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OUR FARM WORTSj Europe is Our Most Important Source of Agricultural Supplies THE SOURCFS OF FOREIGN IMPORTS ! Some Figures Compiled By Mr. Hitch- ] cock, Chi*f of the Section of For- : eign flaikets. < Washington. Special.?Mr. Frank i V H Hitchcock. chief of the section of ( foreign markets of the Agricultural < Department. has prepared a bulletin j showing the sources cf the agricultu- j ral imports (f the United States for < the period from 1^90 to 1 it shows t that the total value of agricultural j products imported into the United States in !9<?0 was $4Jii.l39.2S8. that year lx ir.g the record year of the five. ; Thar annual average was $376,695.30$. ' ^.1 ... nino* irv._ ^ j^uiu^r uu iuc?ii,? v/ui ujuov *441portant source of agricultural imports we taking from that continent in 1900 $129.oe<>.000 worth of farm produce, being the largest in recent years except IM-T. when we received $152,000.Ooo Asia, in 1900. sent us SlOl.Oiio.000 in agricultural produce, a rapid rise :ro:n $89,000,000 in 1896. Our farm produce imports from Oceania also rose rapidly, being $31,000,000 in 1900. against $22,000,000 in 1SS6, while on the other hand, there was a falling off of $2,000.0?m) in our Imports of farm produce from North American countries. there being $83,000,000 in 1900 against $>.">.'<00,000 in 1S93. The imports. however, in the three years preceding 3:??.-? were larger than this. There was a large falling off in agri cultural imports from South America, they '[> ing $93,000,000 hi 1896. and only gr. mi.mw in anu $oo,uuu,- i :000 in l9"o. I (>v Air:-an farm pror]uce imports ^^^declin-d from $10.4m?;?>Oo in 1Sf*?i to $6.70p.u00 in 1S9S. and rose again in 1 i*-H? to $10,600,000. Brazil. owing to its heavy coffee trade, holds the foremost place in the ranks of countries sending us coffee supplies, her total for 1 >?> > being $39.287.0??0. Our imports from there, however, have been stead- I ilv decreasing. In 1596 they were $60,- ! 4>6S.OOn_ . The United Kingdom ranks next to Brazil exports to us in 1900. a gain J over the two immediately preceding yeas, but a loss of $15,000,000 as com- ( pared with 1897. The Dutch East In dies ranked third with $27,500,000 in ' agricultural products sent to us in . 1900. the five year period showing a (steady gain, the figures for 1896 being ] only $14,595,000. . * Cuba in 1900. sent us $27,226,000 in : firn nm/hice the war resulting in 1 isuch fluctuations in the satistics as ' 536.3Sti.000 in 1896. and 513.153.000 in 1898. Germany comes next with $13.- ' 049.000 in 19'?0 against $22,523,000 in ( 3 896. and $41,358,000 in her record year of 1S9T. Japan and China made ] large gains during the five years. s Japan sending us in 1900 $24,767,000 1 against $1S.3S2.000 in 1SP6. and China ! $24,131,000 in 1900 against 51S.649.0O'> 1 In ISf'O. France sent us more in 1900 ' than in any one of the other years 1 given, being $21,052,000 as compared \ with $17,758,000 in 1896. Hawaii like- ) wise made a record in 1900 with $20.- j 638.000 worth of farm produce expor- ' ted to us against only $11,710,000 in 1896. Italy's gain was from $15,95S.- 1 ooo in 1896 to 520.529.000 In 1900. and ' I (Mexico's from $12,751,000 in 1896 to If20.002.000 in 1900. Other oountries pent us less than $20,000,000 annually. I The leading articles of farm produce Imported bu us in 1900 were, in the order of their importance, sugar, p.ides and. skins, coffwe. silk, vegetable fibres, wools, fruits and nuts, tobacco, tea. wines, vegetable oils and cocoa, the value of each of these exceeding $5,000,000. Bismark's Statue Unveiled. Berlin. By Cable.?The Bismarck ktatae. facing the eo'umn of "Victory" n front of the Reichstag building, was ravelled at midday Sunday, in the presence of the Emperor, Prince Herbert Bismarck. Count Von Bulow. prince Hohenlohe. the ministers and the members of the legislative houses B.n.1 the memorial committee. There t.