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XXIII.
SOXQ.
The song we never sung.
The pine-trees sigh in chorus;
The eyes our eyes must shun
Onr hearts keep still before u?
The rose we gathered not
Blooms in the so 1 forever,
And hands ns’er joined ia life
Death has no power to sever
—Lilia Cabot Perry, in the Century.
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give >ou the t true and , full account of what
happened to hci at l»_r.U -
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;’ a voc rou9
j (l bless Cadet binu.i. licre and , lucre
f. nd a ’?! n J >val 2! V? a ° ( >f <llb I ,’ e *
aints . . winch mu.de i ,
the wings - of the
f-pni . of expectancy gr. ctcd the ascent to
" dL?. ./k iQ tIle H f 8nia omblT ,‘ 1 ‘I blue ,* C you, and V- ? quaint h -" ure
poke bonnet of the army. Her face was
a glowing crimson as she -aced the audi-
t but her eyes were bright and her
glance was firm, an 1 the vigor of a strong
and sturdy’ son! lent a certain grace of
freedom to her pose.
“ A lter 1 had served several months sell-
, War Crys in raneiseo,”
ing ban ! she
gun with a steady voice which had
qtiircd tba * I'biintive quality so common
the hard workers in the cause, “I was
sent to Butte, where there was a smalt
corps, of workers. I he. had become ilis-
coun ged, an I it was thought that my ex-
peneuce would help them a little. I
didn’t know that Butte was so diirerent
from Sau I raneiseo, and the members of
Hie corps there didn’t know it either,
because they had never worked anywhere
else. I hat is why they didn’t tell me
some things that I wish I had known more
about.
“I started out the first day with about
2! 0 War Crv-. r l hey looked surprised at
the corps headquarters when I asked for
so many, but 1 thought I could sell them,
“Of course, T went into the hardest
part of the town, and after I had visited one
or two saloons an l failed to sell a copy, I
weut into another one. A good many
men anything Were gambling. I had never seen
but card playing m San Frau-
cisco, but they had wheels of fortune and
a gr*at many other thin to gamble with,
Several men were drinking at the bar. I
went among them all and asked them to
buy the paper, but they simply stared at
me m ( \vonde The began
r games to stop,
.
aud then a bit, tine looking man with a
broad-brimmed hat came up to me and
said—aud he said—he said: ‘Hello, little
Parson Sally, what do you want?’ He
said it ^ust like that. He was so big and
his voice was so deep—and -and he was
“Out with it. Cadet.’*' cried a half
dozen voices in the audience as the girl
broke down, stammering and blu-hing.
“Handsome:” she added desperately,
ns though the saying of the word was a
cross between martyrdom aud the confes-
sion of a mortal sin. Great applause and
laughter followed this declaration with an
occasional “God b’es- Cadet Anuie!”
This so overwi elme l the girl that her lips
trembled and tear - sprang to her eyes aud
sbe cast a despairing, appealing glance to-
ward one peculiar spot before her in the
audience where she hud not had t he eour-
age to look before. That single look wa-
sufficient to rivet the bonds of decorum
which had held a giaut in restraint, and
the uprising of a towering frame sent the
brigadier's programme and discipline turn-
bling into chaos. The tail man ap-
proached the stride and of mounted the platform with
a grenadier, while * adet
Annie gazed at him with a dismay which
was still inefficient to quench the light of
the stars that shone all the brighter in her
eyes uow that ber cheeks had paled,
Simultaneously a startled lu sh fell upou
thc audience, for although tie familiar
uniform of the Salvation Army sat upon
the mans splendid frame, he was a
Stranger to all, and there wa< a command-
mg air about hun that..stilled all sounds.
He stalked to the gir. » side and stood
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commonly handsome man he , was. with
swarthy face, jet black wavy hair worn
long, aud formidable black mustache aud
Imperial. These two made a strange pic-
ture as they stood side by side, she so
small and seemingly so frail, he so tall and
muscular and competent; she looking up
at him. he ignoring her and sweeping the
ball with a glance h i’f of defiance, half of
benignancy, and wholly of strength his aud
rolled forth 'Yhen those the rounded man spoke hil.ows voice
in that
in a rich diapason sing the mysteries of the
deep.
“My friends,” he said ■•wifh God’s
help and the brigadier’s consent”—which
he never took the trouble to secure- -it
wems too haTd for this poor child to tell
what happened to her in the gambling
bouse at Butte that day- I was there
when It happened and saw it ail, and I
will tell you the story. I can’t bear to see
her tortured a» she has been this night,
Cadet Smith, ~
Annie take your seat.”
He said tbat still without looking at tfbr.
Witb a glance at the brigadier which
tDeant, “Pow can I help it when this big
behind thing should ;rs me away?” she slipped
the rose^asbeakedparlor organ and
The Toccoa News.
the embowering foliage plants on the stage
and was lost to view.
I ho brigadier sat watching the man with
a peculiar expression which no one could
have understood had any one thought to
observe it, bat the stronger so complet- b
filled al! eyes and so impressed his mas-
teriy personality on the consciousness of
all who could see and hear that nothing
else could be observed. The stranger re-
i suined:
“I knowc-d the gambler that played it
low down on this brave little Salvation
Army lassie that dav—knowed him well
Ho was a big, hulking dog that ha 1
skinned tenderfeet all the wav between -
Puget Sound and Lake Michigan. He
dldn’t know what it was to make an hon
3 ust mallei tit rough
at e7erylbin - antl skinnin -
“* Ie WaS runn ’ m? a faro fi amc in a Mon -
e
fellows wasn’t used to the way site went
afler ’ era ’ Sbe 5 U3t wa ' led ri " llt in and
tackled ’em, and them blue eyes she car-
Tie f“. d ? ll thro “ bcr «* b heatl em looked as much £lrai as - bt to at say ' eiTl T
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think you d be a realdei cut feilow if you d
rea(l tbe War.ry, quit gamVing, quit
drmk,D S S in aa 1 have respect for good
women.’ That’s what the fellows told me
her eyes said to’em.
