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OUR BIG COTTON CROPS.
FArtners Will Raise Them and the World
Wants Themn-Ruinnusly 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 Runge; one of the
largest cotton.men of the S.utli, 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 pietice.
When one man reduced another would
increase, so as to have mo-re cotton for
the comin o ".Of course, if a
NY could be made, better prices
would prevail.
"But." said he, "I think it is 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 1S79. 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 sS or S.10 a
bale.
"Now, this year we have very sini
lar conditions. Cotton is cheaper than
it has been since 1S53, 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 200,000,0() 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
ress 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
c'ated. 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 ses 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.
Trhere is a great deal of such cotton on
hand nowv, 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
b:ales, 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 ho.pefui features and I have
named over some of them to you.
"But whether prices advance oi not,"
continued Mr. Runge, "I think the
outlook for Texas is far from being as
gloomy as some think. In the first
place, moderately low prices for cotton
all through the winter will give the
farmers an object lesson that will teach
them more than all the lectures and
a:lvice 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 S cents. He thinks
that is good enough without anything
more. If low prices continue, though,
the farmers will change their minds.
Trhe farmers in North Texas will let
cotton alone and plant more wheat;
those in Middle and South Texas will
plant more oats and corn. Tfhey wiill
not care to raise cotton wvhen they can
scarcely get the price of their labor out
of it. The farmers have needed just
such a lesson as they they are receiving
and it will do thenm good."
"Do you think they can stand thc
loss on their chief crop this yeary' wvas
asked.
"I don't kn~ow how individuals may~
stand it, but as a whole I regard the
Texas farmers as being in better coudi.
tion than those of any other State it
the Union. C'ongressman Long's state
ment that in hi3 district alone ther
are $40,000,000) worth of mortgages sim
ply ap)pears bad; as a matter of facti
is not so. Look at the mxatter from al
points and you will see that tbis is true
In the tirst place the Texas farmer
come here poor. They have no mione:
to start with. They buy lands cheapl;
and build up their farms. In a fev
years they are p:mid for andl they are se
cure. Theyw' have that much, any'how
for, accordinog to Texas law, a home
s.ui canot b,e mortgaged eve'i if th
owner desires to place a mortgage on it.
Then where do these $40,000,000 mort
gages 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 for that is his misfortune and he
must stand it. Certainly this class of
,armers 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 . 'er will be.
"This is toe 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
difficulties 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 speculation 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,
also, 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's
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 cpen letter,
sent broadcast over the State to-day,
causes a great deal of dismay in the
Call ranks and 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 one 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 IsTHEIR MAN.
The Farmers' Alliance, of . Maryland. Is
Friendly to the Democrats' Great
Leader.
JBALTDIORE, Md., Aug. 13.-The
Farmers' State Alliance adijourned sine
ie.
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 'Ipposi
Ition 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 Gornman, but was very much in alli
aice both with himnself and his priaci
pes.
swallowed a Silver Dollar.
LFrom the Chicago Tribune.]
FINDLAY, 0., Aug. 3.-John Doland
and several companions were Iilliping
silver dollars in the air and catching
them in their mouths at Custer, Woodl
County, yesterday, when one of the
dollars slipped d'an Doland's throat.
IIt is now lodged. in his stomach, where
e says he can plainly feel it. He was
in this city to-day consulting a physi
cian regarding his pieculiar predica
met.
Kansas Wheat Crop.
The Kansas State Farmers' Alliance
has completed arrangements by which
it will handle three-quarters of the
Kansas wheat crop of 5,000,000 bush
Arrangements have been made 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 ow ners desire to sell.
Grain Produce.
It is estimiated that there will be an
excess of :20,000,000 bushels over last
ear. This w ill make a total of 70,000,
000. An order has been issued from
Northern headquarters to officers of
the Northern Rlilway to perfect all
equipments and cars to handle 12,000,
000 bushels more than the road han
- died last year,whiich aggregated 16,000,
00. Other roads tigure on a propor
'tionate inciease, and( the Northern
-Paciric people say their percentage of
THE TREASURY'S CONDITION.
Thy the Facts About it are not Made Pub
11c-The Finances of the Country in n
Bad Way Consequent upon the Reck
lessness of Congress.
[From the -Iew York Times.]
