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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17

70 TN EDITOR or THE SrS str Thr folio wing
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subscription, by Mail. Postpaid
A Wider Market for Cotton De.
mandcd

We print to-day letter from former
Senator MCIAuRlN Of South Carolina.
in which he discusses the question OF
cotton production and the consequences
to the South which will be brought about
by the recent decline IN the price of the
staple. Naturally, that drop is of serious
interest to the South, FOR he contends
that the price is below the cost of pro-
duction and lower than ever before con-
sidering present prices of rent. labor
fertilizers and provisions
Mr.. MCLAURlN. however, sees no
remedy for this state of things IN the
proposed reduction of production by
a restriction of the cotton acreage. and
he expects that the convention of cotton
growers at New Orleans will take "A
more comprehensive view OF the situa-
ton His argument Is that relief is 20
be found in extending the demand for
cotton rather than III any such artificial
temporary expedients IN violation of
economic laws. The great market 20
which Mr. MClAURIN looks forward is
China, and his letter is chiefly devoted
TO the discussion of methods for the de
velopment of that market
On the other hand a North Carolina
newspaper, the Charlotte Observer. takes
the remarkable view that even the boil
weevil is friend rather than an enemy
TO the South This theory is that if the
rapacious insect had curbed It's appetite
81
crop would have reached dimensions
which would have sent prices TO a disas-
trous minimum and so would have
brought the South to ruin smothered by
overproduction.
If that argument is economically
sound, the people of the South should
cease to burn their surplus, cease to talk
about restricting the area planted, and
make household pet OF the pesky bug
We admit that the ravagcs of the in
sect have been a factor in the price of
cotton during the present season, but we
decline to regard boil weevils, corn smut,
wheat rust, and the San Jose. scale as
any more friendly and benefcent agen-
cies than are floods. hurricanes and CON
Gagrations Tho regulation Of market
prices on hasis OF the influence of de
structive agencies - most doubtful
economic policy The South and the
Department Of Agriculture will do wisely
TO continue their efforts TO restrain and
extermnate the pest. Planters may be
thankful for what il has done for them
this season, but the enduring friend
ship of the boil wecvil is not safely to
be relied upon.
Mr. McLAURIN, looking at the situa-
ton from South Carolina, says that no
man convcrsant with conditions in the
cotton belt believes that without some
providental disaster the crop Of 1905 will
be materially reduced Even if the acre
age is curtailed, better cultivation and
increased use of fertilizers will make up
the deficiency yet he has no fear of the
dethronement of King Cotton If the Far
Eastern market for it is properly devel-
oped by methods which he points out.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17

The CITY OF New York tx rapidly becoming
the worlds money centre and in the matter
OF secured bonds not stocks alone, specp-
lative or otherwise. II means "A great deal
when the New York Stock Exchange closes
1904 with 81 ,O97 OS0 900 bonds sold during
the year, az against $685. 200, $50 for the
previous year. an increase OF 1852 800 900
or fully $1,000, 900 increase each working
day, Sundsys included The increase in
bond sales IA compared with stock sales
since Nov. 3, has been very marked show
ing how quickly capital responds to settled
political conditions. During the year Ne~
York did Il large Ia, "rnational loan bust
ness. Besides loaning $500, 900 to the
London underground good share Of
which comes back TO us fo'f.ectric ma e
chinery, &c. we had faith in prosperous
Mexico 10 the extent of $40 100000 in de-
veloping Cuba, SIS 600 900; in world-amaz-
ing Japan for s65 900 900; in troubled Russia
for s. 900 900
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17
HlyTI L0SES 4 WARsHIP.
The agent sent to Europe to buy One Dies,
and The As5 900 lie Had Is Missing.

WAsHINGToN. Jan. l0.--The aspirations
Of the Haytlau Government for navy
have been crushed in their very beginning
Plans for the purchase of warship. which
was TO be the foundati 5n Of navy for the
little republic were made some time ago
and negotiations were entered into with
nm Italian company for the purchase Of
the vessel An agent was sent TO Italy
with s75 COO for the first payment on the
ship. The other payments we're to be made
later. The agent got as far as Paris After
a brief stay there he was stricken with a
fever and died and all efforts 10 find the
s75 eco were unayaling.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17
FIFE DEPARTMENT NAVY.
Boats Formed Into n Battalion win Chicf
kenlOn as Admiral.

