Him Hew to Open the Door. When Mr. and Mrs. Eastend started out to spend the evening In pursuance of an engagement they paused on the front steps long enough for Mrs. K. to propound the usual query, "Have you got the key, dear?" "ifes, I guess so," said Mr. E. "Walt a minute. No, I haven't, either. What do you think of that? Must have left It on the dresser." "Well, here's a pretty how-de-do!" exclaimed Mrs. E. as her consort sav agely but fruitlessly rummaged his pockets. "How aro we going to got in to get 11V" Hubby first tried the lower windows, to find them all carefully locked. Neighbors awoke to the situation and began to be helpful. "Get a ladder," said one. "Got a Jimmy," said another. "Get an aeroplane." said a third. Various other expedients, ranging from derricks to dynamite, were sug gested. Finally one neighbor brought a ladder which wouldn't reach the second story windows by six feet. It was suggested that the fire depart- : meat be summoned. Rejected. By this time the engagement had to be called off, and the remarks Mrs. E. was making to the female contingent of the assemblage will not hero bo re corded. As a last resort a locksmith was suggested, and Mr. E. departed In search of one. At the end of an hour he returned with a stolid looking Ger man bearing an armful of tools. "Vlch toor?" he Inquired. "This one." said Mrs. E., "and for goodness' sake don't jimmy it nor dy namite It unless you have to!" "Dot's all rlghd," grunted the work man. Then he extended his hand and tried the knot). It turned. The catch had not caught. The door swung open. lie turned and gave the assem blage an expressive glance. And now when Mr. and Mrs. E. leave their little home of an evening some neighbor is sure to stick his head out of a window and kindly inquire. "Have you g.?t the keyV"?Pittsburg Gazette-Times, BLIND TO GOOD LUCK. Fable of the Weary Farmer and the Golden Plow. There was oneo a Benevolent Fairy who was ilCCUSlomed to doing (hied Deeds in Whimsical Ways. One day she was (lying across the country to attend a meeting of the A. O. B. F. when she noticed a Farmer laboring in the Fields. His horse was Attenuated and Dcceplt, and ids plow was Heavy and old Fashioned, Often he would pause ami wipe the sweat from his brow. Plainly ho was having a Hard Time. The Benevolent Fairy watched hin? a moment and observed his Haggard i.<>o!. ana his general air of Misery. | Suddenly an Idea came to her?to make this man Rich, so that he would no longer have to delve and struggle to eke out a Bare Living. So she swooped down and touched the plow with her wand?she was, of course. In visible?and Instantly It was changed to Solid Gold. Then with an amused but kindly backward glance the Benev olent Fairy wont on her way. A year later, remembering the oc currence," she flew over to see how the Farmer was enjoying his Good For tune. She found hi in hi the Fields, plowing laboriously, and if anything be and his surroundings looked Mean er and More Miserable than they had before. Much surprised, the Fairy flew closer, just In time to hear him murmur: "I wish this ding-busted plow wara't bo heavy!" The Henevolent Fairy eyed him Pity ingly; then she once moro touched tho plow with her wand, and It again be came a thing of wood and Iron. Then she Hew away, and the Farmer resum ed his Toll. After all. are there not some folk who would dlO Of thirst adrift on a river? ? Clifton B. Dowd in Lippin cott's. A Duel In Undross. Dueling, though not dead, was dy ing out even lu Bogers' time and was not taken very seriously. The poet's biographer tells the quaint story of how Mr. Humphrey Ilowarth, a sur geon, when called out mnde his ap- . pea ranee in the field stark naked. The astonished challenger asked him what he meant. "I know," said Howarth, "that if any part of the clothing is ! carried Into the body by a gunshot . wound festering ensues, and therefore i I have met you thus." His antagonist declared that fighting a man in purls naturalibus would be quite ridiculous. ( and accordingly they parted without further discussion. Definite, "Madam"?a census taker was speak ing to her who answered his knock? "how many children over six and un der twenty-on? years of nge DaVO you?" "Lemme see," she reflected; "lemme \ see. Waal, sir, thar be two over six ; an' two under twenty-one."