“Then the big gambler she started to
tc ‘h you abo it comes up and s tys to her;
“Hello, little Parson Sallie, what do you
ttftQt? ’ 11 want ,0 ?el1 J’ ou a War Cry,’
slie says. ‘A what r says he. ‘A War
Cry,” says she; and her calm blue eyes
looke 2 bim through and through. ‘A
vVar Cry?’says he; ‘What’s that?’and he
knowed as well as she di I what it wa .
“After badgering her that way and not
making her lose uu inch of ground, he
told her he’d make a proposition by which
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,nm r ’ and ber , e ve3 S°t f blight, . | aud she ,
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asked him what the proposition was. He
ha ,\ lier s it down at a card table, aud he
took three cards—a king and two spot
cards—and r iiuHlcd ’em on the tabic so
that she could see the king while he was
shuttling’em, and then asked her if she
could pick out the king as the three cards
lay face down, along side one another on the
table. She said of course she could. He
says to her, ‘Try it.’ She done so, and of
course she picked out the king.
“He says: ‘That’s smart, and I didn’t
think you could do it. Now, I’ll tell you
what I’ll do; I’ll shuffle the cards, and
every time you pick out tiie king I’ll buy
two War Crys. Every time von pick out
a spot card you are to give me a War Cry
for nothing.’ bhe agreed to that.
“The poor child did’nt know that
was gambling—didn’t know that she was
tackling tlie notorious Montana Bill in his
particular specialty—didn’t know that she
had run up against the slickest three-card
monte thrower in the whole Northwest.
“Well, you know what happened. Bill
cleaned the poor child jout of every War
Cry she had aud then laughed at her. I
«aw her as she sat there, and I saw how
sho looked when she began to realize
that she had lost all her papers and didn’t
haveaceut to show for ’em. 1 saw how
white she got, and how she stared at Bill
like he’d ruu a knife through her body; I
saw how she got up and looked around at
the laughing men, like a lamb cornered by
a pack of wolves; I saw her try hard to
keep down the tears, an 1 then she says:
‘Men, I will pray to God to lead you all
into better lives.’ And her voice was so
choked up she couldn’t say any more.
Then she walked out slowly and cried ail
the way up the street.
The big mau paused, for his own voice
had become unaccountably thick and had
lost much of its rich.deep swing and reson-
ance. But he soon regaiued his self-pos-
session, and then proceeded:
“.Montana Bill was a hard case for sure,
but he had a small streak of manhood
somewhere under his thick skin. The
boys iu the joint all thought it was a great
joke on the little girl, and they laughed
and shouted till they almost cracked the
roof. But Bill didu’t laugh. He stood
silent and glum, with liis hands in his
pockets, looking out through the door,
Then he went out, saying be had a game
awaiting for him at Ike’s saloon, and he
went slouching up the street. The further
lie got away from the joiut the faster he
walked, and then he done a sneaking
thing—he looked back to see if any of the
boys was following him. They wasn’t.
though, and tben he let out them long legs
of his for the liveliest walk he ever took in
his life.
“He soon caught sight of her, and theu
he slowed up and follered. She was still
crv ing, and people would stop and won-
der wuat was the matter, anct some of ’em
laughed. Bill got on to that, and it riled
him through and through, tie slapped one
fellow clean into the middle of the street,
and went right on without a word. I
heard afterward that several people that
he knowed spoke to him. but he didn’t
see none of’em, and kept right on.
“The girl went traight to the head-
quarters of the Salvation Army, and Bill
follered her in. She went into a little office,
where there didn’t happen to be any body
else, and sat down and put ber head on
the table, and cried like ber heart was
broke. Yor the first time in his life Mon-
tana Bill’s nerve broke down. She looked
so small and forlorn and miserable that if
he hadn t been the man that done her up
he d a gone out and whippea the fehou
*«**» <•«*-. «“» .' And d,!n " when ca y he oumlrel kaowed a “ that rt ,U! be
there wasn’t anybody big enough ', aud , man
enough to whip him. he felt just like a
thoroughbred dog that had been caught
sucking eggs.
“I want to say this for Bill. Bad as he
was. he never meant to rob the girl. He
was only having fun with her in the
saloon, aud he meant to give her back the
papers, but it was the way she acted in the
saloon that made him forget. It was the
pity that she showed for him and the
little prayer she said that made him lose
his head. And that was the first time in
his life that Montana Bill ever lost his
head.
“And so; when be saw her crying out
her heart in the little office, she not
ing that anybody was about, he didn't
have the nerve to own up like a man. He
just sneaked a $20 gold piece on to the
table and tried to steal out like a thief,
But she heard him, and saw the mouei
ani looked at him like he was a ghost
and sprung ahead of him and stopped h' >
and stood there looking at him with a loo.
he’d never seen in no mortal face in hi-
life.
‘“It was God who put it into your heart
to follow me and bring that money, -he
TOC CO GA.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1895.
-aid to him, ‘and as He has done that
much, He has done more, and will keep
ou doing more, until that big manly heart
in vour body beats altogether for mankind
and its Redeemer.’”
The giant paused. His narrative had
bee.i ... . !e uni earnest that there were
tears in manv eves Perhaps it was these
that sent his self-mastery astray, for wheD
h lyed speech again he failed. Then
he looked so foolish and helpless that a
-uppre--ed titter ran through the audience,
an 1 this made it ail the worse for him.
