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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-12-01
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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-12-01
REMEDIES ARE
HERE PROPOUNDED
BY A ST. LOUIS WHOLESALE
DRY GOODS HOUSE.
TO RELIEVE THE sTR'NCENCY
Believes That Merchants Should
Create Demand for Cotton Goods
and Tereby Raise the Price of Cot
ton and Make it Move.

Under the date of November p,
1907, the Ricc-Stix WhilesNle Dry
Goods Co. of St. Louis. sent a cir
cular letter to the Nelms & Blum
Co, OF this city in which there is
much good advice, and extracts from
the same are published below:
In the winter OF Ioo4-o5 when, on
reports of air exceptionally large
crop cotton went down from above
10 cents in November 1904, to below
Y cents in January 1905. The grower
of cotton, displeased and disappoint
ed at the decline in prizes. quit trad
ing, quit selling, quit buying, and
trade particularly in the cotton grow
ing districts came to a stand still
I'VE issued circular on Febru-
airy II, 1905, calling attention ID
ieonditions, and arguing there was
not too much cotton What was
needed was a greater consumption
OF cotton goods, and a greater use
for cotton,
In order TO bring about this increas
| ed consumption. We urged merchants
| to advertise and energetically pusl;
the sale Of cotton goods, thereby
creating a demand. and consequent
/ " better price for the raw material
A great many merchants recognizing
the force OF our argument and friend
/ 1y to the movement, joined III the
campaign and began pushing their
business on cotton goods, the result
being that III a very short time trade
revived
/ The effect Of this activity was al
most rmme diately refi5cted by ths
cotton markets. By the first OF Apri
1905 cotto. nhad advanced over on,
and one-quarter cents pound, b.
the end OF June it advanced near',
| three cents a pound and as busines.
improved and the demand for eotto;
goods was stimulated, the raw ma
tsrial kept on advancing III spite 0
the big crop.
The stagnation OF business at pres
|. ent is much the same as it was il
the winter OF Ieo4-os, except tina
. there IS no cry OF too much cottoll
and cotton is worth over 10 cent
/ a pound instead OF less than ? cent
as it was then.
/ If Gotten maintains a price OF /
cents pound during the stagnatioi
and financial troubles Ilch as "
have been having the last few week
lit goes without saying that it will vii
| be greatly helped By the revival q
, trade, and a freer flow of money
The matter should be considers
|, fairly The growers OF cotton
4 whose prosperity depends upon til
price Of cotton. and who are mos
deeply interested, are by tier ae
ton at he present time creating
la stagnatlon thar tremenzuonsl
. hurts the price Of the things the
! have to sell. Stagnation that depres
les the price OF manufactured mar
, ehandise also depresses the prsce 6
raw amterial Of which the goods ar
mace.
Il The question is how arc norma
conditions again to be brought about
/ Put ii clearly before your farmin
J friends the effect Of a revival Of trad
j win have on the yaluc ii their pre-
duets. and IS eve rsbs.sly IS xifaliy Il
/ lterssted. everyussz Is deeply eoacer.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-12-01
Friday Evening Fire.

a defective flue in negro house
at No. $40 North Broadway FRIDAY
afternoon at I2:45, brought ont
the ire departments. The flames
were extinguished by one hand, chem
real with A loss OF probably $40.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-12-01
BAN ON CHRISTMAS GIFTS
Chicago Ciubwcrnen Start Crusade
on the Evils of the Custom"

. Chicago. Nov 2o.-A denatured
Christmas holiday with the .'evil"
OF gift-gising eliminated be the
order OF things within few years,
if the Chicago Woman's Club be suc-
eessful in the crusade is about to
start.
Ihe movement was suggested t.
the clubwomen today by Mrs. ;.
Blaekwelder. presideV and Mrs. FL
len NJ. Herotin. chairman Of tne re-
form department Both declared
that Christmas as it Is celebrated now
and its attendant evil. the shopping
mania. are symptoms OF marked
degen eraey IN Americans.
Said Mrs -BlaeIweader: Il have
come to believe that the whole GUS
tom Of giving at Christmas IS per-
nieipus and has 10 excuse Tor being.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-12-01

