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IlIIiL AHP'S LETTUR.
"Nil desperandum." "Carpediem
Don't despair. Eujoy the day. Be
reconciled to what you - cannot help.
That's good aavice ana i wisn tnat we
could all take it. I try to, but some
tituea it is hard. When it rained all
the month of June and we had a burn
ing Bun all the month of September, I
couldn't "cafpe diem." When I pon
der upon the cruel, useless Philippine
war and the Porto Rico steal and the
Chinese muddle and all the other devil
ment that this administration has
t brought about, I can't be reconciled.
AWhen I hear these McKinley men
' Bhouting prosperity it makes me hot
under the collar. They remind me of
a gang of highway robbers who mur
der helpless travelers and rob tbem and
then go off and cry prosperity. Manu
facturers of array and navy supplies are
getting rich on contract and army offi
cers in Manila and Pekin are taking in
the loot and cry prosperity. War al
ways brings a show of prosperity, but it
is at the cost of blood and tears.
But Btill we live in hope that there
will come a change. If Bryan is elect
ed I know there will, and if he is not,
we will be no worse than we are now.
We can't be worsted, and so we will try
to be reconciled. When I was a young
man 1 was a Democrat bocause my
father was but I cast my first vote for
W. W. Clayton, who was a Whig. I
Nwas a college boy at Athens, and Mr.
1Clayton was kind to us and we all voted
for him for state senator. I knew Mr.
Clayton for many years and always re
Boected him, for he had a kind heart
and was a gentleman. After his elec
tion he gave the college boys a party
one night and was especially kind to
me, and I have never forgotten it.
"How tar that little candle throws Its beams
So shines a good doed In a naughty world."
t '
' Before the war, when I was in my
prime of manhood and bad more vi
tality than Bense, I was a strong parti
Ban and really believed that if my party
did not succeed the country would be
ruined. .. My father . used to laugh at
my zeal and say "Oh, no, my son, the
country is safe; don't let the politicians
and the newspapers alarm you." What
a pity it is that when a man has treas
ured up a lot of wisdom and experience
he is old enough to die! What a pity
it is that we pass the best portion of our
liven in looking afar off for happiness
when really it is nearby and within our
trr&an. Of course, l get excited now
and then about politics, but I fight i
nff far T realize that "DomeBtic happi
ness is the only bliss that has Burvived
the fall." The best things on earth are
thft cheapest and most abundant. The
io und pnm forts of home and the fire
side, the flowers and fruita, the, air and
water and sunshine, the garden, the
birds and the welcome visits of kind
friends and nabors. Neither wealth
nor fame nor office will compare with
these. In. most cases omce means
cirla- rewards from the Dublic crib
' Judge Underwood said that one time
when he was a candidate ana was man
: ing a stump speech and had closed an
eloquent paragraph, a long, tans coun
who was agin him. exclaimed
"Boys, he's jest sidewipin' around hunt-
in' the orthograpny or a nuie oince.
The iudge studied politics aa a Bcience
anrl 11 nrferstood it. One day when we
were discussing the great steal of Boss
Tweed & Co., m JNew , iohc, a preacner,
mhn nrese'nt. remarked: "Why
all theee charges against Tweed must be
political lies and slanders, for tney are
Democrats." "My innocent .friend, "
said the judge, "Tweed and Co. are all
Dflmocrats. but my observation has
been that it id within the range of poHsi
bilitv for a Democrat to steal." Poli
tics ia a moat demoralizing business, and
has been bo in all governments. Sher
idan said "There is no conscience in
gallantry or politics," and Hamlet said,
"A politician is one who would circum
vent God." Btill, there 'are some honest
politicians, but they don't go ahout in
droves. The main reason why I admire
Bryan bo much ia because of his honesty,
hie sincerity. His political enemies ad
mit that, and everybody admits that he
is a very wonderful man, both mentally
and physically. If all the people could
Bee him fac8 to face and hear him he
would be elected by a million or two
majority. When a politician speaks
he baa to be very careful what he says,
but when a statesman like Bryan speaks,
the truth comes gushing forth spon
taneous. Hurrah for Bryan I I'm get
ting excited now. Let me walk about
and cool off. My wife ia calling me;
want8 me to build a little house for the
Muscovy ducks. That will cool me off.
