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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-18
A Big Crop.

The census bureau has Issued bull
letin showing the production and dis.
tribution of the cotton OF the United
States available between September
1,l9O4 and September l 1905, to be
14,455, ,994 bales. OF this amount 81
per cent was exported, 80 per cent
was used in domestic consumption,
leaving a surplus Of per cent. The
domestic consumption includes SO, 776
bales destroyed by fire.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-18
Bryan Welcomed To Japan.

William J. Bryan and bis family ar.
rived in Yokohama on Saturday. They
will make q visit OF five days to Toxic
and Marquis Ito, president Of the
privy council. and Count Okums, the
foreign minister, will invite Mr.. Bry.
an to q dinner. The Japa :.-American
society invited Mr.. Bryan to address
it's members at the Young Mems hall
on October II. Count Okuma presid
ed at the function.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-18
Killed by Cars.

John Turner was instantlyIkilled st
Lumber, Florence county on Monday
afternoon by being caught between
two log cars while the train was IN
motion on the tram road Of william
g. McKithans company, of which he
was an employe.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-18
Will Visit Us,

Secretary of War Bonaparte has
promised to visit Charleston some
time In November or December, on
the &C ;asion of the presentation of q
silver service to the cruiser CHARLES.
ton" by the city Of Charleston.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-18
CHEAP EXCURSION RATES TO
ColumbIs, 8. @, And Return, Via
Southern Railway. ..

SOluAuDl0, Ss " &An0 1sSss.S -
Southern Railway.
The Southern Railway will sell ex.
cursion tickets to Columbia, s. O., and
return, from all points within the
State of South Carolina, and from
Charlotte, N. O., Asheville, N. G..
Wilmington, N. O., Augusta, Ga.,
Savannah, Ca, and intermediate
points, account STATE AGRICULTURAL
AND MECHANICAL FAIR, OCTOBER
24th-27th, 1905, daily October 2snd
to 2eth inclusive, and for, morning
trains scheduled to arrive In Columbis
before Noon, October 9th, at rate Of
one first class fare plus rs cents plus
so cents for round trip, the fifty cents
covering one admission to Fair
Grounds. .
For Military Companies and Brass
Bands in Uniform, 20 or more on one
ticket, one cent per mile travelled In
each direction pluss arbitraries per
capita. Dates Of sale same as for Civil.
ians as shown above.
FINAL LIMIT ALL TICKETS OCToBER
10Th, 1906.
Southern Railway, in addition to
the regular passenger trains running
on convenient schedules to Columbia,
will operate special trains October
25th and Goth between following
points:
Between Branchville, Camden, Sum.
ter and Columbia. Spsrtanburg and
Columbia and intermediate points.
Anderson, Bolton and Intermediate
points to Columbia.
For further information, apply to
any ticket agent, or write
r. w. HUNT,
Division Passenger Agent,
Charleston, s. O.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-18
To CHICAGO, ILL.,, AND RETURN

To CHICAGO, ILL, AND RETURN
Account National Baptist Conven.
tion (Colored), October, 25th. 31st,
1905. )ne fare for the round trip
Tickets on sale October 23rd and oath
limited to return leaving Chicago not
later than November 5th, 1905.
For further information as to rates,
schedules, etc., call on any Southern
Railway Agent or address,
R. w. HUNT, D. P. A.
Charleston, 8. @.
BROOKS MORGAN, A. G. P. A.
Atlanta Ga,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-18

THE Philadelphia Press says holders
of policies in the big life companies
are at least finding out that they have
been paying too much for their In.
surance. That Is their part Of the rev.
elationS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-18

A NEGRO was taken from constables
near Bainbridge, Ga. on Saturday and
lynched by members Of his own race
for assaulting young colored woman.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-18

THE Augusta Herald says: "Csro-
lina's graft is not confined to the dis
pensry alone, no matter how wicked
folks would have us believe it," That
Is too true.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-18

THE Marion county farmers are
standing out for II cents for cotton.
Only two bales were sold in Marion on
Friday and none ou Saturday.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-10-18
SOME PLAIN FACTS.
Why Cotton Should bs Held for
Higher Prices.
An Official Address to the Farmers
From President e. d. Smith,
Utility Will Bring Success.

