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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.
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and cures all scalp diseases. The best
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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.
[From the Troy Northern Budget.]
Jerry Simpson wants to know.why -'
the railroads carry a hog from Chicago
to New York for $3 and charge him
$16.
Lecture on Fools. Admit One.
A gentleman who lectured on fools,
printed his tickets as above. Sugges- W
tive, certainly, and even sarcastic.
What fools are they who suffer the in
roads of disease when they might be '.
cured. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery is sold under apositive guar
antee of' its benefiting or curin2g in every
case of Liver and Lung disease, or
money paid for it will be cheerfully re
funded. In all blood taints and impu
rities of whatever name or;nature, it is
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skini and Scalp diseases, are radically
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Scrofblous disease may affect the
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