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ESTABLISHED 1865. TNEWBERRY,_S. C., TURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1891. YA ESTA_--_--_-_-A OUR MIG COTTON CRtOPS. F.,roers Will lrabae Thein and the Worbl Wants Thein-Ruilnously Low Prices Not a Necessary Result of a Great Yield -A Texas Man's Hopeful View of the Situation. A Galveston News reporter inter viewing Mr. Julius Ruge, one of the largest cotton men of the South, asked his opinion of the proposition, so often discussed by the Farmers' Alliance in the various States, to reduce the acreage of cotton and thus secure better prices for what cotton they raise. "It is a good plan, of course," said he, "but it cannot be put into practice. When one man reduced another would increase, so as to have more cotton for the coming good prices. Of course, if a scarcity could be made, better prices would prevail. "But." said he, "I think it i, a mis take to credit the present low prices to over-production. We have made a large crop and there is every indication at the present time that the next crop will be a large one also. But in the fa.e of all this there is nothing to war rant the present low prices of cotton. The world need every pound of cotton now in sight and all that is prospective ly in sight. The trouble is not over production, but in the stagnant condi tion of the world's trade. The Portugal, Italian and other financial troubles, the Argentine bank collapse, and every thing has combined to shake confidence and prevent speculation. Cotton has declined steadily, because there has been nothing to sustain it, and now it has reached a point entirely unwar ranted by the surrounding conditions. "The present outlook is not bright, I admit, but we may have a repetition of the fall of 1879. During that year the city of Glasgow bank failure had demoralized finances quite badly. Cot ton and everything else declined. There was a good wheat crop, however, and stimulated by it business became brisk in all lines, and in a month or six weeks cotton advanced $S or $10 a bale. "Now, this year we have very simi lar conditions. Cotton is cheaper than it has been since 18->3, but we are making the largest wheat crop we have ever made, and the food supply of Europe is a failure. Europe will need from us this year 200,000,000 bushels of wheat, which at the increased prices, means $150,000,000 more for this crop than we received last year. It is true that this sum is scattered over the country, but even then it means a good deal, and must turn the flood of gold from Europe to America. General busi ness must be benefitted and stimulated, and that may cause cotton to advance to its normal and rightful position. "But there is still another view of the situation not generally taken or appre clated. Present low prices have at tracted attention to cotton, and the result is that low grades, which ordina rily would be shunned and avoided, are being sought after. In New York and Liverpool cotton is moving, but it is low grade cotton. This is accounted for by the fact that at certain prices cotton may be put to various uses and substituted for other materials. Ordi narily even the present grades are too high priced for such purposes, but after a certain point has been passed their use becomes practicable and they are much sought after. This, of course, extends or increases consumption, and under this consumption the visible supply of cotton rapidly falls away. There is a great deal of such cotton on hand now, for it averages from 5 to S per cent of the crop. say on a crop of 8,000,000 there will be at the lowest figure 400,000( bales, and it must be remembered in a stock statement each bad or undesirable bale counts just as much as the best bale in the lot. It is bales, not grades, that make up the totals. "Now, as I said before, while the out look is not bright and glorious, it is not devoid of hopeful features and I have named over some of themx to you. ".But whether prices ad vance or not," continued Mr. Runge, "I think the outlook for Texas is far fronm being as gloomy as some think. In the first place, moderately low prices for cotton atll through the winter will give the farmers an object lesson that w ill teach them more than all the lectures and advice they have received for years. It is folly to preach diversity of crops to a man who can raise cotton on cheap land and sell it for 8 cents. He thinks that is good enough without anything more. If low prices continue, though, the farmers will change their minds. The farmers in North Texas will let cotton alone and plant more wheat; those in Middle and South Texas will plant more oats and corn. They will not care to raise cotton when they can scarcely get tihe price of their labor out of it. Tile farmers have needed just such a lesson as they they are receiving, and it wvill do them good." "lDo you think they can stand the loss on their chief crop this year7' was asked. "I don't know how individuals may stand it, but as a whole I regard the Texas farmers as being in better condi tion tihan those of any other State in the Union. Congressman Long's state ment that in his district alone