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bulk of her cotton, her colossal cotton
manufacturing industry. which directly or
indirectly gives employment to 100000
people, will be ruined, and that at no
distant date. 1t would be a national dis
aster almost as appalling as the loss of her
colonial empire.
The worlds present production of cot
ton has been estimated by Lancashire
expert to be at 16,0OO,O 900 bales, of which
the United States produces 1,000, 900
bales. India 100000, Egypt 1,000,00 and
the rest of the world another 1000, 900
bales. In ten years from now, figuring on
the normal increase of consumption, it
is predicted that 5000, 900 bales will be
required to keep the worlds spindles busy,
and in fifteen years %, OO0, 900 bales. That
the United States can come anywhere
near satisfying this demand is consider
ed impossible. In fact, it is asserted that
with her own population rapidly growing
and her own mills increasing, her surplus
product left over for export must inevi-
tably decrease.
1--WE have got to fix things so that we
can get cotton from other parts of the
world or bust" is one Lancashire manu-
facturer's terse summary of the situation.
LancashIre's Awakening
Thus it has come about that the Ian
cashire folks have walked up," and from
the amount of Jubllatlon that has accom-
panied that announcement in the press
it reasonably might be inferred that
state of somnolency is the normal con-
dition of big British industries. That
awakening has borne fruit in the organi-
zation of the British Cotton Growing as
sociation, which has for its object the.
promotion of cotton culture in the British
empire.
1t is doing lot of hustling to make up
for lost time, pausing occasionally to kick
itself for not having done it before. 1t
has made provision for fund of 100000
to carry on the work. Masters and men
are pulling together in the matter. Al
though the cotton spinners have had to
work for months on short time which
means reduced pay and much Tightening
of their belts, one of their associations
has contributed more than s5,000>to the
fund, so convinced are its members that
In the success of the movement lies their
only hope of getting steady work and
full pay at their trade in the future.
At the head of the association is Sir
Alfred Jones, one of the brainest and
most energetic of England's self-made
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ttThis excursion is just too lovely"
Many kilograms like this have been
sent to friends in London, but until the
whole trip is over not one of them can
elicit any response, for even the MEM
bers of the party do not know them
selves where they will be the next day,
routes being chosen just as the fancy
takes them.
Miss Ruby Frewen, the niece of one
of the beautiful Jerome sisters of
America, of whom Mrs. George Corn
wallis West (Lady Randolph ChurchilD
is another, is one of the bridesmaids on
this novel wedding trip.
Kings have to work hard these days
to keep up the illusion that they are
really essential to the well being of
nation. The youthful king of Spain
found his recent tour anything but
pleasure trip. The innumerable depu-
tations he was compelled to receive al
lowed him no time to enjoy himself.
One morning, it is recorded, he was
routed out of bed at an unearthly hour
to receive delegation of workmen who
wanted him to fix things so that they
wouldn't have to work more than eight
hours a day and would get just as
much pay as if they worked ten or
twelve. An amusing sequel followed
this visit which has only just leaked
out. That same afternoon Alfonso pre-
sented petition to Senor Maura, the
premier, gotten up in the form with
which he had become so wearisomely
familiar, humbly beseeching that his
working day hereafter be limited to
eight hours OF course it was meant
as joke and was treated as such. The
young king has been taught that in or
der to maintain a tight grip on his
crown he must expect to work good
deal more than eight hours a day. His
schooling is still kept up. On board his
yacht, the Giraldilla, he is always ac-
companied by three of his professors.
There are now with him M. Merry del
Val, the brother of the cardinal, who
instructs him in English; Herr Bruins,
who teaches him German, and M.
Georges, who is putting him through
a course of French literature. Prob
ably there<is not q. monarch in Europe
who does not find is necessary to de-
vote considerably more than eight
hours day to his job. And they don't
all take that keen delight In it which
the kaiser does, either. The average
nobleman with large estates has a far
better time of it. He can loaf and en-
Joy life as he pleases, and IL he gets
hard up he may replenfsh his exhaust
ed exehequer by marrying an Ameri-
can heiress.
