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The San Francisco call., 1897-04-23

District Deputy Grand President Mrs. E. J.
Wells of that place
Miss Lilly o. Reichling, the founder of the
order, who is at present at Denver, Colo, ex-
poets to return to California in time to attend
the session of the Grand Parlor.
fremont PArlor gave very pleasant "at
home" last Monday in the residence of Mrs
Barton, on Clay street. There were number
OF visitors present including Grand Vice
President Mrs. Belle w. Conrad and Grand
Secretary Mrs. George C. Ryan.
Grand President Mrs. Mary E. TiIlman will
visit Ell Pescadero Parlor at Tracy tomorrow
and will visit Forest Parlor at Plymouth
May z.
The membership Of the order is proud of
the fact that the coming grand president,
Mrs. Belle w. Conrad of Sonora has been
elected to the highest Office in the Grand
Lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Honor and
OF the further fact that she is the first lady in
California who has been elected to that hirh
office. namely, the Office of grand protector.
Her election TO that Office is q recognition of
and infiuence- -@s
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-23

fact a movement is on loot among them 10
have him initiated into their fraternal order.
the Hoo Hoos"
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-23
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Personally conducted excursions leaving Tuesday
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Detailed information and tickets furnished Al IL
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The San Francisco call., 1897-04-23

The Pope has received, through the Countess
Maria Festetics, N aid of honor to the Empress
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-23

Senator Hoar's reference to the House
as body (which adjourns every three
days in order to get time 20 attack the
Senate for not attending to business"
shows that the old gentleman has very
neat humor of his own when he happens
to be out OF humor.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-23

The war veterans who were defrauded
out of their positions in Government Of
fees by the Cleveland administration are
being restored by "Comrade" Mckinley,
and some of the mugwumps and cuckoos
are snrieking that civil service is going to
be ruined.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-23

Washington officials expect to be ready
20 call for bids for grading and excayat-
ing at the postotfice site within three
weeks, so it appears the agitation for the
beginning of work on the building has
been much more successful than some
people expected.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-23

CAL glace fruit soc per lb.. at Townsenqs.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-23
CHARLES M. SHORTRiDuE,
Editor and Proprietor.
SUBSCRIPTION RATEs-Postage Free:

BUSINESS OFFICE:
40 Market Street.
San Francisco, California.
TeIenbope ~ .Maln-1ses
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-03

tom, therefore, Of tho spinncrs, with
tho aid Of tho professional bears, to
run prices down to tho cost Of pro.
duction, or ovon below, and then pur-
chase thoir supplies.
"Of course, 1 rccognizo that the
money question enters largely into
this mattcr-tho per capita circnIa-
tion--but that it is not necessary to
discuss. Tho world is hound to
have cotton. OF that there is no
question, and there is no reason why
tho cotton producer should allow the
cotton consumer to havo all the say
SO in fixing the price. Especially is
this the case when the cotton pro-
ducer will, if he will only try, have
SO little difficulty in fixing the price
himself.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-03

Yorkville, S. c., November 90
The cotton growers up in this
section arc greatly Interested in
the proposed convention Of south
ern cotton growers called by Presi-
dent j. G. Wilborn, of South Caro-
lima alliance, to be held in Atlanta
on December 10th. That there will
be a full attendance from South
Carolina ut the convention appears
to be certainty, and the general
hope here is that all the other south
ern states will take it upon them
selves to be sure of Representations.
The main object of the proposed
meeting is to at once secure tho or
ganization Of the cotton growers Of
the south on such lines az will in
sure control of the planting and
marketing OF the cotton crop. The
proposition has been receiving great
deal of considerable of late, and it
appears to be growing stronger and
stronger every day. Indeed, many
solid and substantial business men
throughout this immediate section
are becoming so enthusiastic over the
idea that they are constrained to
freely acknowledge themselves az
cranks.
The father Of the present move
ment is Mr. John II Roddey, formerly
we'll known citizen of this county,
but now prominent member Of the
New York stock exchange. He man
aged to get up considerable inter
est in the matter several years ago,
iQsxss 1896, when the price of cotton
T&&&sohcd such n low point. Through
his efforts movement to secure the
organization Of the cotton farmers
was then commenced. Prices soon
after began to improve, however, and
with the improvement in prices inter,
est tagged. Mr.. Roddcy abandoned
the scheme for the time, not as i'm
practicable, but as unnecessary, and
it was not until the present season
that he again began to manifest in,
terest. But now he believes, is the
accepted time, and to pnsh the thing
along he is bending every effort
Your correspondent has just had an
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-03
$50 TRUNKS