there are $40,000,000 worth of mortgages sim ply appears bad; as a matter of fact it is not so. Look at the matter from all points and you will see that this is true. In the first place the Texas farmers come here poor. They have no money to start with. They buy lands cheaply and build up their farms. In a few years they are paid for and they are se cure. They have that much, anyhow, for, according. to Texas law, ,a home tad canne wo.,rt"'a'oe even if thei owner desircs to place a mortgage on i. Then where do these $40,000,000 moI zages come from ? I do not know, but they are certainly not on the farms of the district. If a man desires to specu late and buys more land than he can pay Fr that is his misfortune and he must stand it. Certainly this class of farmers should not be credited with doing all the losing business. "Yes, I consider the Texas farmers to be in very good shape all round. Two years ago they made splendid crops and received good prices for them. Last year crops were good also, and if they are not prepared to stand a little loss now they never will be. "This is he way I look at it: The cotton crop is large, but there is no over-production, for the world's con sumption of cotton is also very large. Prices are low, not because of anything with which cotton has to do, but sim ply because the world's business has been stagnated by the vast financial difliculties we have gone through. The wheat supply of Europe is short, while we are making the largest crop ever produced in America. This wheat movement is certain to produce revival of speculetion and business, and this last may produce an active demand for cotton. Low prices are rapidly reduc ing stocks by removing all the undesir able grades of cotton, and in a month or two the histoiy of 1879 may be re peated and cotton advance $15 or $20 a bale. I don't say that it will, mind that, but I do say that it may. Sup pose our wheat crop h,,d failed, also, or that Europe had made a good crop, alqo, and did not need any of ours? Where would we have been then? You see things are not quite so bad as they might have been. CALL WON'T GET A CERTIFICATE. Gov. Fleming Will Not Sign the Senator'p Re-election Credentials. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., August S.-As predicted in previous despatches to the Sun, Gov. Fleming has refused to cer tify to the reelection of Senator Call last May. The Governor's open letter, sent broadcast over the State to-day, causes a great deal of dismay in the Call ranks arid the anti-Call crowd are elated. The letter has been expected, though the conservative element was in hopes that he would drop his par tisanship and do what would be for the best interests of -the party in the State. Gov. Fleming must now face a party breach that will be widened day by day till it will probably reach such a climax that the Republicans by com bining with on wing or the other will put their men into power. The Governor's letter simply repeats the arguments advanced by the anti-Call crowd when they made their fight against the Senator at Tallahassee. Mr. Chipley, by common rumor, will receive a certificate from the Gover nor. He is very bitter toward Call. He is several times a millionaire and is saId to show no disposition to make a vigorous fight. GORMAN IS THEIR MAN. The Farmers' Alliance, of Maryland, Is Friendly to the Demiocrats' Great Leader.I BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 13.-Tile Farmers' State Alliance adjourned sine aie. The final act of the convention be fore the adjournment was a declaration, which was put in the form of a resolu tion, that the Farmers' Alliance, of the State of Maryland, is in no way antag onistic to United States Senator Gor man, and that any publication that the farmers were inimical to, or in opposi tion to the distinguished senior senator of the state, was without warrant, and had no foundation in fact. The speeches made in presenting the resolution, and before its adoption, went to show that the Farmors' Alli ance was not only not hostile to Sena tor Gorman, but was very much in alli ance both with himrself and his princi pes. swallowed a Siiver Dollar. [Froml the Chica;ro Tribune.] FINDLAY, 0., Aug. 3.-John Doland and several companions were filliping silver dollars in the air and catching them in their mouths at Custer, Wood County, yesterday, when one of the dollars slipped down Doland's throat. It is now lodged in his stomach, where he says he can plain'y feel it. He was in this city to-day consulting a physi cian regarding his peculiar predica ment. Kansas Wheat Crop. The Kansas State Farmers' Alliance has completed arrangements by which it will handle three-quarters of the Kansas wheat crop of 501,000,000 bush 'Arragemenits have been mxade to store half of the crop in the big eleva tors in Kansas City, Chicago, St. Paul, Cincinnati, Baltimore and other large cities for an indefinite period, or until the owmners desire to sell. Grain Produce. IR is estimnated that there will be an excess 00.