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L f )P REPORTS FROM EVERY STATE
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ABE ENTHUSIASTIC.
jf at FARMERS ARE REJOICING.
■ft* Orleans Times-Bemocrat’s Annual
Irade Edition Contains Facts and Fig¬
ures From Commissioners.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat
is out with its annual trade edition
jud contains a summary of the crop
conditions in the south reported offi
from the various states by the
to uunissioners of agriculture. The
[reports are by telegraph basis, and made on a
September 1st the condi¬
tions on the whole are more encourag
j D g than they have been in many
■ rears.
a’ The reports confirm the statement
■tint there was a heavier acreage
■planted than ever before in the south.
■ Sot only is the cotton acreage 8 per
■ cent larger, but corn is 12 per cent
■larger, and cane, rice, potatoes, tobacco
■ and ntarly every crop grown. The
■ southern farmers were determined to
I do all they could to bring themselves
I on a good, sound financial basis again.
■ I They planted more food crops than
usual, so as to reduce their expenses.
I Virginia cut down its tobacco acreage
I somewhat because of a decrease in the
I foreign demand, and planted the land
■ in wheat —a fortunate change, for
I yheat has boomed in price, and the
I state will profit by it.
North Carolina is enthusiastic over
I its prospects which are the best since
1880 . It planted more land in cotton
than usual this year, and was reward¬
ed with a prolific crop, so that the
yield will be the largest ever raised in
the “Old North State.”
j She South also Carolina increased is her equally successful. in
; acreage cot-
1 ton, and with a good yield will raise
not only the largest crop ever grown
in the statey but the largest by 75,000
bales.
Georgia will pass the 1,100,000 bale
limit in cotton, will raise the best
wheat crop in years, one of the best
corn crops, freeing the state entirely
from dependence on the west, There
will be plenty of “hog and hominy”
in Georgia this year, and Commission¬
er Nesbitt predicts that the farmers
will be “happy and contented” if they
only get a fair price for their cotton.
Florida’s cotton crop is below the
average, and so is corn, but the oat
crop is the largest in acreage and the
heaviest for many years. Sugar cane
snrl rice are both doing well, and to¬
bacco is 40 per cent ahead of last year
aud of fine quality. Oranges will yield
close on to 300,000 boxes this season,
having recovered from most of the
losses from the last freeze.
In Alabama the cotton crop has re¬
cently deteriorated, but the others are
doiug well. Wheat is the best in
years, and so are potatoes. Corn is
above the average; hay very good, and
will supply all the local demand; oats
are line, and tobacco, with an increas¬
ed acreage, will yield better. The
fruit crops are above the average.
Mississippi will do well with her
crops this year in spite of the overflow
of the Yazoo Delta. The overflowed
lands were replanted, but the crop is
naturally Louisiana late.
cotton, particularly in the
northern part of the state, deteriorated
during drought. August in consequence of the
The other crops promise
well. Corn will be greater than the
Fig yield of last year.
Texas makes a less favorable report
tlran the other states, for the rains
came too late there to benefit the cot¬
ton much.
The present season is declared in
Arkansas to be the most bountiful ever
known in that state. Cotton was
hardly °f an average, but Arkansas has
late diversified its products, instead
°f concentrating its efforts on cotton.
Crops have been good in Tennesee
e *cept in the western portion of the
5 tote. The wheat crop is heavier,
•arger and of finer quality than ever
before. Tobacco is extra good; sorgh
nni is a wonder, and so are peas and
millet. Fruit, however, with the ex¬
ception of apples, is a failure, and the
‘ive stock interests are suffering.
GERMANY IS SUSPICIOUS.
She Wants an Explanation Regarding
Franco-Kussian Alliance.
It is asserted upon reliable authority
Inat the German government will de
tiand from France an explanation of
ttie dispatch sent by M. Meline, the
French premier, in reply to the mes
^. a ?e of congratulation of the Alsace
Lorraine Society upon the signing of
me F. auc<‘-Russian alliance, in which
O-spateu M. Meline expressed the hope
a reunion of Alsace-Lorraine with
die French Republic.
demand Germany, it is announced, will a;so
satisfaction for the excesses
Committed before the German embassy
la Pari s on the evening of President
Laure's return from his visit to Russia.
mutix TALKS TO SEW YORKERS.
Characteristic Speeches.
Benjamin Tillman, senior United
States senator from South Carolina,
opened the local campaign at a mass
meeting Thursday of 3,000 people in Brooklyn
for those democrats of the
ed Ivon lie nombiPA^in SfV 5f b° tfnrir 11 ^ 16
the election nartv m tbfl the approaching
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The democracy was , born 1nn 100 years
ago and went down to defeat in its
urst struggle through the efforts of the
ans ocrats. A new, regenerated de
modacy was born in Chicago last year,
a dow “ *° lts first defeat
under a the blows of the aristocrats and
the influence of the tens of millions of
tribute levied upon them by Mark
Hanna. But just as sure as you live
that regenerated democracy will come
to the front again in 1900 and will elect
William Jennings Bryan. (Prolonged
cheering).
l. The republican party in its thirty
years of rule succeeded, with the aid
of an occasional so-called democratic
president, in emancipating the black
slaves of the working people of the
north.