Knox will be ready to get into the
game.
A communication was hereceived
from Vice President Fairbanks's map
ager, but signed by Jerry Mathews.
has been received asking whether it
will be permissible 70 use loaded
coins.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-12-01
WITNESSES
WON'T TALK
BUT STRONG EVIDENCE HAS
LEAKED OUT.
FIVE BOUND FOR CONVICTION
Cleo Mills Are Closed Down-Em-
ployes are Discharged and Guards
are Placed Around Plant-Hearing
Tomorrow

Pine Bluff Ark, Nov. 2o.-None
of the eey witnesses TO the killing at
Clio. will talk but enough has leak
ed out TO show that five who are. un-
der arrest were seen III the room
from which the shots wers fired ar
the time Of the killing.
Mrs Mccarthy who was placed
in Jail yesterday with her husand
is considered to be very nervy NO
man as after the shooting she came
forth with pistol in hand and the
evidence is very strong against her.
but up to the present time she can
not be made to talk.
Efforts are being made by the de
tense to prove that Bush fired the
fatal shot and precipitated general I'll
SHADE. Mr. J. b. York. who holds
the principal shares III the Bluff City
Lumber Company toll Chancellor
Rutherford went to Clio that he
waulda be killed as bitter enemies
there had warned him that he had
better ''stear clear OF the plac. and
this was taken as the warning that
probably saved Rutherford's HE as
Rutherford had intended going OF
the same train with the men who
We're assassinated.
A number OF pistols and fiftcei
hundred cartridges were sent TO Clio
from here only Few days ago and i
is suspected by the authorities tina
t the plot had been planned and they
were on the lookout for their intend
81 ed victim for some time past. Chan
eellor Elliott has removed !. c
Browning as secretary OF the compa
, ny and appointed him as receiver .
the mills at Joplin, Mo, Clarksvlt>
Ark, and Muskogee. Okla. with or
GERS TO close them up Immediately
No Developments OF a sensational
character have So far came TO high
in the tragedy in which the two me-
!, were assassInated nor has any infor
nation been secured as to the wher
abouts OF Clarence Bush, the ma,
who left the city with Tom Godfre,
d one OF the men killed, and the lheor
!, is still strong that he was cremate
!. in the big fura5ace used by the mi
for burning refuse lumber and rub
Dish. Relatives of Bush have offere
a reward OF $50 for infornlatio
which will lead to the recovery Of hi
body. either dead or aiive and it
understood that there will be a tat
). reward OF $aoo for the recovery c
his body
{ Bert Mccartney, Mrs. McCartns,
) J. J. Price, Ed Richards and w. {
: Cotton ho were arrested after the j
4 quest was held by Coroner Nivel
il will be given preliminary hearin
{ at Risun Saturday. bun it is not b,
i lieved that they will be allowed ba
S until the matter IS cleared UP or til
/. murders captured No further a,
II rests have as yet bsen made.
y Chancellor i 1nntt, wiso ordenes
i the mills of the company close
{ down as soon as Ire learned that !
{ would be unsafe for John r. Rutl
+ ford. one of the co-rseeisers OF tt
ca company, which owns the Clio plal
Il so 10 the mill, held eoiiferen.
over the Telephone win Arthur Bre
ster the man who was Sci
here TO take charge Of the mill, al
Il Instructed him 10 keep the mill vlo
u ed until peaceful conditions arr !
g stored. He will eaaploy only enons
nrsn TO guard the plant. The 9th
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-12-01
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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-12-01
HANDS BLEED HORRIBLY

when badly cheppsd Uuse Rose
Cream and there will be no chaps
Greenville Drug Co. Phene az.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-12-01

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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-12-01