-a? imposing asray of officers, officials. veterans' associations, students, etc.. and an enormous gathering of feople. Newsy Notes. j Census returns show that 77 per cent, of the population of England and Wales , lives in the cities. fire at the Galeres Island ShipJ ? G* T">,-cr S.", . ] I*rU5?, Il'Ai! Cl. A CICiOWUijj, ^>uwv%. TV, ^O.GOO damage. ' fifteen person?; were killed by an extpsion in a cartridge factory at L:? -buiineaux, France. J Hon. David t). Henderson, of Iowa, i er a conversation with President .'ubet, pronoutred him a high-mindi d .trior. ) ^d. Drunicnt was shut out of the ench Chamber of Deputies for abuse rhigh officials. P.Sx-Gov. Hazen S. Pingree, of Michis critically ill in London. is reported that Messrs. Warner & ( linian have taken steps to seize the , licidade asphalt mine, in Venezuela, j ho Brazilian Government is aiding ; Berman syndicate which seeks to coi- : Be several states of Brazil. i Btc Leyland Line steamer Assyrian, h went ashore on the Newfound' j coast, has brolen to pieces. t w * VlfcWi Ui: A bl'LU Declares That From Present CondN tions Cotton Hust Advance and Farmers Should Hold. [N'cw York Special to Sew* and Courier, 1 lth.) Mr.'Theodore H. Price in a letter Issued today to special friends of hie says: The situation in the cotton mar kf?l\ viewed in fhp lieht nf rpepnth ascertained fa^ts, promises, to deve lope almost as strikingly as that a tear ago. Until the publication cf the Government report on the 31st ultime :rnsumers cf cotton lulled into fanc\<] security by the repealed assert'oiu [hat the next eiop would be a la:ge ^ne had 1 een postponing tite r pur bases, and all recognised authorities, including Mr. Ellison, agieed that bo'b l this country and in Europe the stocks cf oction instead of being con >r.med were almjst the smallest proportionate to the consumption on rec )r-i. in addition to the assurances oi j hrge crop next year, the prevailing estimates of the present crop \.>rc ront lu.2C0.G0) to 10.500.000, and the feeling was that with the supply oi otton out of this year's crop an 1 a considerably augmented yield next rear iheie was no prospect whatever "or anv scarcity, at least for twelve ncnths to come. Suddenly, however, he situation has changed. The Government report of the New York Journal cf Commerce, the report of the Vl'pw Yr?rlr Cnrnmprfial and t h :i t ,if :he Commercial and Financial Chromic aic singu'arly unanimous in statng that the condition of the crop just ?ian:e?l is the worst on record. While :he authorities above referred to agtve n reporting an increase of acreage, .arjing from four to nine per ent, a or advices trom the South in li a " that much of this in. rease in acreage ivas abandoned when it became necesmy to replant the seed which had i. iied to germinate on account of tiic 1 rought in Texas or had been wasted iway by the excessive rains in the \tlantie States. The result is that the ?qtton conditi 11 finds itself confronted l)y the probability of a very largely reduced production next year. Of outse this may be changed by an exceptionally late autumn as we had last rear, and which saved us rfora a very short crop an 1 would add materially o this years's yield, but it seems haidIt 1!L-o1i? tltot thn u'Aothor nAnrl'tinra n this respect will repeat themselves :wo yea's in succession. At present ac have to face the poorest crop conlitiens that we have had in twenty rears, with cne exception, and a crop Jeveiopment. which as stated l-y the Commercial and Financial Chronicle averages the very latest in germiui:ing ever recorded." As to the a r->ig? the Chronicle says: "Our informs don inclines us to the opinion that t' e ncrease is not as large as early in t' e reason was geenrally anticipate I ivould be the case." In any event, herefore. all idea of a mammoth proluetrn next year must be dissipated, The latnoss of the present crop mak?s an exceedingly open autumn necessary vo the realization of even a moderate yield, and this means a very slow movement early in the season. A very large movement early in the season an only follow excessively ho: and orcing weather during the summer, ind anything like a drought this yer.r t is evident would mean absolute disinter to the crop. The alternative wi.h which we are confronted, theteloie, would seem to he either a late move nent and a very large crop or a large ?arlv movement anl a disastrously short production. A recognition oi :his situation has led to close analysis jf the present figures of supply, for ?ither we shall go into next season fearing the smallest crop of the oast !ve years or the cotton we now have an hand must be eked out so a;. to meet the requi-ements of the world's consumption, at least until the .1st of Dctober. So far as the crop of 19001991 is concerned. I do not see now how it can posibly exceed 10.i00.o0c1 bales. There was in sight up to last Friday evening 9.654.000. If we re ceive during the balance of the season is much as we got during the corresponding period in 189S-1S99. namely iSO.OOO, the indicated production wi'.l be 10,134.0 0. 