Fire Commissioner Hayes organized yes
terday marine battalion of he Fire De
partwent and put it under charge of Bat
TALON Chief John b. Kenlon. The new
organization consists of the seven fireboat-
of Manhattan and Brooklyn. 1t is to be
known as the Nintecnth battalion The
flreboats were formerly attached TO differ
ent battalions in the two horoughs.
The new head Of the fleet will have his
headquarters on one Of the hreboats and
will respond to all fires on the water front
He will direct operations from the deck of
one of the boats. Before entering the
Fire Department Kenon was a seafaring
man. He holds a masters well a. a
pilots license.
The Fire Commissioner also ordered that
the management of the fire alarm telegraph
system be taken from the Office Of the Chief
and made a distinct division, TO be known
a. the Fire Alarm Telegraph Bureau.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17
GIT FROM MRS. ROOSEVELT.
~. Johns Hospital In Long Island city Gets
an Altar Ornament.

st. Johns Hospital in Long Island City
yesterday received from Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt a basket made of gold wicker
work, standing four feet in height and
filed with artificial flowers made from
feathers and stuffed birds and insects. Mrs.
Roosevelt asked that her gift be placed on
the altar of the Hospital Chapel. Many
yelts when they are living at Oyster BAY
when taken III or get injured are taken
TO ST Johns.
4 week ago two sisters from the hospital
visited the White House and We're introduced
TO Mrs Roosevelt who said that she would
make the hospital q gift.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17
Addition to Brooklyn Llbrar, Opened

The addition ia the Brooklyn Pdblir
Library on Montague street was opened
yesterday. The addition runs through TO
pierrepont street and is 5OxiOO feet. two
stories high. and cost $50 600 Ii IL finished
in oak and is well lighted and ventilated
4 portion Of it will be set aside for the
lttt1a fotkg
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17

From ne AA1ni journal
Some time ago a. Gainesville. CITY sexton 4.
rorgins secured number Of left hind feet o. rah-
hlis Killed 10 the graveyard between y and O'Clock
on thc darn OF the moon and oloudy night. He
hid them They ere now missing. Some OF 'he
town boys arr sutTc-ted. And the little negroes
orc "a state Of apprehension and oonsternA,!on
No telling when somebody may cross thsir breasts
n thc DARK with one OF the hood cord rabbit foots
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17

TO THE Editor or THE Sos Sir The letter OF
your correspondent OIOn- needs but few inning
changes In It's wording 10 br pregnant aud liz
nincant document May venture to make them
should Ike 10 Know why II is that the ordinary
EnelishmAn Is evsHAsungy critIcisng America
and drawing comparisons between this and the old
country, 10 Americas Diet tlmcni always
Why moi have smack at Germany Trance and
beautiful Russia Give them turn.
They have good brown ale IN England also INC
gailowS' also many other lime hOhofcd, excellent
aud elsewhere obsolete Institutions all Of the beat
known 10 the human race we know that, for We
nave heard II all so frequently.
II Is 'OIon's~ august hatred OF America. IS
manifested every day by Ills counirymen earning
ihelr living In our business houses aud accepting
hospitality In our homes. which makes 0n AmeH
can feel Ike Kicking every Engllshnan he meets
The mystery which English people are tr1ng to
solve may be how Il Is that the Englishinen marry
Americas women when they know this national
feeling hut the American doesn't Try. lie knows
that gl'ded bank account often sWectrnS even an
american pill 10 the noble British palate.
The real problem which We arc trying 20 work
ont IA why he ordinary" Engll.hmsn sneets az,
rrtlclses, abuses and rldiculcs this poor. crude.
god iofSNken land sc, aot only leaves white walled
Albion In considerable numbers fof Us sake but
actually persists IN -t6Ning when be gets here
oNH or INF NusRlCiNH VINO # tfLs LIKE KICK
mo
NEW Yogk ian IS
To TBE EDITOR or TINS scN- sr nave been
IN this country ten years aud have always found
Americans to be o. r.: but let them he Americans
and not the sort on meet who claim 90 be American
and have 40 more Sigh, 10 that title than myself.
II every Engllshuan coming here would claim
20 be Irlsn be would 60 along all right especially
In New York ! PfTrA NNsON.
NKw YORK, Ian 10.
To THE EDIIog oF THF SrS--.Sir. am an Ens
llshu,an and have beer over here about four years
do not nerrr with 'Oron 'vhen he says he feels
like Iickiug every American he meets. for don't
thnl; itrrr Is any TO come Mp 10 the pure bred
Yankee certainly do feel sometimes myself like
lacking some Of The lrishmru, Shosre the onl, ones
that run England down BsowN Mr.
NEW ok Jan 10
To TBE EpuoH or THT SuS sir -OLon- aud
yelling tonlcnSis" bic sed words'-give mr pain.
Their Is nothing certain that both sides %
tie pond YOU cannot throw net without catching
. mueller. bat when Americans and Rnglishmrn
beet abott II. and forget that there StIli few
OF tie hight sort nis time lot the OF
the gag
The on!t isc ! can imagine ior these dear little
hamT II wleldrrs IS that hey reconcile us 10 the
fac, that are no, Immortal
t'EioN HUI. Jan 10. NHIhsHAH
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17
Increase In Price Of Mules.