The third term idea is NIT popu-
lar one.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-12-01

We make you pretty ut the Kute
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Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-23

economic reform is sought as when the aim is to keep the people satisfied with what is offered to them.
 The full dinner pail" which enter ed the political field with such vim and so successfully in 1896. the prod uct of the inventive genius of the late Mark Hanna, has now become widely recognized as the symbol Of satiation for the protected trusts and monopo- lies of trade and industry. The empty dinner pail might now be used just as effectively as the symbol of the concrete thing likely to be attained by those who were induced to vote for the men who created the present tar if law and the full dinner pail for protected monopoly
 It is to be presumed that the masses of the American people are not fools. In fact, there is some evidence to in dicate that they have been educated to point where they are able to read even while they run. They have learned, we believe, that if they want to fiji their own dinner pails as well as those of the men who already have had their shy at the fruit of the pro tective tariff tree, they must see to it that schedule Of tariff rates arrang- ed for the indefinite future must be more in consonance with the spirit of fair treatment for both the rela- lively poor consumer and the produc- CT, for the man who earns his dollar by the sweat of his race as well as for him who profits not only by the labor of others, but by the unneces- sary, wicked protection that is afford ed him by government controlled by those of his fix.
 The protective tariff should not be revised by it's friends alone, nor by it's enemies alone. It should be fixed after careful deliberation on the part of a commission composed of men of all parties--or of no party-wbo can be trusted to arrange schedule of rates that for many years to come will not enable American manufacturers to sell in this country for ten dollars an article that they put on the European market for half or two-thirds that amount.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-23

is familiar incident of all financial scares.
 So far as has been revealed. there is no falling of in the great productive activities of the country. Practically all of the factories are running on full time. The iron and steel output. which has always been considered trustworthy barometer of general trade. Is touching higher figures than were reached year ago. The rail roads are hauling more freight than they did at this time in 1906. Not so much railway building is being done now as was done a year ago. but the gross earnings of the roads are great CT than they were then Building oper- ations in the industries have shrunk somewhat in many cities in the past few months. as compared with the high figures of 1906, but the country as whole the total is larger than it was last year or ever in the past. The decline in the prices of stocks and the shrinking of the general volume of trading on the speculative exchanges has reduced the aggregate of the bank clearings in many of the larger cities, especially in New York, and this has brought the total clearances for the country down to a lower mark than was touched a year ago. But in the centers which have been affected lit tie by the falling of in speculation the bank transactions are at the highest figures ever reached. Many railway chiefs rejoice over the symptoms which they see of slackening in the demand for materials, as they believe this will reduce prices and give the roads a chance to make the needed extensions and improvements at a smaller cost than recently. Wages, on the general average. are higher 'than they were year ago, or ever be fore And. the job is still looking for the worker, instead of, as in 1S9S-97, the worker looking for the job. Here is a decisive difference between the conditions now and in all of the panic periods. And one very important req son why no 1873 or 1893 business dis location is in sight is that, unlike the situation in those years, the country's currency is all on the gold level now. and every dollar is worth 100 cents in the money of the world.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-23
TARIFF REFORM THE GROWING ISSUE.

Two or three vars ago practically every enemy of the Iowa idea re garding tariff revision hooted at the proposals emanating from that state as fruits of exaggerated imaginative powers. One year ago the most of those who at first derided the idea and maintained by every conceivable argu- ment that revision was unwise and un- necessary began to recognize the seri- ous progress made by the propaganda of advocates of tarin reform and the widespread character of the movement. Six months ago derision gave way to serious contemplation of the possi- bilities in the movement, which by that time had spread genuine alarm among the -stsna patters." 1" even to the most remote camps of the army
 Today tariff revision is demanded by thousands of the very men who at the beginning of the present admlnistrz, ton, scofed most loudly at the appeals which at first arose in the middle west, and by many thousands of otb- CTS who, though not so violently an faSouistfc to the idea nevertheless conceived that the plan to this end would be impossible of consummation for many year to come, by reason of what they regarded ss the strong popular sentiment favorable to the protection of nearly everything in sight. whether protection were act ualIy needed or not
 All of which illustrates the truth that educational campaigns are 5as' as desirable and just as effective when
Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-23
THE SPEcTER SWIMMER.
A Legend of the Sea That Still Appeals
 to Sailors.