Yesterday she kept me busy all the
evening sifting earth and ashes and fer
tilizer for the plants that are to go in the
pit. She has the earth changed every
fall, and ray back is nearly broken to
day. She has some of those sharp
pointed, atickery cactus plants that Carl
eent her from Mexico, and I got my old
hands all stuck up getting them out of
the pota and tubs. Oh, my country, is
there no rest for the wicked?
Now here ia a letter from another
Miasissippi girl giving a poetic answer
to that scriptural enigma. She writes
as follows :
"Hazlehurbt, Misa. I am a school
girl. Can't work out your Bible puzzles,
but my dad can. My mamma ia a
Presbyterian and my dad is a Baptist.
They are taking both chances and the
one that geta to heaven will pull the
other in, for you know the Bible Bays
'They twain shall be one flesh,' sorter
like the Siamese twins.
"My name ia Tellie, and here is the
answer to your puzzle:
Yes God made Adam out of dust
The truth of this admit we must.
Some time before by His own wishes
He made some small and some groat fishes.
They had no souls of Immortality.
"Now Jonah for his great rascality
Was swallowed by a whale one day,
And In its belly had to stay
'Till he repented. Then he found
The Lord's will he must not question,
Then was he thrown soon the ground
Ily the fish's Indigestion.
The whale doth live In all the zones,
in pleasure or in toll,
And, dying, gives to woman bones
Apd yields to man his oil."
The Mississippi girl ia now ahead.
Next! I am getting poetry now, world
without end. Bill Aep.
SOLDI Ell TELLS OF HARDSHIPS.
William Bruback of Alton Is Anxlout
to Come Home.
St. Louis Republic.
Otto J. IIoffaian,of Alton, who waa a
Sergeant in Battery B, Fret Infantry,
on Thursday received a letter from Wil
liam Bruback of Company M. Sixteenth
Infantry, which is doing service in the
Philippines. The letter ia dated at Ex
change, P. I., August 25. In the letter
Bruback tells of some of the hardships
endured by the soldiers and expresses a
strong desire to return to the States,
which desire, the writer Bays, is shared
by every soldier in the regiment. In
speaking of the hardships, Bruback
says:
"We bave been eeeiDg a hard time of
it, but now we are up in the northern
part of the island and are having it
nuie better tnan we aid. This is an
unhealthy place. It is a hard place to
get anything to eat, for there no white
people up here only the soldiers. When
we first came up here we only got two
meals a day, and that was on the bum
only pork and beans and hardtack
and coffee.
"Otto, yOu ought to thank your Cap
tain for not giving you that transfer to
my regiment. I he regiment ia all
right, but this is the next place to
Hades, and you ought to be glad that
you did not get your transfer.
"It is rumored around here that your
regiment is going to relieve us m No
vember, so you might get to gee this
terrible place yet. If you can get out
of coming to this place you better do it
and take an experience soldier's1 advice,
I will be glad when I get back to the
United States again.
"I have not been in any of the fight
ing thus far. Company C lost sixteen
men, F eight and M one. Some of our
regiment have been killed by outlaws
Our Colonel is in command cf the three
Provinces, and we are stuck away up
here in the mountains. We don't get
a paper or any mail till it is two or three
months old.
"Everything ia so dear up here. You
can buy a few things in the commissary
a little cheaper. I have received about
two letters from home in six months,
so you know I kon't know much about
things in Alton. Say, I haven't had a
piece of fresh bread since December 22,
1899. So you see what we are getting.
A good piece or bread would taste a
good deal better to me than the best
cake ia the State."
A Straight Line.
For over sixteen years the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
has operated a firt-class paeaenger route
belwoen Chicago and Omaha adver
tised aa the "Chicago and Omaha Short
Line," because it is the short line be
tween the two cities of Omaha and Chi
cago and although thousands of peo
ple have annually ridden upon its trains
and been delighted with the route and
the service, there are undoubtedly many
more thousands who do not know that
the Chicago and Omaha Short Line of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail
way runs in almost a straight line due
west from Chicago, through northen
Illinois and central Iowa to Omaha, the
chief city of the State of Nebraska, on
the Missouri River, opposite Council
Bluffs, Iowa.
The train service is unequaled any
where in the west. The sleeping cars
are models of beauty and comfort.
Electric berth reading lamps, peculiar
to this road alone, serve to make these
trains particularly attractive to business
men and tourists, and especially so to
ladies traveling alone, with children, or
in small parties. The day coaches and
reclining chair cars are commodious
and satisfactory in all their appoint
ments.
