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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-02-12
WELLBORN'S PET.

The following extract is part Of
q letter written by Mr.. jeff Well
born, of Arkansa., to the Planters
journal and Published in the last
issue Of that excellent periodical:
Editor Cotton Planters journal.
DEAR SIR; The enclosed photo
graph is of "Jeff Wellborn's Pet"
cotton, with the boss pet in the
middle. JEFF, Jr., is in the picture
to keep skeptics from thinking we
had stolen Jackson's cuts.
This cotton has been paraded
through the political press as
"Jackson's Limbless' or "Mid
African Exotic" of which Mr..
jackson claims to have obtained
the seed from a wandering Eng
lish Jew" who found it growing
wild in central Africa in 1894. 1t
would have been just as plausible
for him to have come before the
public with one of our most noted
cultivated roses, claiming an Afri-
can negro had found it growing IN
the Mississippi swamp in thickets
in such grandeur as was never
beheld by civilization.
There is no more contrast be-
tween the single petal wild rose
and the many times doubled petal
roses of our flower gardens than
there is OF the native wide spread
ing tropical cotton that has no
regular time Of maturing its scat
tering boIls, and this almost an
nual, with its bolls so close and
thickset around the stalk as to
very nearly or quite hide the stalk.
No limbs if planted close, and just
two leaves, no more or less, to
each bunch of bolls and these
leaves drop out as soon as bolls on
same stem are grown, leaving the
open cotton just as seen in photo
graph.
When called on for these photo
graphs, first of November, all the
bottom crop had been picked; that
is why only the top of stalk is
shown here. But this is sufficient
to show that jackson Limbless"
or "Mid-African Exotic" and
'Wellborn's Pet" cotton is one
and the same.
As | ante-date Mr.. jackson by |
dozen years | claim my priority |
precedes Mr.. Jackson's Mid-Afri-
can wandering Jew claim, all q
fake to obtain money under false
pretenses, knowing as he must, if
he ever read the agricultural pa
pers of the South, between the |
dates Of 1885 and 1898, or the cot |
ton seed advertisements il them, |
the overflow on Red river in 1892 !
destroyed our entire crop except a
little patch in the garden is why it
was dropped from the advertising
columns. Since then have not had
he seed to justify more than local
9r circular advertising), that he is
,rying to palm off on the public an
I'D well established variety, for
which he is asking $1.00 per 100
/ o. seeds, for which amount
my seedman will mail FIVE pounds,
,r sell a bushel for what he asks
or one ounce.
According to its special price
ist the cost of the seed, as sold by
he jackson Limbless Cotton"
PEOPLE, is as follows; 100 seed SOC;
100 seed $1.0O; 900 seed $500; 1
,ound seed 800; s pounds seed
5000. The Georgia Experiment
station pronounces the cotton to
'e Wellborn's Pet; Mr.. Wellborn
Iimself denounces the fake, and it
S time intelligent men should stop
nd think before thev pay the
'ackson men $500 q pound for
otton seed which are not worth
yer 30 cents.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-02-12

The village of Shell Mound now
has an artesian well, 426 feet in
depth, which throws out $50 gal
Ions of water per minute, forcing
the stream of water s5 feet above
the surface. .-Quitman Quill.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-02-12

!. Boats pass GreenYille, two
HsaA zach Way, twice = Week
''rndAt and Wednesday. Boats gUing
NJ the river connecting at Memphis,
@irO and st. Louis with all railroads s
steamboat lines diverginR. Careful
tntiOn to way and plantation bust
The right is reserved 70 pass any
Ing deemed unsafe.
Ecnrslon rates now on sale TO Men,
Cairo and st. Louis. with prlvilt ge
Burning by rail. Rooms eng ged for
ooRh or date. Further Information
fInply furnished on Application
J. J HAYS. 0e' erAl Agent
Vlckeburp. u -.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-02-12

1t will be seen that in 1893-94 a
crop Of 7,549.617 bales sold for
ST, 014,3 1916 more than the large
crop of 9,9o1, ,251 bales the next
year; in 1886 a crop of only
7,157, ,346 bales brought s., ,315, ,933
more than the 1901, ,251 crop, and
the crop of s,7S7,954 bales last
year brought S3s,629, $50 more
than was received for 9,901,951
bales marketed in 1694-95.
Such incontestable facts show
what enormous losses the South
has sustained by over-production
of cotton, and are sufficient to
cause q marked reduction in acre
age this year.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-02-12
OVER-PRoDUCTION AND LOSS.

