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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-07-17
THE COTTON MEN.
Second Days Session of the National
Exchange at The Greenbrier White
Sulphur Springs.
]. l.. Airey, Of New Orleans, Elected
President, and Jerome Hill, Of
st. Louis, Vice.President.
Reports Of Committees Submitted
Through Bills Of Lading-Standard
Types-ResOluti0ns.

GREEN BRIAR, WHITE SULPHUR
SPRINGS, W. VA, July 16.-President
Gardner called the National Cotton Ex-
change to order at 6 o'clock. United
States Gibson, of Louisiana, was ON the
floor by invitation.
T. L. Airey, of New Orleans, was
elected president for the next two years
by acclamation.
Jerome Hill, of St. Louis, was elected
vice president and took the chair, the
newly elected president not being pres
ent. He thanked the convention for the
honor conferred upon him.
Charles g. Elliott, of Norfolk, was
elected secretary for the next two years.
c. D. Miller, of New York; w. Null
ler, of New Orleans; II. NJ. Corner, of
Savannah; W. III. Gardner, of Mobile
J. N Vaughan, of Norfolk; W. K. Nc
Clintock, of St. Louis; W. l.. Moody, OF
Galveston; W. D. Cleveland, of Hous-
ton, and j. III. Clisby, of Montgomery,
Ala, were elected directors.
Reports of the subcommittee were
eu hmittnd
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-08-27

ers follow the plan of getting every
thing in readiness, and as soon as
the hay is taken off the land the
stock is turned in and allowed to
run as long as there is anything
green for the stock to pick up.
Then, too, considerable damage is
done by tramping and killing out
the grass and making the soil rough
and uneven.
If good care is taken to keep
stock off the meadows and to prop
erly apply manure to keep up the
fertility, a well established mead
ow will last from twenty to forty
years; while if no care is taken and
the meadows are allowed to be pas
tured down, and NO pains are taken
to keep up the fertility, the mead
ows will run out.
A much better plan is to let the
meadows alone. If you consider it
necessary to have something else
during the summer in order to fur
nish field supply of feed, raise
soiling crops in order to help you
out. Do not ruin your meadows
by making pastures of them. Have
your pastures in as good a condi-
ton as possible, and then if more
feed is necessary use soiling crops.
n. j. SHEPHERD.
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Pasturing Meadows.

A good meadow well set in either
Red-top Timothy Or orchard grass
in valuable to every farmer, and in
order to secure the very best results
should be well cared for. Taking
off crops of grass continually must
of necessity decrease the fertility,
and it will pay to fertilize well and
keep the soil as rich as possible.
Then, too, a serious mistake is too
often made in pasturing the mead
ows too much, and especially i'm
mediately after taking off a good
crop of hay. We generally expect
to cut grass reasonably low, expos
ing the stems and the soil around
the roots to the burning sun. To
then turn in a lot of stock on pas
ture after moving off clean, so as to
keep down all the new growth by
eating and tranping is bad policy
Then, too, the plants require con
siderable protection against tine
hard frosts of winter, and allowing
the plants to make q good growth
that will act as mulch during the
winter, and will be found of consid
cradle protection during the cold
season. OF course when the season
is very favorable, considerable les:
damage will be done by pasturing
than when the weather is very warn
and dry. Considerable damage i;
often done to good meadows by
pasturing too early after cutting Of
the crop of hay, by stock trampius
down the stems and under shoots
1 am aware that many good farm
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A Motbers's.Taot.z