TTT' "
To- ls4a ihc father OF Jacob Maddox OF AcCrecis
township who has grown gray In the business o.
buying mule coils, invested IN bunch Of colts
that COS, $40 round. and thcy were sold in the 10
owing spring ~ just about one year old for al
average of SIS. In 1851 lot OF colts purchased
cost an average nf t75 In 1906 the price paid ms
"a. IN 1897 she bunch averaged 81. IN lSos 'hsv
cost So IN ~ averaged IS? and In 1904 cost SO.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17

received fish cggs Of various kinds dur
ing the year Mr.. BOWERS expects all
OF them to hatch and breed and they
should supply strong arguments for
International ponce in the future
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17

The IN, sonl and moral advantages % lSrFs
families are well recognized. Members OF small
families. Ike only children. are poorly equppsd
for the struggle OF NE and the avoidance OF obugs
tioas and responsibilities on the par Of the pAr-n's
do,s away with very powerful factor IN N, 90.
fAtinn Of he Individual.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17
BR0kE IN on
40 TEL Preacher Ushel
Then Arrest for1


o. Henry Y. Knapp. n 4
o'rong place. Brooklyn|
sunday night for creatd
lhe Baptist Temple, a
and Third avenue. Wind
land Meyers was deli1
was arraigned before 4
~ me Myrtle avenue I'd
ggharged with disturbia
~ was accompanied a
"'e y Of the Baptist 4
=. " appears that Mr.. a
~ good health for soma
inferred '.,i the church Sund
Spslsslon with an usher
I'm 70 enter. II vas I'D
=, ,o', hhapp and he wall
~ ~ make known to DR.. 4
ne pad been insulted. /
bo ms. Knapp said thad
In In overworked Of aid
10 tom J melanoholia. Dr1
~ r,e .oeney Hospital Ia
Nc si'ed Mr.. Knapp "A
rna,, Knapp said she II
b aental condition 10 he n
M NJ was adjourned
hanpp was released
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17
Recipe

" food No longer 'ASics ID, sAmt
Whatever care they take
u you arr signing FOR she stun
That Mother used 70 make.
Nrise a. four and milk th- COWS.
Go out and feed 'he hogs
Ihen. Just 20 while The time sVay.
SPIT up some hickory logs
- stop. before you Kick about
The biscuit and 80 axe.
And ret the kind OF app, tie
Your Mother used 70 make
NcLLgp " noa WILSON.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17

Prom ne tGfrplir Standard end r-l,'.
When | was - kncu
Miss sere. and she was 81.
Ru, now I'm 3. and Gh.e-
How t,rapgess-is onty -
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17

