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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-27
American Cotton Crop
Shortest Since the War
(By r. Larmour Neill.)

Considering the worlds present require
ments, the supply of American cotton
both visible and invisible, is today the
smallest since the civil war. This in
spite of a curtailment of consumption
which has been going on for months and
which for the past few weeks has been
in many places of drastic nature. The
supply of goods in first hands has become
equally attenuated, but owing to the new
crop being SO near at hand, everybody
having need of raw or manufactured cot
ton is postponing purchases to the last
hour possible. The new crop, however,
is probably the latest on record and the
amount of cotton coming into sight dur
ing this month will be about half of last
year. The position of spinners, etc, is
thus enormously complicated and he will
be lucky man as well as a wise one who
steers his business through the coming
season to a profit.
1t has been found that for a period of
twenty years prior to 1897 the average
annual increase in consumption Of Ameri-
can cotton amounted to just 31a per cent
There were years when there was not
only no increase, but an actual decrease.
and again years when the increase was
much greater, but the average was as
above. Since 1897 the increase has been
rather over per cent. Based on only a
80 per cent. increase for the last twenty
six years the needs of the world this
coming season will amount to II, 724 900
but if based on the larger takings since
1897, the world will require little oven
100000. The average price in Liver
pool for mddling for the twenty years
prior to 1892 was sgd. At what price
would 10000, 900 bales be consumed this
year? In considering the answer to this
question, which every thinking man in
the trade will want to work out for him
self, it will be well for him to weigh care.
fully the present enormous production OF
gold which is now about three times
what it was from 1880 to 1890; the re
cent advantage in silver, which is import.
ant in view of the growing trade of the
West with China; thirdly, the higher plane
of wages of the mass of working men and
women the world over, and lastly, the
small stocks of cotton, yarn and goods
with which the ney season starts
What prospect is there this season for
an American crop of 10000 600? On my
return to New York the end of last Oc
tober from thrip through the cotton
States / made the following estimate by
States. 1t was published in Cotton" last
November. Mr. Hesters figures of the
actual outturn, just received, I append
for comparison:
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Home From the Philippines,

The New York World of September IA
reports the army transport Fitzpatrick ar
rived from the Philippines, $40 officer :
and men of the United States 5th In
fantry and 26 women on her decks, and
302 soldiers dead under the matches. The
voyage was a very merry one, for all
had agreed to dismiss sorrow the day
they sailed for home. They stocked ur
with liquors at Singapore and INDUCED in
a Dutch dinner which would not bear
repetition. They had suppers, dances
balls, punctuated with varied revelry
and the last Thursday night got up a
masquerade, (which surpassed the fond
est expectations of its promoters
She dipped her flag to the farewell gun
In the shade of the mango trees,
And turned her prov to the setting sun
On the swell of the Eastern seas,
And faces paled as she westward drove
In the light of the afterglow-
Three hundred walking the deck above
And three hundred dead below.
''Now let's be merry" the captain said,
I'VE laugh at the shippers curse
The living must live though the dead be
dead.
So here's to the floating hearse!
And here's to the dying that huddle in
crowds
Where pestilent breezes blow,
And here's to the ghosts that grin in the
shrouds,
And here's to the boys below!
''Of course we are sorry for those be
Meath
No mourners sadder than We
But say, what right has the tyrant Death
To stife the shouts of glee?
Then bring forth beer and the Sillery see
And the tipple of ancient Crow,
And drink to the fellows awake on deck
And the fellows asleep below"
They hear the brazen band rejoice
As the veterans homeward come
And picolo's pipe and comets voice
And flute and fiddle and drum
They sing Of treachery, torture, love,
And plumber and raid and woe,
And a wild shrek comes from the spars
above
And wall from the hold below.
Now form quadrille,'' is the merry call;
They sway as the prompter bids;
NOW swing your partners-balance all!'-
Just over the coffin lids.
The shrouded listen beneath their feet
AM whisper, "a masquers show
And groans"from above the dancers greet
And laugh from the dead below.
w. A. CROFFUT.
Washington Sept. Is. 1908.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-27

Dear Mrs. Person: good while back
my health commenced failing and I got
in a low condition. l was always tired;
with poor appetite, so tired always that
I did not feel equal to any exertion at all.
l had enlarged glands on the neck which
were very sore and when l would take
cold they would enlarge and cause me
much suffering. 1 often had spells of in
flammatory rheumatism which affected the
whole body and rendered me helpless
tried medicical treatment which would
give temporary relief but it did not cure
me. I tried various patent preparations,
but they did me no good. At last friend
persuaded me to use
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NAVAL STORES.

