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NO.. 10.

gentleman l could not resort TO such ,
vulgar weapon. Indeed, sab, as a gen.
tleman l could not fight at all with .
person who resorted to such practices.
turned my back on him, san--turned
my back and walked OF the field and
denied that / had ever heard his name.
went further. sab. Az a prominent
member of the senate my honah for
bade me further relations with the gov
ernor. and promptly packed up my
belongings and went home for the rest
Of the session. My purge bill was
dead, of co'se, and was no longer On
hand to defend IL, but the day may
come, sah--the day may come"
when, what, Kurnel?" asked.
He looked mournfully at his empty
s1sss and famed himself with his hat.
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declare that had apparently outlived
my usefulness. OF co'se waited upon
him without delay. No gentleman
ever procrastinates in such matters.
Our greeting was courteous, and the
smile never faded from the gentle
mans face as said:
'Befo' attacking me as you did this
afternoon you must have figured on
the consequences and are thereto
ready to accord me satisfaction
"'With the greatest of pleasure,
sah,' he replied, and a meeting was
speedily arranged for sunrise. l slept
like a babe that night and was ON
the ground at sunrise. The Hon. was
only trifie behind me, but there was
wide difference between us, sah--a
wide difference. While I had an ex-
ultant feeling, bon of the Arm belief
that he would fall at my fire, he was
shaky and i'll at case, and l think he
had a presentiment that death stalked
at his side. A fine orator and a gal
liant man was the Hon. Jordon Jones.
but not of the stuff of which warriors
are made. Egad, sab, but l never
think of him except in sorrow. We
had taken our. places and the word
was about to be given, when what did
he do but fall dead of heart trouble
throw up his hands and fall like a
log! That ended the affair, of co'se.
No gentleman ever fights duel with
dead man. should have killed him,
but I reckon it was better as it was.
Should person of color be visible
from your standpoint you might place
me under renewed obligations"
He was promptly and duly placed,
and after an interval of ten minutes
he returned to the subject in hand by
saying:
"As I conscientiously believed that
my bill was for the best interests of the
commonwealth, pushed it as vigor-
ously as could. There were opponents
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BY M. QUAD.

Very fair. sah-very fail for this sea.
son of the year." said Kurnel Bunker,
as he drained his glass and set it on the
railing of the veranda. "And now, sab,
you want to hear about what was called
'Kurnel Bunker's Purge BILL which
would have made paradise of the state
of Arkansaw had it become law. The
state of Arkansaw, sab, as you may
have observed, is the natural home Of
the mosquito, the gallinipper and sew
eral varieties of flies. 1t has been my
proud boast, and the proud boast of
other prominent residents of the state,
that only within the confines of the
state does the horse-fy reach a lux
uriant extravaganza of growth. Here
he passes the fiy-stage at the age Of
four weeks and becomes rather a bird
of prey. Here you find the gallinipper
at his best--here the mosquito would
be able to pull down young chicken if
the summer lasted a month longer. In
a way, sab. as showing what nature can
do and does for us, speak of these in
sects with pride; but on the other hand
am compelled to realize that they are
drawback to civilization and progress.
1t was for this reason that introduced
the. celebrated Purge Bill. OF co'se you
saw it referred to in the press at the
time?"
He waited for me to reply, but / was
so long about it that he bestowed a
glance of pity and continued:
After extensive reading and many
experiments l framed and introduced
my bill. have several printed copies
at home, and will mail you one to-mor-
row. The bill, sab, provided for the
purchase and use of $1,0O0,000 worth of
chloride of lime. Ten thousand persons
We're TO be appointed to scatter the
stuff throughout the swamps and
lagoons of the state. The idea was to
disinfect and annihilate at the same
time In my experiments, public and
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ExcELS MARc0NI SYSTEM
less Messages Between Two Kites
without . Battery.

