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Christ the Ideal for Humanity
A SERMON BY REV CHESTER l.. FERRIS OF
 WEST CORNWALL.

Text, John l0 8, "Then came Jesus forth wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pnate saith unto them, Behold the man."
 The supreme question of character ia not what has been the past or what Is the present status, but where do intend to go, what will bend all my energies to become. One may be unable to ward of bankruptcy in business; fires may con- sume or winds scatter the tempOralities of earth; the dearest friends cannot be retained here forever. But in the strug- gle for character and life there need be no failure. Character Is so far independ- ent of the shifting tides of fortune, that by the help of God all iess, yea all ene- mics may be tranformed into serVitors. What one wills to be determines what one shall be, that Is, destiny depends up- on the supreme ideal.
 Ideals compel comparison, they are visions that awaken discOntentment with past and present. New efforts are ever called forth. To him who faints not, each advancing day brings progress, higher attitudes of achievement, but always al- 80, new, sublimer visions with hands beckoninG onward.
 SINCE CHARACTER IS so DIVINE THING that all eternity will be too short to bring 1t to perfection, VIC see the neces- sity of an ideal 80 lofty as to be ever be- yond us; for were 1t attainable, 1t would then cease to be an ideal. There would be cessation of effort, which is stsgna- ton and loss. They must ever on and upward who woull reach the highest peaks. There must ever be flying goal so to speak, or, with new clearness of perception, the ideal must disclose new glorleS, unseen before, that draw us on.
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R 'me, built in the first century of the Christian Era, could accommodate S7, 900 SD ectators. The Pan-Americsn Stadium will be 129 feet longer and but 10 feet narrower than the historic amphitheatre 2 of Rome. The Stadium, however, will have large arena, and the seating g. pacity Is estimated for 25 900 people. The top row of seats will be 60 feet above the ground, and every seat will l command perfect view of the vast in. terier. Standards are to be placed st various points for the support of avn ings in such way that they will not ob- struct the view from the other seats. The Stadium will have quarter mile track and St fficiently large space in- side of this for any of the att letic games. Great attention has been paid to having large number of aisles to reach the seats, and, in addition to the principal entrance on the west, there are provided seven large exits. These exits are made of sufficient breadth and height to admit, n case of need, the largest vehicles or fioats, as it is proposed to use the Ssadi. uu fo- certain psgeants, exhibits, auto mobiles in operation, judging of live stock, horses, agricultural machinery road machinery, etc. No exhibitor has ever had such splendid arena with such exhibition purposes, and is in it. self the equivalent of very large build. ing.
 A large and picturefqu building forms the main entrance to the Stadium. This is 241 feet long by 52 feet wide with towers 164 feet high. The style is 1 in conformity with that of the other buildings, with an arcsded effect in the lower story, red tiled roof, broad cave and bright colors. The old Spanish towers give 8 finished beauty to the structure and make it one of the mos prominent features of the Exposition.
 The Stadium resembles in 8 genera way that erected at Athens few yesrl ago, although this one can be, of course only temporary structure. It is in. tended as a model of what it is hoped may be executed some day in permanent form.
 The Stadium will cover ten acres oi ground and it's situation is on the east side of the Plaza, opposite the Midway It is near the great entrances from the steam and trolley railway station, st the extreme north end of the Exposition gro unds.
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FARMERS RAISE MORE GRlIN AND IMPROVE
 YOUR LAID WITHOUT EXTRA COST.