WILMINGTON, Sept. 26-Turpentine firm;
81: receipts 20 casks.
Rosin--firm at LIS, receipts l45 casks.
Tar-firm, So receipts IA.
Crudc-firm, 2.O093. S0c13S0; receipts 90 bar
rels.
inal 5o12 receipts 49,, sales -, exports
Quote A, B, c, l75;D, 80 Il, 100; f, LBS; G, 2
H,2;45; | 264; K, 2.S5; NJ, 1885, N, sos; VIC, $40
SAvANNAH, Sept. 26-Turpentine firm,
81; receipts 476, sales -, exports I'LL.
Rosin firm; receipts - sales , exports
$751;
Quote a, j, G, 1.9OD, 2.05; E, 215; F,2.25: G.
~ 80 n n, 40 3.S5; K, sos; Nj, 3.95; n, $685. VIC
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-27
At Gettysburg.

Down the hillside we sweep.
(Ready, readyD
Time with our heart-throbs we keep
STEADY, steadyD
Hark to the lannon's boom,
Tones of thunder,
Stern as the trump of doom,
Souls to sunder.
Swing we across the vale,
Quicksteps ever,
Meeting the deadly hail.
Falter, never.
God! how they NOW us down,
Dear Christ save
Glory? a soldiers crown?
Aye, then the grave!
Close up the ranks again,
Forward Forward!
Foes dare to call these men,
Never, coward.
What be the need of it?
Shock on shock.
Hurting a Death at Fate,
Storming a rock!
Back now the way they came,
Mourn, ah, mourn!
Back now but not in shame,
Heroes return.
Mt Airy, N. C.
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OTHER COTTON MARKETS.
WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT.
(By the Associated Press1

(By the Associated Press.)
New York, Sept. 26.-The statement of
averages of the clearing house banFs of
this city for the week shows:
Loans 1917, 047, 200, decrease $500S, 100;
deposits 1901 ,345, 200 decrease $s137, 100;
circulations $45,6S6,5OO, increase $319,6OO
legal tenders $71 ,S19, 800, increase $685.
500; Specie $16S, 0S5, 800, decrease $780,
100; reserve 1929. 9O5, 500, decrease $685.
6O0 reserve required 1925, 1886. 800, decrease
$2,034,275 Surplus $14, sos, 800, increase ST.
395, SIS; ex-United States deposits $24,302,-
500, increase $1,7S9, 125
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-27
NEW ORLEANS COTTON.

New Orleans, La, Sept. 26.-Spot cot
ton easy; sales 1900 bales, including ,250
to arrive. Delivered on contracts 200.
Futures opened 3 to points below last
evenings close, the decline being attrib-
uted to the unfavorable Liverpool condi-
tions. Later in the morning a better
feeling prevailed and prices took a sharp
upward turn, closing with net gains of Z
points On September and each on Inc
balance of the list.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 26-Cotton futures
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PULSE OF STOCKS
THROBS fEBR|LE
Owing to Signs of Urgent
Liquidation.
SPECTATORS SET BACK
indications are That the S ccks Purchased FRI
day for Supporting Purposes viii be
for Sale at any Favorable
Opportunity.
SPECTATORS SET BACK
Opportunity.
(By the Associated Press