At this juncture the brigadier stepped
forth. A half merry, half whimsical ex-
j ro-sion lighted up his face as he gently
pushed the giant into a platform seat fac-
iug the audience, and then said:
“.And >0 it was too hard for the poor
lil,Ie « irl w be made to tell before all these
.
^oou tliatdav !' 1 and so a^greaV , 6 strong
!iow9,naUaQdcruei,y “
would come forward as her
knight and protector. He would show
the strength that lies in the heart of a
giant, lie—
But the audience, having already caught
the point, and seeing how foolish and
childish the giant looked as he sat facing hil
them with tears streaming down
cheeks, burst into great laughter and ap.
plause, with a “Hallelujah I” and a “God
bless the big man 1 ” now and then,
*-This being the case,” resumed the
brigadier, “we may uow proceed to the
more interesting business of the evening.
Cadet Annie Smith 1 ” ho called,
Two sparking blue eyes; shining like
stars under the canopy of a quaint blue
poke bonnet, emerged from behind the
f ( >iia-e Two fresh youno-cheeks rSs as deep- t£
| v banked with pink ami red as
organ itself accompanied the .eyes, an( i a
trim little girlish figure, which owned the
stars and the roses, advanced timidly to
A smile ,«d a o„d from the
bri ~ a ; lier evoked activity in the collapsed
muscles of the giant, who sat on the
platform like an awkward schoolboy, and
he came and stood clumsil. beside the
gid, and neither looked at the other.
“My friends,” said the brigadier, in a
very gentle and reverential voice, “it has
pleased God to place it in my power to
in the holy bands of matrimony this
night two of the noblest hearts that” over
beat in the service of the Saviour. One
of these is Cadet Annie Smith, whom
many of you know and love. The other is
William « hatsworth 1 arvey, formerly
known as Montana Bill, the sleekest three-
card moute sharp in the whole North-
west.”
Big and Littla People.
Miss Ella Ewing, of Boone County,
Missouri, who is twenty-four years old. is
eight feet two inches tail and weigns270
pounds. Her shoe measures seventeen
inches in leugtii.
In Marshall County, Iowa, was bora a
tiny, sickly babe, whom no one thought
could live, but Giles Rogers has devel-
oped into a man of six feet five inches,
weighs 352 pounds and can hold his own
against anybody.
John H. Robbins, of Belfast. Me., a
native of Deer Isle, is doubtless the small-
est man old, in this country. He is thirty-one"
years is thirty-six inches tall, and
weighs Webster, thirty-seven pounds six ounces,
In Mass., lives Elsie Bates,
the twelve year old daughter of Abel and
Sarah Bates. This girl weighs 310
pounds, but is a bright, healthy country
lass, fond of rowing and outdoor sports,
She walks a mile and a half to school
every day, and enjoys it. Her brother,
two years older, weighs 200 pounds,
Albert Whetstone, of Eureka, 1 al., said
to have been the largest mau in the world
at the time of bis decease, a few months
ago, weighed 496 pounds. His coffin
consume i 100 feet of lumber ami weighed
100 pounds, and it was uecessury to cut
a hjgle in the side of the house to remove
it. His family are still iu Europe. The
mother weighs 345 pounds, and his two
brothers weigh 32 > pounds each,
On April 6 last, at Burlington, N. J.,
the midget Gladys Force, was born. Sho
weighed one pound twelve ounces, and
was only nine inches in length. A tea-
cup would entirely cover her head, and
her fingers were only as thick as a rye
straw, and so transparent that the bone
could be plainly seen. When she was
three months old she wore the smallest
pair of shoes ever turned out of a factory,
She is growing finely, and promises to
be a healthy child.
What Bjcomss of Old Shoos.
7 . nn™nn P wlm hallows p, 1 af \ ?!
thing . this , . world . , 7 has its . will
m use
be interested to .vnow what becomes
millions of Old anoes. which are
worn out every year, lhe many
uses to which tais mass of frayed
leather is put are not easy to ascer-
tain. tor manufacturers do not like
to acknowledge that they utilize such
base material. Most old shoes go
back to the vat and emerge as leath-
erette. which manufacturers of cheap
shoes use to fill in the outer sole,
The testimony of thousands bears
witness to the poor wearing qualities
Q f leatherette. Old.rubber shoes are
Q f extensive utility, but the most
curious article of which they form
ingredients is paint. Rubber Is often
worked over into more shoes and It
is not an impossibility for three gen-
erations to wear = gum shoes made out
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Counting the Stars.
The numbering of the heavenly
bodies, whether planet, satellite or
star G f the smallest size, has been
commenced at the Paris Observatory
b Mies Klumpke Director of
ScIences and Assistant Astronomer,
in view o? the publication of an in-
ternationai catalogue of the stars,
The idea was formed at the Astro-
photographs ^ on2re * 3 nave neen an ^ already taken
sorae onl Y c<mta i n a dozen stars,this
being a celt stial desert: but others
are crowded, even to the number of
1.500. j. ne average number Is 33c
-tars per photograph.
; he catalogue is expected to contain
ibout 8,GUJ,000 stars. A census of
;ho heavenly bodies has long been;
iceded. Now a woman comes for-
ward and will count all the stars
5 he will be some time at it; but when
WO rk is done it will be finished.
^AM’S HORN BLASTS.
Warning Notes Collins the Wicked to
Ret eutauce.
j devil hates a
f- /Mt >> shining face.
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'/>, To live an aim-
s, ^ rA IeS3 Bfe is to lose
1 The inventor of
m of soap the was gospel. a friend
No matter how
safe sin may look.
' Its end is death.
It doesn’t take
J jAVV..'' much money to
make a good man
rich.
