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COTTON NOT TOO HIGH
Richard H. Edmonds Discusses
the Cotton Situation.
foreign spinners buying
t
American Spinner* are Played By
Foreign Buyer* for Sucker*,”
Says Mr. Edmonds.
New Orleans, La.— Discussing the
cotton situation, Richard H. Ed
monds, editor of The Manufacturers’
Record, who is in the south making a
study of crop prospects and probable
consumption, said:
‘The American spinners are being
played for suckers by foreign spin
ners, and they are being played with
an energy that ought to satisfy the
most enthusiastic fisherman. In oth
er words, foreign spinners are en
deavoring m every way possible to
convince the spinners in this coun
try and all other people identified
with the cotton trade that the price
of the raw cotton is too high, and
that the way to bring about a reduc
tion is to shut down mills until cot
ton declines to a point satisfactory
to the buyer.
“The American'Spinners are taking
this talk of the foreign spinners seri
ously, and while they are, to a large
•xtent, as compared with previous
years, keeping out of the market, for
eign spinners are buying every bale
of cotton they can get their hands on.
The question of price does not seem
to enter into their actual calcula
tions, although they are struggling
to impress upon American spinners
the folly of buying at present prices.
‘‘No one familiar with the shrewd
ness and the knowledge of business
conditions throuhgout the world of
foreign spinners should be surprised
at the game which they are playing.
It has been played steadily for more
than half a century, but there is room
for surprise that American spinners
should so readily fall Into the trap.
“Asa matter of fact, the present
price of cotton Is not unduly high. It
is not in fact even at present figures
yielding to the farmers the profit
which should be won out of this, na
ture’s greatest monopoly. -Considering
the increased cost of production and
the increased cost of living, it is
doubtful whether 13-cent cotton is giv
ing better net results to the producer
than 8 or 9-cent cotton wouid have
done seven or eight years ago. To
assume that the world will not con
sume this entire crop, even if it sold
at 15 cents a pound, is absurd to any
man who is thoroughly familiar with
the world's business conditions and
who recognizes that, until an article
reaches a practically prohibitory
price, consumption is not materially
lessened by what, under other condi
tions, might have been regarded as a
high price.
“All mankind is living on a higher
plane. Wages in the Orient and in
Europe, as well as in this country,
have been steadily advancing for
some years, with occasional brief pe
riods of reaction, such as that follow
ing the panic of 1901. But, broadly
speaking, there is a steady, world
wide forward movement.
“The iron producers, the growers
of wheat and corn and other agricul
tural products, and manufacturers of
nearly all lines are sharing In this
increased activity and increased prof
it to a greater extent than the cot
ton growers of the south. If there
had been no material shortage in the
yield of cotton compared with last
year, there should have been, mere
ly to keep pace with the advance In
other things, a rise of 25 to 30 per
cent in the price of cotton over the
average of the preceding crop.
“The world's improved business
conditions would have justified this.
When we remember that whatever
may be the actual final outcome it is
an unquestionable fact that the crop j
will be very much less than last
year, while the consumption will cer
tainly be as large, it would seem that
present prices have not yet reached
a point of fairness to the grower. It
is incumbent upon every : business in
terest in the south to recognize the
situation and to unite to help the
farmer in securing a price in keep
ing with the present increasing pros
perity in every other industry. Instead
of seeking to depress the price of cot
ton the south should unite to seek
to advance the price. At present ev
ery man who is paying any serious
attention to the talk of foreign spin
ners is simply helping them to laugh
up one sleeve, while with the other
hand they are reaching behind his
back and gathering in every possible
bale of cotton.
“Later on; when the foreign spin
ners have secured the best of the
crop and the American spinners un
dertake to supply their own needs,
they will wake up to the game that
ha3 been played upon them.”
SPANisirCABfNET RESIGNS.
Spain Tranquil Under New Order of
Government.
Madrid, Spain. — The Spanish cabi
net which was formed January 15,
1907 under the premiership of Anto
nio Mauria, resigned as a result of
th P bitter attacks made against the
government by the former premier,
Moret y Prendergast.
The fall of Premier Maura and the
conservative cabinet has produced a
feeling of relief and encourages hope
that a period of internal tranquility
has been ushered in. It is now an
open secret that M. Maura's refusal
to give King Alfonso an opportunity
to pardon Ferrer is regretted by his
majesty.