1 do not think it pos sihie that more cottcn is held back :han was the case two years ago, when the move:r.ent during the last three m ntlis of ih^ season was the .era cant of practically the largest crop ever produced. Comparisons of the movement with this year and last arc valueless, as last year during the cor responding period the movement was fictitiously augmented through the reduction of interior stocks, and s large portion of the cotton official!.; coming into riaht represented whal was left over from the preceding year Assuming a oron for this year, there fo;e. of 10.1 OO.OO \ we find nearly the entire excess in the American visibly supply is held in America. In Europe the situation is really extraordinary Notwithstanding the fact that we have thus far exported from America 210. 00 more than we did during the same period tact year the total visible o: America afloat and in Liverpool an: invisible Continental stock is only 1. 226.000. as against 1,206.000 last year In other words a European situatioi last year, in consequence of the latv movement of the American crop, pu1 cotton to 8 cents inLancashire anc forced the stoppage of the mills, be cause they could not buy the raw ma terial at any price, is almost exactly duplicated, except that in the presem situation we are face to face with s crop, the movement of which, accord ing to all accepted authorities, pro mises to be even later than that ol last year. The European market dtir roenced to recopnize this fact and they ing the last week seen to have com have advanced far more rapidly than the American markets. In America the situation has been less promptly re fleeted in the price, as the inverted position of the future market in New York has made speculative buyers somewhat timid, and spinners are always reluctant purchasers at an advance. There is no doubt, however, that Loth in the market for the raw material, as well as that for manufactured goods, the corner has been turn> ed. Reports from the dry goods mar Ket in Doin Boston ana tsew lorK, as well as from the important manufacturing centres, show that the conditions are rapidly improving, that mills are finding a demand in advance of their production in both Europe and America. It is generally admitted that spinners have allowed their stocks to run down to an exceptionally low point, an I for the balance of the season it would seem that the owners of spot cotton in the South have the situation absolutely without their control. The supply of cotton for the balance of the season promises to decrease very rapidly. I doubt seriously whether of good spinning cotton there will be as much available on the 1st of October as there was last year. Southern holders of cotton will. therefore. do wisely to insist upon full values for the remnant of their production. Senator Piatt to Quit. X ew York. Special.?The Tribune rays: "Senator Piatt will retire fiom the United States Senate at the end of his term, in March, 1903. The information was obtained at the Fifth Avenue hotel. "Mr. Piatt is feeling better and stronger than usual, and his determii ~ .... neuoii nas nut ucl-i; uasirucu, u is undcrstood. on account cf poor health. It is expected by his friends that h? will make knovn same day this week his yeasons for laying down his office at the end of his term." i Tlanila's Population. Washington. D. C.. Special.?The Ma, n:!a Titr.es. of recent date, gives the result of a census tr.'cen by Lieutenant j II. L. Gilchrist, for the board of health, | 1 completed about the first of May. This i census gives the population of Manila ' at 24LS33. divided as follows: Filipinos 1S1.3G1, Chinese 51.367. Americans 8,; 562, Spaniards 2.382. otiier nationalities . 