WASHIINGTOx, August 5.-A prom
nent banker in New York, who has
ound it essential to his success in busi
,-ss to keep track of the operations of
he treasury department, and who has
eceived from the department the reg
ilar nionthly statements of the con
lition of the debt by !., Secretary, and
;he assets and liabiaties as presented
>y the Treasurer, has just written to
Nashington to ask why the report
)f the Treasurer has not been sent to
iim for June and July. If that in
luiry had come from a person who
mnew less about the national finances
t would not be surprising. He ought
2mt to be surprised to-morrow when
ie learns that for two months
here has been no report of the assets
nd liabilities from the Treasurer, in
ndependent of the statement of the
>ublic debt sent out over the signature
)f the Secretary of the Treasury. The
Secretary's statement is now supposed
o include the Treasurer's report.
As this banker has been receiving
he Secretary's report, and as he
bhould be as well qualified to interpret
t as any other business man in New
Sork, the fact that he desires to know
xhat has become of the report of the
'reasurer is interesting. If to his clear
mind the Secretary's report leaves
something to be desired by ordinary
aymen, who may be much more
!asily "fuddled" by an adroit report,
:ontrived by excluding details to hide
onething that has heretofore been
nade plain, what is it that led the See
etary to change the form of the month
y statement ? This question has been
isked repeatedly since the change io
6he form of the report, and it has been
inswered by Secretary Foster as one
might expect him to answer it. It
was because it was "more convenient
ind more economical."
But it was not alone for the sake of
3pending 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 comprehensibie
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 different 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 t-> 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 which few men have
either the time, inclination or abilit.
This is well known by the men who
are resorting to a sort of "faked"
statement that is only like 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 Congress. If the
Secretary could be induced just for the
sake of illustration to issue two reports
on 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 voung dream was a very
bright one, and its fulfillment will be
bright, too, if the bride will remnember
that she is a woman, and liable to all
the ills peculiar to her sex. We remind
those who are sutt'ering from any of
these, that Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre
script ion will renew the hue of youth
in pale and sallow cheeks, correct irri
tating uterine diseases, arrest and cure
ulceration and inilamnmation, and in
fuse new vitality into a wasting body.
"Favorite Prescription" is the only
medicine for women, sold by druggists,
under a posiiv guarantec from the
manufacturers, that it will give satis
faction in every case, or money wil;be
refunded. This guarantee has beer
printed on the bottle-wrapper, and
faithfully carried out for many years.
Orme for Mathematical Sharps.
[U'tica Morning Herald.]
Twelve oranges grown at De Land
i!a., completely tilled a peck measure
Now, can any one in last term's geom
etry class figure out the av-erage diamne
REM.-RKABLEMUIND RiEA-DING. fi
Ia
A Kentucky Youth Who Surpaspe% thaq
Old Hands at the Business.
t.
[From the Courier-Journal.] t
A new mind reader has been discov- t
ered at Glasgow, Ky., or rather discov- s
ered himself accidentally, not long t,
since. He is Flavius Taylor, the son of a
Dr. E. J. Taylor, a Glasgow physician.
His age is 19 years, and soni: account
of his doings has been sent to the j
Courier-Journal by Dr. P. C. Sutphin, 1
another of Glasgow's physiciaw,, who t
is familiar with the youw, imn's eaje, o
and has made a study of mind reading, v
as well as what is terned "muscle j
reading" by performers who claim to e
be guided by the thrills of the nuscles t
of the subject. t
Dr. Sutphin gives suie spectilat ions &
at length on the alleged distinction be- r
tween mind reading and inuscle read
ing, and arrives at, the conclusion that,
though there may he trickery and
imposture used by sone people there is 0
such a thing as mind reading, and no V
such thing as muscle reading. He e
qoutes from Stuart Cumberland, ai ij
Engish mind reader, who claimed t
that he was guided by tbe muscles,
and in a performance before the Khed
ive of Egypt, wrote a word thought of e
(the name of the Rhedive's son. Abbas) r
on a piece of paper, in Arabic, a langu- c
age of which he knew nothing, and
this without a moment's hesitation. e
Cumberland said this was muscle read- f
ing, but Dr. Sutphin details a similar a
test with young Taylor, which, he
claims, shows the mind must bear its i
part in such a test as well as the mus- C
cles. He is willing to say that some f
things may be done by muscle reading,
but thatothers cannot. Dr. Sutphin,
in his account of young Taylor's perfor- t
mance, says:
"We may concede, however, all that I
Mr. Cumberland says of muscle read- i
ing; may agree that all his feats were i
performed by it; yet when it is at- C
tempted to include all mind reading in t
this, then it will be found that this can- i
not be done. There is much of mind t
reading, indeed, that could not be ex- C
plained, nor, in fact, be accomplished,
by muscle reading. This is fully proven
by a lately developed mind reader here f
in the place in which I live-a young t
man. Flavius Taylor, 19 years of age, t
son of Dr. F. J. Taylor, a prominent t
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 au
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 duly blindfolded
and next told to find a book that had
been hidden in an adjacent roomi. 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
cealment were impressed on his mind.