Marconi's is not the only telegraphy
that will send messages without wires.
According to w. A. Eddy, the kite ex-
pert of Bayonne, N. j.. it is equally easy
to accomplish the same result with
wires fastened to two ordinary kites.
Mr.. Eddy believes that il the two
poles of sending and reception extend
high enough into the air enough elec-
tricity will be generated from the at
mosphere to do away with the storage
batteries and complicated telegraph in
struments used by Marconi. :
kite was raised to height Of 600
feet. Four hundred feet away another
wire Of the same length was attached
to two kites, fastened to the main wire
in sort of a V-shaped branch. No bat
terry or electrical apparatus Of any kind
was connected with the kites.
Mr.. Eddy took his place at the single
wire kite. He made the connection be-
tween it and the ground, and instantly
shock was felt by his assistant on the
other wire 400 feet away.
Mr.. Eddy brought the shifting hook
against the wire with short, irregular
blows, something like telegrapher's
clicks. They were all felt by his assoc
ciate at the other wire. 1t took ten
seconds :or each blow on the single
kite wire to pass up to the kite, shoot
of through space and come down on tho
double kite wire.
With telegrapher's instruments OF
only ordinary delicacy Mr.. Eddy is con-
fident a message could be made to travel
in much less time.
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zszN 81!
PIG-IRoN PRoDUCED-ToNs.

1881. 1899.
$4,000. $500, 600
ton have during the last few years built
branch mills, costing from $500,000 to
S1,000,000 each, in the south; and now
one of New England's greatest corpora
tions is spending s2,5oo.ooo in building
in Alabama what will be the largest cot
ton mill ever constructed as a single
enterprise. The recent advance in the
price of cotton is bringing prosperity
to the farmers, and il it holds for the
balance of the season will mean $7s,-
100000 more to them than they received
for last years crop.
In diversified interests the same story
of progress and prosperity runs. The
Newport News shipyard. with over $1o,-
600. 900 of work under contract. includ-
ing two steamers of about 10000 tons
each for the Pacific trade. the largest
ever built in America, is said to be EN-,
ploying more hands than even the
Cramps; the Richmond locomotive
works are competing with the Baldwins
in exporting locomotives; the Mary
land Steel company has been furnishing
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by the dozen. Some brought over to
my way of thinking by argument and
experiment, and some called out. /
cannot recall at this moment that any
of the duels resulted fatally, but at
least few of them must have, and as
l am here alive and well to-day it must
naturally follow that the other parties
sleep in honored graves. That bill
would have gone through a-fiying with
an appropriation of $4,000, but had
introduced it according to war tactics
crush your enemy with one blow. The
idea was to make such wholesale at
tack all along the line that the pesky
insects would be knocked out in day.
l made the fight of my life on that bill,
sah-the fight of my life. On one occa-
sion l spoke for fo'teen hours on a
stretch, and on another IL. II my
memory serves me right issued nine
challenges and accepted six. / made
~ set speeches, won over 22 weekly pa
pers and adjourned the senate eight diff
ferent times when the opposition had
fixed things TO down me. At length l
came to know the head and front of the
opposition was the governor himself,
and that he had used certain disparag-
ing remarks of a personal nature. /
called on him at IL o'clock at night.
He refused to come down and open the
doah, but stuck his head out of a cham
ber window and asked my business.
Governor says l, lis the report
that yon have referred to me as a
visionary noodle-head correct?'
at is he promptly replied.
"'Will you give me satisfaction
az will
"'Can hope to greet you on the field
of honah at sunriseY
"'You can; and now get out or Til
whistle for the police!'
THAT was the sort Of governor We
had. sah." explained the Kurnel in an
injured tone, "and il may not surprise
you to hear that he reached the duel
ing ground next morning with a crow
bar on his shoulder. Yes, sah--come to
fight a duel with nigger's crow-bar,
and he was even abusive about IL! A. Q
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FORREST CITY, ARK. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER l. 1899


Possessing one-balf of the sanding
timber of the United States, the south
is building up immense lumber and
woodworking interests, and throughout
the entire lumber regions business is az
prosperous as in the iron districts.
Cotton IL stilI King.
Though the value of the grain now
raised in that section exceeds on the
farm the value of the cotton crop, cot
ton is still the dominant power in the
business life of the south. No other
country has such a monopoly of any ag-
ricultural staple of such worldwide in
huence as the south has of cotton. Cot
ton and cotton seed bring to southern
farmers an average of $500, 100000 .
year. The comparatively new indus
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CAPITAL IN COTTON-SEED-OI MAN
UFACTURE