The dining car service is unexcelled
anywhere, east or west or any country.
All meals served a la carte and the prices
are reasonable.
A Baby Horn With a Set ot Teeth.
MooresvlUe Enterprise.
The two weeks old baby of Mr. and
Mrs. Sav Coon ia a fine little personage
and is far ahead of moBt babies for its
age. The child had been fretful and
would not be pacified, and all efforts to
auiet the little one proved of no avail
until the Rev. Mr. McGhee, who was
making a pastoral visit, discovered that
the child had a full Bet of upper teeth.
This is a verv uncommon occurrence.
The child is otherwise healthy.
The Paris exposition will close No
vember 11.
THE NEGROl CAW HE EE SAVED?
Atlanta Journal.
Dr. J. L. M. Curry came out with
some plain and gloomy truths about
the negro in talking to the contributors
to the higher education of the race in
New York last week.
The substance of what Dr. Curry said
was that in spite of the millions spent
in negro colleges here in the south, the
moral and physical condition of the
present day negro is worse than that of
his slave ancestors. In other words,
the fine colleges and money, and able
teachers have gone for naught; the negro
is degenerating.
It was a shocking revelation for men
who for a quarter of a century have
pleasantly felt that their philanthrophy
waa bearing glorious fruita. It brought
the question of .negro education dis
tinctly to a new stage, and caused , the
contributors thoughtly to ask them
selves: If thirty-five years of trying to edu
cate the negro finds him worse off than
before, is it worth while to go on, or
stop and locate the difficulty and change
our method accordingly?
Dr. Curry did not speak hastily. He
is a man of broad intelligence and fine
sympathies, who for a quarter of a
century haa been carefully watching the
effect upon the negro race of the effort
to educate and elevate him. Hia plain
speech waa delivered with reluctance,
and it ia being followed by a period of
profound thought among the men in the
north who have felt sure, for a half
century, that they knew all about the
negro.
Where is the great difficulty? why
does a whole race resist uplifting infiu
encea and deteriorate in spite of all the
millions of philanthropista and all the
efforts put forth by able teachers in their
behalf? Is the fault inherent in the
constitution of the race, or does it be
long to the methods which have been
employed in negro education?
These are natural questions, and they
are baffing the men who are spending
millions here in maintaining great col
leges for the negro.
As if to suggest a partial answer to
these questions, the nineteenth annual
report of Booker T. Washington's school
at TuBKegee comes out almost simul
taneously with Dr. Curry's gloomy
statement. Washington, who ia at the
head of a school for the negro youth
widely different from the institution
represented by Dr. Curry, presented an
encouraging report. . He showed that
graduates of his school were doing well
in useful occupations, farming, carpen
tenng, brick laying, house building and
teaching.
His report waa pregnant with sugges
tion to the men who have spent their
millions in great negro colleges. Better
than all the men who direct the great
educational funds for the education of
the negro put together does Booker T.
Washington understand the needs of
his race. With a clean vision he sees
lust where the negro stands, and how
hia uplifting is to be wrought out. He
knows that in civilization his race is
but in its childhood. He has the wis
dom to see that the means to save a
crude race just freed from slavery and
aa yet unused to freedom, are not grand
colleges costlier and more oBtentatious
than the white people of the south have
been able to Bupply for themselves, but
training that fits the hand for useful
work and begins the subjugation of the
primitive passions.
Washington knew that houses are
not built from the top and he knew too
that a race cannot leap fn.m slavery to
the elegance and refinement of higher
civilization and education at one bound.
The nroerress of the race upward must
be gradual; by the training hrst oi tne
handa in the useful arts the negro must
go up if he ever goes up at all.
Washington began at the bottom.
He took the crude, untutored negro
youths from the farm and taught them
useful artB. He instilled m tnem no
false notions of the grandeur of their
accomplishments. Along with teach
ing them to work he taught them also
patience and a proper humility. He
waa careful too to avoid all racial anta
gonisms, carelul to say notnmg tnat
would stir up animosity or opposition.
The result ia that hia school at Tuske-
gee ia doing the negro more good than
perhaps all of the grander negro col
leges in the south. A great part of the
good it is doing is in the example to
other teachers of the negroea. lhe
trustees of the Peabody Fund may find
some useful suggestions in what Booker
Washington reports. A noteworthy
and characteristic feature of that report
is the strong glea that he makes for the
negroes to remain in the country on the
farm.