War or M war. Japan goes steadily on with her
business. internal and external. The HoSkaido
RAILWAY. connecting Hakodalc with III" port n:
otaru, on the Sea OF Japan. Is now open for eight,
seven miles. 40 through 1908 the work went
stendlly y craving dock a. liaEodntc has also
heeu opened one coal mine In the vicinity had an
output OF 9235H OF coal In the year. 1909.
mis- company employs : Oo0 miners. n also has a
coke factory and Is paving handsome dividends.
iApan., orncisl control ~ uir use OF opium in
Fnrmnss IS sucrese. rs iupnri into that island
fl from s7GoloIu I,0e Go $4,000 In 1908 decrease
~ $1,000. The pncr Is atrd hy Government. and
selling agents only allowed pfunt 10 q per
cont. since late In iHit thc number of opium snoS-
crs In iormoN0 na, decreased d. about a thousand
a month racn opium suloKcr has to be registered
pIb!lc opinion well IS the lswis agalnstl Its USE.
puring lao7 railway hulidug In lanan on one
extension OF eleven miles rsilcd Tor the consiruc-
ton OF tunnels O13 feet and 2g5 feet in length
respectively. and one bridge OF aOJo FEET. Another
extension Of fourteen miles b'Ill' last ear
This llnc alsn required several bridges Other
shorter aud temporary llncS were bullt In 1914
The Sobunkr bridge on one ofthe,r smhllerlines IS
c,s0e feet long Evidently tie Japanese nre ahie 10
accomplish large cngInerrns results
The gold p,na note, OF the Japanese Formo.aa
hsuk arc vrf, popular In the ISLAND NAM people
there ~ order gct The note, IN exchange for their
gold and silver actual, pns a premium. The
money shaving based on no former almost worth
less currrncy % lormoss is pni out OF business.
Japan Imports wool from Australia. British
India China. belgium Germauy ard other
European countries. Tor the nrst six months Of
rsDi calendar ftNf Jspsus total lwnon OF wool
was 5esso7o pounds
Japsns railway wori. ia Corea has been going on
earnestly. Trains are running from FGsHu 90 Seoul,
fy January 1900, the Scout Gen>an line wi be COM
pleted In connection win the Seoul chcmuro
line e. will form the rnuspcu'nsuar route between
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17
E'hei Barr,more IA

,t Ethel Barrymore is i
r.a. Permanently in l
nj ren 1.e a house in Paa
Ss D., Ke her home there. /
, Sos . %. ON the road N
Nyoopy her house.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17

TO rHE Enron or THE StS--.Sir' The o7er mad,
10 SIT Henry Irving 10 90 on the music hail stage
FOR si55O a week, and his Indignant refusal TO
grthrr With his me scorn OF the halls" recall the
song sung by one OF famous pair who lrfi tne
"ler't- for the variety stage no, long ago
We've chueked the British drama.
For rs old and out Of date.
ind we've taken TO the halls
We used to sooru and loAfhe and bate.
We're marching with The times
And we re going TO succeed.
In fact. must confess.
We're doing very well Indeed
BrooEiNS, Jan N. O.. e.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17

How Time ChanEes.

Ne S'yle.-ChauIelrs get rood salaries
Gunblrta-.ind Thea knock down a graz t-L.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17

THIS result hears opt what Rowland Han said when
be Introduced penny postage IN England The
greater the facility, the greater the use Is It not
about time We had = rheAp and flexible parcels past
system ~ .hc United States
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17

An Antotype.
Mobile features has Josephine.
md yet shes DOT sgrace.
Because her mobile features mean
The automobile face.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-13
AN AM ERICAN KING,

From the London World.
 In view of the political character ana temperament of the Norwegian people, and the summary manner in which they terminated the union with Sweden ana absolved themselves from their allegiance to King Oscar 1t would have been no surprise If the outcome of the natonai vote had been the conversion or their sturdily independent little kingdom into a republic. The actual suit. arrived at with a decisveness which has rendered 1t all the more impressive, has established the fact that. in the deliberate Judgment of this people of democratic temper and pro- rressiye ideals. constitutional monarchy remains the best and wisest form of gov ernment for a free nation.
 In France the present regime is upheld by many of its most thoughtful supporters as inevitable, on the ground that in the existing political conditions of that coun- try it divides F'renchmen the ieast;' but 1t is interesting. if unprohtable. to specsi- late whether the United States, if called
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-13
An Old Violin.