In Indulgence in that most expensive
luxury, the entertainment of royalty,
the Duke and Duchess Of Devonshire
have this year established a new his
toricaI record. Within five months the
king has been their guest at as many
of their stately homes. At the begin
ming of the year he went to Chats
worth; later he paid a visit to Lismore
castle; next he was entertained at
Devonshire house; subsequently ne
spent a week end with them at East
bourne and again honored them with
a visit at their Newmarket residence.
Probably he will once more enjoy their
hospitality at Chatsworth before the
end of the year. But all this does not
imply any preference for the dukes
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j. Arthur Hutton, vice chairman of the
association, says: 1.-The prospects are
most hopeful and I for one am fairly
convinced that Lancashire's future sal
walton lies mainly in West Africa
The most sanguine admit that it will
take a long time to develop the cotton
growing resources of the British empire.
But the prospects of achieving success,
it is maintained by the trade here should
afford only satisfaction to American cot
ton manufacturers. Because, it is argued
with the American supply of raw mate
rial inadequate to meet the demand and
the world scrambling for it, stock gam
bling spectators would corner the crops
and the American mills would find them
selves between the devil and the deep
sea-compelled to shut down or to pay
ruination prices.
The Man for the Emergency
1t is Sir Alfred Jones' prominence in
the movement more than anything else
that inspires the confidence of the Brit
ish public in its ultimate success He
has record of never making failure
of anything he has undertaken. He owns
some Welsh colieries which he found
were not paying. He installed new
plant at great expense, but the results
speedily compensated him for the outlay,
for he saved rs cents on every ton of
coal mined. He called it bringing him
self "up to date''-a favorite phrase of
his. He has been dubbed the Banana
King" though his success in developing
that industry in the West Indies and the
Canaries is really one of his minor fnan-
cial achievements. 1t is now freely pre-
dicted it will not be long before the title
is superseded by that Of the Cotton
King
Enormously rich, at the head of five
great steamship companies and several
minor lines, he is in no sense a money
grubber. He is man rather of the Cecil
Rhodes type, with whom money is a
means to an end, and that end the de-
velopment of British trade and commerce
-stenciling Englands mark in large let
ters on the waste places of the British
empire. He is fifty-four years old and
welded only to business. His gospel of
success he tersely summed up as Work,
hard work." and he practiced it far bet
ter than he breaches it, for he is a man
of few words.
He was turned adrift in the world when
only twelve years old as a ship appren-
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LONDON WEDDING PRESENTS SOME
NOVEL FEATURES TO ENGLISH SOCIETY

uncompromising free trade policy as
opposed to Mr.. Chamberlain's policy
of moderate protection and eretaHalofy
import duties. 1t simply indicates that
the Duke of DeyoHshire has mint OF
money, several magnificent estates, ana
understanding the kings tastes tnor-
oughly. can guarantee him good time
at any one of them The king is about
the only man in the kingdom who is
denied the privilege of expressing an
opinion on debateable political topics.
An attempt made by a public speaker
to cite his views on the fiscal question
ELECTED g. stern rebuke from his prl-
vate secretary, Lord .Knollys.
Fashionable tailOrs are DeWalnng
the shortage of money in swelldom- IN
stead of being rushed with orders Tor
new sllits they are subjected to the
humiliation of having to repair anu
renovate old garments. In all my ex-
perience in the west end of LONDON,
have never seen anything IKE II, says
a member of the craft. who boasts
many titled aristocrats among MS ch-
ents. "Clothes that In former times
gentlemen would have given to thelr
Wallets or the Salvation Army they now now
send me to be fixed up for anotner
season. One of my customers who,
wear or two back, would never nave
demeaned himself. by getting SUIT
cleaned in order-to save the pufchaSe
of . new one. actually sent me pair
of trousers. to be-reseated! nave
never received such shock since l
opened this shop sent them BACK 70
him. 1 have my own reputation 10
maintain and must draw the line SOME
where" .a
Meanwhile Belgravia cleaning ana
dyeing establishments are doing a brlsk
business. They have never before re-
ceiyed so many women's summer sults
to be dyed for winter wear And, Wnlch
is a novelty In their experience, men Oh
fashion are resorting to the same eco
nornical expedient. These tnngS are
significant signs of the impending hard
times.