REMEDIAL MEASURES
FOR SAN JOSE SCALE
By E. L. Worsham, State
Entomologist.
Atlanta, Ga.—The Georgia State
Board of Entomology has recently
concluded a series of experiments
with various oils and lime and sul
phur compounds as remedial meas
ures for San Jose scale. The results
of these experiments, soon to be
sent out from the department in bul
letin form, are sure to be of value
to fruit growers and orchardists of
Georgia.
The purpose of the experiments was
to test the efficiency of soluble oil
compounds as compared with the
standard home-made preparation of
lime and sulphur, and the more re
cently introduced manufactured com
pounds of lime and sulphur. Six dif
ferent oils were included in the test,
as follows: Target Brand Emulsion,
Scalecide, San-U-Zay, Soluble Petro
leum, Kil-O-Scale, Sehnarr’s Scale
Compound No. 1, Schnarr’s Scale
Compound No. 2. Two brands of
prepared lime and sulphur were used
alongside of the oil. One plat of
trees was sprayed with the standard
boiled mixture of lime and sulphur,
prepared on the grounds.
Several of the soluble oils in the
above list have been known in Georgia
for a number of years. They have
been used in different sections of the
state with varying degrees of success.
Primarily they were intended to fill
the demand for an insecticide other
than the home-made lime and sulphur,
with which there was considerable
dissatisfaction because of the trouble
involved in making and applying it.
To a large extent they displace lime
and sulphur. Reports oxi the results
obtained from oils have not always
been satisfactory. It has been *he
experience of many fruit growers
that they were unreliable, and there
has been much complaint from vari
ous sources that they, as scale de
stroyers, were not entirely satisfac-
tory.
Within the past two years prepared
concentrated lime and sulphur has
made its appearance in the field. This
compound is a reddish liquid, strained
and perfectly free of solid matter.
Two years ago it was tried in an ex
perimental way by the department,and
promised well as a scale insecticide.
Last winter it was used extensively
in the commercial orchards of the
state, and in every case where it was
well applied the results were of a very
high order. Although not showing on
the trees as plainly as the home-made
material, it leaves them a dull gray
in color, suciently so to determine the
quality of the spraying.
home-made product of the limei*and
sulphur wash, the manufactured arti
cle compares most favorably. When
manufactured by a reliable company
the latter is really more uniform in
composition than the former.
The following is a summary of our
report ou preparations used in our
experiments:
“It will be seen in the preceding
pages that all the oils included in the
test, particularly those whose reputa
tion is well established, gave excel
lent results in controlling the scale.
They may he depended upon to giva
satisfaction, as a rule, when properly
and thoroughly mixed and applied.
Too great emphasis cannot be placed
on the necessity of doing the actual
field work thoroughly. An inch of
badly infested limb or twig left un
touched by the spray is capable of
largely reinfesting practically the en
tire tree the following summer.
“While each oil was applied as a
spring treatment and as a fall treat
ment, it was found in every case that
the fall treatment was of superior ef
fectiveness. This is a rule: The earlier
the spray can be applied after the
leaves have fallen, the better will be
the net results.
“The mechanical appliances of ap
plication are extremely important, es
pecially with soluble oils. A good pump
developing a high pressure and a noz
zle throwing a direct, forceful spray,
are very necessary to obtain good
results.
“The concentrated lime and sulphur
solutions, being free of all solid mat
ter, offer no more serious obstacles to
easy spray than the oils. They are
much more caustic in nature, however,
and it is well to bo protected from
continuous physical contact with
them. Under well regulated conditions
they spray as easily as water might,
and no more harmful to the person,
compared to the soluable oil com
pounds for efficiency; they yield quite
as good results a3 the best oils, even
wheu the latter are used at a greater
strength than recommended by the
manufacturers. A tree well sprayed
with lime and sulphur always offers a
cleaner, brighter and healthier appear
ance than a tree equally well sprayed
with an oil. Besides its strictly in
secticidal value, lime and suplhur pos
sesses fungicidal properties to a much
greater degree than it is possible to
incorporate in a soluble oil.”
No Right to Cause Disease.