The Southern Cotton association Is
an organization Of, by and for the
people. 1t is not for the few but for
the many, not for the farmer alone
but for the merchant, professional
man, mechanic and laborer, for every
one who makes living where cotton
: grows.
The objects sought are manifold
and far reaching; among them Is the
establishment Of system beth in pro-
duction and marketing, thereby Great
ing q condition conducive Of fair and
renumerative prices. To promote
manufacturing where cotton grows,
to the extent of our own people sell.
ing the finished product instead OF
sending two. thirds Of our raw mater
ial out of the country. But the lined.
late anxiety of the S. G. A. Is that
cotton this year should briog the far
II cents per pound, the price set by
the association.
That the farmers are not getting
this price is no proof that the asso.
citation and other organizations made
mistake in estimating the value OF
cotton, but it does prove that the as
Bociation Is timely and the work Is
was created to do is an imperative
necessity.
as Its weakness Is apparent rather
than real; its success under the cir.
cumstances Is phenomenal. Without
It's powerful influence cotton to-day
would be selling at as low q price as
?: af; any time last wear. Never in the
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
Cause of Our Yearly
PostofFice Deficit
BY ELeeRT HUBBARD.

The deficiency of $15,OO0,O0O in the %postohice depart
ment for the current year, as all parties agree, Is owing
to the extension of the rural delivery. When the rural
delivery carriers were allowed to carry all kinds of pack
ages on their own account, and thereby and
serve the people along their routes, there was only a very
small deficiency. And even this deficiency could have
been avoided, il we had paid only "a fair and just rate to
the railroads for handling mail cars. when the order
was issued that rural carriers should not carry packages
that were not stamped the government had to pay the
carriers more money.
We had largely taken away their usefulness by linz
iting the size of the package they should carry. The
law positively forbids any carrier delivering a package
that weighs over four pounds, unless this package mas
come across the sea, in which case some foreign govern
ment has received the whole pay for carrying and dehv-
erng the package. There is a pleasantly TO the erect
that laws exist through the consent of the governed.
This refusal on the part Of the postofice to carry a pack
age weighing over four pounds is against the positive
desire of most of the people. 1t is solely for the bene-
fit and in the interests of the express companies; and IS
exactly on a par with a law that may forbid a man rid
ing in his own wagon and defining what he should haul
Who has that S15O0OOOO deficit? | will just say
here that if you search Tom Plat, Sam Spooner ana
Chauncey Depew, you will find some goodly rolls Of it,
The post office department exists for the people, We are
told. The real fact is that to a great extent it exists
for the railroads that handle the mail cars, and great care
is also shown not to interfere with the express compan-
les, which are owned by the same men who own the rail-
roads. Give US the parcel post and there will be no
postoffce department deficit. And the way to get the
parcel post is to vote only for congressman who are
pledged in favor of it, and who remember that pledge
in Washington and use their influence TO bring it about
The men who own the express companies are not bad
men-they are very much like ourselves. If we had our
tentacles upon the juicy graft we would not let go until
we had to. Man justifes himself in everything he does,
and so Brother Platt probably thinks that the express
companies are celestial arrangements sent by Providence
to serve the people.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
Go AMID do Likewise

The following from the Roswell Register shows how
and why the Pecos valley is so rapidly increasing in
wealth and population;
only one train came in from the north Wednesday
but il had three extra coaches. The train arrived at
midnight. Two of the extra coaches were those of the
Southwestern Land company, who had sixty people in
their party. The third extra belonged to the Arsssla
immigration company, a new organization, which mad
twenty five or thirty. The Southwestern company per-
mitted part of their men to stop in Roswell and the rest
went through to Hagerman. u. II. Burditt, Of the Seven
Rivers Real Estate company, had ten men from south
Missouri. He says that fourteen more will be in to meet
him on the train tonight. In all there were about a nun
dred prospectors and land buyers on last nights train"
Here is an example Albuquerque might well hasten
to initiate. There are in The Pecos valley regularly or
ganized immigration companies, busily engaged in bring
ing people into that section, and locating them upon town
or country property as the immigrant may prefer.
OF course, it costs money to get into communication
with desirable immigrants, to post them well and truly in
the advantages and opportunities of the valley and its
towns. and finally to land them on the spot where they
may find conditions to be as represented. Yet it pays
those engaged in the business, else would they not con-
tinue il.
Are there any Albuquerque individuals or compan-
les devotng time and money along this line OF inducing
immigration and settlement? If not, why not? There
are money making enterprises which men OF limited
means could develop here. to their own benefit and the
upbuilding of the community. There are lands near the
city where colonies or individual farmers could be To-
cated-lands, rich as those of the Pecos valley and
which because of the cheap cost of electrical power can
be irrigated by pumping as cheaply as can the lands OF
the Pecos valley from their bitches or wells. Yet no
effort to establish these things, which would benefit the
promoter and build up the community.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
Very Deluse of Aliens