260. The figures do not inc lude men belonging to the United States army. 1 Capt. Wilhflm Dead. Manila. By Cable.?Capt. Wm. H. Wilhelm, of the Twenty-firel Infantry, who was recently wounded in the . csrmidor in an engagement with irsur s pen *3 at Li pa. Batangas province, died \Vedno3dav. General Summer has re c&ived a notification from Cailles, the ' notorious insurgent leader in Laguna 1 provin.ce, that unless the central degree to the Kilipines' terms, which includes the granting of amnesty to the insurgents, Cailles will not rurrendcr and the negotiations on the subject a e to be considered at an end. Texas Oil Trust. The professor of chemistry cf the University of Texas has anilyzed .he 1 Beaumont oil and finds it of g.catir density that the P. nnsyivan a oi.s, ; contains sulphur comp.und:, ross s;.s ail asphalt base and will furnish about 30 per cent of illuminating oil. The purification of the d.s.illates msy te quire special processes b f:re they can be used for illuminating pu:p>ses, and possibly for lubr.catiug puipos s; the oil is, of course, eminently adapted for fuel purposes, he says. 17 Miners Thought to Be Dead. 1 West Newton. Pa., Special.?Not a 1 practical miner 1n this district believes ! that one of the 17 men entombed in . the Port Royal mine by the explosion Monday night is still alive. There is ? no fire in the mine to judge from ao pearancee at the pit mouth, but the force of the explosion was 30 great 1 that none of the men, so the miners say, could have survived the shock. I Four hundred farmers in Oklahoma lost their wheat crops by Saturday's ! storm. Against the Strikers. ! New York. Special.?The convention of the National Metal Trades' Association continued its session. 1 he closing hours of the convention are being : devoted to the completion of crganiza, tion and the final arrangement of plans designed to strengthen tne hanis t of the manufacturers in their fight . against the striking machinists. The sum of $509,000, raised by assessment, is to be placed at the disposal of a strike committee to be used ia behal/ cf the employers. Some Radical Changes. ' * , j> .Montgomery, Aia., opo. iai.? xuy j first part of the new constitution was Tuesday adopted by the constitution, al convention. The office of Lieuten, ant Governor was created, and the , Governor's salary raised from $3,1)00 [ to $5,000. The terms of the executivs I officers were lengthened from two to four years, but they are ineligible for ' i re election. The Governor cannot ber come a candidate for United States Senator wtihin one year of ex"ir\tiou ( [ of his term. i he new theatre it, Paris covers .br'.a r 'teres, and, of course, is the largest in Ihe world. It is unnecessary to say that the whole of the building is not devoted to theatrical purposes. All revenues, i uowever. go to the support of the theatre > .0 such an extent as ntav be neeer.sary, * . FOR NO THIRD TERM HcKinley Declares tie Would Under No Circumstances Accept. WILL NOT AGAIN BE A CANDIDATE fhe President Issues a Signed Stat ment to the Effect That He Would Not Accept a Third Term. Washington, D. C., Special.?Presllent McKinley Tuesday announced that he would not accept a nomination for a third term, in the following statement: 4,I regret that the suggrstion of a third term has been ma'.?e. I doubt whether I am called upon to give it notice. But there are now questions o! the gravest importance before the administration and the country and their just consideration should not be prejudiced in the public mind by even the suspicion of thought of a third term. In view, therefore, of the reiteration ol the suggestion of it, I will say now, once for all, expressing a long-settler} conviction, that I not only am not and will not be a candidate for a third term, but would not accept a nomination for it were it tendered me. "My only ambition is to servj throughout my second term to the acceptance of my countrymen, whose eenerous confidence I so deeply appre date, and then with them, do my duty in the ranks of private citizenship. "WILLIAM Mc KIN LEY. ' "Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C.. June 10, 1901. President McKinley's official announcement. disposing of the third term idea suggestet^by some of his admirers created no great surprise among his friends who have known ol his deep convictions on the subject. When Senator Ilepew's suggestion, ten