Atlanta, Ga. —A water power com
pany may not construct a dam which
will cause a backwater, stagnant, and
breeding mosquitoes. At least, if it
does, it will be liable in damages
to the parties living along the banks
of the stream. So the court of ap
peals has decided in an opinion hand
ed down. The title of the case was
the Towaliga Falls Power Company
against George Sims, which came up
from the city court of Forsyth.
Sims claimed that the company’s
dam had caused a pond to form, of
stagnant water, and that it had be
come a breeding place for anopheles
mosquitoes, whereby his family had
contracted malaria and had been oth
erwise greatly inconvenienced.
A SKY HOUSEBOAT WANTED.
Build me a houseboat, please,
To sail in the upper air;
In the skies 1 could take my ease—
There would be no neighbors there'.
Build me a houseboat, pray,
That will fioat on the ether’s blue;
I would go where there's naugnt to j ay—
Where no weekly bills come due.
I could sit at my humble door
And gaze on the vast expanse;
There would be no sounds galore,
Nor sights that would vex my glance.
There would he no piano's strum,
No phonograph loud and shrill.
And the beggar would never come
To stand on my lonely sill.
I could drop to the earth hv night
And till up my larder quick,
Then rapidly take my flight,
Where the cloudbanks are piling thick.
Build me a houseboat, do!
I would dwell in the realm on high;
This planet may do for you,
But for quiet and peace i sigh.
*-L. S. Waterhouse, in the New York Sun.
He’s Silent Partner.
Dedham smiled forlornly at the
friendly little waxen face which wore
the perpetual smile that doll makers
inflict upon their creations. Dedham
always had thought it foolish to paint
all dolls with a perpetual smile, but
to-night he was glad that it was so.
The house -was intensely still, and
though quiet, he told himself, was
what he needed, yet a sense of lone
liness overpowered him, when he
looked across the desk at the doll and
vaguely chered.
It was an Easter favor, half rabbit,
half doll, and beloved of Maudie’s
heart. He wondered how the child
had come to leave It behind. She had
been playing in the study the night
before, all unconscious of the im
pending separation, and she had left
her treasures on the desk when his
■wife had come to carry her off to bed.
Toodles, he remembered, Maudic
called the little creature and now he
and Toodles had the study to them
selves.
“I guess you find it rather lone
some without your little mistress,”
he said half-aloud, for the sake of
hearing his own voice break the still
ness. ‘‘You’re a faithful little soul,
Toodles, and we’ll get along together
first rate. You won’t come breaking
in on me when I’m trying to get the
infernal books straightened out, will
you?”
He read an assent in Toodles’ si
lence and he ran on.
‘‘Of course, you won’t,” he de
clared.
“You’ll understand that when a
chap works hard at the office all day
and then brings the books home to
work over, that he can’t be inter
rupted a thousand times an hour.
You won’t get mad either and—well,
you won’t get mad because you won’t
set me going by breaking in on me.
“It was absurd of your little mis
tress’ mother to leave me just be
cause I was cross at times, wasn’t it?
Of course, I used a lot more language
than there was any use for, but, all
the same, I guess most men have
times when they are cross old bears,
though perhaps I was cross more of
ten than was right. Perhaps I was,
Toodles, but all the same—”
His voice trailed and broke. He
did not want to admit even to his
waxen-faced companion that he was
terribly lonesome.
“It’s all right, Toodles,” he went
on after a moment. “I suppose that
It does seem pretty quiet here to
night with Maude and—and her
mother gene, but we’ll soon get used
to it. If we don’t, We can move to
some hotel. There’ll be people—
other people—in the house then, and
they won’t come in unless we ask
them to. We’ll get along famously,
little rabbit lady, and I guess you’ll
he as glad as I am that Maude forgot
you. It’s funny that the kiddie for
got you, though, she was so devoted
to you.”
Dedham nodded again and then
took up the books over which he was
accustomed to work in the evenings.
He knew that it was a bad practice to
bring his work home, but he had
formed the habit in the early days
when he had had only an office boy
to help him out. The old habit clung
in spite of his wife’s remonstrances.
Night after night he pored over the
long columns of figures that showed
an ever-increasing profit, and he
turned a deaf ear to Ruth’s demands
that he give a part of his evenings to
her and the child.