“In 1§£0 the millionaire was a rare
bird, but now there are thousands of
them all over the country, and there
are some men worth even $200,000,000.
It is millionaires by the thousands now,
but it is paupers by the millions.
Bead the history of Borne, Athens,
and of the great empires which stood
where there is nothing but wilder¬
ness now, and you will find that they
fell because the few enslaved the many,
and then governments became cor¬
rupt. Wake up, or before you know
it you will have a king!
“Why is it that here in New York
you always have a political boss? It is
because you are such infernal fools
that you don’t know any better than
to carry a yoke around your neck.
You have just been swapping bosses
he 'e year after year. The boss runs
the machine which names the candi¬
dates, and then you just go and vote
the ticket like a lot of blind asses.
(Laughter.)
“Who did you send to represent
you at the Chicago convention?”
i c A lot of dirty dogs!” shouted a
listener.
6 4 You sent a delegation -with Whit¬
ney and Belmont and Flower at its
head,” Senator Tillman went on, “and
they traveled west in parlor cars to
keep the democratic party from dis¬
gracing itself. But the west and the
south had risen, and they found out
that New York, Pennsylvania and
New England were not the whole
United States, and by God they ain’t!
Why, iu your local campaign here
they are asking you to give up What all you
won as democrats last year. for?
To get some money from the dirty
boodlers who have stolen your fran¬
chises and everything else. Sell your
birthright for a mess of pottage. But
you say you have no money to rnn
your campaign. Well, don’t get your
money from your Whitneys, your Bel¬
monts and your Flowers, for after
election they will rob you of $10 for
every dollar they gave you.
“They are singing the praises of dol¬
lar wheat. "Who gave us dollar wheat?
Did McKinley do it? No. It was the
failure of the crops in Europe. This
dollar wheat will go glimmering in an¬
other year when India and Bussia and
the Argentine raise another crop and
the supply equals the demand. The
only way to bring lasting prosperity
is to remonetize silver!” (Cheers).
BIG FIRM DISSOLVES.
The House of T........ A Co., Goes Out of
Business.
After thirty years of unvarying and
steadily increasing success in cotton
the firm of S. M. Inman & Co., went
out of business on the 1st, the new
firm of Sanders, Swann & Co. succeed¬
ing. Mr. S. M. Inman also severed
his connection with the firms of Inman
& Co., Houston, Tex., and Inman,San¬
ders & Co., of Bremen, Germany.
Mr. Samuel M. Inman, who has so
long been at the head of the great bus¬
iness house, retires voluntarily, so
that he may iay down some of the
burden which he has borne through
more than a quarter of a century of
business life
NOTED CRIMINAL CAUGHT.
O’Hara Enjoyed Six Vears of Freedom
After Breaking; .Jail.
Eugene O’Hara, alias Joe Bates,
alias J a nes Brown, forty-two years
old, burglar, highwayman and des¬
perado and probably murderer, who
cut his way out of Jefferson Market
prison at New York six years ago, and
who has been hunted ever since, was
recaptured Sunday by detectives.
After bis escape O'Hara, with an¬
other fugitive from justice, Joe Stran
a^'an. made his way to Coion, from
which place they later proceeded to
Europe, where they committed a series
of housebreaks and other serious
crimes.
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Mountain, about four miles
from Lenox, Mass., is creating great
interest among the New York people
M ’ ko kave summer places in Lenox
and vicinity. He has secured some of
the Ingest buffaloes in this country
and has considerable other wild game
from the Kocky Mountains, the only
specimens which have ever been
brought to the East, except a few
which the late Austin Corbin had up
in New Hampshire. They are the
finest specimens that could be secured
in Montana, Wyoming ami along the
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range of the Bocky Mountains in that
region.
His herd of buffaloes numbers thir¬
teen, w-hile his elk and deer are twice
that number. The buffaloes are of
especial interest because they have
become so rare iu this country. Be¬
ginning with the great bull buffalo
McKinley, which stands at the head
of the herd, weighing 2600 pounds,
down to others weighing 1000 pounds,
they are the rarest specimens in Amer¬
ica. The great bull McKinley amt the
entire herd were brought East with
the greatest difficulty. They came in
two freight palace cars, in charge of
the Adams brothers, who were given
the order by Mr. Whitney over a year
ago. Some of the buffaloes they raised
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themselves. The chief of the herd,
McKinley, is six years old and is the
ugliest animal that has ever been
brought East. He is the chief figuro
in the buffalo picture and he doesn’t
allow any biped to come into the en¬
closure without a protest. It was
with great difficulty that he was taken
out of the car, which he nearly tor*-; to
pieces, and was taken up on October
Mountain from the Len x station in
an immense crate, drawn by four
horses. He excited the greatest in¬
terest all the way, from the time he
wms loaded into the car until he got to
his destination.