UFACTURE.
1880 1899
81. SOC, 900. $4,000 900
be the case, the output of southern iron
in 1900 promises to be nearly so per
cent. larger than ever before. The de-
mand for coal exceeds the production,
though that is now at the rate of 40,-
100000 tons a year. There is almost
feverish activity in enlarging the out
put of old mines, in opening new ones,
and in building coke ovens; for a
ready demand meets every ton pro-
duced, with a profit that makes glad
the stockholders.
The Phosphate Industry.
Turning from iron and coal, with the
almost fabulous profits which they are
yielding, to other industries, phosphate
mining looms into prominence. Up to
ten years ago South Carolina was the
only American source of phosphate
rock and our fertilizer factories. as we'll
as those of Europe, had to depend upon
the few hundred thousand tons which
that state annually produced. Then it
was discovered that Florida had vast
phosphate beds, and soon that state sur
passed South Carolina in this ndustry.
Two or three years later similar discov-
cries were made in Tennessee. and the
mining activity which has followed re-
minds one of the tales of development
in new gold regions. Ten years ago
the south's output of phosphate rock
was not more than 100000 tons; this
year it will be 2.000.0 900 tons. What
this means in the diversification and
improvement of agricultural conditions
is too broad . subject for treatment
here.
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oIrON CONSUMPTION IN SOUTH
&,oeo ERN MILLS-BALES
rss0 1s9s-99.
R''eee. 1883. 900.
war and reconstruction trials, there
anne the worldwide financial panic
oiiowing the Barring failure. The
outh, suddenly brought down from
IS dizzy speculative height, had1o face
ew conditions. The business world
|ecognized that the supreme test of the
outh's inherent advantages and posi-
Pilities had come. 1t faced the situation
rits iron masters steadily reduced the
ost OF iron making until furnaces
inch had been turning out eight and
ine-doilar iron were able to produce
aN-dollar iron: its cotton mill owners
Fiseiy abandoned old machinery. and,
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WAGES PAID TO FACTORY-HANDS.
1885, 1899
s75, 900. ss5o.oOO,Ooo
|3ron- consuming center, and from this
position it could not be dislojged.
About the same time southern cotton
mills were forcing their product into
successful competition with the output
[of New England mills. But as Penn
Esylvania iron and steel people took ref
hge in the claim that the south would
never advance beyond the iron-making
ktage, that it could never become fac
Tor in the higher forms of finished
FOODS and in steel making, so the New
England mills lulled themselves into
y sense of security on the claim tina,
Enough southern mills might make
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spINDI.Es IN coTroNu11

1885, 1899
$4,000. 5000. 900.
great test, which came SO unexpected
ly, in a way that strengthened the
worlds confidence. 1t not only held
its own during this period, but its iron
makers entered foreign markets, and
demonstrated that the south could die
tate the price of iron for the world.
Alabama iron set the price in England
and on the continent, as well as in
Japan, and even from Jerusalem came
an order for it. This marked a revolu-
tion in the worlds iron and steel in
terests. Henceforth the world was The
market for southern iron. When this
point had been reached, the next step
was to build steel works commensurate
with what had been accomplished in
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why He Could Afford II.

Dick-How neat Tom always i'll His
linen always looks as If it had jusfcoms
out of the drawer. And yet am told
that Tom can't get the money together
to pay his laundry bill.
Jack-That's the reason he can put
on a clean collar every day. He couIdn't
do it If he had to pay for his washing
Boston Transcript.
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4
1880. 1859
81, 900 900. 736 90, ,0oo.
koarse goods, they could never acquire
the skill and the capital needed for
The finer goods. In the light of what
Ass-been accomplished within ten years,
I seems very strange that such argu-
nents as these should have done duty
IN SO many newspapers and in SO many
public gatherings.
A Prophecy.
Judge Kelley-"Pig-Iron Kelley" as
De was familiarly known-has been
wiser than his people. Nearly 20 years
ago he proclaimed the coming power
|of the south in all industrial pursuits,
md heralded il not as disaster to Penn
Pylvania and to New England, but as
|an added strength to the industrial
power Of the country. "The Develop
ment of the SOUTH" said he, means
the enrichment of the nation" In this
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~ T'~eaa' >
Published by Permissien.l
BY r. H. EDMONDS
From HApe's Weekly Copyright, Isss BY Hs,,e 6, Bss.,
An Rights Rxs<rvee.