Commissioner General Sergeant, in presenting the
annual report of the bureau of immigration, gives as the
arrivals of aliens in the United States during the year
the enormous number of 1926, 499. No wonder he says
that the magnitude and gravity of the problems pre-
scented by the growth of the alien population of this
country loom so largely that all other problems of pub
lie economy shrink into imperative insignihicance.
He further declares that the contract labor law has
cut of enforcement. The chief obstacle he attributes
10 the erroneous impression that it is a measure wrung
from congress against its will by the power of organized
labor. Because of such impression, he declares, the bu-
reau finds its efforts to enforce the law either reluctantly
submitted to or resisted, actively or passively, and itself
viewed as in some sort a branch or agency or organic
ed labor. sensitive to thab body's interest, responsive to
it's wishes, and thus essentially different from other parts
of the executive government of the United States.
The conclusion which the commissioner does not
draw, seems plain enough TO most of the American peo-
pie. Foreign hordes from Austria Hungary, Russia ana
Turkey-in all Of which the supply seems exhaustless,
and from which the bulk Of this enormous immigration
now comes and will continue to come in growing num-
bers-are flooding this land faster than they can be as
simulated. They are crowding the American labOrer TO
the wall, by their cheaper labor and cheaper living, and
making the population of our country in many parts as
dense and congested as in the worst parts of the old
world. With the natural increase Of population by
birth, and with this immense inflow of undesirables, our
own people will find the battle of life yearly growing more
arduous, and their previous prosperous and happy condi-
ton rapidly decaying. immigration should at once be
surrounded by such restriction as to make it virtually
prohibitive.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
Pity G6e Death Of am
Old DOwmG@llem Man
From Topeka state journal,

The end that has come to John II. Mitchell, con
victed United States senator from Oregon, is indeed pitt
able. A man who for forty years has held a high ana
honorable place in the affairs of men-most of that time
in the United States senate-comes to the close of his
career dishonered and disgraced, because he yielded TO
perhaps a single temptation late in his career.
Senator Mitchell was not regarded as simply an or
binary CRATER. While he may have made mistakes
until within recent months he has been regarded as a
highly honorable gentleman. At the age of seventy years
the reputation of a lifetime was swept from him by the
discovery of his connection with the Oregon land frauds
a charge that his colleagues could not circuit and his
friends refused to believe when first made.
With disgrace fastened upon him in his old age and
Imprisonment in a commo Jail staring him in the face
it is little wonder that his health was undermined; and
when seized with a slight affection his physical nature
could not resist it.
The sad part of it is that Senator Mitchell should
have sacrificed a lifelong honorable reputation by giving
way as he did to dshonor, and should then be cut on
with no opportunity to retrieve himself,
Senator Mitchells case is conspicuous because of his
prominence and the height from which he fell; yet sim
liar cases are by no means rare In the annals OF every
day life. Why cannot men learn the terrible lesson OF
giving way TO dishonor from example instead of expert
ence?
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
Distillatiom Of Waste Wood