To have money often means to have
the devil for a master.
No prayer ever hurts a prayer meet¬
ing by being too short.
Keep your heart full of good will, and
God will keep it full of love.
Wherever Christianity goes, it finds
that the devil got there first.
Knowing the Bible well is the best
preparation for knowing God.
There would be more joy in the world
If men knew the Bible better.
Wherever there is sin, God wants us
to knew that there Is danger.
The best views are sometimes right
at the end of the longest tunnels.
The better God’s people please him,
the more peculiar they will look,
Th ° l ’ Sht cross for the Christian la
rh , e one he isn t v,filing to take up.
The more we are willing to do, the
more God will make us able to do.
The beat place in this world for a
Christian Is the one God picks out.
It Ia a ml f a ^ e believe that the
devil n Keeps the busiest la the slums,
Christ can sometimes tell us more in
an hour of sadness than In one of jov.
Every warning in the Bible is as full
of God’s love as the sweetest promise.
The man who i 3 willing for the saloon
to stay is in no hurry for Christ to come.
Whenever the sons of God come to¬
gether, the devil comes in the shoes of a
hypocrite.
The man who hates the Bible has
something ugly In his heart that it has
shown him.
Love sees danger afar off, but the
loved one too often turns a deaf ear to
the warning.
Whenever God’s help Is needed, the
Christian should believe that God is
there to help.
When we come close to a giant, he
often turns out to be only a common
man on stilts.
The longer and stronger the arms of
the wicked, the more It will hurt when
they are broken.
Whoever puts on the robe of Christ
will soon be given a chance to do some¬
thing for Christ.
Some people never find out that the
Bible is good for anything except a cen¬
ter. table ornament.
The Bible makes it clear that God
wants everybody who is wrong to find
It out and get right.
The man who never gives God any
money v.i 11 not help the cause much
by shouting In church.
God is caring for us as tenderly when
pointing out the pit into which we may
fall as when taking us out of it.
When Jesus said, “Suffer the little
ones to come,” he didn’t mean only
those that were dressed in white.
Give self power to move a mountain,
and it will put a big sign on it to show
who did It, as the house movers do.
When the devil doesn’t know what.
else to do to kill the preaching, he re¬
moves the mask from some hypocrite.
Too many Christians never expect
any help from God until everything else
fails. Better count on him from the
beginning.
A Hint to Farmers.
A correspondent of the London Times
suggests, in view of the great depres¬
sion in both agricultural and textile
industries, that silk culture should be
resuscitated in England. It is an in¬
dustry, he says, which might be rein¬
troduced without a great capital expen¬
diture, the main expense being the
planting of mulberry trees. As glass
houses can now be had at so small a
cost, forcing might be had recourse to
during the inception of the industry.
and the young trees might, moreover,
be grown continuously night and day
by the help of the electric light, espe-
dally where water power is available.
This expedient would clear up an inter-
estine point. The late Sir W. Siemens
demonstrated that a tree grown with-
out any rest, while being stunted, be-
came more vigorous, having a thicker
stem and leaves of darker green, than
a tree grown with the natural alterna-
,ions' ot light In and darkness. It Is
stated that ISM the Huguenots had
in Canterbury alone a thousand silk
looms, giving employment to some
3.000 men, and all the raw material
was cultivated in the neighborhood of
London. Many parts of this country,
where the climate is temperate and
equable, would be specially suited for
this culture.
What May Be Civilization?
Civilization is a vague term, and to
different persons it suggests different
ideas. To some people is suggests rail-
ways and telegraphs; to some it sug-
ge sts bustling streets, showy shop
windows, boulevards, cafes, theaters;
to some it suggests chimney-pot hats
an( j black coats; tc some it means
Christian churches. Parliaments, ted
policemen; to some It means rnaniy art,
science and literature; to our modern
cynics or Rousseauists to those whose
p-ophats "nan. is~a are Thoreau and Walt Whit-
it disease which needs to be
r nrc i bv u return to nature "—Namr*l
r*Hbr>* —D G Rltehi-
COTTON HILLS
IN THE SOUTH.
THE HOME OF THE PLANT
Should Be the Home of the Factory.
One Hundred Cotton 51 ills in
Process of Erection.
“Before the end of the century the cotton
mills of the South wifi number 5.000.000
spindles.”
This bold declaration was made bv Mr.
hs.--.ard L. Lumonds, of f Baltimore, r, ‘ ,7, Md.,
before the meeting of tho New England cot-
ton manufacturers at Atlanta last week
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v. tv! E-. ir*m.ij muds U-. i.i ..a..d taut ,. ,.
1 • more „
t aa a one hundred cotton nulls were nowin
process of erection in different parts of the
South.
before Perhaps the most important paper read
the convention was the one prepared
by Mr. Bichard H. Edmonds, of Baltimore,
Md.
Mr. Edmonds reviewed the growth of the
cotton industry In the South and proved by
facts aud figures that the war between the
States had thrown the South behind New
England by more than a hundred vears.
In spite of this misfortune the South would
yet be tome the great manufacturing center
of the future. He arg.i-d that the proper
place for the cotton mill was in the home of
tho cotton rila-it
Mr. Edmonds was frequently interrupted
with ing is applause as he proceeded; The follow-
a brief synopsis of this able paper :
“As the South built its first cotton mill
slmtltthi'K.rnnvPirin of" wlibh -Jimiih t^xtii-' MlaUi-
laid the foundation ?aavbiot iuSr- New r.m'ati b^eflvfook l -
industry it 10
recently fact-arcs failed to doveloo its cotton manu-
latter except to a limited extent, while the
is was making such great progress. This
essential to a right understanding of the
conditions prevail ing at present in the two
sections and will provide an answer to the
oft-repeated question : If the South has the
great claimed advantages for cottou manufacturing
for it, why has it not fuily duvel-
oped this industry before this? Tho spin-
uing and •,weaving iFwas of cotton for domestic
use, or as ended in olden times, the
making of ‘homespun’ gods, was almost
universal throughout the South.”