"The article headed "Pagonini and His Friends" in the New York Sun for Decem- Der has proved of interest" said Norval Welsh of San Antonio.
 We have In our possession violin once the property of Thomas Maury, Esq, Of Albemarle county, Virginia, sometime granduncle of my wife's, to whom it has descended Tine instrument has long been an object of interest. partly due to it's associations and partly 10 the obscurity surrounding It's make and early history. It was presented to MT Maury while he was a student at William and Mary col lege, Virginia, about l743, and was subse- quently used by him while imparting knowledge to Thomas Jefferson, likewise of Albemarle, and later third President.
 ''The history of this violin up to the time 1t came into MT. Maury's hands we do not know We do know. however, that 1t was presented to him as "a very old instrument" An instrument of this kind under one hundred years of age would hardly be classed as very old" upon which hypothesis the existence of this particular fiddle would date from 1643 anteceding the famous Strads by a score or two years, and associating in the dim past with the instruments of the Amati. One thing is certain, and that is that it is now very, very old. It bears its years we'll
 "Who made 1t? It is the work of mas ter hand of the AmaG or of a contem- porary in those days of long ago, is there any way of ascertaining?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-13
Is There Cotton Enough?

No more difficult problem presents itself than this-"Is there cotton enough to meet the wants of the worlds spinners up to September l next?'
 In the last cotton year, according to Ellison the spinners consumed 11,76s, GOO bales of American cotton. Peace rekns in the Far East. and 1t is req sonable to say that the spinners wili consume this year fully 12.0O000O bales of American cotton.
 But it should not be forgotten that the crop grown this year is not the sole dependence. The Financial Chron- icle puts the surplus brought over from last years great crop at 2,276,1S5 bales. There were that many bales of old COL ton on hand September 1, as against a surplus of 4S,913 bales one year before.
 If we assume that the crop grown this year was but 10,O00,O00 bales, then we have a total for the worlds use this year of 12,2T6,1S5 bales. Surely sur. plus of 276.1S5 bales Is needed in mills scattered all the way from Japan to Fall River We have then available for use this year 12,OO0,O00 bales. and the production and surplus will prob ably need it, but the surplus at the end of the present cotton year will be small indeed.
 It is easy therefore to see why cotton is firmly held There is not more than enough to go around, and leave a work ing surplus at the end of the year. On September i next the world will be pretty bare of unspun cotton, and this is why eleven cents has come to be the minimum price of the staple. Presi- dent Harvie Jordan puts the crops maximum price at 15 cents. and he may be right, for in 1903 cotton went to 17N cents in New York. and the crop of that year was ten million bales,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-13
Begin, murderer;-lesve thy damnabl; faces, and begin,
 Ill anllet.
Rivers and Harbors.

A convention of the National River and Harbor association is to be held in Washington on January 15, and that city anticipates one of the largest gath erings of recent years. Delegates have been appointed to represent the Tennes- see valley, the Ohio valley and the Mis- sissippi valley, and scarcely state will be unrepresented in the convention.
 This district and the Warrior river should be particularly well represented, and both Tuscaloosa and Mobile should send delegates. as well as the Conner cial club of this city.
 The standpatters are endeayoting through Speaker Cannon to suppress rivers and harbors bill. but the conven- ton will endeavor to show Congress and the country that cessation in internal improvements would be very
 
 poor eeonomy-really a policy that a big country should be ashamed to adopt.
 About s1S,000,000 a year has been spent of late in improving rivers and harbors. while $6O,000,000 has been spent each year on the navy, and about s150, 100000 has been paid each year to pensioners. A big, rich country can we'll afford to spend $18,000.000 year in extending it's commercial advant- ages and facilities. and 1t can Ill afford to stop such work when once it has been planned and begun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-13
Nobel Prize Winners.

The award of a Nobel prize to Henrik Sienkiewicz. the Polish novelist, re- calls Alfred Nobel himself, the inventor of dynamite. who, dying rich, left be- hind four fine funds, each of which permits the award of prize of $40 ,000 to the man who has in the year notably aided humanity. One prize goes to the man who has done most in medical re- search; another to the leader in scien- tifc investigation; another to the chief promoter of peace, and still another to q master in idealistic literature. Two German professors shared this year the second of these prizes; another Ger. man secured the aforementioned prize.
 still another German carried of the third prize. but the fourth prize was awarded to a Pole. who was born in Iithunia in 1S45. He has written a series of great historical novels, which have been translated in every country of the civilized world. Few readers in sesA ars unacouainted with "Quo