He readily took the young man to the
place where the book was and handed
it to him. After this there wvere 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 ns 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
Swatch 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 minutes.t
particular of the wish. Mr. Cumber
land, however, professes to have done
things quite equal to this by muscle
reading, being directed in them by the
muscular tremors of the hand kept
enclosed in his. In this way, he says,
he only followed direction. and knew
nothing really of the mind, and only
did as the tremors directed. He did, in
other words, precis'ely 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 nind
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 this could only be gotten
direct from the mind, and in no other
way. as mere muscle reading in this
case would simply be imnpossible. In
this case, it would be necessary to see
through itself, to tell what it was,
which the thrill of the rmuscles would
not admit of. And yet, young Taylor
can do this. He has been mentally
requested, for instance, to play a cer
tain air on the organ, and of a number
of others played by him, wvhen catching
hold of the hand to know wvhat 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
gures, being thought of, he has readily
unounced what it or they were, calling
bem out singly or in combination,
s desired. For instance, suppose that
he figures 5. 3, and S were separately
bought of. Then these were promptly
old out, one by one, and annouuced
ingly as thought of; or suppose, again,
bese were thought of as 538, then this
umber, or 538, would be told. Some
ime ago, knowing that he did not
nderstand Latin. I improvised a short
,atin sentence-est mihi voluntas ut
agis meam mentem'-and asked him
o tell me what it was. This was made
ut slowly, but quite accurately, the
-ords being spelled out, letter by letter.
t is proper to say, too, that these were
alled out at once, without going over
be alphabet and getting at them in
his way, one by one, on the order of
able rapping.' Nothing was said,
eally, more then to call out the letters
i their proper order.
"Without mentioning other feats of
his young man the question next
ccurs: Upon what other ground can
,e explain this telling of figures and
alling out Latin than upon the silent
aipress of mind upon mind? This is
he (xplanation, in fact, that young
aylor gives of his 'mind reading,' as
b is called; or that he only interprets
very thing by impression. He knows
iothing of muscle reading, feels nothing
f the sort, sees nothing, hears nothing,
g not aware even of any particulai
xaltation of the perception, but simply
inds certain thoughts or wishes o
.nother impressed on him. His great
lifficulty, he says, is to get a correct
mpression from some who either lac
oncentration of mind or allow the toc
requent intrusion of other thought,
nto it. For a good effect impression.
nust be forcible and sharp cut, and
he mind must be kept steadily and a:
xclusively as possible on the subject,
le thinks the band acts only as a con
luctor of impression, and regards il
ndispensable for that purpose, as th(
,urrent of impression is transmitted it
his way, without which be could tel:
iothing. In conclusion, I may adc
hat in his performances there is usuall
onsiderable disturbance of his physica:
)eing. His respiration often become,
low and labored, pulse usually goes ul
rorn ten to twenty beats above norma
o the minute, there is heavysighing a1
imes, and sometimes so much exhaus
ion as to necessitate temporary rest.'
THE ESCORTEI) GIRL.
ihe is an luteresting Creature and Tot
Like Her Ways.
LFrom the Boston Home Journal.]
These are the days when the es
orted girl is prevalent. You can tel
er at aglance. The girl whose brother:
ire accustomed to take her about ha:
in air of good fellowship which is un
nistakable. She is as much at hom(
when being taken for a ride in an opei
treet car by said brothers, or when ac
3epting or sharing a theatre treat, asi
he were a boy, or the brothers weri
irl friends. But the escorted girl i:
. study which is most amusing. Shi
is of many kinds, but the general ai
:f being escorted is alike in all varie
ties.
You meet her in the street. Therei
a self-consciousness about her whici
attracts your attention at once to th'
fact that she is accomnpained by a youn,
man, for there is nothing which hold
its italicizing so long as this. You se
her in the open cars bound for a ride
and bearing all over herself the i
print of having been invited. Yo1
watch her at the play. It is almost a
interesting as the play itself- especiall;
if the play is an old one. And nc
where do you see more of her than a
church, especially at the vespers.