~0,000,000 bushels over last year. Thi. -~make a tot al of 70,000, 000. An o ~ been issued from Northern hx cers of the Northernal equipmeits and 000 bushels more t dIed last year, which aggre 00. Othber roads figure on tionate d.ieease, and the No Pacifeeople say their percen' THE TREASURYS CONDITION. Why the Facts About it are not Made Pub lic-The Finances of the Country in a Bad Way Consequent upon the Reck lessness of Congress. [From the New York Times.] WASHINGTON, August 5.-A prom iuent banker in New York, who has found it essential to his success in busi ness to keep track of the operations of the treasury department, and who has received from the department the reg ular monthly statements of the con dition of the debt by the Secretary, and the assets and liabilities as presented by the Treasurer, has just written to Washington to ask why the report of the Treasurer has not been sent to him for June and July. If that in quiry bad come from a person who knew less about the national finances it would not be surprising. He ought not to be surprised to-morrow when he learns that for two months there has been no report of the assets Rnd liabilities from the Treasurer, in independent of the statement of the public debt sent out over the signature of the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary's statement is now supposed to include the Treasurer's report. As this banker has been receiving the Secretary's report, and as he should be as well qualified to interpret it as any other business man in New York, the fact that he desires to know what has become of the report of the Treasurer is interesting. If to his clear mind the Secretary's report leaves something to be desired by ordinary laymen, who may be much more easily "fuddled" by an adroit report, contrived by excluding details to hide something that has heretofore been made plain, what is it that led the Sec retary to change the form of the month ly statement ? This question has been asked repeatedly since the change in tie form of the report, and it has been answered by Secretary Foster as one might expect him to answer it. It was because it was "more convenient and more economical." But it was not alone for the sake of spending money, but to give accurate information, that Secretary Sherman issued two statements, one giving a very frank and detailed account of the money in the Treasurer's office, and another one, entirely comprehensible to ordinary people, showing the avail able surplus." or money available for payment of the debt. The reconstruc tion and remodelling of the debt state ment was for a very difTerent purpose. It became necessary, when the avail able'assets of the treasury were run ning low, so to present them to the people that they would be led to be lieve that the Government was really richer in ready money than an extrav agant course would permit it to be. Under Secretary Windom several de vices were resorted*to to add to the apparent available assets, but the ex pedients resorted to by him were about exhausted when he died. If the re ports of the Treasurer, as made out by Treasurers Jordan and Hyatt under the last Administration, and by Mr. Huston under this Administration. were continued to-day, they would show that, instead of having a "net cash balance" in the treasury of more than fifty-five millions, the Secretary has only between ten and fifteen mil lions of avilable assets. It would seem as if all of the expedients that could be employed to prevent the public from discovering by the Government state ment what the condition of the treas ury is had been employed. At all events, the statement of the public debt is now interesting chiefly for what it does not show, and in order to find out what the situation is by tearing the report in pieces and reconstructing it is a task for v'hich few men have either the time, inclination dAbility. This is well knowid .xen who are resorting to a s& "faked" statement that is onlf-.ine the state ment it succeeds in that it comes out monthly, and has the the name and assurances of the Secretary at the foot of it. It is characteristic of a party that delights in "jingo" politicians and a "strong rule." The deposits in national banks and the subsidiary coinage and other finan cial "junk" is loaded into the "avail able" column, where it formerly had only a reserved place, just to lead peo ple to believe that the treasury is being conducted successfully in spite of the spendthrift billion Oongress. If the Secretary could be induced just for the sake of illustration to issue two reports one according to his "fuddling" plan, and another upon the instructive plan in vogue three years ago, it would make a very interesting comparison. Love's Young Dream. Love's young dream was a very bright one, and its fultillment will be bright, too, if the bride wvill remember that she is a woman, and liable to all the ills peculiar to her sex. We remind those who are suff'ering from any of these, that Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre scription will renew the hue of youth in pale and sallow cheeks, correct irri tating uterine diseases, arrest and cure u-ceration and intiammation, and in fuse new vitality into a wasting body. "Favorite Prescription" is the only medicine for women, scid by druggists, undr a