The custom of dining out at swell
restaurants. which is becoming as
marked a feature of fashionable HE IN
london as it is in the big American
cities. is held responsible for the strlk-,
ing decline in popularity OF port VINE
as a beverage, the customs returns Tor
1904 showing a falling OIL IN the quan.
titv imported of $4,000 bottles Fort
wine. tits held, is not conducive to the
cultivation of the gad-abeut habits II
fills one with an easy-going sarsfac-
ton with the world and strong dis
Inclination to move away from ones
chair It is, therefore, wine fer the
home. an ally of domesticity even If It
does produce gout. 1t is not drink
that recommends itself to persons OF
experience as a prelude to making a
night of it at the theater or opera.
. For every bottle of port wine we sell,
saws the proprietor Of one OF London,s
Fashionable restaurants, I'VE dispose of
sixty bottles of champagne. and per-
haps 100 of hook and similar light
Wines In view of the reasons given
to account for it, the great decrease in
the consumption of port wine cannot
be regarded by our moral guides and
censors altogether as evidence of im-
proved social conditions.
Lady Mary.
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n ONDON, Oct. 29.-At last we have
been treated to genuine nov
II city as an accompaniment of
fashionable wedding. Several
attempts to depart from the beaten
track of matrimonial celebrations have
been made among the smart set this
season, but they have had little to rec
ommend them. Some brides, eager to
anticipate their millinery triumphs,
have worn their trousseau gowns at
special functions before the day of the
wedding; others have gone so far as
to hold their wedding receptions be-
fore they were married. But hereto
fore none has ventured to defy the hoary
custom which prescribes that honey
moon trips shall be reserved for the
exclusive and selfish enjoyment of
bride and bridegroom alone. Now,
however, one couple has done it. AS Il
result there is to be recorded a honey
moon in which the happy pair are ac-
companied throughout their journey by
their bridesmaids and young men
friends, chaperoned by the brides
mother. It is the honeymoon up to
date. Many similar ones are sure to
follow.
1t is pretty Miss Brooke and Maj.
Fowler who are the originators of this
startling innovation. And isn't 1t just
Irish through and through? TT couldn't
have happened anywhere but in Ire
land,' declared duchess who had
been the recipient of one of the scores
of telegrams dashed off by members
of this novel party as they go gayly
from place to place along the west
coast of Ireland. For it is not an or
dinary tour, this wedding trip Of bride
and bridegroom, bridesmaids and
young men and the doWager chaperon,
but a driving tour. A driving tour in
two-wheeled buggies for two, driving
tour without coachmen except one who
takes care of the chaperon in the rear.
In the first buggy goes the bride and
the bridegroom, in the second comes
the chief bridesmaid with the best
man, in the third another bridesmaid
and another friend of the bridegroom,
and SO on, lad and a lassie in each
with the brides mother trailing on be-
hind. And away they go-this up-to-
date wedding couple-folloWed by this
long cavalcade of maids and men, up
hill and down dale, to the mountains,
to the plains, all along the west coast
of the Emerald Isle. one of the gay
est, jolliest parties that ever astonished
the natives of the country. The beaten
tracks of tourists and the everyday
sightseer are scorned by the wedding
party who go skimming along good
roads and humping and jumping over
the bad in search of pastures new.
Down into quaint old villages swoops
this long caValcade of girls and their
escorts, putting up for the night at the
Queerest, odd inns, straining It's re-
sources for man and beast to the ut
most. and then off again in the early
morning.
@ Were having the maddest, merriest
time wires one girl to her mother,
who knows her daughter safe under the
chaperonase of the brides mother.
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the care lavished on their manufacture
they are much dearer, even there. than
the imported Lancashire article. In the
great city of Kano-the Manchester Of
Africa"-with more than 100000 inhab-
itants, the cotton industry plays para
mount part and the same is true of many
other centers of Northern Nigeria.
The total area of the British possessions
in West Africa amounts in round figures
to 500,000 square miles. The soil is said
to be well adapted to cotton culture. If
only one-tenth of it were devoted TO that
purpose at the rate of one third of bale
to the acre it would yield 10000,000 bales.