New York, Sept. 26.-The end of the
week IN dry goods shows little more ac-
tivity from general buyers the majority
OF whom continue to display the con-
servatism which> has marked operations
for some time. The tightness of the
money market continues an operative fac
tor, and although current necessities are
likely to increase as the season advances
operations it is believed will continue on
limited scale
NEW YORK COTTON.
New York, Sept. 26.-The cotton market
opened steady, net points lower to 4
points higher and ruled rather irregular
within a limited range. First it was
rather easy following the lower cables,
generally favorable weather and full re-
ceipts, in connection with further hqul-
dalton and bear pressure, but later 1T
steadied up to about last nights finals
on covering and buying on the reaction
theory. Trading was not active and SEN
tlment uncertain; the market alter the
recovery ruling about steady within a
POINT or two either way of Fridays finals
with the exception of September which
sold from 1880, the opening figure, TO
1924.
NEW YORK, Sept. 26-Cotton spot closed
quiet: Is points lower middling upland, ii .2o
gulf ll.50; sales 1896 bales.
Futures opened steady and closed
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rors for the bull at present prices of win
ter months and remarkably good yield
will be required in the States east of the
Mississippi to produce such crop this
year The heavy rainfall, however, dur
ing the past few days in the Atlantic
States and Alabama means great posi-
bilities for their crops with October
weather as in 1898
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-27
NEW YORK MONEY

NEW YORK. Sept. 26, . p. Money on call
nom nom al al 214@5:, closing 2A@ time money
gu 1; % days, 51a: 80 days, & six months
Gg; prime prime MERCANTILE paper G@615; sterling
exen. STEADY se with actuaI business in banker
for to day bills, posted rates 4S3@4S7:
commercial bills 1872 bar silver 50, Mexican
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/
! 1t will be observed that the only i'm.
porant differences are in Texas, Indian
Territory; louisiana and Georgia. AS to
the two latter, it is evident my impress.
Sims were too pessimistic, whilst in re.
| gird to Texas and Indian Territory they
we're the reverse. I would say, however,
IN regard to the latter, that over 100000
bales of Texas cotton were received dur
ing August, 1902, which Mr. Hester count
ed in the previous crop, whilst a large
amount of cotton-probaby 200 900 bales
was destroyed by the unusual rains and
storms of last winter
l wrote in regard to my observation of
last years crop in Texas, II think the
general reports of insect ravages which
have come to hand are not a bit exag-
gerated. This applies particularly to
Texas, where the destruction wrought by
both boil weevil and boil worm has been
so great it would be hard to say which
pest has done the most harm From
Houston to as far southwest as Yoakum
and thence north to Waco, l examined
closely about forty fields in eleven diff
ferent places. In every field / found the
weevil and the effects of its devastating
work. In some fields not a single boil or
bloom that 1 could find had escaped. In
others 80 per cent. were "stung,' in
others less, until at Waco the damage was
perhaps not over 80 per cent. From Wa
co north the damage done by the boil
worm became 'strikingly apparent"
From the news now coming to hand
every word OF the above applies with
equal truth to this growing crop, and in
my belief Nantoher disappointing crop in
Texas is probable.
In regard to the size of the crop in the
other State, it is too soon to offer def
mite opinion. This much. however, can be
said for the benefit of those who count on
similar results to 1898 and 1899: The
month of October, 1898, was the hottest
October on record, and this is later
crop than that one. cold October now
would be a disaster 1t looks as if
crop of II 100000 should have small ter
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$. A. L. STOCKS AND BONDS.

BALTIMORE, Sept, 26-Seaboard Air line
common, 1S}sg1a preferred $3.50.
Bonds-i's 7514@H.
Atlantic Coast line common 1907 pref
erred $50. No sales.
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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS

Chicago, Sept 26-Grains ruled steady
and kept within small ranges. December
wheat closed 12c UP with corn uncbangad
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept 26-Cotton futures
LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, Sept. &c, 4 p. INJECTION spot
american middling fair, .7S; good middling,
$50; middling, 6.07; low middling, $50; good
ordinary, 5.3S; ordinary, 5lS The sales of the
day were 5000 bales, of which 500 were for
speculation and export and included 1900 AM
erican. Receipts bales, including ......
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For GROUP use CHENEYS
EXPECTORANT.
Ware 4 Leland
Successors to Barbee & Company
Stocks, Cotton, Grain
and Provisions


Cotton Exchange
Exchange
chants Exchange. Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce
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and oats up 1-Sc. Provisions were lrregu-
lar, closing unchanged to SOC lower.
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Mrs. Joe Persons
REMEDY