HOW RAISE JUST AS GOOD CORN FOUR ACRES TO ONE.
 Get out manure on grass ground.
 Spread it SOW on three bushels plaster l to the acre. Flow, cut and cover. Go
 oyer the ridges lepgthwise once with
 chain bush. Plant corn in the bottoms
 of furrows four feet apart diagonal. Now SOW on two bushels of plaster to
 the acre and go over again with chain
 bush and repeat several times until the corn gets too large. No harrows, mark.
 CTS, culttvators, weeders or even hoes
 needed. After the corn gets grown so
 the brace roots run out sidewise into the
 compost ridge the corn will grow very
 fast. Now farmers, ss you have no corn
 to hoe, go out on to your outlying lands
 in May and June and cut and cover all
 the land you can to SOW with rye, after
 having cross blow before narrowing.
 After cross blowing harrow and SOW
 rye. After the middle of August blow
 1t in and go home and leave it lying In
 the furrows so the water will drain of and not winter kill the rye. In the
 spring cross the furrows with 8 wooden
 tooth furrow so as not to break or cut
 the shoots too much and leave the land
 more level for harvest. Sow plaster on rye ground about the same ss on corn.
 Plaster is sn sbsorber and retainer of
 nitrogen taken from the elements, the
 sun, the dew, the air, the rains, and it's
 bene fits are lasting. Don't SOW plaster and phosphate together. My experience
 is that one kills the other. Our ances- tors with the cut and cover system of blowing with the old wooden blow kept
 up the fertility of the soil and raised good crops for 200 years. When we commenced the dead fl 1t system of plow- ing with the iron blows in about 1882 3 the natural fertility of the soil seemed to die out. Dead fl,t blowing for crop is like covering up your wood pile under ground and then dry 1t out and try to burn 1t. After trying to burn it use kerosene but when it was burned out the soggy wood would be left. Just So with phosphate lit will stimulate 8 crop as long as 1t lasts but the dead, flat, soggy ground remains the game. The soil needs drying and seasoning to get the full ben eft out of 1t as much as the wood pile. | No doubt these ideas will be new to | every reader except some old men. am 76 years ell. When I WAS your g, our section wss one vast grain fisld. Every | farmers buildings wss stocked with | grains, corn, rye and oats and some | bnckwheat. There was very little grass and meadows then as there is now but pasture was very abundant. White clov-
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CT, red top and blue grass were in great supply where now these same cid lots are barren and desolste snd not 6 shsd- ow of the fertility is left in them as there was st that time.-[H. E. Plumb, Steven sen, Conn.,, April 1900. P. s.: In break ing up grass ground in the cut and cover system the short iron beam blow, 1-2 D., old sty le, made by H. B. Wheeler of Westport, Conn.,, is par excellence. We have used it for years.-TH. E.P P.
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wATERrowN BRANCH
BorsroBD TO BRIDGEPORT.

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 Sunday, s-85 a, m. South, 3.6i S m!, s.:i JIRPDb5s Rf ps spR89y5; RRf y5s4 5l6 E oIth 9; ,o,o t6-66 p. ID: Sunday. ts.42 a. ul. South. rs-:5 2; Ti t3S; g: R; Go-s6 sunday l6 t'cS ? m N-0- 44I' @S1LA~G ~A- AAA-T @" . HEW PREsTOH--Horth, 1l.10 a. n- ell ' m. Sunday, 9.0s g.. ID. South, 2 3s 8. m., 2.t4 pam. sunday 4-Se ?. n.
 RoAFORD-Eorth, Il -25t, 8 m~ +6.2O p. Ir Sunday, 9.le 8. m. South, tS-30 6. m-, Is D. m. sunday, 4.26 ?. ID.
 k0RRIs-Eorth, L135, te-25 ?. ID. sur day, 9.27 8. m. South. ts.7b 8, m., l.8s, D. m. Sunday, AIS D. ID.
 BAETAh-Eorth. l2.00 ?, m.. e-4 ?. u Sunday, 9.45 s. m. South, S.l7 8. In., l.2I p. 10. Sunday, 4.U7 ?. n. LAKE-Sorth, IF. c.0li D. m., te-S7 ?. Sunday ts.t9 e. ID. South, ts.l5 6. m., l.@ D. ID. Sunday, S-56 ?. n.
 LITCHFIELD-Arrive lzl0 ID. m- G.ti D. m- Sunday, 9.55 S. m. South, 2.l0 &. r., loo D. 1T. Sunday s.t0 D. H-
 HIGHLAND DIVISION. DAEBURY-East 7-s6. uS7. a. m., p. Il West 9.l5 8 m, 2.57 6.2O D ID. HAWLEYVILLE-Easu 1lA9,a.m, ,7.12 p. IL. West 9o0 6. ID, 2.43, 6.O7 D. ID. NORTH NEWCOMERS 7.53 am f7l7 D. IL Westfs54 a. m, f2-36 f6.0l,p. m. SANDY HOOK-East 7-59, llI9, am. 7.2S D. iz. West $50 a. no, 7-S0, 5 5S, pm. SOUTHBURY-East SO7, i7.O5, 7.Sl D. m WeK s.42 8. m; 22l, 5.47 ?. m. S0UTHFORD-Esst SIS m, l7II, 7S7 m West s.36 n, 2.l5, 5.41 ? m. WATERBURY-ERst s.Ss ID, 12-S4, TBS prn West SIS 10, l.H, b1s.
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hG PinkhaEan RecOs'Gs

