The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-04

Ss35 Unless S0methln g&untOrSeenthap we
viii have g, 600, 900 iita les OF cotton this
season, 2, 900, 600 more than the banner
year of '97 yielded 4. August Is a trying
month; however. sully,s 81 crash brought
cotton down from ~ II cents. but q I
I that "a te-s $50, 900 0oo-tlle country Is even
The demand for cotton would have been
lighter.
R5$ t is expected that our corn will equal
COO coo bushels ls'1 this. yea
All / the returns are Sin for the Fourth.
of Jul and there were IS killed and 1854
people wounded as par It Q lt8 Our festive
5commemorationo Of the Declara tionI o ( 1n-s
dependence. IN Chlcag go there were sll5S
alarms & fire that day.. u more than last
year but he dead Sta nd Wounded list
shows a. very marked ling off from
former years. There q Is even hope 4 OF the
foolish and sda ugerous spracti Ices sacred to
thai date falling into innocuous desue-E
tude.
here are ,5s4 900 unmarried females of
mo rria geable age u In Canada III They had
better move out to i the pioneer districts
OF tina 5countrysw where the men are three
ton that bodies "a slow increAse OF popu-y
ia ton In those districts. There areB2 75l,-
$70s males and 2,619, COZ femal les In 1.-THE en-.
tire country that is capabl Of sustaining
gSuvUV,VVu people, sssS[
There are s.2O1.5sl neg roes IN the United
Sta es. laska, . Ha wall, and Porto Rico
more b negroes than can a be IA found
anywhere else in the world except
Africa. They constitute one-flfteenthI
OF our city popula Ion & and sew
5enth Of our country popula ton
The increase during q, the la ST decade was
cess Of females. The deaf h rate among!
them lis approxfmatey3 30 per- cent. lille
that Of the whites Is a per cen 900 go
ofl5tlhe negroes In the United States arc
engaged In gainful occupati tons. 81
ii Nine million acres Of public lands In
Nebraska, Wyoming and i South Dakota
have just been opened WI 7 hat bout winds
UP the opening of Fed era lands iniytlis
country, incidentally. It may not be
amiss to mention the fact that 90. 900 home
where the are still millions upon millions,
OF available public lands and all sorts Of
governmental Inducements offered to-
people to set tie. 53 Is 3is9 5f
During the first SIX months OF 1904 ST.
527. 800 of securities were listed. 4 During
Y45k
ibeen falling oft of s25, 900 900 since 1888,
"A hopeful sign-that lambs are less fplen-s
tiful In Wal street. Sue a. 81 gn as this
grea t decrease In. speculation need not
necessarily indicate lack OF prosperity Of
that less legitimate business was being
done. III 33f
Sf The hop wine Is being ruined by a PEE
liar insect ca lied the aphis, IA self-pro-
Spagating plant louise. There are males
and females hut the insects Of her sex
can be isolated and yet continue propaga
ting alone, the product of a single aphis
reaches a d cell ion-Tthi rty-four figures
In less thanSa year, or ten generations.,
Six generations .of the little pests would
an elephant. The ants make
use $of them as thelramilel cows They
them. and milk them wit h the greatest
care. and apparently to the profit OF both
parties. +; l3ls t
New York has a populat on of 3, 4s7, 900
people and has lo,ss2 saloons; Chicago
6as. 900 people, witt Is. 400 looms; Phila-j
!delphia1 .as4 600 people and 700 sa looms; ST..
Louis 675, 900 people and 1000 saloons !,
Boston, with 58l, 900 peopl e. has 100 Sd
looms; Ball more sos, 200 people to n 1888 Ssa s.
looms cleveland Ss1 000-l SIS saloons, and
San FRA nc SEQ 34s 900 people 1907 sal looms.
Washington 278.0OO poop and BIB saloons
Manila 229, 900 people and l29 sa looms. In
ltheS 4 last city there ore really hut 10 600
foreigners for whose benefit these. sal aons,,
really higher here than any here else, As
~. The net proceeds of the miners OF Butte,
Montana !, equal s7,s54.0oo per year. III
y, ~, a No az our Ire populat lions q