positive guarantee from the manufacturers, that it will give satis faction in every case, or money will;be refunded. -This guarantee has been printed on the bottle-wrapper, and faithfully carried out for many years. One for Mathematical sharps. [Utica Morning Herald.] el' ve oraiiges grown at De Land, - npletely filled a peck measure. <any one in last term's geom outa n the average dijame REMARKABLE .MND READINU. A Kentucky Youth Who Surpasie. the t.d Hands at the BuAinesi. [From the Courier-Journal.J A new mind reader has been discov ered at Glasgow, Ky., or rather discov ered himself accidentally, not long since. He is Flavius Taylor, the son of Dr. E. J. Taylor, a Glasgow physician. His age is 19 years, aul some account of his doings has been sent to the Courier-Journal by Dr. P. C. Sutphin, another of Glasgow's physicians, who is familiar with the young man's caj!e, and has made a stuay of mind reading, as well as what is termed "musele reading" by performers who claii to be guided by the thrills of the muscles of the subject. Dr. Sutphin gives some speculations at length on the alleged distinction be tween mind reading and iuscle read ing, and arrives at the conclusion that, though there may be trickery and imposture used by some people there is such a thing as mind reading, and no such thing as muscle reading. He qoutes from Stuart Cumberland, an Englsly mind reader, who claimed that he was guided by the muscles, and in a performance before the Khed iTe of Egypt, wrote a word thought of (the name of the Khedive's son. Abbas) on a piece of paper, in Arabic, a langu age of which he knew nothing, and this without a moment's hesitatiou. Cumberland said this was muscle read ing, but Dr. Sutphin details a similar test with young Taylor, which, he claims, shows the mind must bear its parth such a test as well as the mus cles. He is willing to say that some things may be done by muscle reading, but that others cannot. Dr. Sutphin, in his account of young Taylor's perfor mance, says: "We may concede, however, all that Mr. Cumberland says of muscle read ing; may agree that all his feats were performed by it; yet when it is at tempted to include all mind reading in this, then it will be found that this can not be done. There is much of mind reading, indeed, that could not be ex plained, nor, in fact, be accomplished, by muscle reading. This is fully proven by a lately developed mind reader here in the place in which I live-a young man. Flavius Taylor, 19 yearz of age, son of Dr. F. J. Taylor, a prominent physician and pension medical exami ner. It is not improbable that in nearly every instance the gift of mind reading has been of accidental discovery on the part of the one possessing it, and thus it was acccidentally made known to young Taylor. Several months ago an itinerant mind reader exhibited in this place and young Taylor attended his performance. Returning home, he playfully remarked to a young man who had accompanied him that he thought he would make a good mind reader, and that if the other would blindfold him and hide something he would find it for him. To have a little amusement, he was duiy blindfolded and next told to find a book that had been hidden in an adjacent room. He now grasped the hand of the young man who had hidden the book, but was utterly surprised to find that not only the book, but also its place of con cealmnen t were impressed on his mind. He readily took the young man to the place where the book .g:as and handed it to him. After this there were more or less frequent tests of his powers in finding things thus, while all hidden articles were always promptly located by him. Intermingled with these tests were others, such as willing him to do certain things. Say, for instance, that it was willed for him to take a particu lar flower of a number of flowers in a vase in the room, and to hand it to a certain young lady present; to remove the watch from the pocket of a certain gentleman and to put it into that of another certain gentleman. to go to a library and take out some particular volume in it, and turn toa certain page and paragraph or sentence in it, and so on of other requests of this sort. "All these were readily and accurately done by him, down to the minuted. particular of the wish. Mr. Cumber land, however, professes to have done things quite equal to this by muscle reading, being directed in them lty the muscular tremors of the hand kept enclosed in his. In this way, he says, he only followed direction. 