All women do not of course belong t
that class. The escorted girl has th
conscious air of having just discoverei
that she is desirable, but not havin,
yet learned for a ceitainty that she
worth while. She has the conscious
ness of suspecting that man is her nai
ural prey, but of not being certain tha
she will get the chance to devour hin
She enjoys the sensations of' being d4
sired without the full knowledge the
the desire will grow by what it feed
on. She feels her power, but does nc
quite know how to use it. She tries i
but with a slightly timid manner. Sb
has not yet gained confidence. Ther
is usually an open attempt to pleasei
her manner which draws marked a
ten tion to her. It is while she is i
this state that she gives away more<
her real nature than she ever does late:
And it is while she is in this frame<
mind that she comies under the hea
of the sort of girl I have been notin
lately, and fur lack of a better class
fication have dutbbedl "the escorte
girl."
There are women, I find, who nev<
get beyond this stage. They are gir
of suggestive possibilities who nevi
realize all that they promise, for son.
undefinable reason. They never gro
sure of their rights, never wear the]
with authority. This class of wome
is not uncommnon. I recollect the]
in my youth. One often made gre:
eforts to be made acquainted wit
them, and never got any further. The
are often p)rettier than less attracti'
girls, but lacking reality they are onl
inspiring to the imaigination. Fem
ninity is hard to classify, however, ar
there is as much ditference of' opini(
about it as about religion.
Aver's Hair Vigor restores color at
vitality to weak and gray hair. Throug
its healing and cleansing qualities,
prevents the accumulation of dandru~
and cures all scalp diseases. The be
hair dressing ever made, and by far ti
most eonomical
soirview Ai.iatces.
i F:iday, September 4th, at r.
A Cat,; church under the charge of 6t.
Jollv Street, Pilgrim. WN-are
tt. Tabor, Gallman's Academy
n's Creek Alliances.
V day. September 5th, at St.
Pickens Co.urch, in charge of Camp
pretty heavy d'ieasant and Maybinton
tory. Now we n
of Pickens to onwill be addressed by
honk'nd County Lectur
and answer a few qules, doctrines and
First, is it true that se will be fully
growing poorer ever since
Do they not know menence at 10.3
dition has been steadily linvited to
ever since the war? Have the)
every neighborhood farmers whdliauces
made and kept money by far11ent
since the war? ,e,
Are not the general conditions of the
country and people improved? Do they
not live in better houses, eat better
food, wear better clothes than a few
years ago? Are they not learning more,
are their churches not better, has not
the entire country improved, except
where it was injured by thriftless col
ored tenant labor, and all in spite of a
tax rate the highest in the State, on
account of railroad subscriptions?
How many of the men who listened
to Lecturer Je"ries and Colonel Keitt
can figure out how the land loan and
sub-treasury would help them?
In the Fall everybody who has cot
ton can get money either by selling or
by borrowing on the staple. The pinch,
the time when poor men need to be
helped, is in the summer. The sub
treasury would not lend on liens or
chattel mortgages or personal credit. It
would run out of business the men who
do. Even the alliance stores and ex
changes would deal only for cash.
Would anybody be helped by the
land loan scheme but those who have
land already mortgaged or who own
land and desire to borrow on it to lend
at higher rates to their neighbors?
Would not the ability to borrow
money on land at two per cent make
men who have land hold it tighter?
Would it not make it harder for the
poor man to buy land?
Suppose Pickens County grows 10,000
bales of cotton at $40 a bale. When
that is sold outright it puts $400,000 in
the hands of Pickens people. Suppose
they al! used the sub-treasury, drawing
only eighty per cent. of the value. That
would put only $320,000 in the hands
of Pickens people, wouldn't it? And
interest and insurance would have to
be taken from that.
Sub-treasury advocates tell you their
scheme would make money more abun
dant. How do they get over these
figures or make eighty per cent. as
much as a hundred? Ask them.
If your cotton rose in price you would
be winner. If it went down you would
be loser. Did you ever try holding
cotton for a rise? How did you come
out? Judge the future by the past.
If every man whose land is mort
gaged now borrowed money from the
government on it, who would get that
Smoney? The holder of the mortgage,
Sthe man to whom the money is due.
SWould you get a dollar of it? How?