an old darky who prayed every night
during Christmas for tho Lord to
send a turkey to him, but the turkey
dident come, and SO he changed his
prayer and asked the Lord to send
him to turkey and his prayer was
answered that very night. A negro
don't banker after gold watches. He
wants something to eat.
But now | want to know what is
all this racket about that they call
CO education. l thought it was just
another fad and would soon pass
away, but it seems to get bigger and
bigger the mo o they talk about it.
Que would think that there were no
female colleges in the land and that
the boys wero getting all the educa
ton. when the truth is there are
more educational facilities for girls
in this State than for boys. 1 don't
know what it all means. Do the
girls want to mix with the boys and
improve them and be inspired by
them? Then why should not the
boys claim asimilar privilege and go
to the female colleges and to the
girls industrial school at Milledge-
vile? If we arc going to bunch,
lot us bunch the whole concern and
include the agricultural attachments
and let the girls do some plowing if
they want to. But | reckon that it
is just the new woman who is con-
tending for tho abstract right to 60
to the university. OF course they
won't go, for their fathers won't let
thom as long as the female colleges
are open at Macon and Athens and
LaGrange and Decatur and Rome
and other places. There ls plenty
of education for thom there without
the CO.. The best mothors, I know,
never got higher than Il high school
and the best co-education is for the
girls to get married young and go to
raising children and chickens. If
they do that diligently, they will be
as happy rs their college bred daugh-
tcrs. Pvo never been entirely salts
fled that such abstruse sciences as
chemistry, astronomy, trigonometry,
fluXions, calculus, Greek, rhetoric and
logic were Of auy use to the average
boy, much less to the girls. L went
to college and my wife didn't and I
have to take back scat now some.
times. | married her when she was
only sixteen, but if she had spent
four years in college she would have
been so smart she wouldn't have had
mo, and | reckon wouldn't have had
her, for no prudent young man will
marry'a girl who is smarter than he
is--it is dangerous. Pick out your
girl and take her young and co edu-
cate her yourself, BILL ARP.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-03
THE PRESIDENTS ;sssaQR
A LENGTHY DOCUMENT to- TEREss
ALL GREAT QUESTIONS or s IA
He is Not n Friend TO Cuba-rhih,rSare'
Currency Question First In lmpOy0t
nnce Before This Congress. d

Washington, Dec. 6.-At moo
day the first regular session
55th congress was launched 9 "
the unknown seas of legi 'o"n' %
simultaneously at both en- ,Dol'Sn -
capitol, Speaker Re ,.,,1';1 ~,
and Vice. President ..4l1 ''"f'ng oil
senate, dropped THEY ,n 10, o,,;o,'' oeen
called to order the = tbo sou, ,n~na
Monies att esence of our faithful
'tsSs,1 go ssave been our protection,
for there have been some few chick
ems stolen IN these parts. Our neigh
Dor, Charley Patterson, suffered
some in that way until he bought
the old gallows on which man was
hung a few years ago and built a
chicken house Of. the timber Since
then be can hardly get darky to
put chickens in it by day, much less
to take them out by night. But our
negroes in and around Cartersville
are clever, industrious people and
as honest as mankind are generally.
The domestic servants will take some
liberties with little things that they
think we won't miss, but they have
many good traits that are a set-olf,
and 80 we compromise on general
principles.
But now the burglars have come
to town and alarmed the whole COM
munity. I believe they come from
up north yaero every bad thing
comes frooy%$, even to bad weather.
The oussr day astramp came to our
'i;lt 'fihouse and asked : for something to
eat. He was fairly good looking and
we'll dressed. My wife got him a
lunch and asked him where his home
was, and where he was gong. He
smiled and said he had no home and
was raised in an orphan asylum up
north and was going to Atlanta in
search of work.
"How do you travel" said she,
"if you have no money!"
swell, 1 ride ON the freights until
they put me off," he said, "and then
I wait for another one and ride some
moro. am just taking little trip
now to see the country"
There were two of these fellows in
town and they took the rounds ask
ing for something to cot and always
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-03