A Legend of the Sea That Still Appeals
 to Sailors.
 The sailor as a class still holds fast to the superstitions that have been his especial heritage throughout all ages. To him the sea is still peopled with phantoms. Men there are still who sail the sea believing in the power of the Swimmer, men who believe in the Wal rus of unholy fame and in the exist ence of the specter bark Lucy to be seen at any time lodging in and out Of the creeks and bays Of the South Caro- ,iHa coast. This is the tale of the Swim mer:
 Near Cape Finisterre there lived fisher maiden in days when the world asked fewer questions than now, and with her lived her fisher sweetheart On tleir wedding night, runs the yarn, smugglers came down on their village, nieyIng, drunaen D5InG. V i1v U tiiey ti s5 left, having done all the damage they could, the fisher maiden's sweetheart had disappeared, whether with them or through them was never known Instead of pining uselessly, as would most women, she dressed herself in mems clothes and started to find him. dead or alive.
 For years she wandered over the earth and ocean. and, though her dis guise was penetrated several times and she passed through host of trou- bles which vary with each telling. she succeeded in keeping up her hunt, Fi naEly after escaping from an English prison the vessel she was on was lost at sea, and the simple Breton fisher men e1shrined her in a legend which has her forever swimming the seas still in search of the man she loved and hailing each craft she hears. \ sailor. be be Yankee or Portuguese. matter of fact in all things else or grossly superstitious, believes firmly that if you hear the hail of the Swim mer on dark night at sea and an swer 1t not woe follows swiftly.-New York Herald.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-23
CALIFORNIA; PROSPERITY.

The California state board of trade has been engaged in collecting statis- tics concerning the farm products of California and the marketing of them. Among the crops taken up are grapes. The board of trade states that "fhe seasons shipment of table grapes will approximate s06O carloads. Fresno is now sending of twelve cars of twelve tons each per day. and from 10000 acres of vines in the San Joa- quin valley will this year ship 1000 car leads as against 500 car loads last year"
 All districts of the state are doing as well as Fresno county. Southern California shipments will exceed those of last year by 50 per cent and all former years by 25 per cent. It is estimated that Los Angeles county viii produce 35e. zee tens Of grapes this year superior in quality and size to any ever before produced there" says this report of the state board. Much of this tonnage is wine grapes, but the total grape crop of the Los Angeles district is estimated to be worth s7.oOo,ooO.
 The happy lot of the California far mer is shown by the prices received for grapes at the east. Four car loads sold in Chicago brought $500 a car and others in New York s200o a car One car load of Thompson's seedless sold in New York for ss00o and another for s2s20.
 Think of punches of these grapes weighing four to five poundsl Some of the clusters are tweasy-four Inches Hong.
 The people of the country must be
Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-23
USED BIBLE AS CIPHER.
A Verse From Solomon Told of Mar.
 riase Engagement.