Es a proud and peerless record If is a record or cure. of constant c0Es- quest over obstinate MS of women; MS flsaf deal 0uf despair; suffering that many women think Es wOs,san,S natural herf- faae; disorders and dis placements that drive 0EEz hope.
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The Stadium
ONE OF THE ATTRACTIONS OF THE COM
 ING PAS-AMERICAN EXPOSITION.

ONE OF THE ATTRACTIONS OF THE COM
 ING PAE-AMERICAN EXPOSITION.
 The completed Stadium for the 1Pan- American Exposition at Buffalo, next year, Will.offer to the lovers Of sports the most spacious and splendid arena ever erected in America. The Athletic, Car rival to be held during the Exposition VII be the most notable in the history of American sport. The co-orf ration of many of the best promoters of athle tic games and contests has beer secured. Visitors to the Pan- American Exposition may therefors expect to witness the meeting of the most famous athletes of the world, in competition for prizes wor- thy of the best feats of endurance, and skill.
 It is said that the great Colosseum at
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The ideal then, must be worthy of the increasing possibilities of him who is at once immortal and son of God.
 The ideal for man is & man. The uni verse contains nothing higher, no being we can know 80 well, as personality. Not truth, not beauty, not grandeur, do we seek as distractions, but as real'zad in persons. Since impertection has been known in the world, the sincere in heart have sought an ideal man. The child sees such in the parent, til he can look above that parent. Diogenes went through the streets of Athens in broad daylight, carrying lantern, 10 oking for true man. Wanted, man! Such is the cry of the ages. Consequently each new hero has his wershipers, for he real izes som ewhst their longing for the ideal. But all, Cromwell, Luther, l. h. oln, Socrates, fall short of the mark, they are mistaken, incomplete, sinful, the world longs for another, one who is perfect where they are strong, and strong where they are weak. Such an ideal, l wish to present this morning.
 Pllate says: "Behold the man!" It is true Pllate utuers the exclamation in pity. He has no comprehension of the real manhood of Jesus. But these words ecce homo have been caught up by the Christian race and charged with mean ing never dreamed of by the Roman. They have been carved ln marble, breathed in song, they have been the watchword of millions of men. Yes, let us too behold the man, Jesus, this morn ing, as humanity's ideal.
 We shall consider CD the sublimity of
 this ideal, CD it's practiCabillty. I. FROM THE STANDPOINT OF ITS SUB. LIMITY
 we notice:
 l. The universality of Jesus. He ros' above the limitations of nation and of race. With us, the influences of environ ment may effect much-but the Ethiopi- an cannot change his skin. Even nation al characteristics cannot be obliterated without corresponding loss of true patri- otism. The cosmopolitan is true to no country. The zsal of the patriot to be strong and deep must be centered in the home state. Thus gGladstone remains English; Bismarck, German; Lincoln, American. Each may be the ideal of his own nation, but he cannot be the ideal of others, for his provincialism ever re- mains.
 But he who would be the ideal of hu- manity must not belong to any nation, bus every national trait belong to him not be bound up in any race but contain every race in himself. Such was Jesus. Born 8 Jew, yet Palestine was too small for hIm-he is..an occidental ss truly as an Oriental. From the North, East, South, West, all nsEionalities, all races come to Jesus and claim him as their own.
 Likewise he was above the moral lim- itations of sex. There seems to be an impossible gulf fixed between the na- lures of man and woman. A personality must be one or the other we say-a com bination would be a monstrosity. A mannish woman or womaniah man we
The Newtown bee., 1900-04-27
Travellers Guide.
sKw YORK, EEw HAVEN AND HARTFORD
 RAIIRoAD.
BERHsHIHs DIvIsIoz.