?Every body's. Prepositions. A correspondent of the New York Sun snys ho overheard the following: j "The boys came out from over In be-: tween those houses." Here are five prepositions In a bunch. Can this 'To. ord" be broken? Your Occupation. Every occupation lifts Itself with the enlarging life of him who practices U The occupation that will not do that no man really has a right to occupy himself abouL -Phiiiips Brook?. SPENDTHRIFT BALZAC. Extravagance of tho Man Who Had a Mountain of Debts. <fWith Balzac's rising famo rises the mountain of bis debts," writes a critic. "These, starting from his ! two disastrous years of printing and I publishing in Paris, accumulated un til at the top of his literary renown ho had to hido from his creditors in a garret under the name of his landlady or his washerwoman. In \ 1837 Balzac, at that date the best known and tho most debated novel ist in France, owed 162,000 francs (about $32,500). Then ho must needs buy a cano which was tho talk of Paris, some gold buttons for a new coat, a 'divine opera glass' and a j dressing gown beyond words and give a dinner to the dandies of the , opera respecting which Rossini said : that 'ho hod nd\ seen more mag nificence when he dined at royal tables.' "Balzac three times a millionaire ' would still have buried himself in debt, for tho mental exaltation of ' his creative hours was reproduced when he broke loose from the gal ley bench. He lavished in anticipa tion the wealth he had dreamed would bo his. This gone, he bor rowed anew or devised another of those schemes that were to enrich him beyond tho possibilities of lit erature. His schemes were essen tially a part of Balzac, tho sover eign, unconquerable visionary. "lie would transport oaks from Poland to France?nothing like oaks from Poland to make your for tune three times over! Behold him again gravely working out his plan to make a corner in all the arts and putting up the Apollo Belvedere for competition among the nations? to act as auctioneer to Europe?the 'child man,' as his devoted sister, Mino. Survillo, used to call him." A Motorcycle Parade. The Curbstone club mombers were discussing the speed of motor- I cycles when the ancient carpenter, I who had just come in, joined in the conversation. "Talking about motorcycles," ho said, "I took a count of them in front of my house tho other even ing. "I noticed that a continual string of them seemed to be coming by the place, so I started in eounting. "By the time I bad reached !>87 I made a peculiar discovery. I hap pened to notice by a mark of the tire of tho wheel that it was the same motorcycle that I had been tallying. "The rider went so fast round and round the block that I mistook him for a parade."?Youngstown Telegram. Disabled. In an English camp a battalion was being instructed on how to take a convoy through open coun try. One company was told off to represent a convoy, the men being instructed that they wero to repre sent horses, cows and wagons. After being halted a short time the advance signal was given, and the convoy moved on, but tho ma jor noticed that one man continued to lie down and, galloping up to him in a rage, said, "Man, why don't you advance?" The soldier replied, "I can't, sir." Major?You can't? What do' you mean ? "I'm a wagon," said the soldier, "and I've got a wheel off." He Couldn't See. Little Jack's father was the 1 teacher of the Sunday school class of which Jack was a new member. He had been told that as this was ' his first Sunday he would not be asked any questions, but bo must pay close attention just the same. . So on tho way home his father asked him who it was who killed Goliath. "I don't know. I was sitting on the back seat and couldn't sec," was tho ready answer.?National Monthly. Prevaricator. The word prevaricator is from the Latin and originally meant a straddler with distorted or mis shapen legs. In the Roman courts of law tho expression was applied to one who in a suit was discovered to bo in collusion with his opponent to compass some dishonesty. As falsehood was tho necessary part of such a performance, tho word by and by came to have tho signifi cance at present attached to it. The Exoeption. A cynic had returned from a par ty in Toronto, given by some "new rich" citizens who were rather os tentatious, but not given to the use of correct English. "I suppose," said an inquiring friend, "that everything was very swell." 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By virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of South Carolina provid ing therefor: He it resolved by the Hoard of County Commissioners of Laurens County, in the Stale of South Carolina, in regular annual meeting assembled: Thai the license fees to hi' paid by hawkers und peddlers doing business within said county during the year A. l>. 1011 be and the same ai'3 hereby fixed in the following I amounts, to wit: For peddlers of merchandiser on foot. Fifteen Dollars; Peddlers of merchandise in one horse wagon Fif ty Dollars; Peddlers of merchandise in two horse wagons. Seventy Dollars; For peddlers of stoves or ranges, for the first wagon Seventy Dollars, and for each additional wagon operated by the same firm, Fifty Dollars. For peddlers of clocks, for the first wagon Fifty Dollars, and for each additional wagon Thirty Dollars; For peddlers of lightning rods. Twenty Dollars for the tlrst wagon, and'Ten Dollars for each additional wagon. For peddlers of spectacles, on foot. 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