When Maudie had learned to tod
dle about, she had formed the habit
of making for the library where
there was a rug in front of the fire
and where she could prattle to her
father. Dedham, ever at a nervous
tension, had exiled her from the
room, and when Ruth had protested,
he had turned on her the vials of his
senseless wrath.
At last even her patient spirit
broke, and that morning she had
left the home he had built opposite
that of her parents, and had gone
buck to them. She was not to be
■aoved from her determination and
Dedham’s belated endeavors to induce
her to change he decision were with
out avail. Maudie had spent all of
her last evening on the rug before
the open fire and when she had fal
len asleep, Ruth had come silently
to take her off to bed, and Toodles
had been left on the desk.
Now for half an hour Dedham made
pretense of working over the books,
but at last he threw down the pencil
and turned to the doll again.
“It's no use, Toodles,” he reported.
“I can't write with the kiddie around,
and I can't write with her gone. I
guess it’s about time that I kept the
books in the office and rested nights.
I guess my temper would be better,
too, Toodles, but it’s too late, little
rabbit lady, it’s too late.”
He drew the toy toward him and
sitting with it between his clenched
hands, bowed his head upon his
arms. He did not move until a sound
in the doorway roused him, then he
sprang to his feet with a glad cry of
welcome.
“I let myself in,” explained Ruth
hurriedly, “I knew that the maid was
out, and that James was probably
asleep in tlie kitchen, so I slipped in
through the back door that I might
not disturb you more than I had to.
I have come for Toodles. That is
that candy box you gave Maudie
Easter, you know.”
“Toodles!” cried Dedham blankly.
“I say. Ruth, you can’t take Toodles
away.”
“I forgot to take it last night,” ex
plained Ruth. “I was upset and
Maudie was asleep. In the bustle of
moving, she forgot the toy for the
moment, but she has been grieving all
day. I had hoped that she would
forget and that it would not be nec
essary to come for It, but Maudie has
always taken Toodles to bed with her,
and she will not go to sleep without
it. lam afraid that she will fret her
self sick so I had to come for it.”
“But you can’t have it,” declared
Dedham. “I need Toodles worse than
Maudie does. She has you. I have
only Toodles to talk to. We have
been having a long chat. Did you
ever notice how curiously human she
is?”
"It is a pretty face,” assented Ruth
reluctantly, “but I must take her.”
“And why not bring Maudie to
Toodles,” suggested Dedham softly.
“She needs Toodles, but so do I, and
I need you and Maudie, too. Ruth,
Toodles and I have talked it all over
and we have decided that home is no
place for bookkeeping, and that if I
left the books at the office instead of
working over them half the night, I
might be more decent to my family.
“Toodles thinks that I can do it,
dear. She has a wise little head
even if it seems empty. Won’t you try
it again and bring Maudie to Toodles
instead of taking Toodles to the kid
die?”
As he spoke he drew the doll to
ward him and something In the ges
ture with which he stroked the fuzzy
head recalled to Ruth the time when
they two were in their courting days.
With a woman’s quick perception she
read the story of the struggle in the
worried face, and her hands went out
to be caught in his eager grasp.
“You will!” he cried as he drew
her to him and rained kisses on the
tender face now turned toward his
own. “It may seem cowardly, dear,’*
he said brokenly, “but there is a re
volver in the drawer of the desk and
I think that if it had not been for
Toodles I might have been tempted
to—”
A rosy finger was pressed against
his lips.
“Toodles must never tell,” she said
softly, smiling down into the waxen
baby face. “I’ll take her over with
me, Jim, and bring them both back
in the morning.”
“Not a bit of it,” he insisted, as he
caught up his fur-lined coat. ‘Tve
promised Toodles that we’ll stick to
gether, and that doesn’t mean letting
her go visiting the first night of the
compact. I’ll wrap the kiddie in this
and we’ll have her ready in no time.
We’re going to make a fresh start,
you and I. I’ve been all in the wrong
and I know it now. And if I start to
break loose again, there’s always
Toodles to remind me of my promise
—but I shan’t need a reminded,
dear,” and he smiled back at the doll
as the two left the room to bring
Maudie to Toodles, the peacemaker.
—New Haven Register.