The mother was sewing busily,
and Josie, sitting on the carpet be-
side her, and provided with doll,
rounded scissors and some old mag
azines, was just as busy cutting out
pictures.
cit would litter the carpet" so
said Aunt Martha, who had come
in for coy chat. Mamma knew
this, but knew a few minutes work
would make all right again, and Jo-
sic was happy.
All went we'll until the little boy
found he had cut off the leg of a
horse that he had considered mar
vel of beauty. II was a real disap
ment and grief to the little one.
Mamma, see!' and, half crying
he held it up
''Play he's holding up one foot, :"
the mother said quickly.
''DO real horses, mammal"
''Oh, yes, sometimes"
81 will, and sunshine chased
away the cloud that would in an
ONHSA NlOWu
1t was little thing, the mothers
answer; but the quick sympathy,
the ready tact, made all right. The
boys heart was comforted, and he
went with no jar on nerves or tenn
per, and auntie's call lost none Of
its pleasantness.
81 am tired cutting pieces, mann
ma, +" said Josie. after a while.
well, get your horse wagon, and
play those bits of paper are wood
and you are going to bring me
load. Draw it over that corner by
the fire and put them into the kind
ling box; play that's the wood
house."
Pleased and proud, the little
teamster- drew load after load till
the papers were all picked up, with
out his ever thinking that was do
ing anything but play.-Christian
World.
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Distorting History.

The Paris journals, as have been
mentioned, are bitter in their com
ments of Gen. Grant. They refer t.
him as an enemy of France in the
trying times of 1870. The Figaro
says:
In 1870 Grant was harsh and un-
just towards France. He congratu-
lated the German people on having
become united under a form of gov
eminent similar to that of the Amer
lean union. On the occasion of ev-
cry victory he sent his warmest
congratulations to King William.
This is why we did not have a sin
gle friend in America. He forgot
Rochambeau and Lafayette, and
we can hardly be expected to weep
over him for that reason.
The Figaro Is misinformed. Gen.
Grant never congratulated King
William on his victories over
France. This charge originated in
a passing reference TO the friendly
relations of the United States gov
OA WIN bAdO VI OCL uldul III
one of Grants messages shortly at
ter the war. The message after re
ferring in friendly terms to the 9th
er powers, France included, with
which we were on terms of amity,
alluded in a few pleasant words to
the accomplishment of German ma
tional unity. But the allusiOn to
Germany's changed condition did
not imply exultatlon over the re-
verses of France. The latter idea
obtained currency in France
through a rhapsodical denuncia-
tod of Gen. Grant by Victor Hugo
in his "Annee Terrible" based on
the incident mentioned. The
French journals are over sensitive
in the matter and are as unjust to
Gen. Grant as they were to Gen.
Sheridan during the war when they
accused him of having given points
to the German commanders on the
battle feld.-N. Y. World.
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he Gould Not Reach the Brake.

There is an old story of Cali
fornia stage driver who dreamed of
a journey down the mountain side
under perilous conditions. In his
dream he started from the top of
the mountain with a crack of his
whip and shout to his horses, and
the stage rolled grandly along the
gently declining road. Soon the
descent became sleeper, and the
horses were dashing along on the
full gallop, but the driver confident
Of his power to check them when
the necessity should come, still
cracked his whip and urged them
onward. The stage was now going
at fearful rate, and the passen-
gers became affrighted, but the
driver only grasped his lines more
firmly, and pulled steadily upon
them. At length he could no long
er disregard the danger from the
headlong speed at which he was
driving, and he reached forward TO
place his foot upon the brake,
when he founnd that it was be-
yond his reach! To loosen his hold
upon the lines would be to give up
control over his frightened horses,
and he made another and more de
termined effort to reach the brake,
but the brake was still beyond his
reach. Faster and faster went the
stage down the steep road, and
more and more frantic became the
efforts of the driver to stop it! Just
below there was a sudden turn in
the narrow road. Upon one eide
was the solid wall of the mountain
height; upon the other a fearful
precipice. To pass that at the
speed at which he was going would
be to court instant death. Once
more the driver gathered ali his en-
ergies together for one last fren-
zied effort Is check the speed Of
the flying stage, but alas it was of
no usel He could not reach the
brake!
Who has not known men who
were on the down grade of intern
perance, and who could not reach
the brake?-whose destinies were
freighted with the lives of near and
dear friends, whom they were bear
ing down to lives of misery and dis
grace, and who could not reach the
brakel-who saw wealth, honor,
love, happiness, being left behind
them In their flying descent, but
who could not reach the brake =
who saw before them the yawning
abyss of eternal death for them
selves and their children, but still
they could not reach the brake!
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Gentle Mother.