got it. My opinion is that they are
professional thieves and their pur-
pose in calling at SO many houses is
to prospect the premises. The night
after they were at our house bur
glare entered four houses and stole
money. They took 800 from under
a sleeping mans pillow and smaller
sums from the pockets of other men.
A few nights after they entered thrco
houses and took fine gold watch
from under a bankers pillow and
the next night a watch and some
money at another place. They take
no clothing nor anything to eat.
They are white folks, L tell you, and
are exports in their business.
Well, of course, the whole com
munlty is aroused, and especially
the women, My wife is not a timid
woman. She is more afraid ofsnakes
than of men, but she, too, got alarm
eel and made me get the han,mer and
the screwdriver and some bolts and
nails and fix no every door and win
dow. She held the lamp ant' watch
ed mo all round from room to room,
and l mashed great blood blister
on my finger and it hurts yet. When
all was done to her satisfaction and
we got ready to. retire, sho suddenly
told me not to lock the back hall
door, for Uncle Sam had to come in
there in the morning to make fire.
Conslderate woman! She knew that
L didn't like to get up out of warm
bed to unlock the door Reckon she
thinks the burglars wouldn't be so
impolite as to como in at tho back
door. Bet they don't get any watch
from under my pillow, for / haven't
got any, Forty years ago they got
mine just that way in old DR.. Thomp
sons hotel in Atlanta, aud I have
never carried ono since, They got
my pocket book, too, and little
money and some valuable papers.
They were from up north and wcro
very clever mon, considering, for in
about q week they sont mo all my
papers back through the mail and
the letter was postmarked Philadel-
phia. They will give man back
everything they can't Use. Bill
Fort told me that they were kind
hearted set of thieves and he had
known them to lean ovor and kiss a
sleeping man after they had robbed
HIM.
No, it is white folks who are steal
ing these valuable things. Negroes
haven't got above chickens and tur-
keys yet. heard the other day of
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-03

NOR" the next year, and then by ad-
v'Slng reduction Of acreage and
regulating tho supply to the dc.
mand; in fact, instead of in theory,
Tho cotton producers OF tho south
could become what thoy arc entitled
absolutely indopondnnt."
This Mr. Roldry explained to
your correspondent is only an out
Tine of his plan. He has the scheme
worked ont in all it's details and
printed, and he proposes to, ~ so IN
as possible, begin IL canvass Of the
south with view to organizing his
Propos"d company ulong businrs.
lines.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-03

interview with Mr.. Roddy at tho
homo Of his father, Captain W. l..
Roddoy, the we'll known merchant
and banker of Rock Hill.
"Whon [ first suggested tho idea,
three years ago." he said, "I was a
novice. L saw in the scheme great
possibilities and no drawbacks. |
know now more about tho cotton
business generally than did then,
and l have confined tho study of my
plans during tho pact three yearc.
1t appears to mo now clearer than
ever. If the cotton growers will just
give the matter thorough considera-
tion and interest themselves in their
own interest it cannot possibly fail.
STRICTLY BUSINESS PRINCIPLES.
"But the trust idea is the thing
an organization along the line of all
tho big trusts Of the country. We
must 60 into the undertaking, if we
go into it at all, clearly on business
principles. If we look for pity or
sentiment or anything Of that kind,
from tho spectators of the north, wo
are deceiving ourselves. They arc
nothing whatever for us except for
what they can make out Of us, and
we must fight along the same line.
"a great many superiically inform
cd people hold complaisantly to the
idea that the price Of cotton is con-
trollod by tho laws ofsupply and de-
mand While, in it's fact, the PROPOSE
ton looks solfovident never was there
more serious mistake. For instance,
last year the worlds crop of cotton
was lO,1G7,OOO bales, but it sold for
30G,270,S5l. In 1S00-0l the Amer
lean crop alono Of only S,G52,507
bales, sold for S430,38O,17 Go
back and look up the statistics, and
you will find that almost invariably
largo crop sells for moro in the ag,
gregate than small one. If it were
n question Of supply and demand of
cotton it would be easy to under
stand how, in tho case OF q large
crop, the average price per bale
should be less; but how the aggro-
gat" price paid fora large crop should
be larger than tho aggregate price
paid for small one, is something
that the supply and demand thcorlst
will find it difficult to explain.
"No, the whole thing is in the
hands of tho Now York spectators
BY trading IN futures, selling cotton
short, it is in their power to beat
down the price to whatever figures
they may care to fix. 1t is the Gus.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-03
Roddey'S Plan to Control Price
ORIGINATOR OF MOVEMENT TO GET
COTTON GROWERS TOGETHER