'tad knew nothing really of the mind, and only did as the tremors directed. He did, iu other words, prec9ely what the hand he was holding would have done, di rected by the individual. In this, of course, there was no mind reading, but a guidance only by muscle signaling. Suppose, however, it was required to take hold of the hand, and next tell any particular thought of the mind not find anything or to do anything that the hand of the individual might do, but simply to take the hand and say, not act out, what the thought was-then tbis could only be gotten direct from the mind, and in no other way, as mere muscle reading in this case would simply be impossible. In this case, it woul-1 be necessary to see through itself, to tell what it was, which the thrill of the muscles would not admit of. And yet, young Taylor can do this. He has been mentally requested, for instance, to play a eer tain air on the organ, and of a number of others played by him, when catebing hold of the hand to know what it was, he would go to the organ and play it, using both hands for the purpose. Had he been playing by direction only of the muscles of the hand, he could not have let go the hand and played with both hands. "But he has done better even than this. Any figure, or any number of figures, being thought of, he has readily an nounced what it or they were, calling them out singly or in combination, zis desired. For instance, suppose that the figures 5. 3, and 8 were separately thought of. Then these were promptly told out, one by one, and announced singly as thought of; or suppose, again, these were thought of as 538, then this number, or 538, would be told. Some time ago, knowing that he did not understand Latin. I improvised a short Latin sentence-est mihi voluntas ut legis meam mentem'-and asked him to tell me what it was. This was made out slowly, but quite accurately, the words being spelled out, letter by letter. It is proper to say, too, that these were called out at once, without going over the alphabet and getting at them in this way, one by one, on the order of 'table rapping.' Nothing was said, really, more then to call out the letters in their proper order. "Without mentioning other feats of this young man the question next occurs: Upon what other ground can we explain this telling of figures and calling out Latin than upon the silent impress of mind upon mind? This is the cxplanation, in fact, that young Taylor gives of his 'mind reading,' as it is called; or that he only interprets every thing by impression. He knows nothing of muscle reading, feels nothing of the sort, sees nothing, hears nothing, is not aware .en of any particular exaltation of tLe perception, but simply finds certain thoughts or wishes of another impressed on him. His great difficulty, he says, is to get a correct impression from some who either lack concentration of mind or allow the too frequent intrusion of other thoughts into it. For a go(od effect impressions must be forcible and sharp cut, and the mind must be kept steadily and as exclusively as possible on the subject. He thinks the hand acts only as a con ductor of impression, and regards it indispensable for that purpose, as the current of impression is transmitted in this way, without which he could tell nothing. In conclusion, I may add that in his performances there is usually 1 considerable disturbance of his physical being. His respiration often becomes slow and labored, pulse usually goes up from ten to twenty beats above normal to the minute, there is heavysighing at times, and sometimes so much exhaus tion as to necessitate temporary rest." THE ESCORTED GIRL. She is an Interesting Creature and You Like Her Ways. [From the Boston Home Journal.] These a-e the days when the es corted girl is prevalent. You can tell her at aglance. The girl whose brothers are accustomed to take her about has an air of good fellowship which is un mistakable. She is as much at home when being taken for a ride in an open street car by said brothers, or when ac cepting or sharing a theatre treat, as if she were a boy, or the brothers were girl friends. But the escorted girl is a study which is most amusing. She is of many kinds, but the general air of being escorted is alike in all varie ties. You meet her in the street. There is a self-consciousness about her which attracts your attention at once to the fact that she is accompained by a young man, for there is nothing which holds its italicizing so long as this. You see her in the open cars bound for a ride, and bearing all over herself the im print of having been invited. You watch her at the play. It is almost as interesting as the play itself-- especially if the play is an old one. And no where do you see more of her than at church, especially at the vespers. All wvomen do not of course belong to that class. The escorted girl has the conscious air of having just discovered tbat she is desirable, but not having yet learned for a ceitainty that she is worth while. She has the conscious ness of suspecting that man is her nat ural prey, but of not being certain that she will get the chance to devour him. She enjoys the sensations of being de sired without the full knowledge that the desire will grow by what it feeds on. She feels her power, but does not quite know how to use it. She tries it, but with a slightly timid manner. She has not yet gained confidence. There is usually an open attempt to please in her manner which draws marked as. tention to her. It is while she is in this state that she gives away more of her real nature than she ever does later. And it is while she is in this frame of mind that she comes under the head of the sort of girl I have been noting lately, and for lack of a better classi fication have dubbed "the escorted girl.' There are women, I find, who never