Ten years ago the south fought its
first skirmish in the endless battle that
ever RACES for the worlds commercial
supremacy. Its pig iron entered the
markets so long dominated by Penn
Esylvania furnaces, and, to the dismay
of those who had affected to despise it's
rivalry, won a substantial victory. Ala
hama iron became q factor in every
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1888.
s125.00.00o.

steelrails for Russia's Siberian railroad,
for Australia and other distant regions;
Alabama coke has gone to Japan, and
the export of both coke and iron Is only
limited by the fact that the home de.
mand now exceeds the supply.
The south's story In statistics.
Statistics are often uninteresting, but
the story of the south's progress cannot
be told more clearly than in the COM
parative illustrations scattered through
this article, in which reliable estimates
are given where exact figures are not
obtainable.
Surveying the whole southern situa
ton. what has been done and what ID
under way. IL can be truly said that
"all's we'll"
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"Your honor" said the learned ooun-
eel in concluding his address, I'VE win
now rest"
$50 will the court" replied the judge,
with sigh of relief.--Chicago Post.
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Nearly Correct.

Teacher-What's the meaning Of "ele
cution," Harold?
Pupil-Its the way people are put 4
death In some states.-Puck
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equipping their mills with every mod
ern improvement, drove them to their
utmost capacity night and day, in or
der to double the output on their in
vested capital and proportionately re-
duce the cost of goods: its cotton plant
ers, who had kept their corn cribs and
smoke kehouses in the west, buying in the
aggregate about 100000, 900 worth a
year of western corn and bacon, COM
menced to raise their own food supplies,
and in this way, returning to the ante
bellum system, reduced the cost of
raising cotton. While these changes,
all revolutionary in their character,
were in progress, the small bankrupt
railroad lines were brought into COM
pact systems, new and heavier rails laid,
rolling stock increased, and necessary
extensions made.
Iron and Coal.
Thus the south passed through the
long period of depression, standing the
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and long before that point could be
reached, even at the present rapid
growth, the world will ann ually require
of this section from 25,0OO, 900 to 30,-
100000 bales. In 1880 the south started
on its cotton mill development with q
basis of 667,ooo spindles, representing
a capital of $21,000,000. By 1890 it had
SCI, 100000 capital in this industry and
100000 spindles. To-day it has 5,O0O,.
600 spindles and about $125, ,000, 900 Of
capital invested in cotton mills, while
mills under construction represent
about $25.oOO,0o0 more. The most sig
nificant sign of the times in this indus
try is that New England mill owners,
recognizing that the south is bound 20
win, are transferring large capital t.
southern mills. A number of the lead.
ing mill companies of the former Sec
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TURING.
1880. 1899
$257. .00o.o 900. 1900 00O. 900.
iron-making; and to-day two gigantic
plants-one to make steel billets, and
the other to make finished steel prod
ucts-are nearing completion at Bir-
mingham. They have cost about ST.
100000. They have already booked
heavy orders for steel b;llets for ship
ment to Pittsburgh. A number of fur
naces built during the boom of 1sS9-90,
and which have been idle ever since,
have lately been bought by strong
companies, ard are now being put into
blast. With every furnace crowded 10
its utnost capacity, which will soon
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-02
SAN FRANCISCO CALL.

BUSINESS OFFICE OF the San Francisco
Can, corner of Market and Third streets. open
rntiI=l2 o'clock every night in the year.
BRANCH. OFFFCES-527 Montgomery street.
corner Clay: open until $3.50 o'clock
2S7 Hayes street: open until $50 o'clock
G21 NfcAnister street; open until $50 o'clock.
Gl5 Larkin street.. open until $3.50 O'Clock.
1871 Mission street; open until 10 o'clock.
g2sl Market street corner sixteenth; open
until o'clock
100 Eleventh street; open until o'clock.
252s Mission street; open until o'clock
NV. corner Of Twenty second and Kentucky
.t-eats. nren until 9 q cl6ck.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-02

THEOSOPHICAL -Society-Puhic lecture to-
night at o'clock In Odd Fellows building by
VIII e. Bailey; subject, The Risen Christ
Special music Lotus circle for children in
LuLLding II h-2l n clnnL- - :.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-02

Brotherhood CThe Tbe9sophicai
Society in America SIG Market st-Lecture
tonight, Mental and Physical HeTedity,"
by. DIT. Allen Grifhths Tuesday night .:Ob-
ject OF; Crusades'; Saturday night, The
StruEsle. for Existence"
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-02

FRIENDS meeting at Swarthnore Hall, Har-
risoB ST bet First and Second every Sab
hath at il O'Clock Hannah Bailey of Maine.
who has a national reputation in ". C T L.
work also Alice Barnes OF Montana and other
Friends from Philadelphia are to be present
TO-DAY VIII you come? Friends union Sun
day school al Sunshine Hail. 9S4 Harrison St,
at.3 D. m. Easter exercises.
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MEETING NorIoEs-continued.