NEW HAvEN-Eortn. s.35 a. m-, s.b7 p. m so9tn,l9.;55 4 f,,,Is. 2. ID, 7Ao p. m.
 Sl 1a % 1I ioS a m-' Azl D. m- souln' sTEvESsok-NoRth. \ Ii r. lols a. m- ..ss p. m. HoSR6E@so1tR eGIs6 Iois s R tiSsI a Pn n m ss D. ve9 s9gdhi tl6og s m;. ,n. ts:5s ?: M 650 p. m. See BoIsford below.
 IwToWN-North, 7.aa. 1O.as 2. m-. II5. 4.sa. SSS SSS, s sss B ps4 % n nssnday. n 7 a ss6 I M souIn, HaWIE 0Rflsi }SiLRfEnsorta. SiGt Ii % 7ss. iO &. m- South. 6.5i. s.Ss. s.4s. n.IS O. m, iis. 600. ss5 uRRon1T4T RR;o n; Sunday, ,s4s1 S5s 1;Inx P T; xo-n
 day, sos 3; n. South. sA2, s-So. s-3e, lIe 3; ms x-GS, 5;2O, T s2S D. In sunday $50 P: n. 6.2s, 7.22 p. m. sunday. s.6s. South, s37,s.9s, n;9s s2 yT4 3; m 4;5s. sIs RI R n. Sunday sts p: n a. ms 5. 30 7.2s p. m. South, 6.S0r s.l0 a. In- AS. e;o6 ?. m. Sunday, north. SIS a.. ul- SEW aiLf isi.5 oRDIEorth. sa2, n.2s. 1aO g. m.. ID. S4 sOSss S a s sls a. iosg ss6ehS a S ss & ss s HERWINsvILLEykorth. oi-i T s.s5, n-ss a. m., lsO,
 6-o5 p. In- Sunday ,s. 5E.m. South, lOS5 a.m., KENT-North. s49,iI15 E. m.. 2.25, sLs p. m.
 sunday ss.4s 8, h. South, i0.9s o. n-. SIS, 3s2, eoRs& SSi R i sGRffS GRfBGs@RoEh o 8 U slo laoa 3.2t,6.3o, P. ln- Sunday, eO5 6. m. South, l0.n TksT 4; 5a 9 C6REwIiLEo2s6 w 1 EP2'S ss s mn 1
 $40. GAO D. sl. Sunday rs.lt &. m. south. lo.os
 8. Hl-. 3le.l6Io D. IL. suEdAy, tA4a. ID.
 DAEHURE DIVISION.
 DAHBURY-Sorth (hRin St. ststlon) e %.
 s.20 9IO, m, $40, 6.0O. Sunday s.S0 m. CWhite St. station,) 7.45, lO.s6, SJs, 6.5s D m. | South (White St. gtatton) s.4S, Il-s7 m, t-50, | 6yS7 D (Msin St. ststion) 600, 7-s5, HAS, 8 mt sunday, SOS & Dl, 6Io.p m. BAIEKL-Horth, 7sc, lo.ts 6. nis 2o2s
 s.So b-t9, GAS p. m. Sunday lo0s m,
 S'54 p n; south, e.o6, Iso sSo, n52, S. m RkDDIEG~-Eor,h. TAI, ID. 7.os, sss
 '; m. sunday, lo18 ID, sos ?. m south.
 6L5 A-5s In-, GU m. Sunday SIS, sAEToRD-Eorth, 7ls 6. m. l.5s, s.s4. p. m. Sunday rs-5s 6. IT,, sO4 D. DO. SoutA, 6. ls 8. m., 2-G2, eb9 ?. m. Sunday, s92 8. m-, slz7 D BRAECHvILLE-Eorth. 7lo, lo-S A. m., l-G, 5-G5, e.2s p. ID. Sunday, 9ks B. m- T-5S D. ID. South, 6.2l, 74h, I0.05 8. m-, la os,
 4-46. 7O4 ?. m. sunday s.2s 6. m-, est G BORG RGETOWE-Sorth, 706, 6. m, lts 6-4 pm. Sunday, 9.49 a. m.- 7-54 p. 10. South,
 e.26 @. m-, n.ll, TOT ?. m. Sunday, SKI a. m-,
 6S6 ?. ID.
 vATERrowE BRANCH. WAT ERBURY-Leave, GAS, s4I, lll7 B. m. 30, 4.oS, 500, 6.l2, 705, s0S, n.2o p. n. Sun. days, 930 a. m., 745 ?. Arr1ve-s.25, sO0, l0y40 8. m.. .02, 2-3S, 40, 6b2, GAL 7a, ILLS; Sundays, 65s & m- 6I2 ? m.
 WATERTOWk-Lesye, s.CS, 7s42, lo.77 s. u - ll44, 2-7 4.22, bSts 6-S0, 7Ss, lI.1o ?. Sunday, "a IA 2SC. si7. Ca 90. Slss, Ii-s7 ?. n tu f~y. kfF
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NEW STYLES IN SPRING
 CLOTHING.
 FOSTER, BESSIE & COMPANY