days ago. that the President should be re-elected for a third term began to be seriously discussed and when several of the President's friends felt called upon to endorse the idea, the President decided that the public mind should be instantly cleared of even the cncniHnn that he was seeking to break flown the presidents of the past by becoming a candidate for another term. He broached, the subject to Secretary Long late Monday afternoon. He told him that he belived that an announcement at the very Inception of the discussion would be wise and officially informed the members of the cabinet, who bad been informally called together of his decision. It met with hearty approval. There was unanimous ccr currence in the belief that discussion of a third term would not only placj the President in a false light befort the country if allowed to go on, bul would arouse antagonism and greatly embarrass the administration in thi solation of the subjects before it. Tin brief announcemer.' which the President prepared was given out by Secretary Cortelyou at noon. After the cabinet meeting one or tn? members said they were unanimous it their approval of the President's pronouncement regarding a third t The member pointed out that if the President had allowed the discussion >o proceed for any tength of time, no withstanding the fact that he has nevei entertained even the most remote idea ,of being a candidate for a third term p.n announcement similar to that madt would be best. The President is being deluged with telegrams commendatory of his an nouncement, putting at rest all third -*? 1 " ? wwto Hnucft Tuesday arriving <u mo .. evening and are from prominent people throughout the country. They plate emphasis on the opportuneness of the Btatement and the beneficent effect on the country from a political standpoint. None of the telegrams was made public. Hanna Not Surprised. Cleveland. O.. Special.?"It is just what I expected the President would say. if he said anything at all on the subject," was the comment of Senator Hanna when he read President McKlnley's statement in reference to a third term. "I have never exchang 04 one word with the President concerning the matter.' he continued, "and have considered all the talk bearing on the subject as premature. Ao cording to my judgement it is too ear. ly to discuss presidential candidate! for the next term." Asked ,if he was in favor of maintaining the precedent established by President Washington ;n reference to the number of years the Chief Executive should hold office. Mr. Hanna said: "I do not think tht precedent set by Washington has a great deal to do with the matter, ms. Heavy Coal Production. Washington, D. C., Special.?Officii reports show that the year 1900 close:! the century with the largest coal pro. duction ever recorded in the United States and continued the supremacy of the United States among the coal-pr.v ducing countries o? the world. Fractically completed returns to Edward W. Parker, statistician of the United States Geological Survey, show the tO' tal amount of coal in 1900 to have been 267,542,444 short ton?, an increase over, 1899 of 13,802,452 tons, of a little mo-a than 5 per cent The value cf thli product was $297,920,000, in licrcieo o* per cent, over 1S99 __ - v>v$? ? > J 4 SOUTPERN INDUSTRIAL. " * \ Rapid Development. Nineteen years ago there were on'y; 667,000 spindles at work in all the cotton States; today the manufacturing records concede us 7,000,000 spindles in actual operation and another 1,500,COO planned for. The looms have more than kept pace with the spindles. All th.s neans mat tne texuie operatives m the South- have grown, since the early eighties, from the meet inconsiderable class in their section to a great and rapidly increasing army. Whence comes this great ayg:eg}te of worlfers that has grown in a scoie of years from a scant 2),000, al told, to a quarter of a million bMngs, representing four times that number dej eading upon the fruits of their lab:rs?a host that swells in size dally th's wide-reaching industry opens up mere and more various directions where nitural fitness points the way? The operatives in the new Southern factories, which means n.ne-tenths of the factories in the South, are all white and they have come from