The buffaloes are confined in about
800 acres of land surrounded by a fence
whioh is nine feet eight inches high,
made of steel wire. McKinley has
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tried to get through it several times,
but he found in locking horns with it
that it has beaten him every time.
has been tested by a twenty-five horse
power engine, which has been rushed
against it with all its force. Since
Kinley has found that he cannot get
through the fence he has become do
cile, and is quite content to stay in
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The other buffaloes are becoming
used to their new home. There is
another bull which weighs only 100
pounds less than McKinley, but is not
as vicious. The whole buffalo herd
have wandered about the enclosure
with the greatest curiosity. They
look about for places where they cau
escape, but are becoming contented,
as the gamekeeper treats them well,
They are, however, wild, and it is
dangerous to venture near them, and
so unsafe for any one to go inside the
enclosure that it is with the greatest
difficulty that pictures could be taken
of them.
Tl>e dozen antelopes have all eloped.
As soon as they were put into their
thousand acres, surrounded by its
wire fence, they rushed away into the
thicket, aud even the gamekeepers
have been unable to find them. Some*
times of a clear morning glimpses of
them have been caught in the dis¬
tance on the rocky hilltop above the
forest, but as soon as any one tried
to trace them they again disappeared,
and are keeping themselves so very
quiet that it is impossible to tell
whether all of them have survived or
not, but it is probable that they have.
They undoubtedly enjoy the wildness
of tlie region, which resembles their
ltocky Mountain home, and where
they are no move liable to be mo¬
lested than in their own mountain
fastnesses.
When Mr. Whitney wanted to see
his antelopes he was told that they
had all cleared out. He went out and
tried to find them himself, but without
success. He had the same experience
with a dozen black-tailed deer that were
brought on at the same time. They
were turned into an enclosure of 1000
or more acres and left to roam at their
own sweet will. They are the first
black, tailed deer brought to New Eng¬
land.
The Adams brothers have instructed
the gamekeepers to feed them when
they come around. It is probable
that they will not be seen until they
get hungry late in the fall, when the
grass is gone. The country where
they are placed contains roaring
mountain brooks and small ponds
which in a measure resemble their na¬
tive country.
The thirty-five elks which were
brought ou last year all survived the
winter and are doing well. They were
young animals when they came on,
but their horns have grown out so that
they would not be recognized. They
are very tame, and, although inclosed
in over one thousand acres, the same
as the inclosures for the others, when
the gamekeeper gives a piercing whis¬
tle they all gather around him like
so many sheep. They are exceeding¬
ly handsome and attractive animals.
They often gather in groups in the iu
closure and lie down quietly in the
most docile manner. No one likes to
get near the bucks, however, for they’
have a disagreeable manner of jump-’
ing on visitors with their forefeet. It
doesn’t take them long to become ac¬
quainted Yvith the people who feed
them aud they respond readily to the
calls for meals. They are fed grain, j
oats and other ceredls, just the same
as if they were domestic animals. ,
It is not an easy matter to take care
of this large natural history preserve
ou October Mountain, and a half dozen
gamekeepers are employed to keep
track of the animals. These game- !
keepers live in one of the farmhouses i
on tie land, and they arc ont day and
about three thousand acres to the
game he has already brought on, and
what he is going to do with the other
five thousand acres remains to be seen,
He has a large number of game
bir<ls » has stocked his l,rook with
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TOWER FOR CREATER NEW YORK.
Triumphal Structure Which la to Outstrip
That of Babylon.
As a matter of curiosity it may D6
mentioned that Greater New York is
to have—on paper, at least—a tower
which is to beat anything in the
world, past or present, even the con¬
fusion-breeding structure of Babylon.
William J. Frye is the arohitect, and
E. C. Townsend is mentioned as pro¬
moter, who is said to be confident that
the necessary funds will be fortheoin-
ing. He has not yet gone into figures,
which is a mere matter of details with
him. The tower is to be 2140 feet in
height, aud is to bo twelvo-sided, with
a diameter of 300 feet for the main
base, to bo flanked by four pavilions,
which will give the entire base a di¬
ameter of 400 feet. The outer walls
are to be of cement and wire cloth.
Internally the plans represent a laby¬
rinth of steel columns, girders, beams,
plates and other forms of steel con¬
struction, not a particle of wood to be
employed in either construction or
finish. Electric cars with reserve
motor power of compressed air are to
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run spirally around the 100-fooi cen¬
tral area, making a trip to the fifth
floor from the ground about two and. a
half miles iu length. From the fifth
floor to the top visitors will be con¬
veyed in an elevator. The proposed
tower is to be built within the next
three years somewhere in upper New
York, where there is a firm rock foun¬
dation.
IIow to Make a Permanent Paste.
Soak an ounce of refined gelatine in
cold water for an hour, then drain off
and squeeze out the water as much as
possible. Put the gelatine in a jelly
pot, and place the pot in a pan of hot
water over the fire. When the gela¬
tine has melted, stir in slowly
ounces of pure alcohol. Put in a wide
mouthed bottle aud cork tightly. This
glue or paste will keep indefinitely,
and can be melted for use in a few
minutes by setting the bottle in a basin
of hot water. As it contains a very
small percentage of water, it affects
the gloss of the prints but little, and
dries almost immediately.—Harper *
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