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THE BEE.
The Home Circle.
 "A WOMAN LIFTS HER LOVER"

I. So pure, 80 swoetly good she Is, So hoPelessly above yOul White as 0 lily bud she is- Why should she ever love you
 II. Yet let this thought your sad heart stir: A woman lifts her lover; And you shall grow more like to her While you're a-winning Of her. Francis Sterne Palmer. in May Century.
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Lydia E. pinkham's Vegetable Compound

GAsFeS kNeSe tf'OEUf0S Os women, and s'0bS srseD- 'Sfs'Uaff0n of it's ferg-OrS.
 No woman need be wikss- OUf fine safest and SuS'eSf advice, for Mrs. PinE1isasrs oounSeES women free Of charge. Her address is flynn, Mass
 'Can any w01san afford fo fussos'e flie medicine and fEse advice that has cured a million WOsfsen2
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a oHRIsgMAs FEsTIvAL.
Novel Entertainments Presented a
Columbia Heights.

-s0s "a s-ECSCAhCN "a
Columbia Heights.
Mount pleasant Congregational Church
Sunday school celebrated its Christmas
festival on Wednesday evening. the 18th
An original historical advertisement was
presented. illustrative and descriptive of
Christmas customs in various countries,
each nation being represented By one or
more girls and boys in appropriate COS
tunes. The whole was enIIvened by
charming Christmas music. under the di-
rection OF Mrs A D. Melvin. Tbs play
concluded with a generous distribution
of bonbons by Santa Claus, Personated by
Carl Davis Florence Ray Howard cleye-
land. ard little Frances Armstrong rep
resented America: Bruce Cleveland MAS
Johnny Bull. England Mary Louise
Smith Lisette. France; Lawrence Harris,
Pat, Ireland: Howard Montgomery. san
die, Scotland: Lottie Koehler. Gretchen.
Germany; Herbert Patterson, Hendriek,
Holland; Florence Simpson, JunIata,
Spain: May Simpson, Beatrice. Italy.
Miss Beulah Beverly Chambers pre-
sided at the piano, and the following.
young ladies composed select chorus:
Misses DeRelmer, Broas. Leary. Thomas,
Eastwood. and ZelIers The whole was
under the management of Miss Georgia
Redway, author OF the piece
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NEWsBogs MAKE MERRY.
Several Hundred Youngsters Enjoy a
Christmas Celebration.

Several Hundred Youngsters Enjoy a
Christmas Celebration.
The newsboys connected with the News
boys and ehifdren's Aid Society al the
George Maulsby Memorial Home. Third
and c StresI northwest, had q glorious
tine last night celebrating Christmas. The
second aoor schoolroom Of the building On
Third Street was fairly packed with the
noisy little vendors Of newspapers and in
1astes Of the home. Se5sboys are not a
qE5et lot aBd i required quite an effort 10
restore something Ike attention whea an
nounesments we're made introducing sing
ers, dancers, takers. and gymRaEts
The talent Ehieh provided for the even
insss entertainment consisted CT news
boys and taey acquitted themselves os
their task very cFeditRbly- Ancng those
who t0ok part in the programme. were the
inmates OF TIC hoRes Andrew ana Eugene
Williams, gysnEasts; c. H FolsoH, c. Bow
nan. J ToIiver. and W Moore. song
Gu7Ftette; Charles Berry. buck dancing.
After the programme. about go bags.
containing mince pie, cake, oranges. ap-
pies, bananas, buns. box e. candy. s.ssI
other good things Eere distributed aaone
the boys
The entertainment vas IN charge Of Miss
u. 3. Ferry, chairman; Mrs. Atwater. Mrs
Ramshurg. Miss ChIIds. Miss Baldwin.
Mrs. Tuttle, hiss Laura Jackson, and MS.
Merchant.
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NEW OFFICERS CHOSEN.
Result of Elections Held nv Yarious
I4ocHI ORGANIZATIONS.