Wood distnlation is a subject recently taken up by
the national forest service. The purpose is to utilize
the waste wood at logging camps and lumber mills. The
material used is the tops. slabs and other waste of saw
mils-the richer in resenous products the better-and
the down timber and stumps in cut over pine forests.
Even the roots of stumps may be used,
The process consists in driving out from the wood
all the liquid matters, and in collecting and condensing
them afterwards. Intense heat is employed and the
original form of the wood is changed chemically into
various liquids and pure carbon. The wood is closely
placed in a steel retoTt, with the doors tightly sealed,
and fires are started in the furnace beneath. In a few
hours distilatiOn begins. The liquids are driven from the
wood, are changed to vapors, and pass off through a pipe
at the top of the retort, which leads to a condenser or
worm, immersed in water, where they are condensed in
the order of their gravity. Again restored to liquid
form, they then pass through the rest of the coil and
run into collecting tanks. The gas, the lightest of the
products, rises to the top of the coil and is piped off.
A capacity of 100 cords of wood every thirty-six
hours is as small a plant, it is said, as can be probably
handled. From such a plant the yield should be APP
proximately from rs to 100 gallons of oil or tar per cord,
and from 10 to Is gallons of wood turpentine. There are
also produced about 25 bushels of charcoal and pyro-
ligneous acid in quantities about equal to the oil. The
amount of products is in direct ratio to the resinous con-
stituents in the raw material. The value of the pro-
ducts is variable, but profitable. This is a subject which
should be of interest to New Mexico because of the
nature of her forests.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
Grab and Greed
I'm Things We Eat
From What to Eat.
From What to Eat,

So numerous are the adulterants in all classes OF
food products that space prohibits enumeration of them
all. Flour is adulterated with bone dust and corn flour,
Bakers bread is made harmful by uncleanly bakeries and
by adulterated cream of tartar and alum baking powders.
Cocoa may contain an excessive amount of starch, with
ground shells or sugar. Table syrups contain sodium
sulphite and glucose. Molasses is often merely a mix
ture of glucose and chemicals. Honey may be made
of glucose and rose water. Catsups are the most adul-
terated of any other food product, and are often made
of pumpkin or apple pulp, benzoate of soda, benzoic acid
and coal tar dye. 1t is often preserved with salicylic
acid. Tests in Indiana showed 80 per cent of cider VIM
egar to be impure. 1t is often nothing more than a COM
position of mineral acids with coal tar dye added. A
sample of black pepper examined in Connecticut con-
tanned sandalwood, wheat, corn, linseed meal, red saw
dust, sand, rice, bean shells, buckwheat, dyes, olive
stones, mustard hulls, corn meal, sage, cocoanut shells,
pepper shells, and plain dirt. Ginger samples contain
ed wheat -four, rice bran, mustard hulls and in one case
20 per cent of plaster. Mustard is often made chiefly
of wheat flour and tumeric. Spices contain the same
adulterants as black pepper. Pickles contain copperas.
sodium sulphite, salicylic acid. Flavoring extracts in
most instances are the vilest connections of chemical
acids and coal tar dyes, and SO on throughout the whole
curriculum Of food products, In those of every class
the manufacturer has found a means OF cheapening the
cost of their production in order to realize greater profits
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
The SYMPTOMS.

I dknow what under canopy to make o. that ere
topknot hens actiOns," calculated good Mrs. Bentover,
testify, "The pesky critter is up to something queer,
the whole blessed time. First she wanted to set, and
then when she had the chance she wouldn't. Pretty soon
she'd had a fight with every ~feathered thing In the barn
yard, and next nothin' 'peared to be good enough for her
to eat. Bimeby she got to maxim a sort o. wheezin' noise
in her throat, an this mornin'. il you'll believe me, she
actually crowed! What on earth dye 'spose is the mat
ter with her. Lemuel?"
"Wa-al' judicialy replied honest Farmer Bentover
from the symptoms set forth l sorter suspect she rs IN
trainin' to become a primer donner."-Puck.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
Two Corexs Commnred