Inc IOllOWlnR interesting auo
useful statistics are taken from .
letter of Latham, Alexander & Co. g,
dated January 10th, 1898, and
their accuracy may be relied on;
The total cotton crop of 1S95-9G
was 7,157,346 bales, and it was
sold at the average price of 500
cents per pound, or $40. 50 per bale
according to the record Of exports
and the official figures of the Bur
eau of Statistics at Washington.
The planters that year made large
food crops, and when the planting
season the next year began, they
were fortified with every requisite
to produce cotton cheaply,
Last year the total crop was
S,767, 964 bales, and the average
price was 7.42 cents per pound, or
S37.4O per bale, the crop yielding,
perhaps, a larger net profit than
for many years, because planters
had few supplies to buy.
The success resulting from the
conservative policy which was
pursued for these two years did
not induce planters to adhere to
that line OF action; on the contrary,
they increased their purchases OF
fertilizers this year, and many of
them drifted back almost to the
all-cotton principle, and planted
the largest cotton acreage ever
known, hoping that the world
would pay renumerstive prices fol
the staple no matter how large the
supply.
The disasterous result of over
planting this year is already shown
by comparison with last year,
when the acreage devoted to cot
ton was decidedly less.
Last year the amount of cotton
marketed to January 1st was
6, 1913, 1872 bales, the average price
realized was 1853 cents per pound
&37,97 per bale, or $242, $50, $50,
This year 1890, ,033 bales were
marketen to January 1st. the aver
age price realized was COS cents
per pound, S3O.s9 per bale, or
1921, 358, 406.
The planters shipped to market
S61, 841 bales of cotton more by
January lst this year than last,
and received from them $21, $50, 944
ess money. In other words, |
owing to the lower price, induced |
by over-production, the people of
he South have lost on cotton ship |
ocd to market by January 1st this
ear, the total value of 861, ,841 |
'ales, namely, $39,724, 1o2 and
i21 ,58O,9 besides, meking q
sranp total loss of $54, ,305, ,046.
To further illustrate the ruinous
fleet of over-planting, we make
he following summary of crops
nd prices:
;RoP. BALES. Av. PRICK. PROCEEDS
s93-94 7.64e,8l7 769 $292, ,o33, 1893
894-95 9,90l ,25l $50 2S9, S.bn4
8o5-99 7.l57 ,346 500 20 ,234, ,4S7
sag W q TIT QH1 7.A9 QlT hA7 REA
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-02-12
Eohhed the Gave.

A startllng incident Of which Mr.,
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subject, is narrated by him as fcllowe;
II was in most dreadful condition.
Ny skin WAS almost yellow, eyes sunk
en-, tongue COATED, pain continually in
back and sides, no sppetite--gradually y
growing weaker day by day, Three
physioians had had given me up
Fortunately, friend advised trying
Electric Bitters, and to my great joy
and surprise, the first bottle made a
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their use for three weeks, and am now
Il well man. know they saved my life
apd robbed the grave OF another No
one should fail to try them. Only 30
cents per bottle at Finlsy's Drug Store
WANTED-To rent Store
Buildingin the Delta, convenient
TO shipping point, Address, j, B.
,cS u yssas UalA
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-21
ADVERTISEMENTS.

A woman's greatest mission in this world Is to help baby. Teaching baby to eat, and to walk and to talk. A rightly constituted woman finds in these her happiest employ ment Too many women miss this happi- ness because of their own ignorance or neg lect No woman should be ignorant of her own physical makeup No woman has the right to neglect the health of those delicate organs of her body upon which depends the life and health and happiness of her chii- dren. The Mosaic command to increase and multiply" was no idle, thoughtles& edict. It was the command of Jehovah. The woman who annuls 1t by neglect of her womanly health commits a crime.
 The best medicine for women is Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It makes a woman capable of performing her duty to herself her husband, her children and man. kind It acts directly upon the organs dis tinctly feminine and makes them strong and vigorous. It does away with the discom- forts of the period preceding motherhood. It makes baby's advent easy and almost painless. It cures all weakness and disease of the distinctly feminine organism.
 In a family of parents and children there is much care many worries, numerous perplexities. But. if sickness comes, everything else Is small beside it. How valuable then Is doctor in the same block, or an experienced neighbor next door How much more t1 Hs s Son the bookshelf It is less expensive than the doc. tor. probably more reliable than the experienced neighbor Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser is the, best thing of this sort ever pub lished It contains I.oos pages of plain talk, and careful illustrations. Many of the pictures are colored and true to nature. Nearly 100 pages are devoted to the diseases of women. There are prescriptions for their cure at home Send sI one cent stamps, to cover the cost of mail5ug sS!>, and get this book FREE in strong manif1a cover. Send 3r one-cent stamps and get 1t in beautiful. substantial, cloth binding. Address Worlds Dis pensaxy Medical AsseSjatior Buffalo N. Y.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-21