A Verse From Solomon Told of Mar.
 riase Engagement.
 When she left her home in the small toSIi to eoIle tto.,HSeevw tto New Yyetkls Yyetkls e take sn special course of study her pet sis ter was fast reaching the crisis of a love affair. The pet sister was most winsome young lady and had long kept goodIy train of suitors assigning. Was this affair to be the grand affair! The older sister hoped so. for she liked the young man ordially-thought he was just the sort to make a proper brother-in-law.
 But the weeks passed, and not bit of definite news about the progress of the affair did the older sister receive in her city boarding house. She be- came anxious. Louise, she thought, must not go on recklessly trifing in such important matters.
 Then one night about 10 o'clock, just as she was going to bed. came a tele- gram. The servant brought it up. The elder sister was country girl enough to be thoroughly frightened by the pale manila. black inked envelope. How ominous it looked. At length she gathered courage to open it. This Is what she read:
 Solomon six three LOUISE.
 Solomon six threel Whatever in the world! Oh, why, yes, stupid, il of course meant the Song of Solomon, sixth chapter, third verse, But-and her cheeks flushed with shame-she had no Biblei
 There was a great scurrying about the boarding house to find a copy of the sacred book. The girls were rout- ed out in vain. On all sides the cry arose, Who's got Bible?" Just think of the sister trying to sleep that night without knowing what that verse was! It would have been just like a woman to lie down to pleasant dreams, content to know that she could satisfy her GU, riosity in the mornins-noti
 The landlady, good soul. came to the rescue She was no heather. She had Bible Up to her room with it flew the sister and shut the door. Such a turning over of pages by eager, nerv- ous fngersl Solomon six three. She found 1t, and then she cried 'Hurrahp' and laughed. for the verse was:
 I am my beloved's. and my beloved Is mine.
 New York Press.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-23
Catching the Train.

When the family knows two weeks ahead of their outing just what train they will have to catch, they make a great variety of splendid resolutions to the effect that they will have every thing packed and ready the night be fore so that in the morning they will only have to shove in their tooth brushes and combs and lock the grips that they may proceed coolly and lei surely to the train.
 Do they do it?
 Is man human1
 Is woman also7
 Search your memories and see. There is more business for them to do at the last moment than congress could do in an extra session. If they could just work at theIF business with the feyeFish energy of the last half hour. they could retire with a large fortune in about month. And then they forget half the things they had intended to take
Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-23
REACTION DOES NOT PREsAGE PANIC.

II is a momentary recession of the financial tide which greets US. a.
 not the forerunner of business crash. With occasional interruptions, the stock market has been falling for many weeks. Somes shares are lower now than they have been since the panic period of 1SsS-97. There is q possibility that a few of these will go down still farther It is not the Hartman and Hill stocks alone which are falling. There has been drop along the whole line of railway and industrial shares. And this has been under way for more than two months. A shrinkage of over $s.5o0. .000,O00 in the quotations of the stocks and the bonds listed on the New York stock exchange has taken place since the early months of 1907. As "a conse- quence seats on that exchange have gone down to lower prices than had been touched for several years. A seat has just been sold for $6s,OOO. which is the lowest since the furry in tsos. At one time during the shrInKage m quoIdIIOITs : 2 were sold as low as s5O.oOO. Then an advance came, and the opening months of 1906 scored a new high est" when seat brought 97.500. Many speculators have had bad luck this year. and are selling their mem berships on the exchange. Thus the price of seats have gone down to a figure not touched since the drop which began little over four years ago, and which lasted, with some auc- tuations. for over twelve months.
 But, as at that time, this is Wall street furry and does not portend a general smash4up. It is an 1881, 1884, 1901 and 1903 slackening in the busi- Hess pace. and is not an 1873 or an 1893 industrial and financial disloca- ton. In 1873 and 1893 the fall in stocks brought a long line of disas- trous financial failures. The wrecks of this sort which have taken place in the past three months have been few, and none of them have had any per ceptibie disturbing effect on the mar. ket. The fall of the great banking house of Jay Cooke in September. 1873. and the toppling of the string Of Zimri Dwiggins banks in the sum mer of 1893 have had no counterparts in 1907. No great commercial or inan- eiaI house has gone down ln the past few months anywhere in the country
 The spectators have survived theii losses. and most Of them continue in the game, with the hope of retrieving their fortunes The shrinkage of ss. 800. .ooo.0o0 In the quotations has largely been decline In paper values Some stocks were sent far above the mark which their earning capacity justified. That is the usual course ir periods Of financial buoyancy. Many stocks and bonds are now selling be low their intrinsic value This. too