Does the mortgage holder owe you any
thing? Have you anything he wants
to buy? Do you reckon he is going to
be so flush with it that he'll give you a
few hats full? The land holder who is
under mortgage will have his debt
transferred from the private lender to
the government, his time extended
Sand his interest reduced. That is all
Sright for him if debasement of the cur
Srency doesn't rumn all together, but
how will it help the free land owner or
non land owner.
And you nman who work occasionally
or regularly for wages: Is it not to your
interest to have the dollar put in your
hand a sure, solid, full dollar, wvorth
tone hundred cents at the store or any
where else, now and twenty years
hence, if you can lay by a dollar now~
Dand then? Can you afford to risk hay.
eing your dollar you have worked for
Sdiscounted ten or twenty or thirty
cents, or to find when the rainy day
Syou have provided for comes that youi
dollar is good only for half a dollar, al~
though you have done a dollar's worth
tof work, put a dollar's worth of your
time and muscle in it? Don't you knov:
that wages are always the last thing t(
rise? Don't you know you and your
family will suffer if you are earning,
tonly the same dollar you now cart
while prices are kiting up and youm
edollar will pay for only half the food
and clothes it buys now?
eThese questions may be taken, an
swered and thought over in othei
plIaces besides Pickens.
s. 5l When There's a Demand.
d [Philadelphia Record.J
gA year ago, when cotton was sell
ing at 121 cents per pound, and th<
dlargest crop in the history of the Sou ti
was about being picked, the farmers
organizations were as busily engage
rin pledging producers to "hold theia
'cotton'' in order to maintain higl
rprices as the Alliance people ar<
Sto-day in advisIng growers to "bok
Stheir wheat.'' The price of c:stton has
nnot been as hig~h since last July as i
was at that time ; and it is to-day
'abundant supp)ly atS cents per pound
As the New York Commercial Bulle
Stin points out in an article on this
esubject, there is a lesson to wheal
yproducers in the story of the last cot
ton year that may be studied witl
nprof1it throughout the grain-growing
districts. The time to sell is wher
everybody wants to , -ad.th<
dholders of wheat who En this truisir
'will probably comeout with a bette>
Sbalance on the profit side of their book:
tthan will those who shall hold theil
egrain until somebody else shall havy
supplied the deand.
-Tbe use or -LmsEensz - 15 avu5 vw u b
its merits so well known that it seems a wor
of supererogation to endorse it. Few are tb
intelHigent families who do zot keep Cator
witbineauyec.
C&RLos Mzrr., D.D..
New York City.
Late'Pastor BloomingCAIO IWOrmed Chu
T., Imi
STEM WINDER, PENDE
AND BEVEL AN
WAT
the
86uth.
people
on the s
it affects t
less powerfulI
on season the
majority of the
themselves up to
ure of the melon anL
ligous conviction that
ecstasy of conversion, w
leads quickly to exaltation
atose condition. This latter
is next to heaven, the end sou
but because of the duration o
trasces or subjugation to "the po
as it is called here, many of the s
ters are in the present instance failing
to assimilate all of their share of this
season's melon crop. Thus Mrs. Kirk
patrick's cook lay in a trance for sev
eral days, and neither cooked nor ate,
and this was when the melons were at
their best. Mrs. Buddington's colored
maid was brought home in a dray at
3 o'clock in the morning and deposited
on the kitchen floor, where she lay
rigid and with "eyes sot," as this man
ifestation is termed, until at the end of
three days Mrs. Buddington had her
carted back to the church in which she
"got the power." Mrs. Butler's cook
got religion and rigidity early in the
revival, and, the task of finding a
substitute being manifestly hopeless,
the family at once made arrangements
to take their meals with a family in
the same street who are not dependent
on colored servants.
The industry that is doing nearly all
the flourishing in the present crisis is
that of the few worldly minded negroes
who own a mule and cart. Business is
brisk for these just now from the hour
when the full moon shows above the
further cypress-bordered shore of the
St. Johns untl' the yellow disk fuses
in the golden sky of a midsummer
morning. All the colored churches are
open twenty-four hours a day-in the
daytime for such as attain satiety of
melons early and are prepared for the
religious influences long before night
fall; throughout the night for all who
come. Many who come to scoff re
main to be carted awray, and those who
have religion get it again and likewise
have need of the mule cart. So this
teaming of precious and rigid human
freight begins early in the evening and
goes on until the bull-bats cease their
pursuit of nocturnal bugs.
The white residents are so seriously
President Harrison if Mr. Blaine will
not consent to stand. The influence of
the ladies of his family may deter Mr.
