The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-17
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pouring out. surrounded the unfortunate farm
ers, who we're unconscious. Some one asked il
there was any liquor in the crowd. A drummer
passed out neat little flask of old Bourbon,
another drummer followed his example, and
soon there were hands stretching out from all
directions with pints and half pints round bot
ties, fiat bottles and square bottles of all dimen-
slons from gil TO quart. and containing
everything from imported brandy to Portland
rum. There was enough there TO start a Lewis
ton drug store, and the only man in the crowd
who didn't have a bottle ran off to farm
house and soon returned with two-galIon Jug
of some mysterious liquor.
w. A. PINKERToS tells a Chicago Tribune re-
porter this II was in New York not long ago,
and met man whose business it has been for
years to knock about the world and keep track.
for mis- own amusement, of all the toughs and
sports that for few years become familiar on
the streets and then disappear. He said there
was one inevitable wind-up for such men, and
that 1t was the race course. They are broken
down 10 constitution and purse; they have no
friends and they gravtate TO the track as GER
tainly as water runs down hill They can be
found about the bOokmakers' stands around
the stables-anywhere TO get a chore, or a
bite, or drink. They are the homeless poor
OF this country The men on the courses who
are more attuent never quite 90 back on these
broken wrecks. In the course of time
death takes them, but they are never missed
Many of the missing ones, l have no doubt, of
whom you read have such termi nations. The
poorest and most abiect man in the W Orld,
who follows an honest course as far as he is
abe is g king to these fellows aud has brighter
prospects in his darkest hours than the man
who starts out to make livelihood as a sport. "
Mr.. TILsoS, a resident Of Brooklyn. had his
family stopping for the summer at New Jer-
sey seaside resort. Like the good father that
he Is, on every Saturday it is his custom to
leave his business early in the afternoon and
take the train to whore his family is located
This he did last Saturday. He reached the
EennSNlV2nlA 0RDOr nFRSanfR1 the
door, and was informed his train was on track
three He followed a crowd that was going up
one of the platforms and was about entering
the car when the conductor informed him that
that was not his train. Your train is two
tracks to the left said he, Down the
platform he marched and went to the
train two tracks to the right only TO be
told again he was in the wrong place Finally
he entered train, and in few minutes it was
speeding over the meadow. When Tilson
showed his ticket he told he was on a
Philadelphia train, and he would have to
change at Newark. He got out at Newark
and finally his right train came along. He was
seated comfortably and was cursing and swear
ing at his mistake, when he was overheard by
clerical looking gentleman, who remarked:
Young man, you should not swear So you are
on the road to perdition." ''By Jove,'' re-
marked Tison, 'On the wrong train again. My
ticket calls for Asbury Park
A YOUNG MAN in New York city married and
settled down in little house with small gar
WI III VIC SuOul bos wv DclIlR accustomed 10
gardening he asked advice of some of his shop-
mates as to the best kind of seeds to plant for
salads. Several replies were given, and one
young man from Hoboken. who thought he
was smarter than the others, thought ne would
play Joke on him, so he said he would bring
MN new kind of rRdsh seed next morning
lie got the hard roe of a herring dried it.
rubbed 1t loose and gave it as promised and
also now to sow it, The new seed was taken
home, and while the husband was preparing
the ground his wife opened the paper and at
once smelled the odor of fish. She called her
husbands attention to it, and he quickly dis
covered what it was but sewed it as directed
-FOUR days after the husband procured some of
the smallest fish he could get and cut off the
heads and stuck them In the soil with the mouth
and eyes lust above the surface Next day he
was asked by the joker how the seeds were
getting on. was told that the first crop was Just
peeplng through the ground and was invited to
come ana see it His curiosity was so aroused
10 know now In earth instead of water fish roe
would grow that he accepted the invitation and
went. When shown the small heads protruding
through the ground he turned around and took
the first car home He was beaten.
OF THE GREAT OPERATORS left in Wall street
two have, to marked extent. the qualities of
leadership They are Washington c. Conner and
James B. Keene Both are experienced men.
in the prime of life, of marked ability and
personal popularity. Now it is a curious thing
but nevertheless true, that real Wall street
leader must lave the reputation of being
square man in his personal dealings else he can
not attract and hold a following Wall street
Is crying for leader, but neither Conner nor
keene can do anything just now. They must
bide their time. husband their resources and
look tor the fog to lift. / passed George
GFouch and a group of friends in Sam
Boocock s office. Crouch was at the tape and
dashed down the paper serpent as if
It were a real venomous reptile. at is
hard TO tell where we are" said he, land that
reminds me Of the story CT the block
ade runner from Nassau to Charleston
This was in the early sixties, and the skipper of
the blockade runner was q daredevil who cared
for nothing. He was well loaded, and it meant
fortune Tor him to get safe to port. Just off
shore cruiser popped into view and hailed him
twice. The blockade runner clapped on all
steam and ran ahead. however, regardless of
the consequences, the fog in the mean
cruiser was soon lost to view and the
sound of the breakers could be heard at
no great distance off either bow In
the press of hurry to escape the skipper had
forgotten that he was short OF coal and he had
barely lost the cruiser in the fog whom his
engineer came up to him and said: well,
captain, here we arer Yes replied the
captain, here we are, but where the are
we?' And SO it is with the street; we know we
are here. but we do not know where we stand"
THE FOLLOWING PARTICULARS are taken from
areport furnished by Consul General Crawford
of st. Petersburg: 1.-THE endeavors made to
introduce American cotton in Turkestan began
IN the year 1870, but IL Is only recently that the
rapidly This fact is rendered evident by the
following agricultural statistics: In 1884 about
olO acres of land were sown around Tashkend
which produced 100000 pounds of cotton:
IN 1855. 2,700 acres of land were sown
and yielded lose, 000pouuds of cotton; in 1896
American cotton seed was sown on 80, 400 acres
and the crop was expected TO render 5000 COO
pounds of cotton, but in consequence of morn
Ing frost it only gave 2, 100 600 pounds: in 1887
3o,U2 acres of land were sown with
American seed, almost all in the neighborhood
OF Iashkend, and produced z 900 pounds of
cotton fiber, worth over S750,000. According
10 Chlcal data obtained in 1888 the cotton
plantations occupied-Syr- Darya, So, $50 acres:
terghana, 140S76 do; Samarcand 81 310,
DO, making total of 215, 1872 acres "As far
as can be realized from reports presented
(Some Of which, as those relating to the
district of Samarcand, are evidently false1 the
proceeds from the crop in 1888 were: From
american seed-Syr-Darya 96s5,656 pounds;
FerShana, 1924 PAS pounds; Samarcand, 5SS, 1873
pounds total. 2021S,032 pounds From Persian
see1-Syr- Darya, 2, 130,552 pounds; Ferghana,
4<,<[I,u<o poundsi Samarcand, l.733,6 44;
to.al, I6'OS1224 pounds. Thus the
cotton culture in Tashkend produced
TINS year 202IS,032 pounds from American
SEED ana loOS5,224 pounds from local seed,
making total of SO, 303 256 pounds valued at
about S3,500OOO. The actual result of the local
Cottoh crop is much greater than that shown,
OUT tne natives try by every means to hide the
rear result Tor fear of having to pay cotton-tied
taxes Ciean cotton sold in Tashkend at 1O15
Genus pound from American seed and rs
cents per pound for that from local seed"
Inc consul says in conclusion: These expert
menus were, however, too few in number and OF
slollity or introducing cotton culture in the
southern provinces NJ Russia to the best a1VanC-