In this connection Mr. Edmonds explained
that in addition to cotton the South was in-
tcrested in all lines of industrial develop-
ment. Her progress was equally as rapid as
that of "New England. Washington’s father
was a minor and was interested in the mak-
iug of iron furnaces. Jefferson was also en-
gaged in the same industry.
BE r, OR T ' -he Wilt
Referring to . h > cultivation of cotton and
i he market for that staple before the war,
q,. “In"1391 F,j raoU( j g s-nd.
the average New York price for
ottoa for tho year was 44 cents, and for
orty vears. from 1800 to 1830. the New York
prims ranged from that figure to 13 cents,
and for the whole period averaged over 17
• ont, a pound. With such profits as these
prices yielded, it would have been contrary
to all economic history if the south had
1 ailed to concentrate all its energy upon the
•xtension of cotton production. It could not
>■! expected that men should fail to grasp
uch money-making opportunities as. cotton
trowing presented for at least two genera-
ions, or from 1800 to 1860, with the single
•xception of tho decade ir«>m 1840 to 1870, ami
iuring •ther which period overproduction
causes forced prices to the lowest tea-
venr average on record. It is interesting to
• ollow tho market turn which this dc-Mine in
pr.flts on cotton gave to industrial pursuits,
twakening into new lifetho long dormant iu-
: us trial capabilities of the people of tho
^outh. In 1850 the sou-’n had 2,335 miles of
railroad and the New England and middle
-tales 4.793 miles; by I860 the south had in-
• Teased its mileage to 9,897 miles, quad¬
rupling that of 1850, while the New England
aud middle states had increased to 9,510, or
a gain of only about 100 per cent. In 1850
rue mileage of the two northern sections ex¬
ceeded that of the South by 2,463 miles. By
i860 the conditions were reversed, and the
south led by 387 miles. In that decade the
sooth spent $220,000,009 upou the extensions
of its railroad system, nearly all of it having
been local capital. During this period the
south doubled its capital and output of
fiour. sawed and planted lumber, iron
found iug, steam engine building, etc., and
in 1890 had ^12,000,000 invested in cotton
mills. Nearly all of its factories of all kinds
were moderate in size, but in number they
aggregate 24,590, and their capital wa3$175,-
100,009. Bui this is a digression.
“fue wonderful prosperity which cotton
production brought about finds an apt
illustration iu the simple statement that
though the south had only one-tnlrd of the
country’s population and only one-fourth
of its white population, the assessed value
of its property, according to the census of
1S60. was £5,200.000,000 out ofatolal of £12,-
000.000,000 for the entire country or 44 per
cent.”
HOW THE SOUTH was retarded.
This graphic picture of the cotton indus-
trv in tho South before the war was then con-
t fasted with the situation which followed
' TS- lV afteC th9 C!03G ° f tbat StfUggl6 *
"But when the war ended the two sections
had been widely separated. One swept by
destruction had been thrown back in its ca-
reer half a century, while the other had been
marvelously stimulated and pushed forward
hair a century as compared with the post-
“S^ f .S"2,i! e S‘Thu S loS-T,:
tlem. 0
twmn Tlie New Engian-i mu wlio
seeks to understand the south must look at
it iu this light, He must see that it is not
.-imply a ease where one section stood still
for a quarter of a century as a result of the
most disastrous war ia the world’s history.
judged hinaneiaily, the section aud by its immediate by leaps cf-
feet, a 1 other advanced
and bounds. The property, the ambition.
tho hones, the labor system of a whom see-
tion were swept away and in the destruction
wont hundreds of thousands of its ablest and
most energetic men. It is only that this
section may be studied in the light of these
facts that thev are mentioned. What this
section has accomplished has been worked
out under th-e disadvantages, and under-
standing this it is possible to better under-
stand and appreciate the future of the cotton
manufacturing interests of a region whose
miils are already consuming 1.000,009 bales
a der year against 2,900,009 bales Our for the remain-
of the country. New' England
friends can in this light more ciearly study
ihe forces now at work for southern upbuil-
ding and deride whether to join their south-
era competitors cm their own ground and
secure the same advantages which they en-
joy or disregard their persuaded competition. Person-
ally, gland I am find lirmiy that New En-
will the development :t profitable to take an active
pa t in of the south's cot¬
ton rmil interests and thus reap some of the
profit This section offers to New England
the same opportunity which the world has
afforded to Great Britain in a field for the
ernplo-ment of its surplus capital and ener-
gy to tae profit of ail parties interested. I
have bean informed bv one of the leading
,. f -*oa least io v .ri -* ,irpfj r f V-.T-* Fnriand ♦ha*-
at 300.030 new spindles must annually
oe added t vie mills of that section to offset
the depre tation from wear and tear. Tais
kfta nor : cen done, I believe, in recent years.
REVIVAL OF THE COTTON INDUSTRY.
• At the present time tne south is building
a’oout 100 new mills, which, with eciarge-
mentsnow boiag ma le ra existing plants,
will need for eq-. u-.-nt over 800,000 spindles.