Cheap labor is abundant. conservative
estimate of the population of West Africa
places 1t at &c, 100000. In Northern Nige-
ria alone there are supposed to be at
least 100000 natives.
Faith in West Africa
The popular notion that these West
African folk are merely lot OF low
down, lazy niggers,' who, except under
compulsion, never can be induced to do
more work than is necessary to fill their
bellies, is declared to be utterly errone-
Gus.
1.-THE truth is, says a former admins
traitor in that region, "the native of Brit
ish West Africa IS born trader and ag-
riculturist combined. He needs only to
be shown that there IS money IN tnlng
to go for it keenly.''
Its relative proximity to Europe, COM
pared with other portions of the Dark
Continent where cotton is Indigenous,
confers a great advantage on West At
RIGA Sierra Leone is only twelve days
by steam from Liverpool, the Gold coast
fifteen days and Lagos seventeen days.
Most Of the cotton that has been exported
from West Africa in previous years, it is
admitted, was of rough quality, though
of moderately long staple.
But" says one of the Manchester ex-
perts, there are some excellent native
varieties, and from Sierra Leone sample
was received which was a good deal bet
ter than average American-white and
silky and of fine and fairly long staple.
We still have much to learn of native
varieties, and although some excellent
results have been obtained from imported
American seed it is possible that we may
ultimately obtain the most suitable cotton
for Lancashire either from native seed
of from cross between native and Ameri-
can"
In an exhaustive review of the situation,
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tice. He waxed strong and vigorous on
frugal fare and hardships, and though
for many years he has had money enough
to command all the luxuries of life he
cares nothing for them. His home is in
Liverpool, but there is little suggestive Of
the millionaire in his plainly furnished
house.
Ten Minutes to Eat In
Half of each week he spends in Lon
don, occupying suite of apartments that
are equally devoid of evidences of great
wealth. He has brought economy of time
to fine point. In his journeyings be-
tween the two cities he works off arrears
of correspondence. Ten minutes is all he
allows himself for meal, and he never
suffers from Indigestion, either. He has
a good physique and strong features, with
remarkably clear and penetrating eyes,
which impress one with their owners
ability to size people up quickly and cor
rectly. He puts on no airs; his personality
renders anything of that sort superfuous.
Some men who have done big things
seem so much like ordinary men that
they make you wonder how they have
contrived to make such big mark in
the world. But one does not indulge in
such speculations in the presence of Sir
A1TSQ JOflSS. he SOuICSS VI Ills SuSSOSo
proclaim themselves-force, energy, self
confidence, will power, decisiveness are
stamped all over him. He is an acces-
sible man; he submits to being interview
ed when he thinks it worth his while to
talk for publication, but he has knack
of making one feel that he regards his
own time as something so valuable that
he can't afford to waste any of it, He
always keeps a dish of bananas on his Of
flee table. When he offers a visitor
banana it is an intimation that the inter-
view is at an end. 1t is the way he does
it that makes that apparent, and yet
there is nothing brusque or boorish about
his manner of doing it, But next time
that visitor calls he does not linger long
enough to be offered banana.
Sir Alfred Jones has not done much
talking about the British Cotton Crow
ing association heretofore, but the other
day he made this significant utterance:
1--WE have got through now with the pre-
liminary processes and difficulties, and
are rapidly approaching results which are
likely to astonish the cotton world.
e. L. Smell.
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captains of industry. AS proof Of his
own confidence in the British empire cot
ton growing undertaking he has bought
100000 600 acres in Sierra Leone and start
ed raising cotton there on a big scale.
Under his energetic direction the asso-
citation has dispatched agents to spot out
all the likely places in the empire where
cotton can be raised and made to pay
Large consignments of cottonseed have
been distributed. Machinery has been
purchased and sent where it is needed.
Expert cotton cultivators have been en-
gagged, several of them from America. to
show the natives the best methods of
raising cotton. Many samples of cotton
have been received from agents of the as
sociation that Lancashire manufacturers
have pronounced good, some of it quite
equal to the American product.
