The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-09-15
NEVER SAW SUCH COTTON
GECRG ALMfZE0 6Y = NV MlD-aF-
RIC2h P-Ah-7.
StcTy fre AL n;~ ,hst Resd- Like 3
Fake, and Uhj,h ". Publish for "hat
It's H,1;h-A Gr.a, Thir z Il rIu,

= Stc1y fre NJ AL n'~ that Kesd- Like p
Fake, and uli,h W. Publish for What
lt,sW,1;h-A Gr.ss 1hir Il r1u-
The AOsnta ccr1ssp nden. Ct TIE
New Yo?k Sur ssys: Ii hss heen lsft
10 Adclph Kyle, 50 Eue};sh Jew, vito
is row, if alive, IL tie hlc1dyse Re
eion, TO revo]utior;z5 cottor growing
in the South, 10 charge tie r1ethcd oi
Production OF tre creates morey crop
in the worl6, that brius $S6, ,0GG, 00o
anruslly to tie producers ASIDE from
what accrues 20 the transportation
companies, tue factors, dealers IN fp-
tures, manufscturels, aDd nerch2nts
From few sesG brought from the
heart OF Eouatorisl Africa three years
ago enough cct!oD has been sro1n to
prove beyond 8 onubs that be has bseD
lbe means Of Sclcing tbe problem O.
profitable prediction, which has !oHe
puzzled the political economists OF The
country. IN spite CT ajl that has Sseo
said and written the f2ct Is s&!j patent
TO the thiaBing man itat cotton is
still Sing in tie South, and the conc
meTcial nor arch IS mere firmly seated
on his .thrcne ttsp ever before IN the
history Of the world
One Cay in the ausumn Of 1884 a
fraVe'er, brcn zed ard bearded from
the effects of the tropical sun and s
lcng sea voysge, about IS years cid,
robust and sinewy, sigre6 ''A6o!ph
Kyle, England on the hotel register
at the Kim ball House sud ordered his
somewhat cum brous luggage csrrieo
to his room. He was soon surrounded
by q crowd CT curious colocelS, who
we.e ar xicus to learn what particular
brand OF spirits he sfecttd, ard, i1ci
dshtally, something Of his anteceoents
ard whether or not ne had shy spare
cash to invest in suburban lots or min
ing schemes,
Partly through natural garrulity
and partly through desire to erati!y
the manifest curiosity OF the colonelS,
he began to relate SCRAPS Of bis aGyen.
lures among the junales OF Central
Africa and of tee remarkable sights
and scents that came under his obSer
vation. BE reesled them with hunting
stories, isles of the slave trade, which
made their mouths run water, and Of
the wonderful vegetable productions
of that region of eternal summer.
In December, 1892, I joined par
ty Of prospectors," said he, ''ano we
set out on tour CT exploration to the
country Of the Congo. It was an ard
uous undertaking, full Of perils> and
privations, but Te were all young In
Iishmen who had started out 10 seek
our fortunes, AID we had 81 to win
and little to lose, and for many months
we wandered about the iuugles OF
Central Africa, meeting with the sav
age tribes ard passing through strange
scenes innumeraole, such as may b=
seen only in that wonderful lard.
''One day aloDg in 1898 We pitched
cur camp OF the outskirts Of an Am
can village, shout twenty miles south
of the "a lator and 1000 miles from
the ccsst. I observed growing near
the camp a thicket of enormous cot
ton plants, twenty feet and ever IN
heie and covered from bottom to
top with snowy poGs and blossoms
It attracted my attention because OF
the abundance OF the plant, which was
limbless and bore its pods at the base
of the big, broad, fig like leaves and
only 8 few inches from the stem Of
the plaat, which shot straight 10 from
the ground s1d appeared likeaEoung
tree. per as n.
IT tried ;c learn OF the mark we bu.
use, if any, they made Of it, VINO are
seemed utterly ignorant OF its utility
I bad seen cotton growing in Egypt,
and the similarity Of the plants caus-
ed me to think TO myself that il this
plant could be introduced into civil
iz:d Gotten growing country >apd could
be made to grow as luxuriantly and
fruit as abundantly as it did there in
the primeval wilds, it would make the
fortune of the man who introduced 1t.
81 cut off section OF the plant that
had more than six hundred pods on i.
by actual court, and was more than
twenty feet in height. The section
was about eighteen inches long, and
had sixty five pods open on il, and /
carried It away samong my luggage as
curiosity. At first I carefully wrap
ped it in piece Of antelope skin and
packed it among other souvenirs OF
our wanderings. We were then on
the return journey 10 the coast, and
on the way up we were upset IN q tur
bulent stream by the overturning Of
raft, ard sll our belongings we're
thoroughly saturated.
in drying my cotton stalk l smok
ed it slightly, but I preserved it 10 a
piece of dressed shark skin to protect
it from the salt wster and sir en- the
voyage to the Cape. Arriving there l
did not like the turn stfAirs had TAX
en-, so resolved to visit america
The only relative IN the world that I
know of is in the service OF the 8aff-
ms Bay Company, ard am now on
my way to that part the country IN
search OF hin. I Inherited little
money, and having no home ties /
have resolved to CRAFTY my taste for
travel.
Il noticed in travelling through
this country that your princi pal crop
is cottou. Now I have carried that
piece Of cotton for many months, and
1t has travelled 5000 miles of Land
and sea. so that doubt if the seed
will gerninate; tu: l want to give j!
10 some good fellow, who will expert.
ment with it and sse IL It can be natu
rallied in g c)tton growing country,
where civilized methods CT cultivation
are understood.
There is nan living in this ccun
try who has devoted mapy years tG
the study CT the cotton p]art, salc
one of the colonels, who had heard
the story, and be can tell you III s
few minutes whether 1t can be grove
IN this country or not
Send for MIN ard I will make hin