At the risk of wearvmg vou with statistics, it
beccm-s necessary to present some figures
to show the actual progress which tbe south ;
has made ia this industry. The census of
1SS0 reported that there weiein thqsouth 180
cotton mill with an aggregate capital
omounting to 821,97^.000, and having 667,-
000 spindles. By 1890 this had ncnrlv t re¬
ined. and we had 254 mills, 861.124.000 of cap*
Uai and 1,712,000 spindle's. No cue would
have dared in 1890 though to predict that
the figures of that year would treble in aa-
other decade, but this we can now see will
be done. Five years have passed and the
south ha? in mills now in operation and
those which wifi be at work within sixty
days 3.000,0°° spindles. Add to tins num-
ber SOu.OOO for mills under construction and
by the end of tlio current crop year this sec-
tion would have 3.800.900 spindles in opera-
tion. It will then « :,iy require an average
increase of 309 KM -etudi, - a year to give the
south a total of y,00d.000suinde 9 |. y l'.iOO.
than is now safe to preJi.-t .1 muon larger number
mat.
ADVANTAGES OE THE SCUTTL
r, Referring r . to . the ,, s eeial . , advantages , offered „ ,
by nulls, the south for the operation of cotton
Mr. Edmonds said:
tion “Probably in the msst important cousidera-
the estimation ot m til men is the labor.
The south has an abundant suppiv of the
very best help from which to secure mill
operatives. An investUuion on this point
will convince the mcc-t skeptical. A New
England mill owner lately stated that, to say
that New England mill help was in anyway
superior to southern was simply to say that
the lower eii.^ea of f.-ergners are superior
to the native Anglo-Saxon Americans. Half
« century ago Now England mills wereoper-
Wort hy native Amen mus— daughters of the
snmil tanners in the neighborhood of the
riU, is; bin too incoming 01 I reneh Canadians
and othyrs drove tin- American girls out of
the “ ills - ll ?ere ns no danger of this in the
south, at least xor many years to comfc The
supply of possiola operatives eager tor the
opportunity to otirn a living by working in
throe mills, :s to-dav sufficient to equip
or four timesas many mills as we have,
Provided these mills are not clustered too
tno help m supply any one will oeality. be almost lhe tocrease Iu
as great as ; thc
mcreJISO HI HllllS for UHIUV JV’arS. TllCS
skill people arc capaulo of acquiring the high* -'
roqt.ire.Un cotton manufacturing: thev
vlass are anxious to find work and willing to
accept much lower wages than uot the. n
operatives »re compe led to have in order to
° lx th ! 3 P° !iU lt must be remembere-,
that na t ; ur( ' !,as ,udd , ° . 1 P ossll)1 « to ve * n * be
sooth , at n very much l lower cost thau in the
u P‘.\ n ' ‘use 01 the lovver cost ot fuel and
plotlie.--, '‘.c juo iij.-_u., .ne caeapness un-itne abundaucc with which aud food cheaj ca.s
ot bunding .nateria.?-. Ahese ate pei-
uutu nt advantage. : no possj do change 01
( ' 0 A>bUous can anor them They forever
guarantee a lower labor cost in the south
man elsewhere.
I ‘ I 1Ll - s should be located here.
. ■Lamon , ts lnsiSLcd ma, oy natural se
u'ctiou , toe bouth* v, .i^ tho proper location for
cotton milts. B<ud he, in closing :
“Everywhere manufacturing is tending;to
faculties production 0 j ft ' v raalerial - provided the
tor can De secured. Iu
fonner Y e ' 1 ™ tbe P rolic f M 1 manufacturing
were sulllcientl . large to justify the trans-
potation of raw material. New England
c °uld haul its. cotton a thousand miles and
4 its coal almost an equal distance and find a
profitable market for the production of its
goods. Great Butain couhl import us cotton
h ‘° m America, operate us 40,000,000 spindles
and raurxet the product olusimiis through-
out the f orid - Bat with the decreasing
marsm of profit m manufacturing, it is iu
?oaou, os in iron, timber and other lines 01
industry necessary for the mill to seek tbe
of supply In the fullness of time
the faputh s opportunity has came. Its own
peofdo. llJ ilhv have cotton demonstrated their The unusual profits
‘ m manuiacturing.
1,1 lh,s industry throughout tne South have
suffi •lenily large to turn tlie attention
f ; th.3 enure sect.on very largely to this m-
’Bistry. ia-j noh«t hnauciers m tho bo th,
me most conser\atiye bankers, the general
‘»erchants and the farmers are all now .11-
s b mtlles lr which ”fy “eottou the South nulls. now The has in 3,000,000 opera-
tion is scarcely 4 per cent, of the number >A
spindles m tho world—latest reports giving
tne total as 85,000.009. although the Eomh
produces over 60 per cent, of the world’s
cottou crop. There uro abundant reasons,
easily understood by any man who will tax«
the time to investig.ato, why the South wa-
uuabie after tho disastrous losses of the war
to take up industrial pursuits until about
1880. It is mainly during the last five years
that the greatest progress has beou made,
and every yeur is a4 ling increased momen¬
tum to this movement.”
the future or the south.
“Looking to Central and South America
and to Asia and Japan, by the cutting of
Ntcaraugua canal, for a market for American
cotton goods, the South’s position is impreg¬
nable, It has every possible advantage that
can bo asked for the production of cotton
goods at the lowest possible cost. Its advan¬
tages for distribution are but little inferior
to those of the north, and whatever disad-
vantages it has in this way will be eliminated
ua der the general progress which is being
made. No ono can possibly any longer ques¬
tion the south’s future position in the cotton
manufacturing world. The rapid develop¬
ment of the textile industry iu the south
does not necessarily involve its decrease in
New England or Great Britain. Even should
these bold their present b siness and con¬
tinue to operate as many spindles as they
do today, the natural increase which the ever
pwing demands of the world require must
b i, tb !f ’' oa ! h ;
and Japan may > b.com^, fa :tor» J 1 thi^
“VfW S addftionai but ^ thv fSrce Y A® tb ®5^’^ capita!* 5^ ft
an todrivethe
^the^ufy aa the only ^rda^ place whiri? wl kb Sn tau VoV^to^-^0“ bop3 to m^c
JSdod l^/nthoaeroiui thblndus^rv^hould^develop tries' s k° u ' - hir^e- 0
* ** ^ ^ ;:t _ u c. a f., th« onlv a
a rim mill
o[> this m-iustry |‘art’oUb^ with ita own ^pitalaufli., ali
f */,"Ln .JtiC proflts and hit»r4ln-e s-ct on-
b^ muf.ad., bom hted by an an iut.rcnan n e o o.
investments.__
£ \ SWINDLE IN ST. LOUIS.