get beyond this stage. They are girls of suggestive possibilities who never realize all that they promise, for some undefinable reason. They never grow sure of their rights, never wear them with authority. This class of women is not uncommon. I recollect them in my youth. One often made great efforts to be made acquainted with them, and never got any further. They are often prettier than less attractive girls, but lacking reality they are only i nspiring to the imagination. Femi ninitv is hard to classify, however, and there is as much difference of opinion about it as about religion. Aver's Hair Vigor restores color and vitality to weak and gray hair. Through its healing and cleansing qualities, it prevents the accumulation of dandruff and cures all scalp diseases. The best hair dressing ever made, and by far the most ecnomical. sOUND SENSE ON THE SUB-TREASUPM. & Catechisi for the Advocates of the Scheme-Can they Answer LGreenville News.] Pickens county has been getL;.r a ?retty heavy dose of sub-treasury ora :ory. Now we would like the people )f Pickens to honestly ask themselves tud answer a few questions: First, is it true that they have been rrowing poorer ever since the war? Do they not know men whose con lition has been steadily improving ,ver since the war? Have they not in very neighborhood ;armers who hav nade and kept money by farming ;ince the war? Are not the general conditions of the :ountry and people improved? Do they iot live in better houses, eat better ood, wear better clothes than a few rears ago? Are they not learning more, tre their churches not better, has nes he entire country improved, excepts. vhere it was injured by thriftless col-, )red tenant labor, and all in spite of a ax rate the highest in the State, on ecount of railroad subscriptions? How many of the men who listened :o Lecturer Jeffries and Colonel Keitt :an figure out how the land loan and iub-treasury would help them? In the Fall everybody who has cot- I :on can get money either by selling or y borrowing on the staple. The pinch, he time when poor men need to be 1 1elped, is in the summer. The sub ;reasury would not lend on liens or :hattel mortgages or personal cred It vould run out of business the men who lo. Even the alliance stores and ex >hanges would dcal only for cash. Would anybody be helped by the and loan scheme but those who have and already mortgaged or who own I and and desire to borrow on it to lend I tt higher rates to their neighbors? Would not the ability to borrow noney on land at two per cent make nen who have land hold it tighter?i iVould it not make it harder for the t >oor man to buy land? Suppose Pickens County grows 10,000 ales of cotton at $40 a bale. When hat is sold outright it puts $400,000 in he bands of Pickens people. Suppose hey all used the sub-treasury, drawing 1 >nly eighty per cent. of the value. That I vould put only $320,00 in the hands t >f Pickens people, wouldn't it? And < nterest and insurance would have to >e taken from that. Sub-treasury advocates tell you their I cheme would make money more abun- 1 lant. How do they get over these 1 igures or make eighty per cent. as nuch as a hundred? Ask them. I If your cotton rose in price you would ' >e winner. If it went down you would i >e loser. Did you ever try holding i :ttoL for a rise? How did you come < )ut? Judge the future by the past. 4 If every man whose land is mort ;aged now borrowed money from the ~overnmenL on it, who would get that noney? The holder of the mortgage,< ~he man to whom the money is due.i Would you get a do[lar of it? How? Does the mortgage holder owe ycu any hing? Have you anything he wants o buy? Do you reckon he is going toj e so flush with it that he'll give you a ew hats full? The land holder who is I inder mortgage will have his debt ransferred from the private lender to] he government, his time extendedi md his interest reduced. That is all1 -ight for him if debasement of the cur ~ency doesn't rumn all together, but iow will it help the free land owner or 2on land owner? And you man who work occasionally >r regularly for wages: Is it not to your nterest to have the dollar put in your ]and a sure, solid, full dollar, worth me hundred cents at the store or any-< vhere else, now and twenty years 2ence, if you can lay by a dollar now mnd then? Can you aflord to risk hay-1 ng your dollar you have worked for liscounted ten or twenty or thirty :ents, or to find when the rainy day rou have provided for comes that your lollar is good only for half a dollar, al bough you have done a dollar's worth >f work, put a dollar's worth of your ime and muscle in it? Don't you know hat wages are always the last thing to -ise? Don't you know you and your ~amily wIll suffer if you are earning, >nly the same dollar you now earn ~vile prices are kiting up and your lollar will pay for only half the food mnd clothes it buys now? These questions may be taken, an iwered and thought over in other laces besides Pickens. sell When There's a Demand. [Philadelphia Record.j A year ago, when cotton was sell .ng at 12 cents per pound, and the argest crop in the history of the South vas about being picked, the