board of inquiry. There has been considerable correspondence between Consul General Lee and the palace, but General Lee denies that any further friction or obstacles are placed in the way of investigation.
 Attempts are being made here in certain quarters to excite public feel ing, and the reports sent to some American papers to the effect that the Maine was purposely blown up are doing a great deal of harm and are much deplored by Captain Sigsbee and his officers and the Spanish Govern ment authorities. If the explosion on the Maine, they say, was not acciden- tai, it is time enough to say so when the truth is made known through the reports of expert officials. This is the feeling of the better foreign element here. It Is due to these sensational reports that the Spanish authorities insist on taking part in the investiga- tions below water
 In the meantime the wounded men are receiving every attention. Chap lain Chadwick of the Maine told me tonight that the men said if they died of any complaint 1t would be from gout caused by generous treat ment in the hospitals.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-21

hut bent upon any kind of mischief that will overthrow the existing Government and restore Weyler to power.
 Of course, there are all sorts or r1,rnors in Havana about what Spain would do in case of war with the United States, all based upon the vaporings of rabid weylerisrn. One is that Mexico would be a willing ally of Spain so far as to permit the landing in that coun- try of d Spanish army to invade the United States. Many of the lower class of Mexicans in this city are avowed enemies of the United States and open ly boast of their country's sympathy for the Spanish cause. Another wild scheme has been put in pamphlet form and extensively circulated. It draws a vivid picture of the Spanish army in the interior of Cuba resisting every as sault by the United States. It admits that the Spanish navy might be de- stroyed, but contends that the Spanish army could hold the island indefinitely. Just what the insurgents would be do- ing all this time is not related.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-21
CONDOLENCES FROM
 THE VIZCAYA'S CAPTAIN.
Expresses Deep Sorrow Over the Disaster to the American
 BattIe-Ship


 Disaster to the American
 BattIe-Ship.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 2o.-The Navy Department tonight received the fol- lowing telegram from Captain Sigs- bee:
 Following is the condition of our wounded in Havana hospitals: Apprentice Koebler. slight improvement, condition still very grave.
 Holzer, same.
 Allen, slight improvement. condition grave.
 Heffron, Shea and Mattison, favorable LoftuS, convalescent.
 Cahill, improved but grave.
 Mack, Waters and Webber, favorable. The report on the same subject from Captain Forsythe at Key West says: Maine survivors are in good condition this morning. Surgeon reports wounded doing we'll
 The following telegram was received by Secretary Long from New York: When I arrived at New York I heard of the Maine disaster. We feel very deep sorrow and send our condolences for the dead and their families. EULATE,
 Captain Spanish cruiser Vizcaya. The puDllSned statement that Sena- tor Proctor of Vermont, who is now on his way to Florida, was going to the interior of Cuba, as a special agent of President Mckinley to report on the conditions on the island, was denied tonight at the White House. It was said that Senator Proctor had not even decided that he would go to Cuba; that he might take a pleasure trip that far, if he succeeded in finding some con- genial companion. but his visit, if made, would be entirely on his own responsibility.
 The Machias, en route for the United States from the Asatic station, has arrived at Madeira
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-21
EXCITEMENT IN HAVANA
 HAS NOT YET ABATED.
Report of the Coming of Another Man-of- War Adds to the
 High Tension.
Copyright. 1898. by James Gordon Bennett.