"My mother dear, my mother
dear, my gentle, gentle mother" l
thought | was singing my boy to
sleep with the little ballad Of which
the above is the chorus: Sbut the
blue eyes opened, and the quiet
voice said, Mamma, you amt al
ways gentle" In self classification l
replied, "But you know, darling,
mamma has to scold when you're
naughty"
"Yes'm." The argument drop.
ped; so dill the little head upon my
bosom. ibid not finish the song,
nor have l sung it since. Tenderlv
tucking in the little truth teller, 1
reproached myself for deserving his
remark, and gently questioned the
truth of my answer. Do mothers
ever have to scold? Has scolding
any legitimate place in the family
government? How is the world de-
fined2 Railing with clamor; ut
tering rebuke in rude and bolster
Gus language" Is this a healthful
adjunct to parental authority? Why
do christians scold2 For two rea-
sons, it seems to us. First, for lack
of self control; second, from habit.
Children are sometimes terribly try
ing, and loud and angry tones seem
safety valve for our stirred tenn.
pers. Besides, we feel that gentle
ness alone can never safely steer the
family over lIfe's troublous sea.
Force, frmness, decision, sternness,
even severity, are often necessary.
A suitable degree of these is not
incompatible with gentleness. 1t is
not a synonym for weakness. The
gentleness that makes one great
comes from subdued strength. The
lovely fruit of the spirit proves an
element of power. The "soft an
swer" often costs the answer dearly.
Sweetness Of spirit is the out-growth
of self-control. Serenity of soul,
whatever be the constitutional char
acteristics, comes most from long
discipline and prayerful struggle
Good Cheer.
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An exchange thinks that fast
walk in horse is the most valua-
BILE gait that training can acquire.
1t is valuable in a pillow horse, in a
team horse, and par ticularly so in
a driving horse. Some horses will
trot along very we'll until they come
to ascending ground, when you
wish to relive him by letting him
walk up grade. He then falls into
a slow, lazy walk, that is very try
ing to the drivers patience; but a
well trained walker will step of
briskly at the rate of four miles an
hour, and the driver feels that he
has been detained very little by let
ting his hoIse walk up the hill, as
he starts of at his usual trotting
speed, being relieved by the change
of walking up the hill. Colts
should be trained to walk fast before
there is any attempt made to i'm
prove them in any other gait. This
may be accomplished when very
young, and leading at a walk by
your side, urging additional speed
little by little, without breaking it
into a trot; but this must not be
continued long at time, so as to
weary or tire. One or two short
lessons a day will soon show won
derful improvement, but after les
sons will be required to prevent a
relapse.
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Come awayr' Charley whisper
ed; and Alien was left alone with
that lovely white face resting on
his arms.
Her eyelids Enclosed in a mo
moment and she struggled to sup
port herself.
"Sit down and interpret this let
ter for me-" he said, giving her the
mysterious note to read.
There was some mistake" she
faltered. 81 wrote to you and
Blanche on the same afternoon;
sent you part of her letter and her
part of yours; but indeed did not
say this-that- Oh, there was
something left out! 1 am sure there
was something on the other page.
l forget"
Allen caught her hand in his.
"Nora, the loss of you nearly kill
ed me, for l love you with all my
soul! There was a mistake; but
one thing you did say You said
you would not marry a man you did
not love. Darling, may I-dare l
hope you will marry meT''
He gathered her into his strong
arms as he spoke, and her lips were
so close he could easily hear the
half-whispered YES"
(which means?' he asked ten
derby.
That l love you very much"
The last ray Of doubt was cleared
away when Blanche brought her let
ter TO patch out what she called the
''epistolary puzzle
You know me too well to think
that l am only flirting with MIR.
Westlock," ETC., was how the letter
read, then Allen was wholly salts
fed.
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take an active part in the outdoor
labor, we need not be silent part
ners in the firm of Duty and En-
deaVor, but lend a word of counsel
or of cheer when it is needed.
We are all well aware that farm.
eIs' wives have not the ADVANTAGES
of fashionable society that city la
dies have, and perhaps we have not
lost as much by that as we might
drst imagine. The facilities for
gaining information are so great
that none need be ignorant at the
present. The books and papers
that are thrown around us all con-
tain information that we need.
Some one will doubtless say it is of
a very trashy nature, and so a great
amount of it is; but You do not
need to read or retain it all. A
glance or a few lines will give you
az Idea of the subject. Who would
think, when eating of the spongy
loaf or fragrant roll, that the snowy
Hour moulded into these forms was
once hard little grain, enclosed in
sharp hull-had been matured in
storm and sun, through coarse
stalk-that at last a breath separa-
ted them, and one was almost worth
less, and the other necessary to our
lives So it is with what we read.
We can retain the grain only, and
by 1t Iced our souls, and let the
light, worthless part pass away as
the chat before the wind.
1t is true our hearts are forever
seeking for that beyond their grasp,
and we are very often disappointed
with the worlds realities. We Of
ten hear it said that we are crea-
lures of circumstance. Have we
not the power to make these cir
cumstantes what we will? If we
SIT In idleness to-day, will not our
load be too great to bear to-mor-
row? While with care and dill
gence it might be all light and
cheerfulness.
We are very susceptible TO the
influences about us. l might com
pare humanity to the thermometer.
If the influence is exhIlarating, up
will go the mercury of our ambi-
ton, until we feal as if we could ac-
complish wonders-almost move
If depressing, it will
go down almost to zero, and every
thing will drag along and become
disheartening. Then how necessa-
ry it is that we try to make things
cheerful and bright about US! Be
hopeful and helpful, patient and
Kind. This atmosphere" which
us is almost as essential
TO our health as the air we breath.
Where love is wanting, and the
eye, the ear, and heart are starved
amid all this that nature has placed
before US, things will look hard ard
;olorless. Then let us try in every
way to encourage and help each
other through this life of care, by
worthy actions and kind words.
Pull up all unsightly weeds, and in
their places plant bright flowers,
cast away the deadly night-shade
with its poisonous dews, and on our
walls train a fragrant rose or h on
eysuckle, or a passion flower, that
speak their silent language. Let
us draw aside the curtain from our
so that the lighC may
shine out as well as in, and open
wide our doors and greet the world
with heartfelt warmth.
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Bob Burdette's Romance of Jefferson.