The Journal has no disposition to
underrate the work of the big negro
colleges in the south, but it is not news
to southern people that these stately
inatitution8, in large part, represent
misguided effort. From these colleges
have come some of the most useless
negroes in the South. Educated far
above their race and with the weakness
of an untried people, too vain in the
conceit of their new estate to stoop to
lowly tasks involved in the elevation of
the negro, they haye been a hindrance
and a drag upon the negro's progress
rather than a help. This is not saying
that these colleges have not been of
some good
The south is deeply concerned in the
gloomy picture drawn by Dr. Currv.
although not greatly surprised in view
oi wnat it haa daily Been of the con
tinued and apparently increasing crim
inal tendencies of the baser elements of
the race.
If Dr. Curry's plain speech will re
sult in some better device for reaching
the negro with civilization, the whole
country will be glad of hi? frankness.
WHAT ONE WOMAN THINKS.
Philadelphia Times.
A kiss can do more than a frown.
Somebody ought to invent a laughing
care.
It is a wise woman who can accept
correction gracefully.
It is a well-bred man that is courteous
to hia wife as to strangers, '
Why is it we can never see our own
duty quite so plainly as that of others!
When a woman buys a new dress Bhe
ia never satisfied until she gets a new hat,
too.
Practical Christianity is when you
cheerfully forgive the person who treads
onyjurcorn.
Many people who are always getting
their feelings hurt mean that their self
esteem has been injured.
A man rarely aBka a woman to forgive
him; his repentance usually expresses
itself in deeds not words.
. Much of the success of a dress de
pends on the way it ia worn.
mi
xney Bay every man naa nis price.
but they all object to being sold.
The most curious thing in the world
is a small boy who is not curious.
Red is the good luck color of the
Chinese; they always dress a new born
baby in bright red.
Pearls may mean tears, but there are
few women who would .refuse to wear
them on that account.
It is a wise woman who does not
insist on telling her husband that sh
knows she told him something he a
forgotten.
The average man can never under
stand the pleasure a woman gets .from
trading a pair of trousers for a tin dish
pan.
It said that the difference between
man and a woman ia this: That he
keeps another's secrets, but tells his
own, while she guards her own, but
betrays another s.
A quaint old English poem which
gives a liat of the va.ioua bad spirits
which bring evil to the world concludes
with the statement that "a weeping
woman with two black eves is the
wicked devil of them all."
Tears are one of woman's best
weapons of defence.
An injury forgiven is better than an
ibjury avenged.
A man is like the moon when he has
reached his last qrirter.
Most every young mother thinks her
baby just a little bit smarter than any
other woman's.
Many a woman dresses shabbily in
the morning because no one but her
husband is around to see her.
Tne fashionable Parisian woman is
now wearing a ring on the first finger,
the marquise shape being in great re
quest. The woman who speaks to amuse us
us by speaking slightingly of others is
quite likely to use us for a theme on
another occasion.
"Some old maids," says a witty
modern writer, "remind one of rose
leaves and lavender; others of bread
and butter that has been cut too long."
Final Estimate of Cotton Crop
for
1 900 A re Now Made.
New Orleans, Nov. 1. The Times-
Democrat printed the final reports of its
correspondents on the cotton crop of
1900.
The crop is an exceedingly spotted
one. Texas and tne Indian territory
have been especially favored and" Ar
kansas has done fairly well. Louisiana
gives very varied reports of the yield.
Mississippi has suffered a veritable
disaster. In the states to the eastward,
the result seems to be much below the
hopes which have been raised by the
late coming of the frost.
The marketing of the crop has gen
erally proceeded with great expedition,
although many farmers have held back
in expectation of higher prices.
The consensus of opinion appears to
be that, making allowance for a mode
rate increase of acreage, a maximum
yield of 9,750,000 bales is on the cards.
This would, mean an excess of about
600,000, as compared with the actual
production of 1899. The superabun
dance of Texas haa been offset by the
comparative dearth of the remainder of
the belt.
It is, of course, to be remembered
that The Times-Democrat makes no es
timate of ita own, but simply collates
the reporta of the reports of the corres
pondents, for whose good faith and
competence it vouches. With very few
exceptions, they are the same men who
presented the wonderfully correct views
of the crops of 1897, 1898 and 1899.
The Transvaal Is No More.
Pretoria, October 26. The Transvaal
was today proclaimed a part of the Brit
ish empire, the proclamation being
attended with impressive ceremonies.
