The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-15

themselves 10 be used for clerk hire.
The Cotton Acreage.
II the price of cotton should drop to
five cents next fail the cotton planters
would have no dimculty in understanding
the reason. Cotton planters have refused
to be guided by past experience. Because
they have obtained a pretty fair price
during the season that is now pretty
nearly ended they have planted a large
ly increased acreage. According to the
report of the agricultural department
there have been planted over 35O5,S16 more
acres than was planted in 1894. the crop
of 1S94-95 being so large that the price of
cotton fell to five cents a pound
OF course. the weather conditions may
not be such as to favor a large crop, but it
would not do to assume that the weather
will cut the crop short Not only has
an unusually large acreage been planted,
but a very large amount of commercial
fertilizers has also been used. The
chances, therefore. are that the cotton
crop viii considerably exceed the worlds
demand, and that the price of cotton will
drop below the point at which cotton can
be prohtably produced.
The crop of 1866, which is stin being
marketed, was a rather small one Con-
sequently a pretty fair average price has
been obtained for cotton ever since the
opening of the present cotton season. 1t
is greatly 10 he regretted that the cotton
planters refuse to see that it is to their
interest to keep the supply of cotton down
to the actual demand for it, There is a
fair profit in cotton at cents a pound.
and none at all, for most planters at s
cents a pound. However, it is about
! impossible to get cotton planters to act
together in this matter. Each of them
follows his own judgment, and very nearly
all of them are willing to take the chances
of getting high price for a big crop.
Those who saw the splendid drills and
soldierly bearing of the Citadel Cadets of
Charleston viii wonder that there is in
South Carolina political sentiment that
would destroy the great institution at
which the young men are being educated.
! The Citadel Academy, or South Carolina
/ Military Academy. as it is officially
known, has always had the enmity of
Senator Tnlman and certain of his re-
! formers. Bur so far the friends of the
school have been too strong to permit
| of the designs upon it being carried out.
! Tinman used to refer in his stump
speeches to the Citadel Academy as the
dude factory" Notwithstanding the fact
that before and since the war It has
turned out some of the best soldiers and
citizens that ever 'graced South Carolina
The widow of Senator Hearst, of Cali,
fornia, is astonishing folks with her lavish
expenditure of money. She is going to
attend the coronation of the car at Mos
cow, but her trip will not be attended
by the magnihcence at first calculated
upon, from the fact that Ambassador
Bayard declined to aid the project She
rented a handsome house in Moscow. en-
gagged a special train from the wharf
at Havre, and invited the ambassador and
his family TO be her guests. But Mr..
Bayard declined. and the special train
was given up. America is a great place
for men to make money, and Europe is
a great place for women to spend it.
A new woman and her new man husband
live in Baltimore. She is couarmaker
and the breadwinner of the family. He
did the cooking and homework, it seems
without compensation. He demanded a
little spending money. The wife refused
to give it TO him, and he raised a row. She
had him arrested. In the police court the
woman said she could get girl to do the
work her husband did for $l.25 a week. She
was willing to allow him that, but she did
not propose to stand any Of his imperti-
nence whether she employed him or not.
SO drifts the "newness" of the sexes.
The successful and unsuccessful at
tempts at train wrecking that appear to
have been made in South Georgia within
the past week are of a character to
call for vigorous detective work on the
part Of the railroad people and the coun-
ty officials. The miscreant who turns q
switch or burns bridge for the pur-
pose Of .wrecking train has murder in
his heart. and deserves to receive the
heaviest penalty of the law.