" the fIty-thira annual session OF the
Grand Lodge OF F. a 4 N. OF the Dis
triet CT Columbia. held at their temple.
corner Virginia Avenue and Fifth street
southeast, last night. the following OH
GERS we're elected for the year Of 1891 ard
installed by Past Grand Master Or. s
Roger watts Prof Robert II. Terrell.
grand master; " 4, Jadd MaIvin- deputy
grand master; Brooks Burr. senior Grand
warden; Charles Dean, junior gTaad var
eea: Henry Coleman, grand treasure
William Il. Myers, grand secretary. the
last named being his tgenty-thIrd sue
Gessiye reelection.
At the regular annual communication OK
the Il u Grand Lodge OF F. A i. Il.
(colo7edj OF the District Of Columbia. in
eoTporated, convened On the 2Tth instant.
the following officers were elected for the
ensuing year l. " Puliss. NJ " G. NJ
J. T. Fortune. D. 6. NJ, Rev Peter Lucas.
9. 5 "; Alex Da5ney. G. J. "; a. H T.
Walker 2. ". 8. Secretary; h. c. Scott.
G. Treasurer Appointed; william h
Thomas, e s Deacon: William A Waller.
G J. Beacon; Rev. J. " Gaines. grand
chaplain; J. " Mcdowell. e. lecturer
George e. Stewart, C. II. G; A. E. Robin
son, G. n: Alex ogiesby, c. 8; George
Phillips, G. p; E White. c. J. s. Alex
johnson. G. tyler; z. X. Shields. chair
man Of committee foreign correspondence.
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NEW YORK. Dee. -2e-The Stock Mar
Ket this morning opened fraet!enaIly lower
In sympathy with lower prices al London.
The London market was generally weak
oging 10 the failure of thirteen firms con-
Eeeted with the mining market and inyolY-
ing the declaration OF twsnty-nine mem
hers Of the Stock Exchange as defaulters.
American stocks closed at decline OF
one-half to one and one-half The local
market developed an irregular tendency
after che opening
After the weak opening. in which de-
clines extended from Is TO IA per cent
IN sympathy with the depressed market-et
London. the local narAet developed
strength and number of sensational ad-
Yances we're scored during the first hour.
The NEST pronounced decline at the open
ing vas in American Sugar. but ali Of the
less was speedily recovered Heavy buying
orders in New York Central. St. Paul.
Pennsylvania. Deieware and Hudson, Rock
Island ard Southern Pacific were produc-
tive OF quick agd substantial gains IN pri-
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THE NEXT COTTON CROP.
An oGscIa1 Estimate That II WHY
Reach Ten million bales.

An oasciaI Estimate That II Hiis
Reach Tea Million bales.
The stat;sticiaa OF the Department OF
Agriculture reports 10gGo, 00e bales as
the probable Gotten production OF the
Usited States for fse0-l981 IN making
this estimate the same methods and
agencies have been used that were en-
ployed last year. Many thousands Of
ginners have, however. made reports for
the first time.
Lathaaa, Alexander & Co., Of New York.
have sent $3.50 letters to selected and
reliable correspondents seeking enquiry
concerning the -otai probable cotton crop
Of the United States for 1900-fSGI An
swers were received from 2.zS5 sources.
and IN conjunction with other fnforua-
tioa Ia tie possession OF the arn, they
estimate The cotton ercp OF the United
states in Isoo-1so1 al s,766.sI bales. as
against s5436.009 bales IN the year pre-
ce5sue