farmers' >rganizations were as busily engaged n pledging producers to "hold their :otton" in order to maintain high prices as the Alliance people are so-day in advisIng grof'ers to "hold their wheat." The price of cotton has1 not been as high since last July as iti was at that time ; and it is to-day in ibundant supply at S cents per pound. As the New York Commercial Bulle Ln points out in an article on this subject, there is a lesson to wheat producers in the story of the last cot ton year that may be studied with profit throughout the grain-growing districts. The time to sell is when everybodyv wants to buy ; and the holders ofwhbeat who act on this truism will probably come out with a better balance on the profit side of their books' than will those who shall hold their grain until somebody else shall have unnnlied the demand. THE WATERMELO REVIVAL. In Intereqting Religious Ceremony of An nual Recurrence in the Far South. Green Cove Springs, Florida, is in the midst of one of the most successful watermelon revivals ever known in the South. The unusual fervor of the ex !itement is said to be the result of the exceptionally fine melon crop, which n quality and quantity surpasses any thing seen here in recent years. The -evival began some three weeks ago, is soon as the quality of the luscious ield had been proved by eating, and t is now at its height. As a conse luence household operations are at a .omplete standstill, and business of very kind is seriously intefered with. The watermelon revival is a citro eligious event of annual recurrence in he melon growing regions of the far outh. It lays hold of the colored -ple only and gets its strongest grip the sisters, but in a temporal way cts the white residents hardly oowerfully. Throughout the mel ason the colored sisters and a najority of the brethren entirely give hemselves up to the exquisite pleas ire of the melon and the pain of re igous conviction that precedes the cstasy of coaversion, which in turn eads quickly t exaltation and a cotn Ltose condition. This latter condition s next to heaven, the end sought for; )ut because of the duration of these raEces or subjugation to "the power," s it is called here, many of the sis ers are in the present instance failing ,o assimilate all of their sha:e of this eason's melon crop. Thu~ Mrs. Kirk )atrick's cook lay in a trance for sev ral days, and neither cooked nor ate, nd this was when the melons were at heir best. Mrs. Buddington's colored naid was brought home in a dray at o'clock in the morning and deposited n the kitehen floor, where she lay igid and with "eyes sot," as this man festation is termed, until at the end of bree days Mrs. Buddington had her arl ed back to the church in which she got the power." Mrs. Butler's cook ot religion and rigidity early in the evival, and, the task of finding a ubstitute being manifestly hopeless, he family at once made arrangements o take tj:eir meals with a family in he same street who are not dependent n colored servants. The industry that is doing nearly all he flourishing in the present crisis is hat of the few worldly minded negroes vho own a mule and cart. Business is )risk for these just now from the hour vben the full moon shows above the 'urther cypress-bordered shore of the t. Johns until the yellow disk fuses n the golden sky of a midsummer norning. All the colored churches are >pen twenty-four hours a day-in the laytime for such as attain satiety of nelons early and are prepared for the ,eligious influences long before night all ; throughout the night for all who ~ome. Many who come to scoff re nain to be carted awvay, and those who aave religion get it again and likewise 2ave need of the mule cart. So this eaming of precious and rigid human 'reight begins early in the evening and oes on until the bull-bats cease their >ursuit of nocturnal bugs. The white residents are so seriously President Harrison if Mr. Blaine will ot consent to stand. The influence of he ladies of his family may deter Mr. Blane, but there is a tremendous pres ure upon him from his old party riends to run. He would sweep the ~onvention. I think. No Republican, s as strong as Blaine. I do not think hat he will consent to run. Mr. Cleve and, in my judgment, is still the trongest candidate. He may have ffeded the extreme pro-silver men by 2is remarks against free coinage, but he mjoys a wonderful reputation among he people." HIS HEAD WAs A GOLD MINE. L Goldsmith Carried Ofr D)ust In 21s Hair NEw YORK, July :30.