A Roundabout Donation.
An Indiana woman found one even
ing that she was short of kerosene for
the evening lamp. As she could not
depend on the slow delivery of the
grocer’s boy she took her oil can and
started for the nearest grocery. On
the way she met a neighbor who
asked:
“Well, what are you going to do?
Of all things, you carrying an oil
can! ”
“Why, don’t get excited, my dear;
I’m out on an errand of charity.”
“How is that?” the neighbor want
ed to know.
“Oh, I’m merely going to donate
three cents to the Chicago Univer
sity.”—New York Times.
A steam collier built entirely of
cement is being constructed by th<
Italian Government.
Women as Well as toer, are Made Miserable
by Kidney and Bladder Trouble.
Kidney trouble preys upon the mind,
discourages andlcSscuaambition; l>eauty,
vigor and cheerful
ness soon disappear
when the kidneys are
out of order or dis-
Kidncy trouble has
become so prevalent
that it is not uneom
-1 mon for a child to be
born afflicted with
weak kidneys. If the
child urinatestoooften, if the urine scalds
the flesh, or if, when the child reaches an
age when it should be able to control the
passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wet
ting, depend upon it, the cause of the diffi
culty is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due to a diseased condition of
the kidneys and bladder and not to a
habit as most people suppose.
Women as well as men are made miser
able with kidney and bladder trouble,
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect of
Swamp-Root is soon realized. It is sold
by druggists, in fifty- . ' t w tlL
cent anil one-dollar
size bottles. You may
have a sample bottle
by mail free, also a
pamphlet telling all
about v 5 Wamp-ROOt, Hume ol Swamp-Hoot.
including many of the thousands of testi
monial letters received from sufferers
who found Swamp-Root to be just the
remedy needed. In writing Dr. Kilmer
& Cos., Binghamton, N. Y., be sure and
mention this paper. Don’t make any
mistake, but remember the name, Dr.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address,
Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle.
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LABOR WORLD.
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Industrial disputes in Canada dur
ing August meant the loss of 108,000
working days.
The unions of molders, metal work
ers and mechanics in France recently
voted to combine.
From 1898 to 1909 the Retail
Clerks’ International grew from 5 000
to 50,000 members.
A movement is likely toward the
formation of a branch of the Com
mercial Telegraphers for wireless op
erators.
The union working women of Bos
ton, Mass., have organized a choral
society for the purpose of singing
labor songs at meetings.
Girl necktie workers on strike in
New York City announced that many
manufacturers had agreed to their
demands of sanitary quarters, higher
pay and shorter hours.
In a sermon preached to union men
at the Church of the Ascension, New
York City, the Rev. A. F. Underhill
voiced the active sympathy of the
Church with labor ideals.
Under the new labor law of New
York, effective October 1, girls under
sixteen shall not be employed in any
capacity where such employment
compels them to remain standing con
stantly.
The action of the Minneapolis
Trades Assembly in passing a law re
quiring its delegates to wear at least
four union labels in order to qualify
as members is attracting some atten
tion in outside cities.
The recent convention of the Inter
national Glass Bottle Blowers’ Asso
ciation, at Milwaukee, Wis., indorsed
the plan to retire on pensions all
members who have reached the age of
sixty years and have worked for twen
ty-five consecutive years.
BRIBED TO CHEAT GOVERNMENT.
Customs Weigher Confesses That H
Was Hired by Importers.
New York City.—Eight years of sys
tematic and exceedingly profitable
cheating of the United States govern
ment was disclosed by George E.
Brige, a customs weigher. He told
how he had underweighedf a large
importation of cheese and received
$194. He said that he had similar
dealings with hundreds of other im
porters. He declared also that cus
toms employees had a regular sye
tem of cheating.
SYRIANS NOT “WHITE PERSONS.”
Wisconsin Court Rules That They
Are Not Entitled to Vote.
LaCrosse, Wiss —Under a ruling re
ceived here from R. s. Coleman, the
chief examiner of the census bureau
at Washington, one hundred Syrian
voters in LaCrosse will lose their cit
izenship, while hundreds of others all
over the northwest will be affected.
The ruling, in effect, is that Syrians,
being of Asiatic origin, are not
‘‘white persons” within the meaning
of the law.