The royal standard was hoisted in the
main square of the city, the grenadiers
presented arms, massed bands played
the national anthem, Sir Alfred Miiner
read the proclamation and 6,200 troops,
representing Great
Britain and her
colonies, marched past.
SKLF-CONTBOL.
Baltimore Sun.
All young people who have ambition
enough to advance themselves in life
desire to command others, to be cap
tains in civil or military life. To their
inexperienced view the commander has
an easy time. He has only to direct
work to be done and some one else is
obliged to labor. It is related that an
Irsh laborer wrote to a friend at home
that America waa a great country; that
he was helping a bricklayer and that
all he had to do was to carry bricks to
the fourth story of a building and the
man at the top did all the work. We
laugh at the Irishman who took Buch
an abused view of the real conditions,
and yet the majority of young people
have about the same idea of the rela
tions existing between the captainB of
industry and those who serve them.
They, want to be captains, but they do
not take the first steps toward reaching
high rank. The captain necessarily
knowa more than those whom he directs.
He can read plans, he can make a
drawing, he can handle men and if
necessary he can do the work that they
are expected to do. But above all
things else he has learned to control
others. Technical ability is not of at
much importance to the captainB of in
dustry as this ability to control one's
self and others. The man who is to be
a succeeeful foreman, manager or em
ployer must be able to control and
guide men, and he cannot do this until
he ha8 first learned to control and guide
himself. To become a captain, civil or
military, the first step ia self-discipline.
One must learn to obey, to do dis
agreeable things without a murmur, to
recognize authority, before he U pre
pared to entorce discipline in others or
to assume any kind of authority. The
young man of ambition should there
fore give special attention to himself
before he assumes to direct other people.
He must obtain full control over him
self, his emotions and his passions if
he is to successfully deal with the emo
tions and passions of other people. It
ia for this reason . that captains, civil
and military, so often rise from the
ranks instead of being trained in schools
for commanding positions. The school
bred officer has a great advantage over
hia illiterate fellow if he possesses Belf-
control as well as learning, but the man
who has risen irom the ranks by rea
son of his self-control has the advantage
in competition with one who has noth
ing to entitle him to command except
technical knowledge. Self-control is,
in fact, the prime factor in the com
position of the leaders of men. The
man who can make personal Bacrificos
from a sense of duty, who can set aside
a promiead holiday because he has im
portant work on hand, who can control
his temper when aggravated this ia the
man to be Bet in command ot others.
for he can appreciate their weaknesses
and temptations and deal with them
both hrmly and sympathetically. It ia
men of this class who become captains
of industry, not by favor of any kind,
but because they are fitted by their self-
control to control other people; and all
ambitions young folks observing this
fact should aim first of all to control
themselves, that they may become
worthy of promotion step by step to
high command. In or out of the army
they may become captains by favor or
influence, but they will never become
worthy captains until they have learned
to control themselves.
Killed Her Son Because He Was Bad
and Smoked Cigarettes.
Chattanooga, Tenn,, Oct. 29. Clif
ford Cawthon, 16 years old, was found
dead in his bed to-day, at the home of
his widowed mother. His head had been
hacked to pieces with a hatchet. Mrs.
Cawthon, according to the police, con
fessed later that she killed her son, "be
cause he wasbad and smoked cigarettes.'
She declared, it ia statedj that it had
been her intention to destroy the whole
family.
Firemen discovered the crime when
they were called to the house, which
evidently had been set on fire to destroy
the body. . Mrs. Cawthon is prostrated
over the discovery of her deed.
Pointed Paragraphs.
The man with the hoe ia entitled to a
grub stake.
Adam was the only man eyer married
on hie wedding Eve.
Woman may be a conundrum, but
she always has a ready answer.
You can't always measure a lover's
sincerity by hie sighs.
Selfishness is. usually to be found in
young women and old men.
The majority of blacksmiths are forg
ers, but they are seldom arrested.
The day is lost if you pass it without
having laughed at leaat once.
The man who owes money usually
worries less than the man he owes it to.
A man may select hiB own compan
ions, but his relations are tnrust upon
him.
Some men are always wanting people
to tell them how good looking they are,
but a woman will stand up in front of a
mirror and see for herself.
News is received that Mrs. Stonewall
Jackson will return to Charlotte on
November 5th. Mrs. Jackson is re
ported aa being entirely relieved of the
facial neuralgia and the indications
point to a permanent recovery.