-A man with a eritable gcid mine in his hair was ar ested here to-day. He is Moses Israel ky, a goldsmith, recently from Rus ia. He worked for Elden Hayden a ocal goldsmith. Shortly after Moses made his debut n Hayden's shop tbe proprietor began o0 miss about half his gold dust. Then ,he man from Russia was watched. Every day he turned up at the shop ~vith his long curly hair neatly oiled, s if he was going to a charity ball. fter getting his fingers covered with ~old-dust, Moses would carelessly run ais hand through his hair. The pre ~ious metal would stick. At night the 3unning Jew's head would sparkle with the yellow dust. He would care ully wash it off at night and re peat his operation next day. Hun Ireds of dollars' worth of gold was thus carried off. He is now in the Tombs in default :>f bail. The Cow was~ Drunk. [From th.t Los Angeles Progress.] some dlays :ago one of our country men, who lives at Pasadena, was aston ished to see one of his best cows lying pparently dying in front of the barn. The animal lay there inert, with open eyes. The man called a veterina ry surgeon, who could diagnose the -ase, and a butcher was sent for to bleed the animal. He was some tine in arriving, and when he did come the cow was found eating at a haystack, but with legs a little uncertain. An investigation followed, and it was found that tbe cow had eaten copiously f the refuse at.a neighboring winery. This staff, composed of grape skins and tems, had fermented and induced a' state of intoxication. SENATOR CARLISLE'S VIEWS. He Fears no Great Injury to the Democrat from the Farmers' Alliance. NARR-AGAY&ETT PIER, August 11. Senator Carlilse, who is here with Senators Aldrich, Harris, and Allison, as a member of the Senate Sub-Com mittee on Finance, in discussing the po litical situation yesterday, said: "The Farmers' Alliance is a gradual atrophy, a marasmus which indicates that the organization will not, in all probability, be a serious factor in the election next year. I can see no danger to Democratic success from the Alli ance. The only States that it can by any probable chance carry are Kansas; and perhaps,-Nebraska and Colorado. The Democracy will lose nothing. The movement in the South is substantially a unit in course already. The spectre which confronts the white man in the Southern States is a shadow of negro supremacy. Rather than have the negro domination, the whites will bury polit cal differences and unite at the polls in order to prevent that which they regard as a greater evil. I do not quite under stand the Alliance movement in Ohio. The democratic candidate may not be helped by the third ticket, butbetween now and election day difficulties may be smoothed over. If the Republicans nominate Harrison, and the Democrats Cleveland, both anti-free coinage, the third party would then -nobably have a ticket of its own, -- losses would generally be greater to the Dimo crats. Speaking of the probable candidates for the Presidency in 1892, Mr. Carlisle said: "The Republicans will nominate affected by the melon revival, in conse quence of the impossibility of getting any service done by the colored sisters, that some of 'them -do not hesitate to speak impatiently of the whole busi ness and to declare that those who get the most religion also collar the most melons from the white man's patch: and now and then a sister who has seen many melon revivels and is thus pre pared to take a conservati,; -iew. of the situation replies: "Well, I 'spects that's so." All of the white residents are looking forward somewhat impatiently to the closing af the melon season and the synchronous completion of the re ligious work, not because they mind the loss of a few melons, but because they greatly ;.ned the services of thos who at all times, barring this period of annual occurrence, are ued servants. MADE THE HEAVENS LFAK. Uncle Jerry Ru3k's Rain-Compeler Seems to Work In Texas-A Heavy lanfan Follows Ten Hours After Soveral Bombs Were Exploded. DALLAS, Tex , Aug. 1.-A special from Midland, Tex., to the Dallas News says that the rainfall expedition from the United States Department of Agriculture reached Midland on Wed nesday and have so far made two suo cessful experiments. The News report er interviewed one of the party to-day, who said: "Saturday and Monday last part of the rain-making apparatus only was set up and the preliminary trial made simply to test the efliciency of the spe cial blasting powder which is being manufactured at the grounds from ma terial brought with us. Several bombs were exploded by means of electrical dynamos. Although this powderis very powerful, we were by no ineans confi dent that the explosion would have any practical effect upon the meteorological conditions. However, about ten hours after the explosion clouds gathered and a heavy rain fell, extending' many miles. "We do not think the explosions ae tually produced the storm, as they were not on a large enough scale, but they wzre undoubtedly instrumental in pre cipitating the moisture which the clouds brought to that locality and greatly increased the intensity.of the storm and the quantity of the rainfall, which was greatest in the immediate vicinity in the place of operation. We will continue cautiously to make tests as to the density of the atmosphere in this particular locality, so that our bombs may be adopted to meet every possible condition, and when we have sufficiently satisfied ourselves upon these similar points the decisive exper iment will be made. This will not occur for several days." VDe News reporter did not witness the .experiments referred to above, but can testify to the rain falling in Mid lay, over twenty miles from the spot of operations, the first good rain for sev eral months. Ma3be It's Because They Don't Know Him. 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