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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. mm sill. It was evident that ‘ nmcitln^i ’ t?e won interest had b- n arran fed foi ofTh^Sair.u! a° Q t tb |au C rt ' 5 \riny io t*VaD*-i or 1 ‘V ‘ Oio,'i U ‘ ’:. ,n0 ' ' 1 B.icas.l}, but v I cU'-c^Vnin'^m rs”^ thl only ly 7 rurnor!5 on 1 ‘ e Greet u t whiebt ■ i - 'a'r. . a^eoknts “After sotne’pr.diin'ii.ary d kV; reU-dous V ex*- cHe- S rnnrliirtpii hw it S maa , r ing voice tb it * vemlc * nn 1,1 niado made tje follow * “Yon rlniihtw all --ri’n at im ,1 Q f, »° t its publication’ a n- 1 V"’,Vu-t r u 7 Mont, •lunomiciinr • ! r ,' *(• c '- |,er .'* cnco of w?m our b-ivt tSI li--’ ^ r ■ ■ t f T Smkh 'n"i' eh." so ' 1 1 r ' 'V ’ m J3uttc* lwfori' ' * wii •••»-, H*»i fe uei i. t, 0 1 u 3 at , ‘ There iiici, was uas an an am.^ed 4 tv\ tv. - mkle u ir in : rt the brigadiers eye, hut in the audience there ...H.,!.: ’ ,v I ’"ff V 1er ‘; m ! T * ’ 1 . V 1 V ’i 0 ' 1 ? ° V (,nd ’ ’ , f , £1. plan to ”• confess J public ‘ ly our errors 3 and .« V* T W1 -m ”'V . bimtli^to ■ . give >ou the t true and , full account of what happened to hci at l»_r.U - i.rvw! 1 ‘ m! 0 _ ;’ 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 S,;5 ITT. i * 1 '", * *» ! » ,r I, A ^, “ d ahonal “ »»• ' 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 * 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 k"'. ' “*'«!;* 1 b ,® P °° UI r ‘“r httle ,U l the th , ' VVar n -5 1 r w,ened ,ys , si ;= t0 ' ,nm r ’ and ber , e ve3 S°t f blight, . | aud she , - 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 f 1 H . . , - 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. ’* t '/>, 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 ‘ 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