Copyright 1898. by James Gordon Bennett.
 HAVANA, Feb. 2O.-The reports that another man-of-war is coming to Havana are not calculated to quiet the feeling here.
 Efforts will be made to recover the bodies of Lieutenants Jenkins and Mer- ritt, supposed to be in the wardroom of the Maine. as soon as the diving lamp arrives. Several more bodies have foated to the surface. but they cannot be Identified. i. Captaip Sigshee and the officers pf
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-21
CIPHER AND CODE OF
 THE MAINE RECOVERED.
Divers Make Thorough Examina- tion of Captain Sigsbee's
 Cabin

Copyrighted 1898, by James Gordon Bennett
 HAVANA. Feb. 20.-The divers to- day confined their explorations to the captains cabin and have recovered important ships papers. among them, 1t Is believed. the cipher and code which Captain Sigsbee was anxious to secure It is said they have not ex- amined any other part of the ship. No bodies were recovered this afternoon
 Captain Sigsbee, with the other off, cers of the Maine. went aboard the wreck to-day and made investiga- tions to enable them to report to the
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-21

Brazil Expresses Sympathy. 1898. by James Gordon Bennett. BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 20-A cable
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-21
Havana Harbor Planted by Weyler With Tor
 pedOes and Mines.
One of the Butchers Officers Told of Arrangements to Blow Up Any Hostile Warship That
 Might Dare Enter.
Copyrighted. 1898. by James Gordon Bennett

gineers entrusted with the most recent Notifications of the harbor had fully considered this question and had arranged that if vessel ever did enter the harbor she should be blown up at once. This explains the seemingly unprotect- ed condition of the bay and har. Dor.
 I am satisfied that my information is correct. All the information about these mines was so carefully guarded that Lieutenant Jenkins, the fll-fated intelIf- gence officer of the Maine, was really uncertain as to their presence, and so expressed himself to several friends in Havana.
 There is no disposition here to jump at conclusions, and even those who hold the opinion that the Maine was blown up by a mine do not believe the au- thorities were party in the most re- mote way to the diabolical act They do believe. however, that if their worst fears prove true, it will be found to be the work of fanatical Weylerite, who has two purposes in view: First, to oIA AhO o Oio" Ae Iiic CHi.cu otdleS, SeC- ond, to embarrass General Blanco. Many of those who formerly held the secrets of the submarine mines were strong partisans of Weyler.
 They were the ones who recently or ganized disturbances in Havana against the present Government, and who are now secretly circulating small transparent cards upon which is printed a portrait of Weyler. and when held to the light show picture of Don Carlos hey are not only traitors to their king,
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-21

from the Herald's correspondent in Rio Janeiro says: The Brazilian Govern ment has forwarded a message to Washington expressing its sympathy with the United States in the loss of the Maine and it's crew in Havana har- bor.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-21
Believes That a Spaniard Blew Up the Ship
 Maine.
Even Conservative Naval Officers Say That the Explosion Was Caused by a Mine OF a
 Torpedo.

the Maine look upon the charges of lack of discipline published here as too foolish to reply to. I can state of my own knowledge that the discipline on the Maine has been most rigid since the ship has been here.
 At the time of the accident only one paymaster, clerk and a doctor were ashore.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-21
Partial Examination of the Maine s Magazine Said to Reveal the Fact That the One Supposed to
 Have Exploded Is Intact.
Copyrighted. 1898. by James Gordon Bennett.

WEST, FLA. behalf btp made preliminary seem the Maine the divers that the which supposed to have occurred is intact
 informant the contents of this magazine unhaed Therefore explosion which brought death destruction the Maine This reaching the
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-21

g HAVANA, Feb. 2o.-I have $ e5 learned from the highest author q s ity that no matter what may g 9S have been the cause of the ter S S rible catastrophe to the Maine, s & the harbor of Havana is and has $ g been for a long time filled with q eS submarine mines and torpedoes. q sS While this fact has been sus- s eS pected, but few army and navy q g officers have any definite idea of si eS the location or number of these c, s mines. Before the present in oi g surrection broke out visitors to g S Qualifications. now closed to all si Ss excepting the army. were in- 2. ss formed that a most effective sys- s. s3 tenn of mines had been planted, cs sS ansz thnt they could be exploded Ss a by means of electric connections s e3 from stations on shore. At the ss es outbreak of the war the greatest ea eS secrecy was imposed upon those $ e8 having these mines under their s; sS supervision, and their presence s, s2 was forgotten by the public in ei s general. s,
 When it was rumOred that United States war vessel would be stationed in the harbor. the attention of one ot General Weyler's aid-de-camps was called to the fact that all of the large shore batteries guarding the entrance to the harbor could only be directed against an enemy in open sea, and that if a warship succeeded in running past the forts and entering the harbor, the entire city would be at it's mercy.
 The officer replied that the en-
Arizona republican., 1898-11-29