AS q result of all that has been done
thus far 1t is confidently asserted that
in England's possessions all the cotton
needed by her mills can be raised. and as
much more as the rest of Europe may
need Indeed one enthusiastic member
declared that America would some day
be importing cotton from British COL
onies But that was said at a banquet
and allowance must be made for the
champagne.
Cotton Fields of the British Empire
The latest report OI lHe dSSOCidtiOH
gives a long list of places in the British
colonies and dependencies where cotton
is now being grown or can be grown. 1t
is being raised in Malta and Cyprus, IN
Europe. In Asia, as is of course well
known, it is extensively cultivated in
India. but it is also grown in Ceylon, IN
the Straights Settlements and in North
Borneo In the western hemisphere 1t
is grown in the West Indies, in British
Guiana. in Honduras, in Fiji and in Aus
tralia In Africa cotton has long been
staple product of Egypt and is now be-
ing cultivated in earnest in the Sudan
At Kassala, at Seunaar and Shendi the
planting is extending, and as soon as the
Suakim- -Berber railway is completed will
be greatly extended. Cotton can be
grown in many parts of South Africa,
such as the Lydenburg district, swazi-
land and Basutoland. 1t is grown IN
Natal and in the Guiana river district Of
Cape Colony 1t fourishes in Rhodesia,
in British Central Africa and In Uganda
in various districts. On the west coast
1t is cultivated in Lagos, Sierra Leone,
in Gambia, on the Gold coast, in Northern
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ONnON Oct 2q-Daniel I Snll

Copyright, 1904, by Curtis Brown
ONDON, Oct. 29.-Daniel ]. Sully
and others of his kind seem likely
to leave a bigger mark in the
IL worlds history than one would nat
urally suppose. For now, as a direct
result of American speculation in cotton,
the British manufacturers dependent on
the American product have gone seriously
to work to raise cotton enough to supply
their own mills.
There has been much talk about British
cotton for years past, and hints have been
sent out in this correspondence from time
to time that the movement was possibly a
bigger affair than had been realized in the
United States. And now there is no longer
any doubt about it. Before many years,
it is predicted, the British colonies will
be turning out almost as much cotton as
the United States, and much of it of equal
quality. The demand is increasing so
much faster than the supply, however,
that it is thought that the only result
IN the United States of the new British
movement will be to prevent corners.
In normal years the British manufac-
turers import $780, 100000 worth of the
raw staple, the bulk of which comes from
the United States. They believe that If
the new scheme continues as well as 1t
has started it will not be more than ten
or fifteen years before they will be able
to get on without a penny's worth from
across the Atlantic
To Visit American Manufacturers
Some of the Lancashire cotton manu-
facturers probably will accept the hospi
table invitation of the Southern manufac
turers to visit them and talk things over.
They and their hosts will find themselves
in accord on a good many things and es
pecially as to the desirability OF hanging
the stock gamblers who get up corners
in cotton. But the bulk of the cotton
men on this side scout the suggestion
that they can best find a way out of their
troubles by lending hand to increase the
area of cotton culture in the South.
Lancashire's great industry has been
worse hit by the short supply and high
price of cotton than is generally realized
in America. According to the latest esti-
mate the various interests concerned in 1t
have lost more than $50, 000, 900 in the last
twelve months. Experts have done a lot
of figuring on the outlook for the future,
and they have all reached the same con-
clusion. 1t is that, If England continues
dependent on the United States for the
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and Southern Nigeria also in Mauritfus
and the Seychelles and in st. Helena
1t is in Africa, and more especially in
West Africa, that the British Cotton
Growing association expects to enthrone
another King Cotton who will some day
rival the American potentate. In this
district the Inhabitants have been famil-
lar with the growing, spinning, weaving
and dyeing of cotton for centuries before
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William the Conqueror had invaded Eng
land. 1t is one Of the beneficent results
of the early spread Of Islamism, which
taught the virtues of cleanliness and
clothing besides closing the gates of
paradise against those who get drunk.
In Mahometanized British West Africa
the weaving of cotton is universal. Not
withstanding the primitive nature of the
looms, some of the cloths produced, it is
declared, are so beautifully finished as to
defy European competition. But owing to