-
city Hall That Has Cost $2,000,000
^ 1 1 H a ' e to Be Reconstructed, r , ___ . .
As the committee investigating the work
on the partially completed St. Louis, Mo.,
rit Clt> Hall proceeds nroceeri* with vvi.hK its 3 labors moor, it it finds unaa
fresh evidences of fraud in the construction.
The iron columns in the main buildings have
been found t0 coutam blow bo i e§ which
were concealed , . . by iron, cement . and . paint; „ .
‘ trusses are InsumeieDt to sustain the
lyeight . the roof; the towers believed
Oi are
° to ^ 16 unaMe *' to defective, resist high and winds; the bunding the tiling is
without ..r drain connections,
pipes or sewer
f n brie *» immense pile of granite ana
bas aire ^Y co f, t tbe c u -"
»2,000,000, is , practically worthless , as . anom-
c ^ ai building and will have to be rejon-
s -r uc tca.
Internal Revenue Receipts.
Commissioner Miiier has compile l the re-
ceipt3 of internal revenue for the three
mouth- of ‘.he ^current finance year. They
show the total receipts to have been $37.-
’
<44,4/8, ... a a.create, . ,is ... cjmpar.d „ jth tu
curcffxpoaumi, mouth* ot J«isr jetr or -.29,
8 ^* 6aw - The principal sources of revenue
hp^ts, S48.SB2,023 n>q a _ decrease of r .f «21,302.- *01 am
"'*> ' 1 ”* ta lae '■ v * red,> “ J "'“
momn= Ji . U
A - ,yawo ’ » ^lo,oio, an increase . of f *640,- -a...
400.
Ferment ed liquors, $10,339,103, an iaereas
0 ; c792,o,9.
01 n ne, ..., 0 a decrease ,
■■ o .* rg a -.i
i 137,504.
Miscellaneous, *89,4#0, a decrease of , -H3,-
992.
NO. 2.
THE MARKETS
NEW YORK COTTON FUTURES
Cotton quiet, middling uplands, 8 9-16
middling gulf. 8 3-16. Futures firm.
Salts 315.100 bales.
October 8 40C« 8 41 February .. 8 63®8 64
November..8 43i« S 44 March......8 6?<S8 69
December .8 49c« 8 50 April.......8 73(g'S 74
January... .8 57<ff8 5S Mav. . 8 80(6 9 81
June......8 86«8 87
tgvERrooL ‘ cotton market
Cotton, fair demand, higher. Middling
4 3^ d Futurcs quiet. Sales 10.000. In-
eluding Vote i \nn. 8,t»00.
Oct A Nov Dee" 132' Mar A Apr. 4 35^36
bec.*AJan. y >v A 4 32 b A nr A May ... 4 36<$S7
4 32«33 Mar* June.. 4 38 s
j an . A Feb. . .4 33 b July June A & July..4 40@4I 39 I*
Mar.. 4 31^35 Aug..4
, mcAOO oba in ano vrodcce.
wheat Dec. May. . 64 K
corn — Nov. .30 ; Dec. 28,
oats— Dec.....IN 4 May. 20 . *
fOHK— Get..... 8 05 Jan. 9 10
lard — Oct......555 Jan.. 6 67b,
r.iss — Oct......4 62>j Jan....... . 460
HOME COTTON MARKETS.
Chitr- Cel- Char
l«->tt*u tnnbla. lrston
G oci middling.... 8 H 8 ’«
St net middling.... m a?*
Middling......... 8J*<?30 7 8
S’-net low middling 75* 1 %
Low mtuolmg..
Middling fair. . *4
I- ally middliug 8 *
raleioh new cottos.
Stm t good middling............ 8>s
Good middling..................
'-UKt middling............... S
Middling. ............. • V.i
Market quiet,
MMiita. nnM.ihn*. q‘ A-a truth
(l ' , ™ rm 1 ’ rharWton C ^nn
quiet, 8. Boston ea?y, 8,V^. 8a\annau th
b 1 ‘ £ JH- ,ir m Baltimore 8 ^-10 ' v quiet ‘ Im,n ^ 8^. n br Phiiade.- ®
New Orleans quiet 80-lb New K . \ork quel.
8 9-16.
SEA ISLAND COTTON,
Thesea island cotton market was firm this
week with sales of 699 bags. The quotations
.ul.v line, 2i to 28 ana 30,., extra tine, oa
to 40..
BALTIMORE FRODUCl MARKET.
Flour— Quiet, Western superfine *3.20{i» 2.45(S>
2.65; do extra §2.75(63.00, family
3.50; winter wheat patent 53.55(6 3 65,
-pring, wheat, patent *3.70(jr4.00. spring
wheat straight >3.55(6 3.75.
Wheat—; Firm, spot and October 6 6%fa)
66> s ; December 68.i 4 <S68',«; May 72,‘g wheat bid;
steamer No. 2 red 63*q <a 64; Southern
by sample 07(6673,; uo on grade, 64}^67'^.