States grand jury. They wanted to
 satisfy the law, but could not for want
 of money. A month ago Alvarez man. aged to get marriage license, but
 scheme as he would he never could get
 enough money together to pay for the performance of the ceremony. But yesterday the grand jury sat and what was done must be done quickly. It
 was either matrimony or Yuma. The state Of the case was laid before Jus tice Johnstone, who agreed to marry the pair for nothing. It was done and they went out snapping their fingers at the law.
 BARELY SAVED.- Ed Hudson, a young man who enlisted with Col. Mo Cords regiment, has just returned from Prescott, where he has been con- fined in a hospital since before the departure of the regiment. He has made application for his discharge. He attributes the happy circumstance that he is alive to his removal 10 the Sis ters' hospital from the care of the regimcntal surgeon who was ordered east. Hudson believes that he would have been in the hereafter if the sur
 geon had stayed there much longer. As an illustration of the management of tne military hospital Hudson says that a soldier who had been injured by falling from a car had his leg ampu- tated. After he had recovered from the operation so that he could hobble about on crutches he one day came upon his amputated limb in a pile of garbage where it had been thrown.
 HOBOS IN COURT There was a varied assortment of hobos in police court yesterday. Among them was man who said he was . carpenter and proved it, in search of work. He said that when the war broke out he left Fl Paso for Mare Island navy yard. He was given No. 800 and something in the list of applicants for work. Before his number was reached peace unfOr- tunately set in. He had $240 when ne left Fl Paso, but it was melting away rapidly. When he started cas- again he had S19. Then his hoDo eH- perience began. The farther he trav eled the more travelling companions he had Tn order to keep on good terms with them he bought supplies for them and came to be regarded as a kind of kIng bee He had a little money left when he was arrested He was dis charged There was another member Of the parry who was in need of shoes and was even willing to work for them. He was so situated that he could not wear cast off shoes. His size is No. F, an unusual variety.
Arizona republican., 1898-11-29
PERSONAL MENTION

Robert Mullen of EmpoIia, Kan, is a guest of the Ford.
 r. E. Arno of Tucson is in town stopping at the Ford.
 E. Stein of Keokuk, la, arrived at the Hotel Adams last night.
 Miss Alice Mann Of Peoria was at the Commercial yesterday.
 MT. James Conley. wife and child are guests at the Hardwick notel.
 United States Marshal Griffith is in town attending federal court
 c. F. Putnam of Tempe was in town yesterday, a guest of the Commercial.
 United States Attorney Morrison came in on Sunday night from Pres cott
 Nose Dracnman Jeff on Sunday night for La Paz. Lower California, on min ing business.
 Mrs. c. J. Nean came in from Con gress last night She is a guest Of the Hotel Adams.
 H. J Sisty, the mining man, returned last night from Kirkland. He is at the Hotel Adams.
 T. A. McCullagh cf Los Angeles came in from the north last night. He is at the Commercial.
 Mrs w D. Strode of Winchester, Ky, came in from the south yesterday morning on visit to her daughter Mrs. " L. Clark. She will remain in the city during the winter.
 The San Francisco Chronicle of last Saturday notes the arrival there oT Governor Murphy to attend the cere- mony of the launching of the battle ship Wisconsin.
 Judge W. H. Barnes, who has been in the northern part of the territory on mining and legal business for the past week, arrived at the Ford on Sun day night. He left last night for his home at Tucson.
 R. Rich and wife of San Francisco are recent arrivals in Phoenix They are stopping at the Ford. MT. Rich is a mining man and will look into the mineral resources of the territory while here.
 Harry McFnaul, q former citizen Of Gila Bend, but now a resident of Yuma, is in own as a federal grand jury man. MT. McPhaul believes that in few years Yuma will be a close second to Phoenix. and in a few more years Phoenix will be a close second to Yuma.