TO Consider Ouestions-His Plan VIII be
Put Before tho atlanta Convcntion-lt
IL 10 Form II Big Stock Cumpnpy-SrH
Shares at sS5 Each-.P roducers to
Sign Agreen cnt to Allow Com
pnny to Market tho Cotton.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-06
A Terrifying wig.

Many extraordinary and several very
ludicrous incidents are described by Cap
tain Arthur Cuninghame in his "Recollec-
tions of Service In China. One day while
stationed in Nankin friend of his stepped
into a barber's shop, and by way OF en-
ploying his time he desired the barber to
shave his head This gentleman wore a
wig. but which, for the sake OF GOODNESS,
he had placed in his pocket. This opera
ton of shaving, so common in CHINA was
speedily and quickly executed, the barber
seeming to be delighted with the honor
of shaving one of the illustrous strangers.
Previously to his leaving the shop and
while the mans attention was called in
some other direction my friend replaced
his wig upon his head, little thinking oil
the result of this simple process. No soon
er. however, had the barber turned round
and observed him whom he had so lately
cleared of every vestige of hair suddenly
covered with most luxuriant growth,
than. taking one steady gaze at him. To
make sure he was not deceived, he let fall
the razor. cleared his counter at bound,
and running madly through the crowd,
which was speedily collected, cried out
that he was visited by the devil.-Nuggets-
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-06

Don't be persuaded into buying lini
ments without reputation or merit
Chamberlain's Pain Balm costs no more,
aud it's merits have been proven by atest
of many years. Such letters as the fol-.
lowing, from l.. q. Bagley, Hueneme,
CAL, are constantly beng received: 1.-The
beat remedy for pain have ever used is
Cham berlain's Pain Balm, and l say so
after having used it in my family for sew
eral years." 1t cures rheumatism, lame
back, sprains and swelling. For sale by
Sodergren & Sodergren, Druggists.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-06
ARC LIGHT AND EYESIGHT.
Gray and Blue Eyes Are Most Susceptible
to Injurious Effect.


One effect of the advent of the Y ray
has been to direct closer attention to the
influence of the electric light on the eye
sight. 1t has recently been stated that
sailors suffer much in their eyesight from
the brilliant electric lights used on ship
board Gray and blue eyes are the most
subject to injury. not being heavily
charged with pigments. The men who
work the searchlights already wear dark
blue glasses, but it is found that these
only mitigate the intensity of the light
and do not absorb the source of the trou-
BILE. the ultra violet rays. These rays,
however, can be intercepted by goggles or
screens of uranium or yellow glass, and
with these, it is understood, the sailors or
the French navy are soon to be provided.
Another interesting case bearing on this
| subject is reported from n British warship.
| It seems that two stokers on the ship,
having little spare time, became en-
| crossed in the operation of an electric
! drill which was burning out holes in a
| hardened steel plate Both men declared
they only watched the arc for about three
| minutes, and at the time felt no i'll effects,
| except that all objects appeared to be OF a
1 deep gold color AT night, however, both
] men were aroused by intense pain and
| martial blindness for the time being, but
both recovered quickly after treatment
| The electric drill acts by fusing hole
through the steel, and the intensity OF the
| light Is greatly increased by the rays OF
| light thrown off by the molten metal. The
fact, too, that the work is carried on chief
| " in the daylight is apt to deceive the
casual onlooker us to the degree of bril-
liancy of the light. and it is not until the
after effects begin to assert themselves
that he is aware of anything out of the
common. Dark glasses are now used by
all the men on the electric drilling shifts.
A singular feature of this affection is that
it is analogous to snow or desert, blind
ness, and as i'm them the pcrnicious
effects of the electric light are probably
due to the ultra violet rays of the spec
trum. -Pittsburg Dispatch,
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-06