Blane, but there is a tremendous pres
sure upon him from his old party
friends to run. He would sweep the
convention. I( think. No Republican
is as strong as Blaine. I do not think
that he will consent to run. Mr. Cleve
land, in my judgment, is still the
strongest candidate. He may have
offended the extreme pro-silver men by
his remarks against free coinage, but he
enjoys a wonderful reputation among
the people."
hiS HEAD WAS A GOLD MINE.
A Goldsmith Carried Off Dust in His HaIr=
NEW YORK, July 30.-A man with a
veritable gold mine in his hair was ar
rested here to-day. He is Moses Israel
sky, a goldsmith, recently from Rus
sia. He worked for Elden Hayden a
local goldsmith.
Shortly after Moses made his debut
in Hayden's shop the proprietor began
to miss about half his gold dust. Then
the man from Russia was watched.
Every day he turned up at the shop
with his long curly hair neatly oiled,
as if he was going to a charity ball.
After getting his fingers covered with
golddust, Moses would carelessly run
his hand through his hair. The pre
cous metal would stick. At night the
unning Jew's head would sparkle
with the yellow dust. lie would care
fully wash it off~ at night and re
peat his operation next day. Hun
dreds of dollars' wvorth of gold was
thus carried off.
He is now in the Tombs in default
Iof bail.
The Cow Was Drunk.
[FLrom~ th. Los Angeles Pr >gress.]
Some days ago one of our country
men,wholive atPasadena, was aston
ished to see one of his best cows lying
apparently dying in front of the barn.
Tfhe animal lay there inert, with
open eyes. The man called a veterina
ry surgeon, who could diagnose the
c ase, and a butche~r was sent for to bleed
the animal.
He was some time in arriving, and
when he did come the cow was fouad
eating at a haystack, but with legs a
little uncertain.
!An investigation followed, and it was
found that the cow had eaten copiously
of the refuse at a neighboring winery.
This stuff, composed of grape skins and
stems, bad fermented and induced a
state of intoxication.
k- C&r* and shallalways O~Uto 'N
-e I osasit bw invwiahlyprodced beogalh
a results."
EbWn F. PAns, M. D.,
"The Wint&nop,"125th Street and 7th Ave.,
L= COPYr, 77 Mum=h S=~fW O
NT SET, SCREW BACK
D DUST PROOE.
CHESI
said.
"T *
affected ry
quence of
any service
that some of
speak impatieutiI
ness and to declare
the most religion M
melons from the whit&
and now andThen a siste
many melon revivels and
pared to take a conservative
situation replies: "Well, I'spedC-5
so." All of the white residenI.
looking forward somewhat impatidt
to the closing af the melon season
the synchronous completion of the re
ligious work, not because they mind
the loss of a few melons, but because
they greatly need the services of thos s
who at all times, barring this period of
annual occurrence, are faithful and val
ued servants.
MADE THE HEAVENS TEAK
Uncle Jerry Rusk's Rain-Compener Seems
to Work in Texas-A Heavy Raintan
Follows Ten Hours After Several
Bombs 'Vere Exploded.
DALLAts, Tex , Aug. II.-A'9WIlaf
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 suc
cessful experiments. The News report
er interviewed one of the party to-dy, I
"Saturday and Monday last part of
the rain-making apparatus only was
set up and the preliminary trial ma
simply to test the efficiency of the spe-.
cial blasting powder which is being I
manufactured at the grounds from ma
terial brought with us. Several bombs
were exploded by means of electrical
dynamos. Although this powder is very
powerful, we were by no means confi
det that the explosio'n would have any
practical effect upon the meteorological
conditions. However, about ten hours
after the explosion clouds gathered and -
a heavy rain fell, exteinding many
miles.
"We do not think the explosions ae
tually produced the storm, as they were
not on a large enough scale, but they
were 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 .iill1AQ- .
occur for several days.?
The News reporter did not witnes
the experiments referred to above, but
can testify to the rhin falling in Mid
lay, over twenty miles from the spo't of
operations, t he first good rain for sev
eral months.
Maybe It's Because They Don't Know im.
(From the Troy Northern Budget.]
Jetry Simpson wants to know why
the railroads carry a hog from Chicago
to New York for $3 and charge him
Lecture on Fools. Adnait One.
A gentlemanl who lectured on fools,
printed his tickets as above. Sugges
tive, certainly, and even sarcastic.
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