Contrast, if you please, the attitude of the president
OF the United States Steel corporation with that of his
father, says the Kansas City Times. The old gentleman
asserts that If the reports are true his relations with his
son are ended. And then he gives his opinion Of the
man who. when fortune came, would desert the wife who
had done the Homework and sewing and had reared the
children when her husband was earning $40 a month.
There is no confusion of moral values here. The
elder Corey who, al 30, is still tax collector OF a Penn
sylvania town, was brought up in the school Of economy
and thrift that developed the sterner virtues. He under
stands the worth of loyalty and affection and the signih-
canoe OF the family. He may never have had $1,000 in
his life, but he is not blinded by the glitter of his SOM
millions.
By the side of his father doesn't the head Of the
steel trust, with all his wealth, appear little and cheap
Aren't the old mans sound sense and appreciation OF
right and wrong worth infinitely more than his sons
money? In short, has there been a more striking con-
trast recently between the material and the ideal thar
that implied IN Alfred Corey's comment ON the divorce
scandal which has dlsgraced his son?
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
Kansas City Cattle.

Kansas City, Dec. 13.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts. 1000; including 300 southerns.
Market steady; native steers, S340@
G.25; southern steers, S2.50@4.40;
southern cows. 5000 Oops; native
cows and heifers, $2.O0@5.10; stock
ers and feeders, $2.5O@4.40; bulls
$2.O0Q4.00; calves, $3.O0@70O; west
ern steers, $3.25@4.50; western COWS
$2.00@3.25.
Sheep 49, Receipts, 5000; market
steady; muttons, $4.5O@6.10; lambs
$5.50@7.75; fed wethers, $5.2596.60;
fed ewes. $4.25@7.25.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13

The Argus: The way real estate is moving in Carls-
bad now indicates that when work is actually commenced
ON the reconstruction of the irrigation plant by the gov
eminent engineers that the town viii border close Onto
a small boom. A boom is not a good thing for any town,
hence is not wanted, but Carlsbad wants a good hea-,y
growth, with many new houses building and new people
coming In filled with the purpose of securing a home IN
the best portion OF these great United States. That
Carlsbad will enjoy the realization Of this desire is as
plain a proposition as is possible 10 exhibit short Of the
actual reality
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
CHICAGO Live Stock.

Chicago, Dec. observation-disclosures
1000; market steady; beeves, $3.50
G6.7O; cows and heifers, $l.5004.75;
stockers and feeders. S2.4044.15;
Texans. s3.506425; westerns, S3.3Uq
5000.
Sheep, - Receipts. 10000; sheep,
$4.50G5.65; lambs. $3.90G7.S5.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
A Woman,s Loss.

A LeayenworJh man, before starting off on a busi-
ness trip, gave his wife a check book, and told her to
draw freely on his account whenever she needed money.
When he got home he found her pale and worried.
Il hate to tell you she said, in answer to his in
quiry, but l lost that check book advertised, but It
can't be found.
Her husband burst out laughing, but her worry i'm
mediately turned TO amazement and Indignation.
Il don't see how you can laugh over the loss of all
that money, she exclaimed, But you always were ex-
trayagant' City Journal.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
New York Money Market.

New York, Dec. 13.-Money on call
easier, SOLO per cent; prime mercan
tile paper, 51R@6 per cent. Bar sal
yer, 65Ac.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13

Chicago. Dec. 13.-Following wer
prices today:
Wheat-Dec. S5Ac; May. SS1ac.
Corn-Dec., 44%c; May. 44c.
Oats-Dec.. 3O%c; May. 32%c.
Pork, Jan, S13; May, s13.22h.
Lard-Dec. $7.52t9; May, S7.226.
Ribs-Jan. S6.S7Ik; May, S7O71a.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13

Governor Hoch OF Kansas; Il seems to me hat the
federal government should protect the policy holders
against such outrages as have been recently uncovered
in The insurance trust Investigation in New York.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13

BASKET BALL AND DANCE AT
THE CASINO FRIDAY NIGHT, DE.
GENDER is, AT 8 O'CLOCK p. M.
A. n. S. VS.. U. N. M.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13

Lead and Copper.
New York, Dec. 13.-Lead, firm a
$5.55@6.10; copper, strong, 1S$.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
THE MARKETS
yTOcE - MONEY =. METAL E. WOOL
c, ,ouis wool Market.
Provisions.

St. Louis, Mo, Dec. 13.-wool mar.
ket steady and unchanged.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-13
CLOSING Stock Quotations.

New York, Dec. 13.-Following were
closing quotations today on stocks