the tenant farm, from the cotton field, the hillside corn patch and the mountain hut. A strictly agricultural or pastoral pe:p'e, oy the practices and traditions of many generations, they have bsen suddenly converted into a manufacturing population. Native to our soil as truly as were their grandsires before them, unmodified by any foreign element, or even by a single urban or communistic instinct, with the rustic vices of America strong upon them as the rustic virtues of America, and knowing noting of community life, here they are untrained and untutored, alien to the'r present occupation, *yet strenuously adapting themselves to its demands and laboriously acquiring the skill requisite to success in their new pursuit. Foe the-present they are still a rural j people in traits and tendencies. Tcey I have not been strengthened by re3ist| ing the evil of cities or weaktnoi by yielding to it. When another decade j has passed no one must expect the 1 ? v.? will ha**| same mirig iu ut- nuc. tu?iv ..... ?? better status or there will be a worse? never the same. Every portion points to the former, for the dullest man C3n read the signs of an awakening to the rights of these people: their right to better wages, to better homes, to full educational and religious privileges.? Leonora B. Ellis, in The Forum. Cnsrieston Exposition. The Legislature of Illinois has passed a bill appropriating $25,040 for the purpose of making a full exhibit of the resources of that State at the South Carolina Inter-State an West Indian Exposition at Charleston, and Missouri has appropriated $25,000 for the 3ame pur- # " pose. The light seems to be shining for us j In all parts of the country, and the i blessed thing is growing bigger and bigger every day. And not only from our own country, but from other lands and from the islands of the sea good tidings are coming. The City Council | of Ottawa, Canada, has passed a resolution in favor of transferring the Canadian exhibit from Buffalo to Char leston. The resolution was forwarded to the Minister of Agriculture of tho Dominion, and he has expressed his wish that the Canadian exhibit be made at Charleston. The Governor of Cuba has appointed an active commissioner to prepare an ; exhibit from that island for the Exposition at Charleston, and the special commissioner of the Exposition in Ha- vana makes encouraging reports of the J progress of his work there and at other points in Cuba.?Charleston News and Courier. * n.l II J!--. KCUUIIUII1K MtKJUUVIIIC. , The Jacksonville^ papers publish a long list of permits for new buildings in the burned district Most of these buildings are of a solid character, and many of them will be superior to ihe burned houses wh lh they will replace. There are now enough housw being rebuilt to furnish the home laborers work, but in less than a month it i3 expected that there will be thousands of brick masons, carpenter^ plasterers and hod carriers in the city, and all of v?ftn, win ha at- wnrlf at ffrvnd waees. The work of removing the debr.? is a herculean task and causes de'.&y, but there is a confidence afil deistm nation among the citizens that means a great and capidly growing city. Cotton flanufacturing. According the Mr. Watkins, a statistician, North Carolina has 337,781 sp.ndles in 1890; in i900 it had 1,214,509. In 1890 it had 91 cotton mills in operation; in 1910 it had 190. Swth Carolina had 34 in 18*0 and 9i in 19.0. It had 1,693,649 spindles in 1*00. Its mills are far laiger than thoss cf . North Carolina?mors than doub.e tne size. The South had in 1890 1,554,010 spindles; in 1900 it had 5.001,487. Its factories had increased from 239 to 500. The report shows that North Carol.na mills consume 58^ per cent of the cotton grown in the State; those of Sou h Carolina consume 44.6 per cent of the State's crop, ueorgia muis use 4:.i cent of the Georgia crop.?Wilmingoa. Messenger. Good for Mississippi. Governor Long.no, of Mississippi, has given the credit of h'.s fctne an excellent advertisej ent In cilling in jercmptorily $400,tX0 c? oatstand.n^ bonds. The Srate Treasury is said to te full of money and by paying o.f the I bonds a good bit of in.erest w.ll be saved. Governor Longino is an ab e execative, and under h.s administration, Mississippi is moving forward".