ALF TAYLOR DISGUSTED WITH
MODERN POLITICS.
"Alf " Taylor, one of Tennessee's pic
turesque and famous politicians, is dis
gusted with politics. He said some
real spicy things to an Atlanta Journal
representative on the Bubject of politics.
Alf Taylor first jumped into national
repute when he took part in the famous
battle of roses in which he a Republi
can, opposed his Democratic brother,
Fid ship, while their father opposed
both as the Prohibition.
' '1 am thoroughly out of politics. As
a man, nowever, i am interested in the
present issue, but! am unbiased enough
to feel that after ail the country will , be
safe in the hands of either candidate.
My hope always is and has been that
there is enough salt left in the world to
preserve it under all circumstances. Of
course I have my preference, but I am
not interested to the extent that I have
worked myself up to the belief that the
country has gone to the dogs, if this or
that event does not take place.
"Last year I made Atlanta head
quarters from which I yisited different
sections of the state, and I shall manage
my lecture course in the same manner
this season.
"Atlanta is a delightful city, full of
culture and enterprise and its people
show great recuperative public spirit. I
am always impressed with the fact of
our rapid march along the fields of in
dustry and commerce when traveling
through the South. Factories and great
business enterprises are springing up and
flourishing in every direction.
"The South will soon be the center of
the wealth and power of the continent.
The versatility of crops fostered by the
abundance of water power can lead to
no other result. I am convinced that
in a short time we will manufacture ev
erything we produce right here and
thus by a saving on the item of freight
be able to compete with the cheapest
markets of the field.
"Politics is a disgusting field. When--ever
politics degenerate into a matter of
dollars and cents they have my utter
contempt.
"I am perhaps the only man whoev
er voluntarily stepped out of office when
I bad all the machinery in my handa,
had fought my Waterloo and won. I
bad been in for Biz years. I thought
the best time to quit was while in the
saddle.
"I had earned 130,000 as a member
of congress, but when I declined re
nomination and decided to quit I owed
$7,000 and yet one of the charges
brought againBt me by my political ene
mies waa that I was close fisted. That
is politics, modern politics. In six
months I paid the 17,000 in the lecture
field and had $4,000 left. That is busi
ness." Mr. Taylor was asked to say some
thing funny to sustain the reputation of
his family. However, he says he leaves
that in the safe hands of his brother,
the ex-governor, that he, himself is no
funny man, but he was induced to
make the following stride in that direc
tion:
"Science and industry are revolution
izing modern life, scientific clues and
theories are being brought out and de
veloped. The medical profession has
been re-enforced and made less arduous
by three remarkable discoveries the
microbe, the x-ray and heart failure.
The microbe supplies the patient, the
x-ray explores his pocketbook and heart
failure explains his death when the
doctor cannot.
In the profession of law there are
shorter cuts and easier methods enabling
a lawyer to get at the oyster with great
er facility and leave the litigators better
content with the Bhell."
Ship ping Cotton Seed to Mexico.
Charlotte Observer.
The farmers of Mecklenburg county
are giving Mexico the means of pro
ducing a rival crop of cotton or at
leaet of trying to. Three vaiieties of
Mecklenburg county cotton seed j are be
ing shipped from Charlotte to Mexico
by the carload. The varieties that have
been found adapted to the soil and cli
mate of that country are the Brown
Pelican, King's Early and the Provi
dence. These seed are bought here by
the Heath-Eeid Company and are stor
ed in the warehouse until a sufficient
quantity is Beeured to make a carload
when the seed are put in Backs and
shipped. For this Beed the prices on
the Charlotte market range from 25 to
30 cents a bushel. It waa only within
the past year that the shipment of seed
from Charlotte to Mexico for planting
purposes was begun. Experiments
have proved that the shipment of
seed named suit the soil and climate of
Mexico better than seed that can be
produced in Texas and elsewhere and
that, with these seed, it is possible to
get an early and a fairly good crop in
Mexico. There is a fourth variety of
seed grown here known as the Black
Pelican, but none of this is shipped, as
attempts to grow it m Mexico have
been unsuccessful. The shipment of
seeds from this city to Mexico are said
to be very heavy this season. Probably
in a year or two the Mexican cotton
crop will be figuring in the reporta of
the statistician.
It's impossible for a short man to fall
in love with a tali girl. Hefmust climb
for it.