NOTICE is hereby given by order of the Board
Of Directors OF the OCEANIC STEAMSHIP
CoMPANY that meeting of the Stockholders
Of said Company has been called by said
Board. to be held on FRIDAY. the second day
OF June, A. u. 1899 at eleven O clock in the
forenoon of said day, at the principal place Of
business of said Company. at the building
where the said Board of Directors usually
meets, namely, at the office Of said Company.
number 327 Market st, in the City and County
OF san Francisco, State of California; that
the object of said meeting is 10 consider and
act upon the proposition that said Company
create bonded indebtedness of two million
five hundred thousand dollars (s2 500. 900 CO., in
United States gold coin; for the purpose of
Of its steamships and their equipment for
use in the business of this corporation. and
to purchase and pay for any other property
within the purposes OF this Company and to
secure the bonded Indebtedness so proposed
10 he created by a mortgage upon its steam
and sailing ships and all other property of
said Company now owned or hereafter to be
acquired. by said Company.
BY order of the Beard Of Directors OF the
Oceanic Steamship Company.
corporate Seal.l e H. SHELDON.
Secretary OF the Oceanic Steamship Com
pany.
MEET to-day at UNCLE HARRIS, 15 Grant
LA
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PERSONALS.

CENT? EMAN of refinement and generosity,
independently wealthy, seeks wife to love. and
cherish Commodore, box A. 1882 Third
ave, New York.
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HELP w .NrLo-oontinued.

MAN who understands florist business. 5Ot
Haight ST.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-02

ST. ALBANS Church Episcopal, Golden
Gate Hail. e25 Suffer st.-Morning service at
2ll5. sunday school at 10 a NJ Easter sun
erlllA welcome
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-02

THE First Divine Science Church-M f. era
mer. pastor: Discourse at Il a. m; subject.
Resurrection OF the Body" Services every
Sunday in Yosemite Hall, Native Sons build
ing ,take elevstor), -. Mason st, bet. Geary
and Post.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-02

AT the. Strangers Sabbath Home. CAB Howard
ST lMathodist Episcopal church,. bet. Second
and t.Third-John A. B Wilson. d, pastor;
residence by the church; telephone Black s61
II a. IN. Easter celebration by the Sunday
school,. chorus Of 200 voices. 1880 ?. m, full
musical programme; sermon on The Resur-
rection and Its Purposes Seats free. All
always welcome.
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BELLE-Come home; all will be well; If in
need write; all waiting anxiousy
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-02

ASSOCIATIONS Audit0riunn, Mason and .kIIis
sts.-This afternoon at 5 o'clock, Union mass
meeting, open free to both men and women.
Address by Rev. G. c. Herriott on Study
of the Bible by Books" Next Tuesday even
ing at S o'clock the Union Bible Glass for the
systerflatic study cf. the English Bible viii
he organized at the Association building; open
free to. both men and women. All are in
vited TO Join this class. Professor J. II
Goodell. instructor in the study of the Eng
lish Bible at the Pacific Theological Semi
nary, viii meet with the class
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-02

Church Of Jesus Christ, 500
Post st.-This church was organized in 1880
by. command of God as the opening Of the
.'dispsusation of The fullness of times - TO
declare the everlasting gospel in the hour
of Gods Judgment Preaching II a. m
subject Jesus Christ and His Resurrec-
ton Preaching 7:30 p. m
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FiESr CONGREGATIONAL Church, corner Post
and Mason sts.-Rev. George Z. Adams, D. D;
pastor viii preach an Easter sermon at II
a. m theme Risen With Christ Special
rlusic Samuel .. MAYER, organst and choir
master. Al 1880 o. m an Easter Knights
Tempiar and praise service California Sonl-
present. Sermon by the pastor; theme. DE
liNered Out OF the Power Of Darkness.