most OF all, here, in this inmost center of
the country's SOUL may say so, without
rear Oh saying too much, because PERTAINS
700 much cannot be said-where work ia
dignity and idleness is mediocrity.
Some such thoughts as these crossed
my mind as stood here five years ago, be-
iore the opening of the Worlds fair. They
are clearer now, better formed, for they
nave five years growth in them and five
tihes more truth than then We do not
need coming revival of letters. for we
are alive today. We are not looking for.
ward TO a renaissance, for we have neither
uecadence In our past nor decay in our
present We are not tending 60 a farce
we are on the ascent to things both grave
and high
We who are here may not see the end,
nor ous children, nor our children's chill.
dren But the end is above where we
stand now and not below us as surely al
creatlo Soads one way and degeneration
anotto hereafter. in the far days, when
WINE VI "es but uncertain memories
Tin the pc after US, may such rec
BIT TO us be the brief his
o n came in young times
1Il ~ IJTVVpld, labored with all Their
ha step forward from the
fV the light, New Yorl
Christmas PU
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-06
Lot Of a Maine Game Warden.

Game Warden Herrick of Eddington,
Me-, is confined to his house on account
of a wicked joke which some boys played
ON him out at Lake Chemo. They have
been logging deer around the lake all
the fall. When Herrick heard of it. he
went out recently to shoot the dogs,
carrying rife which was made for .3s
short cartridges While he was in camp
eating his dinner the boys extracted
his box of .3S short cartridges and put
q box of .3S long in, its place. That aft
ernoon Herrick saw hound come
down to the lake on deer's track, and
hastily threw in cartridge to shoot.
When he snapped his rife together, the
.38 long cartridge stuck and exploded,
filling Herrick's face and eyes with
burned powder and fragments OF the
brass she'll. He will not be able to &c
out until next year.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-06
On & Driivi
|hriStmas Pr
FARMING FAILS,
ctory. will b

;Skr Caps. - Cheap and the Oil Is In
~ ~ Less Demand.
w GSbucci of Wallagrass, Me, the
ca MN Maine who ever attempted
skm,s( ang on a large scale, offers his
place. stock and fixtures for sale at a bar
gain, and says he is going to the goldfelds
OF Alaska, where he hopes to make money
more rapidly than by SHINING skunks
and trying out their oil Though Soucci
had plenty of minnows and whitefish 70
feed 10 his pets and could catch ali the
rabbits he wanted with two spools of cop.
per wire, he has abandoned the business
and confessed that skunk culture doesn {
pay. Last year he took of 200 pelts of his
own growing and caught about 120 wild
skunk. All that time an average skunk
skin sold for sll5, while a good black
one was worth from $3.50 to So. Skunk
oil was selling for 81 u gallon, so when
Soucci went into winter quarters with
900 skunks in stock he felt as If he was
right in the middle of the highway which
leads to wealth
Last winter after the ponds had frozen
so deeply as TO make the fish seek deep
water he began 70 give his skunks diet
of raw rabbits. For few weeks they did
very well, and then they developed canni
balistic tastes and started in to eat one
another, until half of his herd had been
killed and devoured by the other half
This spring he raised about 400 young
skunks, all of which did we'll He wa;
hoping to retrieve his ill fortune and get
rich in few years, and had good ground;
for his hope until he saw the fall bulletins
of the fur trade. Skunk skins, which
have been fashionable for ten years, are M
longer in demand, mink, muskrats ano
offers having taken their place The bes
pelts that would bring 50 each year age
are now selling for $3.50 each, and poor
white marked skins are only worth TIT
taking off Skunk oil has gone down :
on the gallon, making rheumatic patient
feel very happy but cutting into the earn
ings of the skunk farm. Soucci could fin,
no profit. He will wait reasonable tim
for somebody to come and buy him out
and then. if he gets no offer, he will xii
of his stock New York sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-06
The Hot Springs,

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For full information apply to agents
Chicago < North Wertern Railway.