Cons—Strong; 33}^@35$£; spot 38b7(538 R <; November,
new or Old tlie year 33.7^(5 34;
the year 34(634} 2 ; Ja u ary 34@34.V.;;Februa¬
ry 343<j; steamer mixed—; Southern white
corndo yellow corn 38 for new.
Oats—Quiet, No. 2 white Western 25}.;r5 l
26 1 .-;, No. 2 mixed western 23(6 23, ! q.
Rye—Firm; No. 2, 44*645 near by; No 2
western 18(6 L0
Hay—S’" idy. choice Timothy 515.50.
charlotte produce market
Cabbage—New per crate........ l 25
Ext ra li ou r—Sack............... 2(6 2 50
Family “....................... 2 50
Me 1—bolted, 44 lbs. bushel,...... per bushel, 50
Oats 32 lbs. per 45
Potatoes Irish............ 50(560
“ Sweet........... 55.660
Onions— Select, per bushel 60(6 60
Country—Hain........... ioy 3
“ Sides........... :*
“ Shoulders...... 7(6 9
Lard—N.C., ............ !•
Chickens................. 10(630
Butler............................ 15fc 18
12 «i 13
Abeat............................ 65(6 79
Rye.............................. 70
Wool, washed..................... .. 20(8 22
Feathers, new..................... 11
RALEIOH TOBACCO MARKET.
Smokers, Cutters, “ Common...... Good......... * ommou..... .. mo® a a n 10 12 5
“ Good.......... .. 15 a 20
it Fine........... .. 25 a 30
Fillers, Common Green rq a 3
•‘ Good.......... O a 7
“ Fiuc ......... CD a 10
Wrappers, Good....... Common. . . 20 12 a 35 18
.. a
Fine........ ,. 40 a GO
Fancy...... ... 65 u 85
Market strong with advance ou all gradc-
NAVAL STORES.
Wilmington. N. C.—Rosin firm, straine *.
1.20; good strained, 1.25; Spirits turpei.
tine firm at 25@25)£; Tar firm at 1.40
crude turpentine steady, hard 1.10, soft, 1.50,
virgin, 1.60.
New York—R o s i n quiet; strained,
common to good 1.47^(8)1.50. Turpentir,'
steady at 28^^28^. Turpentine firm 25%.
Charleston — at
Rosin steady at 1.20(6)1.30.
Cotton Heed Oil.—N ew York—Cotton
seed oil steady; prime crude 24, yellow
prime 27^(828; oil grade 26&<£27 H-
RICE.
The rice market was .-teady at Charleston.
The quotations are; Prlme4^a4%; Good
3% a 4}^; Fair 3)iu3>£; Common 2^a3.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
Lemons, 360 s. per box 7.50. Raisins, loos**
per box 1.75; cluster, per box 2.00. Mix* .!
nuts, per pound 10c. Red onions, j f . r
i'ug‘2.00. Virginia peanuts, hand-picked, p> r
bushel, 1.25. Grapes, 2 to 30c. per basket.
Turnips, ner barrel, 1.50. Beets, per barrel,
2.50. Cabbage, 6 to 7e. Bananas, 1.25 lu
1.75 per bunch. Coeoanuts, per 100, Northern 4.00.
White beaus, per bushel 2.50.
pears. 4.00(6 5; Northern potatoes. 2.00
Northern apples 2.50.
Country f Brnter-Chom^Tennessee 18a26 -.
medmin 2 u to 15c.
Cow Peas-90c* and 61.00 per bushel,
Poultry-Grown fowls, choice 3.50 to 3.75
per dozen. Chickens 1 75a2.50 qualityf per dozen,
according to size and Ducks-
"rr” Gcesc ’ ,wms 4,50
El-gV—Eggs 15c. per (lozeu. pound, unwashed
Wool—Washed 15c per
He. Hides lie to 12c Wax 25- to 27>.
timber and lumber.
Merchantable •*14.00 to 416.00 for city
sawed; 12.00 to 14.00 for railroad; square
and sound, 9.00 to 13.00 for railroad, 8.00 to
u.oy for rail. Dock timber 4.50 lo 6.50,
shipping 8.50 to 10.50. Shingles 5.00 to 7.00.
The Desperate Deed of Robber and
Murderer.
R. T. R?ufro, who lives four mile* south of
Aia the . aJ . . fro Rp 8 f le i«to *° Pitte f'“®*
^ a,e > ” 00 r ^ “ B
boro « keeps a small store in front of his
dwelling. While out picking cotton in a
qeu near b j S store, he was fired upon with a
shot-gun by some one in ambnsb. Themur-
^ erer( after leaving Renfro, presumably
^ j ea( j robbed tbe store and set fire to it.
en f ro j n tbe had nieantime started having regained
consciousness, to the store and
wa3 met b ,. lbe robb er and shot again,
Renfro, |j and though desperately be did wounded, bis is still
a ve says not recognize as-
qailant. There is no clue,
The World’s Wing Championship
Fred Gilbert, a dark horse in the race, who
hails from Spirit Lake. Iowa, won the Du¬
pont Cup, the wing championship of the
world and a purse of £5,090 in the pigeon
-hooting tournament, whien came to an end
Friday at B liu’more. GilOert never tried a
tournament in his life, but he shot like a
veteran.
Liverpool Cotton Stastitics.
Total sales of cotton for the week. 64.000
bales; American 58,000; trade-takinus, includ¬
ing forwarded from ship-side, 68,000; actuai
export, 7,000; total import 59,000; American,
45.060; total stock 171,000; 887,000; American, 165,000; 77,000;
total ulators afloat, took 2,‘200; American, 2,000. spec¬
exporters took