Bob Burdette's Romance of Jefferson:
He was not president of the Uni
ted States then, although he after
ward attained unto the honor. He
was a little boy and rather inclined
to be good, .obedient and bright.
He loved his mother and even main
| tanned a sincere respect for his ia
ther. One evening he was about
an hour or longer off time getting
home from school, and the eager
maternal eye as it tell upon his shirt
at once OWNED the cause. of his de
tention. The other eager maternal
eye, for she had little pair of them
saw the same thing.
Thomas" said his mother, "why
are you so late?"
Lost my jografy, an had to go'n
hunt it,"
"Did you find it?"
"Yes'm."
80, Tommy, you left it at home
this morning; it has been here all
day"
"Yes'm, that's what 1 remem-
bered l done with it,"
Tommy"
eyes, ma"
"You have been in swimming"
mo, ma'am!' very stoutly.
Tommy! mother knows"
"No, ma'amw with the air of
a boy whose position is unaassail-
able.
Tommy you have been swim
ming in the river; l can tell by your
shirt"
Mike, bossw shouted the boy,
triuphantly; you can play no
turned inside out shirt on me
You can't prove nothin' by that
shirt"
Tommy, your shirt tells me ev-
erything"
Tell nothing. 1 didn't take it
off when l went in!'
1t was many, many years after
that when Thomas etferson learned
why he was fed on the skate strap
of atfliction that night, in the en-
tire absence of sufficient evidence
to convict him, and when the truth
dawned upon him, he wrote the
declaration of independence, and
invented the shirt that buttons be
hind
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"Buy a thoroughbred bull and
raise calves from your best cows. "
No advice could be given that
is better to man who wishes to in
crease his stock of COWS. Any one
would be surprised how quickly a
fine herd of grades can be secured
in that way. In three years time
he will be able to exchange the
greater part of his scrub herd for
fine grades, and in two more years
he will have another herd of three
quarter grades, and then he will
have as good a dairy practically as
the breeder of thoroughbreds. A
close observer can in this way
change his herd to any breed he
desires. 1t is IN his power at small
cost to let a good grade from any
breed by the comparatively small
outlay for a bull. Unfortunately
most men are content to accept
calves from any ranging scrub
which may jump into into his pas
ture with his COWS. If he will
look at his neighbor, who secures a
good bull and makes the comparl
son between their respective herds
he will not long follow that suicidal
! plan.-Spirit.
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Vanderbilt Women.