1 bought half-dozen bottles, and after
taking it l felt so much better, that L
did not feel like taking any more. The
next year in the spring l knew l needed
more and again took half-dozen. took
it in that way until it has made a COM
eplete cure of me and my health is fine.
The enlarged glands are entirely cured,
rheumatism entirely cured and I am now
in stout robust health, and / advise every
body who needs tonic or are run down"
to use Mrs. Joe Persons Remedy.
MRS. ]. c. MORGAN,
Marshville, n. c., May %, 1902.
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]. d. Boushall, Manager, Raleigh, N. c

Union Pacific 27,725; Copper 1920
Brooklyn 22,8S5; Steel 23,50O; Steel pre-
ferred As, 760.
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Exchange cheerfuy
o mail tie
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What PROTECTION Means

March g. Charlotte NJ c.
well the Carolina with the Aetna
for $4,000 Annual Premium When the first ten expired
renewed the the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-27
Cash quotations were as follows:

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour steady; winter patents, $3.50; straights
S3.50@3.70; bakers '$3.6093.30; clears S335@3.50;
spring specials $40; spring patents s8Oo@4.4o
T Ted NO. co aPrS 10. j. 70 No. yellow S;
49,; oats, No. ,, -; No. 2 white,4l; No. white
8s12939; rye, No. 2, 50 a; good feeding bar.
seed ses 4S So G No. ahs s a
prime timothy seed, $40 mess pork per Dbl.
il:9o@l2.0o; lard per l0Otb;, lO.5o@lo.75; short
ribs sides (loosel, S.75@9.oo;, dry salted shoul.
ders boxed, 5000; short clear sides side,
grade wines, i23; clover, contract grades. 1906
NEW YORK PROVISIONS.
NEW YORK, Sept 26-Flour-easy; winter
400
Rye four-steady; fair to good sS.9o@3So
choice to fancy S290d3.25.
Buckwheat fiour-dull; Sl90@2.l5.
Corn-meal easy; yellow western Sl.l0.
Rye-quet; No 2 western 6l%.
Barey-dull feeding 81 G mating Ing 60. ooa Con
tember, S41{; December, S'3s.
Corn-spot weak; No 2, 81; May, SIS; Sep
TENDER, 52}4; November, -; December 5254.
Beef Beef-firm: family siO.4o@lI.6o; mess 5000
$50; beef hams q .5o@N.0o; packet l0,0@H 20
Cut meats-quiet; picked bellies 9@l2
Lard-dulI; western steamed, SO; rehnd'
firm: continent 900; compound 71997$s.
Porl<-dull; family l9oO@l9.50; short cleal
l5.00@I700, mess l4.75@l5.50.
Tallow-firm; city per package AS, country
41a@34. ~
R6sin-frm: strained common to good 230@ ..
Turpentine-steady, 571aG5S.
Rice-irm domestic, fair TO extra, 414@b2
Molasses-ffrm; New Orleans, open kettle
good to choice, 31@2.
Coffee-spot, Rio steady, No. Z invoice D Is
mild quiet, cordova 7G1ll.
Sugar--raw, firm; fair refining "a; moias
ses So, refined, quiet
ButIer-frIn; extra creamery q state dairy
l5020.
Cheese-steady; stat9 full cream small col
ored II, white fall made, r.
Eggs-firm; state and Pennsylvania NG2o
Potatoes-Long Island l.62@l.SI, new South
ern, 125d1.57, Jersey sweets 2.50g2.75.
Peanuts-steady; fancy hand-picked, 41a@4
domestic 3(04l4.. o
Cabbage teady: domestic l.O092o09o.
Freight to Liverpool l26.
Cotton seed oil was dull but steady; prim,
crude f. o. b. mills 29@3l, prime summer vel
low 4l1@6D42, off summer yellow 81, prime Whit
46; prime winter yellow AZ, prime meal Z.OO@
~. 80 nominal.
BALTIMORE PROVISIONS.
BALTIMORE Sept. 26-Flour steady; Winte
patents, S4l0@4.40, spring satents Sl.65@5.W.
Corn-wcak; spot 5214915, Southern whit
corn 55056
OatsEquiet; No white 4219@43.
Rye--firm; No 2, 5S12.
Butter-firm; fancy imitation F@lS, fame,
creamery 20t02l.
Eggs-firrn; fresh q.
Cheese-frm; ii Is, large l11s@ll%.
Sugar-strong; fine and coarse granulate'
5,2lL.
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without increase rate
insured for forty al an
COMPANIES FOLLOW
paid death this
duingt the ten
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Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closing.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-01-08
For Over Sixty Years

Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup has beJu
used by millions of mothers for their
children while teething. If disturbed a.
night and broken of your rest by a sick
child suffering and crying with pain of
cutting teeth send at once and get a bot
tie Of MIR. Winslow's Soothing Syrup"
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softens the gum and reduces inflammation
and gives tone and energy to the whole
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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-01-08

consisted of $3.50 worth of Tonopah
mining stock and a bottle of whisky.
The water right of Brougher, Booth
& Parker on the Owens river, for cleo
trio power for Tonopah, Silver Peak
and the country south, is the second to
the largest power proposition on the
Pacific coast. A strong company is
being organized to supply this section
with at least a 1000 horse power if
fequired.-Bonanza.
The doctors say that never before in
the history of Reno wa there so much
sickness as at the present time.
Throat and lung trouble are the prin-
cipal troubles.
oheIiH Cldfk reports seventeen priS-
oners in the county Jail at Elko. A
number of these are boarded at the
expense of the United States and sew
eral are waiting the action of the mex
grand jury,
A labor union has been organized at
Empire. AS the new union takes in the
employees of the V. & t. railroad
from Mound House to Carson, the
union has been named the Lyon-Or-
msby county Labor Union.
Reports from the North Fork saw
there is very little snow In the moun-
tains in that section.
! Everything is progressing fayorablv
at the oil well.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-01-08
Daily Resume of Happen
ings in the State ~ y

The grand jury of Storey county, in
reporting some recommendations out
of the usual. Here are some of them:
The District Attorney was directed to
prepare a bill to be presented to the
legislature that will tax incorpora-
tons doing business in Storey county.
That our legislative delegation use
their best efforts to secure by proper
enactment during the coming session
of the legislature the consolidation of
Storey, Lyon, Ormsby and Douglass
counties, or as many of them as pos
sible. into n county, the consolida-
ton to take effect two years hence.
The reason asked for such c~onsolida-
ton is that wealth is being removed
from Storey county as fast as possible
ana that local capital is not peing in
vested in the development of the re-
sources of the county, and that for
eign capital cannot be induced to come
here until the present rate of taxa
ton is very much reduced. Carson
IS to be the county seat.-Carson
News.
Gypsum from the deposit at Mound
is used in Reno for the first
coat of plastering in hard finished
houses and is said tt be better for
that purpose than lime.
j. H. G. Minnedew, County Survey
or-elect was held up in Gold Hill the
other night and robbed. The booty
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-01-08

uSI 4lduLc.
Last Monday a thief entered the Of
fee of the Bridgeport Chronicle-Un-
ion and took $1O-just think of it.-
from a pair of pants belonging to the
proprietor. The thief probably
thought it was such a curiosity for
an editor to have $40 at one time that
he wanted to present the coin to some
freak museum.
Mr.. j. Owens was an arrival last
night from San Francisco. He is a
mining engineer and expert and Is
here to look over the oil fields and
see what the indications are. Mr..
Owens will make a thorough investi-
cation of the country. He went out
with Mr.. Davis this afternoon.-Elko
Independent.
Governor Sparks has appointed
Riley Davis as his private secretary.
Mr.. Davis is thoroughly competent to
fill the position and a more courteous
gentleman cannot be found in the
State.
Miss Mary Henry having resigned
as teacher in the Wadsworth school,
Miss A. M. North of Reno mas been
appointed her successor and took
charge Monday.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-01-08

Ex-State printer Joel Harlow is
holding down a case in that Office un-
der Maute.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-01-08

Everything that is occurring in the
several. counties of Nevada--News
given in terse form-A three minute
trip through Sagebrushdom y y
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-01-08

consisted of $3.50 worth of Tonopaf
mining stock and a bottle of whisky.
The colored American., 1903-07-25
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