Here is little story that the con
ductors up at the grand central sta
ton have been talking about since
the death the other day of the
widow of Commodore Vanderbilt.
One summer day Mrs. Vanderbilt
got on a New York Central railroad
train at some station up in West
chester county. Along came the
conductor just as the debonnaire
little woman in black awoke to the
fact that her purse was missing.
She tried to explain, but the con-
ductor was not inclined to listen; he
vas up to all the tricks of the trav-
cling trade. He only smiled, looked
astute, and suggested that that sort
of game wouldn't work On a wise
man like him. "You must show
you ticket, or a pass, or pay your
fare" he said, cor else l will have
you put off at the next station"
The passenger looked archly to say,
"Oh, no, you won't; I'm going to
New York" "No pay, no ride"
quoth the sententious conductor.
'If you were Mr.. Vanderbilt him
self you'd have to conform to the
rules of the road or get off, "Well,"
was the retort, perhaps Mr.. Van
derbilt would get of, but, my dear
sir, the female members of Wander
bits family are not made of that
kind of stuff; do you underestimate
Her looks showed that she was in
earnest. The conductor did under
stand. She finished her journey
without further molestation.
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Truly yours,
ALLEN WEsTLoCK.'

That was all.
"She shall never know by word
of NINE" he said, as he dropped
this note in the box on his way to
supper. "That dream is over, and
my, happiness at an end forever; but
she shall not know it. will hide
my pain from her or die"
That evening, when society was
about awakening to the touch of
dissipation, Allen Westlock pre-
sented himself in faultless attire in
the parlor of an up town residence.
"How fortunate l am to find you
at homer' he said as he bent over
the slim white hand of a graceful
girl in pale blue surah. But you
are not we'll; what have you been
doing to yourself, my dear Miss
Blanche?'
Blanche Merle replied with light
laugh, whose studied indifference
could not wholly eaden the ring
of sad note.
at is dissipation" she answered
with a glance in the mirror oppo-
site. 81 have been to three balls
this week. 1 was going to the Char
ity ball tonight, but"
''Why, I'd forgotten all about it
This is the night. Charley Leonard
gave me tickets. He is one of the
managers"
Man as he was, and not at all in
terested in Miss Merle, Allen failed
to note the quick, spasmodiC
twitching of her mouth and sudder
pallor when he mentioned Charley
Leonard.
"By the way, Miss Blanche, lie
us take look at the Charity" b,
said, carelessy Y.
81 will go for little WHILE" she
assented.
Allen went for a carriage Will,
she arrayed herself in a brillian
ball costume. When she came dowI
stairs again a robe of white satir
embroidered with forget-me-nots
trailed after her. Her eyes shont
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Take my word for this reader,
and say a fool told you, if you
please, that he who hath not a
drachm of folly in his mixture hath
pounds of much worse matter in his
composition.-Lamb.
There is much meat in this for a
very large class of overly wise and
overly good persons who believe
that one mistake, one error of judg-
ment, makes a failure, or that a
''little nonsense now and then"
causes God to frOwn, if not to damn
the offender. We have pity for such
as do:not know better. Some are
sincere, and these a just judge will
excuse upon the plea of invicinble
ignorance. But for such as feign
goodness, there is no salvation. OF
this latter class there are many ever
ready to exclaim: Judge not, lest
We be judged" and yet they take
the authority out of the hands of
the Almighty, and bake and burn
their brothers who may chance not
to believe as they do. Of the over
ly wise it has been ,truthfully re-
marked that they "look like a cy-
clopedia, and talk like a primer
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